rant · moment 20 of 22
The Man Thrown Off the Boat
from Bay Ridge Boys · #133
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minStory about his aunt receiving anonymous cash payments for 15 years after her husband's mafia-related murder, followed by a story of bartending on a Russian mob party boat where a man was thrown overboard into the Hudson and no one cared.
- 55:55Scandinavians from cold climates have no souls despite beautiful eyes, shaped by centuries of atheism.
- 56:15Real mafia people only hurt you if they have a reason; the wannabes are the dangerous ones.
- 56:59Modern Italian mafia operates through online gambling sites and has relocated to Staten Island.
- 57:20Russians are far more dangerous than the Italian mafia and genuinely should not be crossed.
- 58:04Tim used to bartend on boats and his ex-girlfriend's father was a boat captain.
- 58:38A Russian party boat in the Hudson River where Tim worked as bartender had an unauthorized bartender trying to take over.
- 59:08A fight broke out on the boat, and one of the Russian guys threw another man overboard into the Hudson River at 1 a.m. in March.
- 59:29The party organizer refused to stop the boat or call the coast guard, saying the thrown man would swim home and the party should continue.
- 59:57The incident never made the news because it was internal to the Russian community and the victim probably wasn't a U.S. citizen.
- 1:00:11Nobody cared about what happened to the man thrown off the boat—even the boat captain accepted it as necessary.
Hudson RiverItalian mafiaRussiansStaten IslandRandazzo'sSheepshead BayBay Ridge