Boy George, born George O'Dowd, reports for garbage duty in New York on Aug. 14, 2006. The one-time Culture Club singer was ordered to spend five days working for the Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. The officers who responded found cocaine instead.
Boy George waits in a New York Department of Sanitation van before he performs his court-ordered community service on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Aug. 14, 2006.
Boy George reports for garbage duty in New York on Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. The singer wore an orange vest, dark capri pants, shoes without socks. He was without the wild makeup and androgynous style that made him so recognizable as the '80s icon who sang "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
As Boy George went about his community services duries in New York on Aug. 14, 2006, the singer was swarmed by the media while he stood by the median of a Lower East Side Street, sweeping dust and leaves into the lens of a video camera. "You think you're better than me?" he yelled. "Go home. Let me do my community service ... This is supposed to be making me humble. Let me do this," he said. "I just want to do my job."
George O'Dowd, better known as Boy George, reports for garbage duty in New York on Aug. 14, 2006. The singer was ordered to spend five days sweeping leaves and trash off New York sidewalks for the city's Department of Sanitation.
After a dust-up on his first day of garbage duty, singer Boy George is now performing his community service in a secured parking lot. The singer who was working at the Lower Eastside Depot on Aug. 14, 2006, was swarmed by photographers and reporters, preventing him from working outside the depot. Sanitation officials moved him inside the gated parking lot to sweep.
Boy George performs community service surrounded by members of the media, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Aug. 14, 2006. The singer was ordered to spend five days working for New York's Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. The officers who responded found cocaine instead.
Pushing a trash can in New York's Lower East Side, Boy George gets to work on day one of his five-day community service sentence, Aug. 14, 2006. The singer was issued a shovel, broom, plastic bags and gloves for the job of picking up trash on the city's streets.
Wearing a face mask, former Culture Club frontman Boy George while sweeps a lot in New York on Aug. 14, 2006. A judge denied his petition to spend time helping teenagers make a public service announcement, hold a fashion and makeup workshop, and serve as a DJ at an HIV/AIDS benefit or do telephone outreach.
Boy George puts garbage in a can while performing community service in New York on Aug. 14, 2006.
Boy George, 45, sweeps the inside of the sanitation depot under the watchful eye of a New York police officer on Aug. 14, 2006. The one-time Culture Club singer, told by a judge that he must decide whether his court-ordered community service would be an "exercise in humiliation or in humility," was ordered to spend five days as a garbage worker after pleading guilty in March to false reporting of an incident.
Dressed in a bright orange vest with yellow stripes, bearing the words "New York City Department of Sanitation," singer Boy George began his court-ordered community service on Aug. 14, 2006. He placed an empty bin in the back of a van and was taken to the median of a Lower East Side street, where his sweeping was interrupted by a confrontation with reporters.
Boy George, 45, performs his court-ordered community service in New York on Aug. 14, 2006. The singer, born George O'Dowd, was sentenced to five days working for the city's Department of Sanitation after falsely reporting a burglary at his Manhattan apartment, where police found a quantity of cocaine.
Boy George takes a sip of water during a break as he performs his court-ordered community service in New York on Aug. 14, 2006.
Boy George gets busy cleaning a New York lot Aug. 14, 2006. The broom-and-shovel-wielding singer was sweeping rocks and leaves as part of his community service program.
Singer Boy George tried out a new look, an orange vest, as he worked his first day of community service with New York's Sanitation Department on Aug. 14, 2006. The former Culture Club singer is picking up garbage as part of five days of community service.