How to pronounce “paddy wagon” in English

Learning to cut a man down by verbally pushing all his buttons often meant the difference between life and death, a trip to the emergency room,or a trip in a paddy wagon."In a harsh world, the ability to read someone's beads was a necessary survival tactic and still is for many queens and queers.

And they would line people up and check the clothing.And if you didn't make muster, you got thrown in the paddy wagon and taken down to the station.So this just kept happening.

But they had little signals, like, they'd flash the lights.And everyone would switch to the opposite sex partners so that they wouldn't be like thrown in the paddy wagon, but they were risking everything, their jobs,their lives, their families, just to be able to congregate.