You Just Can't Make This Police State Idiocy Up...

"American engineer Richard Pfeiffer, age 33, swears up and down that he is not in fact the provocative elusive artist.
Unfortunately for him he would have major difficulty proving it to the cops who must have been watching/listening to him and his fiancee while they imbibed at an East Village coffee shop last summer. It was after admiring a "smiley" on the wall that he thought might be a Banksy piece that they had their "Gotcha!" moment and arrested him outside Third Rail Coffee shop."