Blake McPhee wasn’t expecting a night out earlier this month to end with an icy predicament or interest from cocky commenters online.
At about 1:43 a.m. on Jan. 12, police were called to the East Village Pub after receiving reports of a fight outside the Timberlea bar. Officers arriving at the scene saw McPhee, who was intoxicated, allegedly “causing a disturbance.”
The police statement is vague about what happens next, but videos and photos shared online and featured by the online tabloid TMZ show the painful next steps.
McPhee fell to the ground as officers and the bar’s security tried restraining him. During the arrest, McPhee’s pants and underwear slid off as he was tackled. Weather reports show the temperatures that night in Fort McMurray were around -20 C and McPhee’s penis suddenly became frozen to the frozen pavement.
Emergency workers were able to free his frozen penis from the ground. Within hours, blurry footage of police officers trying to remove his frozen penis from the ground made the rounds on Facebook, although some videos falsely said he fell while urinating outside the bar. Coverage exploded on Jan. 24 when TMZ shared the story.
McPhee said when contacted he was not interested in giving an interview. He said he is trying to move on from the attention he’s been getting and told Postmedia he is not proud of his behaviour that night.
However, he also accused the staff and officers of tearing off his pants during the incident. He then pointed to a post he made on his Facebook acknowledged being “a drunk lunatic at the bar.”
“Still don’t understand why it was necessary to rip my f*ckin drawers clean off while I’m being arrested with 3 cops n 2 security dicks on me but that’s okay,” he wrote. “Gone are the days a feller can get his wiener frozen f*ckin solid to the ground without it going viral.”
He’s trying to find the humour in the incident, but challenged people making fun of him to “try having a dick n gettin er frozen fckin solid to the ground n see how small that shit gets.”
“Anyways glad I can be of some entertainment and back to making headlines,” he said.
McPhee’s amateur boxing career was covered in Fort McMurray Today and the Calgary Sun between 2010 and 2017, where he was described as a top boxer with Sweet Science Boxing in downtown Fort McMurray.
He ended his post with “sorry Ma.”
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