The day before their Folie à Deux album arrived in stores, Fall Out Boy decided to spread some holiday cheer, and at the same time “stick it to the man.”

As they began to perform a free concert on Monday in New York City to promote their new album, the superstar band was met with a crowd of fanatics and also NYPD’s finest for the group’s lack of a permit.

After police told the crew that picking up any instruments would result in an arrest, the band decided to find the loop-hole; and out broke a sing-along.

“This isn’t looking good,” Wentz told frontman Patrick Stump. “But let’s try to do it anyway.”

So with air guitars in hand for Wentz and Trohman, knees as drum pads for Hurley, and Stump belching the ole’ vocal chords sans-microphone, the group began an epic chant with the surrounding fans.

The band then packed up and hustled away, as NYPD looked on, and drove out of sight in an awaiting van.

“I’m kind of bummed by all that, to be honest. That was going to be awesome,” Stump said. “Those cops back there — and I have no problem with the cops, trust me — but those cops were like the Grinch. They just took all the presents.”

“We wanted to do something free and really spontaneous in the same park where, like, Bob Dylan and all these folk singers used to perform in the ’60s. You know, with the same spirit,” Wentz added. “And that — no one was going to get hurt, it was just fans — that was supposed to be like that. But in the ’60s, they used to beat up folk singers, so, you know, at least no one got punched.”






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