The REAL LIFE Fight Club | Statute of Limitations hosted by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino | Forensic Files

hey it's your boy Mike The Situation Santino welcome to statute of limitations it's the ultimate lineup
it's Cooks this is not my fault that I stole this car it's conmen this is my chance I can be rich for life it's w to
be King Pins we all made together $500,000 and queen pins it was basically a lounge of
criminals these are stories of the nonviolent lucky punks and Robin hoods that Dodge the law I could have gone to
prison not jail prison because here's the situation baby it's only a matter of time before the statute of limitations
is up and technically you might walk away scotf free but don't take it from me guys I'm obviously no lawyer this is
statute of limitations what's up everybody I'm Mike situation Santino and there's a saying
in prison snitches get stitches but not here and on this episode you will meet Scott or to those who partied hard
dabbled in drugs and were into some crazy stuff up in San Fran in the '90s you may know him as pippy and Bill a
dude who started a fight club in his church we now go to a story that took place in the city by the Bay San
Francisco and a guy living the High Life as a well-known coke dealer meet Scott also known as
pippy hi my name is Scott AKA pippy love stocking and I was a drug dealer in San
Francisco in the '90s I grew up in in a small religious conservative town in North Carolina and I was uh pretty
obviously gay no surprise and I got a lot of harassment for that uh so much so that I wanted to get the hell out of
there as soon as possible and so I just got on the first Greyhound bus and made my way across country to wild and crazy
San Francisco and the rest is history baby well San Francisco in the gay 90s was a
wild and crazy party scene uh I think there was a lot of um people like myself who had come there to live their dream
and and be free to do what they want to do and have their best life and have a good time doing it so I was definitely
uh partaking in all of that and I just uh Dove right into the club scene and the party scene to be on L so I ended up
getting a job at at a bar that turned out to be kind of my my headquarters for all my illicit activity I started
bartending at this at this club and I was the cocktail waiter we would do a drag show it was always a crowd pleaser
you get a high from being in drag it's like becoming a different character then I started singing live we got a
microphone and a karaoke machine but always uh very boozy and uh lots of coke to help me keep drinking so Queens today
are like apple pie and hot dogs but back in the uh the in my day we were kind of
Outsiders and Fringe people and uh I liked it like that it was fun being kind of on the outside I think a lot of
people especially gay people myself included adopted the attitude of like let's live fast Die Young let's party
let's enjoy ourselves all bets were off and it was like a kid in the candy store
kind of scenario we had a lot of transsexual prostitutes that frequented our bar as
well as the Bale Hustlers they always just kind of drifted through because we had cocaine there we we were known for
our cocaine it came from miles around and I specifically um had always had plenty of it on me but I always had like
a big kind of a patent leather purse it was uh you bigger than a lunch pale and so I had these kind of hidden
compartments I just pack full of uh my party favors and uh people knew that I was holding and they could just come and
look for pippy at the bar and I would hook you up well I was uh very Reckless and generous with my friends and uh so
when you have a lot of money you spend a lot of money at least that was my attitude in those days because I was
living like there's no tomorrow on average I could s about 100 quars of coke and my take was $1,000 a
night well of course I had to be careful and size up my customers that uh you know if very rarely uh would I encounter
people who gave me a a red flag or anything like that and you know and then there are some people who I just don't
want to deal with who it seem suspicious just like nope you don't belong here wrong bar so keep walking well it wasn't
a a weird environment and I mean I guess there were risky things around me a lot
we did have cops come around fairly frequently um frankly at that time I don't think the police were very much
concerned especially I think they were particularly in the gay World they probably just s like you know don't ask
don't tell let's not bother these people one night I went I had a full bin of bottles and I went to put them in the
dumpster and when I got out there there was this guy who was leaned up against the dumpster and the rain was falling
right on his face you know anybody whose conscience would would respond to that so I shook him I called I said hey
what's up are you okay do you need you need an you need help no response whatsoever I like I think this guy's
dead just another Saturday night and I developed kind of uh Street smarts right away I was uh glad to be free to put on
my drag make the world my Runway the the '90s was a wonderful time we didn't have
social media to make us feel depressed about how much we're not we don't have we're not a gashi and how can we be
happy but uh there were some close calls there were some times when I was kind of
you know sweating it out and I know a lot of people had drugs in their possession besides being drunk so I'm
sure I wasn't the old one who was thinking what's going to happen here well one particular one moment jumps out
to my memory a very good-looking young man came in uh you know I'm a sucker for a pretty face and I still am today he
wanted to score some drugs and um I had just come off stage I was doing my uh Whitney Houston
number Greatest Love of All and I decided to uh help him out I knew uh the risks but uh still and I said
sure I I'll I've got some stuff upstairs let me go get like a little care package
for you as I went up past the pool tables to the office a friend of mine stopped me at the pool table and said
hey that guy he's the undercover cop don't do anything with him don't sell him anything he's an arc
my purse was full of drugs water cash thinking what's going to happen here and I said oh really I was I on my way to
get get him some coke and uh so I went in the office and I locked the door and I thought well you know that we had a
little peepole I could see who's down in the bar from up there and uh I just I hung out there I was like uh-uh I'm not
not today trying to think how am I going to get out of this situation listen you got to admit I mean it really
doesn't look too good for Scott here it's actually uh pretty ugly but while most people caught in a drug deal with
an undercover cop would wig out he kept his cool guys and pulled off the ultimate Snow Job how did Scott end up
getting away Scott free or shall I say hippy free answer next on statute of limitations welcome back to statute of
limitations where Scott a drag queen and a coke dealer is behind the apall he's on the verge of being busted for dealing
drugs to an undercover cop damn man that is a situation but he's just managing to
skirt the law take a look a very goodlooking young man came in uh he wanted to score some drugs and I said
sure I I'll I've got some stuff upstairs let me go a friend of mine stopped me at
the pool table and said hey that guy he's an undercover cop and uh so I went in the office and I
locked the door I was like uh-uh I'm not not today trying to think how am I going
to get out of this situation and that's when things got a little bit weird or complicated and I took my wig off and uh
wipe my face down with some baby wies so I slipped out of the office and I went to
our filthy bathroom and I was like I got to get out of here and so I crawled out of the
window that was above the third stall and pigeons had been nesting there and it was gross and filthy and there was
like some chicken wire there that I had to peel that back I just got out of drag
so I still had that kind of post drag smey makeup face which fits in perfectly in the enderle and actually we have lots
of hobos and miss crant hanging out on the street then I'm I'm squatting there by the dumpster and I see the cop come
busting out looking around like where the hell is that Queen and uh I'm just like what I did there's new drag what he
looked right down where I was uh but didn't even notice to me cuz but you know I looked a lot different without my
wig and makeup on and I was just wearing a a cruddy T-shirt and jeans he uh didn't even stopped cuz just I probably
looked too filthy and had too much pigeon droppings on me or whatever and he just like B in the other direction I
think he had another call to go to cuz he walked right past me and didn't even notice
me well I have a tremendous feeling of gratitude that I'm alive to tell the tale and I'm glad that I stopped when I
did that I quit while I was ahead and then I never got arrested or gotten in any serious trouble cuz you know uh
drugs can really uh take people in terrible directions I'm sober now I don't do drugs or drink anymore I still
like to have fun and dress up in drag as I am doing today there's still a lot of
good things that are happening that I want to be around to witness so it was like 11year run did a lot of party and
sold a lot of drugs and um dodged a lot of bullets and uh you know I I'm here to
I live to tell the tale and that's my story do drag not drugs good for Scott he laid down in a
dirty alley next to a dumpster and walked away clean and he was able to avoid the law long enough to survive the
statute of limitations damn my inner criminal smiling sorry publicist now it's time for a story of a
guy who doesn't fight the law he let his fist fly with an underground Fight Club
on Holy Ground d okay he could have been locked up for 5 years in Pennsylvania but he bobbed and he weaved long enough
to beat the rap get a load of that it's time for the confession we all know I love confessionals let's hear his sinful
story meet Bill I'm roing for Bill come on [Applause] [Music] Bill my name is Bill I'm from Philly and
my crime is I started an underground Fight Club in a church it was in 2010 uh I was going through
some stuff you know sometimes I would get mad at my co-workers like other drivers I started taking anger
management classes so the classes were held in a h in a recck room at a church and it was kind of like where they would
have AA meetings it would had like a old paint on the walls like crappy kids drawings just really just depressing
just a bunch of clowns talking about their feelings and crying about this and that so there was one guy in the meeting
who was actually tolerable me and him kind of you know became buddies and uh he was kind of in the same boat as
me he did like MMA and uh he invited me to go with him and check it out the MMA classes were great I mean uh I stopped
doing like self-destructive things I was putting my time exerting my energy into
you know bettering myself learning how to fight and uh it was like a release like I felt myself like less angry I
just had a little more restraint and discipline to me and I was really proud of the person I was
becoming so at the time I was living without a car so I was taking the bus everywhere it was two buses to get there
two buses to come home and you know you missed the bus it was like an hour weight or like sometimes even longer and
uh you know eventually I started missing classes you know one class here two classes there one week I missed the
whole entire week and uh and it started affecting me I was kind of resorting to my old ways you know acting like an
[ __ ] acting crazy I didn't have the discipline I started sh up to the anger management classes like a little earlier
than everyone else and staying later and like you know help him with the coffee helping get the place set up and
uh the guy I was friends with in class I brought him the idea I'm like yo we should we should start a fight
club I was serious I wanted to start a fight club you know like controlled you know like no one's going to die or get
really fed up him and I were looking to you know maybe turn up the heat a little
bit I'm just think like where can I do this at where can I do this at and then you know I'm sitting in anger management
class I'm like we could probably do it right here you know I noticed in the meetings that like they didn't really
lock the place up like you know it was an old church so like it had those old windows so you know there's a way we can
get in here we could prop the window open you know uh get in get out clean up so I saw an opportunity and you know
with the church right there I said it so I took it why not no one's going to know we started recruiting people from
the gym you know you'd have people from all walks of life come in you'd have uh bartenders or people that you know
worked in offices or or whatever a couple of the guys really didn't know what they were getting themselves into
they thought it was just like like a boy scouts club kind of thing and it was definitely not that no we're going to
punch each other with fists like men at first there was just like four of us we started off with and then like you
know they told their friends and then their friends told their friends and then next thing you know there's a dozen
of us bare fist fighting in the basement of a church come on let's get it come on
that's what I'm talking about and it is such a good feeling to just like punch somebody in the face and and know you're
not going to go to jail and there's no repercussions and that person might punch you in the face
too I mean it's just it's fair game so when you're fighting you usually know a few minutes before and what we
would do is he would size you up with somebody who's around the same size as you we had to be a little discreet about
this so we would put sheets and towels in the windows so you couldn't look in some guys were mouthpieces some guys
wrapped the hands you know definitely no shoes though you know and it's just on from there and you go until you tap out
or until you get knocked out one of my more memorable fights I got matched up with a guy who was more of my size you
know he was really into it like he took his shirt off he had his hands up he was
like dancing around me like he was crazy like I thought I was going to die like I just was like I'm so
mismatched right now like this this dude's a pro we get into it um luckily I got the upper hand on him and just like
laying into him just like laying into him laying into him laying into him and uh I just kind of like blacked out for a
minute and just kind of just like forgot where I was and like didn't realize what
I was doing and like I don't know it felt like 2 minutes but like in reality it was probably like 2 seconds and uh
you know they stopped the fight and I like see what I'm doing I'm like oh sh like I'm really hurting this
guy he was all right we laughed about it afterwards sometimes we would go out to
the bar after one guy would be cut off one guy would have a black guy you know one time the guy didn't have a shoe on
you know these people were just looking at us in the bar like like what the is wrong with these guys you know we knew
and that's that's all that mattered in that moment we were like brothers you know one time there was this guy he he
showed up and like a like a suit and like I honestly thought he was a like a detective like scoping out the place
like I thought we were all going to jail that night he was there to fight and like literally like took his suit off
took his tie off and just kicked the out of some guy I thought the guy was a nerd
I definitely did not see that coming at all having the fight club really you know opened me up and and helped me out
in ways like I I was feeling so good about myself I I was feeling good about my Outlook I felt like I was doing a
service in a in a sick and twisted kind of way but uh you know I really just started feeling like a sense of Pride I
might have been breaking the law here and there but like uh I just said it you know I was just I don't care was making
me a better person you know when the night was done we would put everything back where it
was sweep the floors you know we had to mop up some blood here and there make sure there was nobody left behind make
sure there was no personal items left uh I found a guy's tooth on the floor one time uh yeah messy
job so one night you know we're in the basement we're finished fighting we're cleaning up and we hear like this like
noise and you know everybody that's supposed to be here is you know in this room so we go investigate and there's
like two drug cutting the copper wire pipe like out of the wall in the boiler room and it was it was literally the
craziest like I literally walked in on that and was just like my mind was blown we can't really call the cops cuz we're
doing illegal too so I'm like literally face to face at one of them and I'm like
look you got to fight me if you're going to leave he better have an Iron Fist and
balls of steel cuz what bill doesn't know is the cops got the drop on him and they're or already on their way so
what's Bill going to do squaring off against a couple of burglars and the boys in blue round two coming up on
statute of limitations next welcome back to statute of limitations our boy Bill started a fight
club in his church but thanks to some copper and some coppers seems like he might have met his match let's see how
he Ducks his way out of this check this out so we go investigate and there's two
drug addicts cutting the copper wire and pipe like out of theing wall in the boiler room and we can't really call the
cops cuz we're doing illegal too so I'm like literally face to face at one of them and I'm like look you have to fight
me if you're going to leave you got these two dudes in here who broke into the wrong Church you got 12 sweaty dudes
in here who love to fight I I'm not even religious like that but you're stealing
from a church like that's kind ofed up you know and it just it just didn't sit well with me at all so like I start
screaming and yelling and start going after them a couple of the other guys they just you know helped me out I mean
it was a bad day for them next thing you know we got these guys duct taped we on
the ground we're trying to think what should we do you know over here it's like I'm running an underground Fight
Club and then over here it's like I got two dudes duct tapes like hog tide on the ground and it's just like what the
is going on this this is the furthest thing from what I had set out for this to be across the street there's a neighbor
in her bathroom like on her porch you know you know when someone's calling the cops she's definitely calling the cops
we just got out of there man and left those two duct tape there I like to wonder what they told
the cops when they got there that night I'll I'll never forget that night that was probably one of the
best worst and wildest nights of my life hands down a lot of those dudes I never
saw again you know at that point in my life I really think that's what I needed like I
helped some of those guys they helped me we helped each other you know we were kind of all you know going for the same
thing I can't start Underground fight clubs and churches anymore so uh I had to I had to find other hobbies to uh
peque my interest statue limitations is up so there's my story bill must have made a deal with
the devil in church because he slipped the long arm of the law now he's sitting pretty damn my
guy way to go Bill there you have it I might the situation Santino and if you like hearing stories where the not so
bad guys win we got plenty more lined up check out more lucky Tales of perss that
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A towering 6’4” drag queen cleverly utilized their persona to become a rising drug kingpin. A man struggling with severe anger issues discovered an outlet for his rage by starting an illegal underground fight club in the basement of a church. Hosted by the iconic Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Statute of Limitations pushes the boundaries of justice as individuals confess to non-violent crimes that have long surpassed the statute of limitations. Each episode features the stories of those brazen enough to confess their secret crimes. New episodes of Statute of Limitations will be posted every Friday and Sunday at 5:00pm EST. If you’re ready for more crazy stories, brought to you by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, comment below and be sure to hit that like and subscribe button!

Brief Summary

Scott and Bill share wild stories of drug dealing and underground fighting in the 90s, highlighting close calls and survival.

Key points

Meet Scott, the Drag Queen Dealer. Scott, also known as Pippy, shares his wild life as a drug dealer in San Francisco.
A Close Call with the Law. Scott narrowly escapes arrest after dealing drugs to an undercover cop.
Bill's Underground Fight Club. Bill recounts starting an underground fight club in a church, turning anger management into a brawl.
A Wild Night. Reflecting on a chaotic night that changed everything.
Bill's Deal with the Devil. A humorous take on Bill's luck with the law.

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