recently made known YORK -- With a ...

recently made known YORK -- With a city-issued besom in his hand, Boy George started his court-ordered community service early Monday, sweeping the roads for the Department of Sanitation and getting in a dust- up with the media.

'Think you're better than me?'

It took les than an hour for the former tillage Club front man to realize into a spat with the media. "You think you're better than me?" he shrieked "Go home. Let me do my community service."

The singer was swarmed from photographers while he stood by dint of the median of a Lower East Side road in an orange vest, capri pants and shoe without sock He swept dust and leaves into a camera's len

"This is suppos to be making me meek Let me do this," he said. "I just want to do my job"

He later resum sweeping in a gated parking part

male child George was ordered to do five days community service after pleading guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment. Officers who replyed found cocaine instead.

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