A music journalist recalls being taken out drinking by Dropkick Murphys during his first overseas assignment in Boston in 2001, then being lured into smoking cannabis with vocalist Al Barr in an alley. Police, who were monitoring the nearby bar after a gang shooting, detained and searched them, confiscating Barr’s cannabis and pipe before ordering them to leave.

Later, at another bar, two different officers allegedly identified the journalist, placed him in a patrol car and questioned him about drugs despite his insistence that he was a journalist who had none. The story presents the incident as an elaborate revenge prank by the band, though the supplied excerpt ends before explaining how the detention was resolved or establishing the full extent of the alleged setup.