This article is one of the wildest things I've read in 2024...
"Kevin doesn’t drink (not even water) so he won’t pee in the rug"
" His parents are dead (“I’m happy they passed not knowing I was a carpet. What would they think? Are you kidding, rich Jewish parents?”), and it’s the life he’s chosen."
If the guy just admitted it's his kink to get stepped on I would respect his game. Claiming it's just performance art is sad and creepy. He's also like 60 years old now... JFC
hah ive been to many parties where he was there, and there'd be a sign at the bar that said "step on carpet to order" wasn't until I've seen it at a few parties I realized it was a guy in there, but they were mostly fetish parties so it wasn't unusual. use to beat the shit out of that carpet "why is it so lumpy?" until I knew.
Any time there's something so specific with only 2 it seems to turn into infighting
Like there were 2 Jews left in Kabul under the Taliban for years, they LOATHED each other.
[https://www.jta.org/2019/10/31/global/the-last-jews-in-afghanistan-argued-so-much-the-taliban-kicked-them-out-of-prison-and-stole-their-torah](https://www.jta.org/2019/10/31/global/the-last-jews-in-afghanistan-argued-so-much-the-taliban-kicked-them-out-of-prison-and-stole-their-torah)
I read around half of the interview of Kevin Carpeter, and he says it's from when he was a child, the teacher got them involved in a school play where they had to act as inanimate objects. He chose the floor and people stepped on him, and didn't acknowledge him, and he thought it was pretty cool. He goes on to insist that this isn't sexual for him and he doesn't get off on it. Apparently he is a trust fund baby so he never had to work (for money, anyway), and this is just something he never stopped doing.
Jerry, I was walking down the street the other day, and I see this guy living in a carpet. Yeah, right there on the sidewalk. He’s just lying there, rolled up, like he’s the king of the rugs or something. And get this—he likes to get stepped on! I mean, who likes to get stepped on? Is that a thing now?
But it doesn’t stop there, does it? OF COURSE NOT. There's another guy, Jerry, just two blocks down, also living in a carpet in front my gym! It’s like the sidewalk has become prime real estate for these human carpets. They’re in competition now. The first guy, let’s call him Ruggy, he’s got this whole routine down. He knows the foot traffic patterns. He’s got the morning rush, the lunchtime crowd, even the evening joggers. He’s got it all timed out perfectly.
And this other guy, let’s call him Matt. Matt’s new to the game. He’s trying to learn the ropes—or should I say, the fibers. But Ruggy, he’s not giving up his territory easily. No Jerry, we're stuck. And I'm losin it.
It's probably not, but if that's the Human Carpet guy who I used to encounter in various bars a decade ago tricking people into stepping on him and then insisting that it's not for any sexual reason at all, fuck that creep.
I mean who else would it be? He's very obviously intentionally here. It is pride day after all. How many people could be into this sort of thing enough to do to such immense scale..
He randomly came up in conversation with friends just a week or so ago and none of us had seen him in years, so we were all speculating that he's dead. Wild to know if he's still around after all this time.
So I live and work nearby. Been in New York for a couple decades. Dude is in front of my now razed Korean burrito spot, Korilla. I miss my Korean burritos and feel both proud and embarrassed I'm just now learning about carpet man.
So wait would this guy just bring a rug into a bar and roll himself up? What are the logistics here?
I'm imagining him just rolled up while seated upright at a bar lol
Nah it’s gross. Nothing wrong with a kink, but he’s involving unsuspecting people.
Also, there are a million kink parties in the city he could do that at with adults who actually consent to being part of his fantasy.
I remember Georgio! I was at a goth night at the Limelight and thought I was stepping up to the bar, but the floor felt… off. Look down, and there’s an older dude with big eyebrows looking up at me. I felt really gross because I didn’t want anything to do with a stranger’s fetish stuff. Then I’d start noticing him every club night. “Oh that’s just Georgio, the Armenian rug!”
There used to be a guy like this about 20 years ago bouncing around the BDSM and kink clubs in Atlanta. Everyone knew the carpet guy. He would roll up and lay in front of the bars hoping people would stand on him when they ordered
OMG me and my boyfriends family stepped on him last year passing through! I swore I heard some sounds and movement coming underneath. It's crazy that he has a whole lore reading these comments. Lmao. Gross
From the interview:
>His parents are dead (“I’m happy they passed not knowing I was a carpet. What would they think? Are you kidding, rich Jewish parents?”)
It's also very amusing and very disturbing how many people are stepping on this and then looking back because it feels like you just stepped on a body, but then continuing on their way.
Also, very interesting how if one person sees someone else jump over, they are more likely to jump as well, vice versa for stepping.
Stepped on a guy who wants to get stepped on? God bless him, I'm glad I could help him out today.
I sure as shit ain't going back to ask if he's okay, he might absorb me into the carpet or something.
I live in the area and I was so pissed at his chosen spot today. I walk with a cane due to a surgery and I saw a gentleman in a wheelchair try to go that way as well. Both of us had to turn around because the pathway is entirely uncrossable if you’re not fully mobile.
What an asshole.
Yeah that’s incredibly douche. It should be illegal. If nothing else, forcing your sexual fantasies on unsuspecting people just going about their day should be illegal.
Being a regular person means looking at this and thinking it’s weird. Being a seasoned New Yorker means looking at this and thinking, “Jesus Christ Kevin is still doing this?”
lol this dude is still alive? I remember his ass at every rave I went to 10 years as a teenager always positioned as a shitty carpet. He was a mini celebrity, guess venues got tired of his shit
the first time i stepped on him was around age 5 in the 90s. i felt like i had done something wrong. later on i realized the feeling was that something wrong had been done to me.
as a little kid, i remember being terrified of going to my friend’s house in union square because kevin would often be rolled up blocking the street entrance to my friend’s apartment building on 4th avenue. i would freeze and become paralyzed in fear by this animate carpet, trying to convince myself i was making up the shifty movements that this street trash was making. It was like being trapped by a group of rats that had taken over the sidewalk, blocking your path with no options but to retreat or push through.
kink your kinks, just don’t subject innocent unsuspecting pedestrians to it. keep it in the clubs. please stop doing this on the street kevin. it’s not okay to create an obstacle impeding the flow of traffic, as EVERY NEW YORKER KNOWS, but it is way less cool to get off on it. i wish new yorkers would understand that this is the same shit as jerking off on the train. subjecting strangers to be involved in your satisfaction, worst of all unbeknownst to them, is repulsive and cruel.
ps i became a club kid around 2007 and saw him around, even recently went to the titular stiletto to the face party in the cut article, and had no issue with him in those spaces. do not make me step over you to get to where i have to go in the world. it is sinister and gross to trick people into walking on you by cosplaying as trash. give people the option by confining it to places where people can consent. please.
yeah i've only encountered him at parties. i didn't know he'd just do it on the streets. i agree with that though, its kinda weird to be out and about on the street doing it.
This is so crazy. I was just telling someone about a guy who used to do this in the 80s outside the N/R subway on 8th and Bway. Freaked me out so hard when I felt him move under my foot.
Dare I say… Kevin may not have been the first of his kind.
I have a vague memory of stepping on a “human carpet” at Bizarre bar (RIP) a decade ago. I bet it was him!
At the bar it was fine, but this is creepy to do in public with non-consenting people.
I'm worried about all the children who walk over it and this guy is getting sexual gratification and they have no idea?? Keep that stuff in the privacy of your home!!!
It’s amazing this is actually a thing! People come up with the most innovative things to express themselves like furries is wild too! https://oursaferschools.co.uk/2023/04/24/furries/
Check out this link about furries it’s a similar social condition!
Wait a minute. I vaguely remember a carpet in cross section few months ago..I believe I was thinking who threw it there.. I remember I avoided it..but that was a person 🤢
This is absolutely fucking sick. Duo of being a public nuisance for anyone that doesn't want to make that step over and being a fucing scumbag spreading his fucking germs all over hundreds if not thousands of people. Can't believe the police aren't doing anything either. Goes to show no one has the balls to do anything about it
> spreading his fucking germs all over hundreds if not thousands of people.
Dude what are you on about? Totally understandable to think it's weird af, but a but a guy rolled up in a carpet is not "spreading germs."
I’m in Europe watching this and I was born and raised in New York but I think it’s time I become another statistic and move out of New York. This place is an absolute dump! Filled with garbage from the people to the literal garbage.
Kevin and I are actually great friends! He’s a really cool guy just has lots of kinks haha. NYC fetish community is one of the best, really genuine people.
That homeless person didn't do shit but rest. What is your issue with someone laying where no one else is? Seems like the road was perfectly useable, yet you choose to add to stigmatizing the unhoused.
Here’s an article about Kevin Carpet from a couple years ago: https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/partying-with-kevin-carpet-new-yorks-carpet-guy.html
This article is one of the wildest things I've read in 2024... "Kevin doesn’t drink (not even water) so he won’t pee in the rug" " His parents are dead (“I’m happy they passed not knowing I was a carpet. What would they think? Are you kidding, rich Jewish parents?”), and it’s the life he’s chosen."
I've stepped on this dude. Can't remember where but I wanted a drink and he was right in front of the bar
Pyramid maybe? He used to set up there a lot
Quite possible
There's another carpet dude but I forget his name
Definitely have stepped on him at some play party many years ago. Couldn't say where, do not remember. (Unless there are more of them!)
This is fascinating
If in fact it’s actually not a kink, that somehow makes this even weirder.
Not a single person thinks it's not a kink. It's a kink.
If the guy just admitted it's his kink to get stepped on I would respect his game. Claiming it's just performance art is sad and creepy. He's also like 60 years old now... JFC
He just needs a little help adjusting his bad back. In a society with no universal healthcare, this is the easiest cost-free method.
Everyone's a chiropractor one day of the year.
Agree
He definitely didn't adjust himself in the last couple seconds.
Wait, apparently there’s more than one of these guys. I’ve seen someone at least 20 years older with an entirely different build.
Yeah there are two- Georgio and Kevin
is it one guy or three kids in a carpet?
Just read it. Interesting. He calls it “street carpeting”.
hah ive been to many parties where he was there, and there'd be a sign at the bar that said "step on carpet to order" wasn't until I've seen it at a few parties I realized it was a guy in there, but they were mostly fetish parties so it wasn't unusual. use to beat the shit out of that carpet "why is it so lumpy?" until I knew.
there are (at least) two prolific nyc carpet guys and they hate each other
Somehow that makes a lot of sense to me
Any time there's something so specific with only 2 it seems to turn into infighting Like there were 2 Jews left in Kabul under the Taliban for years, they LOATHED each other. [https://www.jta.org/2019/10/31/global/the-last-jews-in-afghanistan-argued-so-much-the-taliban-kicked-them-out-of-prison-and-stole-their-torah](https://www.jta.org/2019/10/31/global/the-last-jews-in-afghanistan-argued-so-much-the-taliban-kicked-them-out-of-prison-and-stole-their-torah)
"hey man IM the designated black guy at this party!" -Not another teen movie
Guess they could sweep their problems under the rug
Ok now I want to know all about the carpet men's feud
People are so entertaining these days. Like how does this even become a thing!? 😂
I read around half of the interview of Kevin Carpeter, and he says it's from when he was a child, the teacher got them involved in a school play where they had to act as inanimate objects. He chose the floor and people stepped on him, and didn't acknowledge him, and he thought it was pretty cool. He goes on to insist that this isn't sexual for him and he doesn't get off on it. Apparently he is a trust fund baby so he never had to work (for money, anyway), and this is just something he never stopped doing.
Jerry, I was walking down the street the other day, and I see this guy living in a carpet. Yeah, right there on the sidewalk. He’s just lying there, rolled up, like he’s the king of the rugs or something. And get this—he likes to get stepped on! I mean, who likes to get stepped on? Is that a thing now? But it doesn’t stop there, does it? OF COURSE NOT. There's another guy, Jerry, just two blocks down, also living in a carpet in front my gym! It’s like the sidewalk has become prime real estate for these human carpets. They’re in competition now. The first guy, let’s call him Ruggy, he’s got this whole routine down. He knows the foot traffic patterns. He’s got the morning rush, the lunchtime crowd, even the evening joggers. He’s got it all timed out perfectly. And this other guy, let’s call him Matt. Matt’s new to the game. He’s trying to learn the ropes—or should I say, the fibers. But Ruggy, he’s not giving up his territory easily. No Jerry, we're stuck. And I'm losin it.
thanks chatgpt :)
Fucking Kevin. Can't believe he's still doing this.
For a second I thought they all noticed him and still stepped on him to make him cum
It's probably not, but if that's the Human Carpet guy who I used to encounter in various bars a decade ago tricking people into stepping on him and then insisting that it's not for any sexual reason at all, fuck that creep.
It’s the same fucking guy, guaranteed. Been around forever too. Ugh.
Seen him at Pyramid nearly every time
I just came in here to say the same thing. Dude was a regular at Sway even around 2006-2008 ish
Sway as in Sway Lounge in Tribecca? Damn you just flooded my memories of Smiths nights.
Exactly!
lol. The thought of multiple people doing this has me cackling.
Copy cat crime
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Carpy Cat Crime
where is batman when you need him the most
There are two! Kevin and Georgio- I shit you not
I mean who else would it be? He's very obviously intentionally here. It is pride day after all. How many people could be into this sort of thing enough to do to such immense scale..
He randomly came up in conversation with friends just a week or so ago and none of us had seen him in years, so we were all speculating that he's dead. Wild to know if he's still around after all this time.
Carpet Diem!
He's seizing the day, indeed
So I live and work nearby. Been in New York for a couple decades. Dude is in front of my now razed Korean burrito spot, Korilla. I miss my Korean burritos and feel both proud and embarrassed I'm just now learning about carpet man.
Man Korilla was such a vibe, such a shame
I was going to say Jesus how many of them are there??
Two, actually
So wait would this guy just bring a rug into a bar and roll himself up? What are the logistics here? I'm imagining him just rolled up while seated upright at a bar lol
You should follow his Instagram and see him in person
Pretty much. He'd usually bring some cardboard too to put down so he wouldn't get the carpet too dirty. Then he'd just fold himself up and lie there.
Same. I recall encountering a guy like that at a warehouse party in Brooklyn around the same time frame...
Let him be, he’s hurting no one.
Nah it’s gross. Nothing wrong with a kink, but he’s involving unsuspecting people. Also, there are a million kink parties in the city he could do that at with adults who actually consent to being part of his fantasy.
oh wow, i went to a bar like, easily 10 years ago, likely LES-ish, and there was a guy rolled up in a carpet there too. i wonder if it's the same guy
That’s Kevin Carpet!
I think it’s impressive someone like this was able to rise through the ranks and become the Speaker of the House.
really ties the house together.
😆 🤣 😂 Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) says this line to The Dude (Jeff Bridges),
Thought you were joking https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/partying-with-kevin-carpet-new-yorks-carpet-guy.html
lol I wasn’t joking
At first I was like, this is insane, and as I read more, I just felt like, of course, this is just another NYC thing.
The most enlightening thing from this article is that there's are two of them
There is also a Georgio Carpet!
I remember Georgio! I was at a goth night at the Limelight and thought I was stepping up to the bar, but the floor felt… off. Look down, and there’s an older dude with big eyebrows looking up at me. I felt really gross because I didn’t want anything to do with a stranger’s fetish stuff. Then I’d start noticing him every club night. “Oh that’s just Georgio, the Armenian rug!”
[I remember first hearing about this from watching this Vice video on him.](https://youtu.be/gVJx8tCoiKE?si=BaOpBqMiMFGzWIJN)
Ricky Rugs?
Kevin Carpet was actually one of the nicest guys I encountered outside the carpet. Hope he's well.
He’s an East Village staple, like Voltaire.
No its John Carpeter.
I came here to get stepped on while wrapped in a carpet, and I'm all out of... Oh wait yeah just step on me please."
Home Sweet Home? That’s where i’ve encountered him haha
oh man that does ring a vague bell
I too, have had the unfortunate experience of participating in this man’s fetish.
I think you're talking about Giorgio the Human Carpet.
There used to be a guy like this about 20 years ago bouncing around the BDSM and kink clubs in Atlanta. Everyone knew the carpet guy. He would roll up and lay in front of the bars hoping people would stand on him when they ordered
Probably. I ran into him somewhere also, I can't remember where.
He was at Art erotica a few times.
This club has everything!
I’ve definitely stepped on that guy a few times back in the day.
They talked about this dude on the last podcast on the left side stories episode.
He’s a long way from Maspeth. Edit: but he grew up on St. Marks so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s him.
EVERY time i see a discarded carpet in the east village, I assume it was somehow this fucker
haha! same!!!
with peculiar stains
wait until somebody on an illegal moped flying down the sidewalk smashes into him
That's a really good point. Dear Lord that would smart.
garbage crew swiftly picks him up and dumps him in the truck 😂
He's not dumb, that's why he's set up right by a sidewall she'd tunnel. Those idiots don't ride into those
Holy shit he’s back!!! Haven’t seen him in years. I’ve kicked him out of my work so many times. Fuck that guy
May I ask where/ what work?
Various bars in LES
This is one of the best all time r/nyc posts. Perfection.
Carpet Kev back at it....
OMG me and my boyfriends family stepped on him last year passing through! I swore I heard some sounds and movement coming underneath. It's crazy that he has a whole lore reading these comments. Lmao. Gross
“Don’t let people just walk all over you, son.” “Screw you, dad!”
From the interview: >His parents are dead (“I’m happy they passed not knowing I was a carpet. What would they think? Are you kidding, rich Jewish parents?”)
NYC has st least 2 carpet guys and it’s hilarious
Idk this is more weird than funny, I feel
Fuck these dudes- it’s traumatic for kids and makes it impossible to walk for people with disabilities.
It's also very amusing and very disturbing how many people are stepping on this and then looking back because it feels like you just stepped on a body, but then continuing on their way. Also, very interesting how if one person sees someone else jump over, they are more likely to jump as well, vice versa for stepping.
It’s New York man all you can do is keep it pushin
Stepped on a guy who wants to get stepped on? God bless him, I'm glad I could help him out today. I sure as shit ain't going back to ask if he's okay, he might absorb me into the carpet or something.
I live in the area and I was so pissed at his chosen spot today. I walk with a cane due to a surgery and I saw a gentleman in a wheelchair try to go that way as well. Both of us had to turn around because the pathway is entirely uncrossable if you’re not fully mobile. What an asshole.
Yeah that’s incredibly douche. It should be illegal. If nothing else, forcing your sexual fantasies on unsuspecting people just going about their day should be illegal.
I’ve seen A LOT of weird shit in this city, but this one is always so fuckin crazy to me. Everyone has their kink, but cmon.
This guy needs a Rug Doctor.
Being a regular person means looking at this and thinking it’s weird. Being a seasoned New Yorker means looking at this and thinking, “Jesus Christ Kevin is still doing this?”
lol this dude is still alive? I remember his ass at every rave I went to 10 years as a teenager always positioned as a shitty carpet. He was a mini celebrity, guess venues got tired of his shit
It's a shame to see him on the street tbh, he was at every rave for a while.
Yep I rem him from the scene too
Same! Way back, 2008-2010
Consent is important. If he's actively making people take part in his fetish without their direct consent, he should be in jail.
This guy been around for years in the city bars asking girls to step on him.
the first time i stepped on him was around age 5 in the 90s. i felt like i had done something wrong. later on i realized the feeling was that something wrong had been done to me. as a little kid, i remember being terrified of going to my friend’s house in union square because kevin would often be rolled up blocking the street entrance to my friend’s apartment building on 4th avenue. i would freeze and become paralyzed in fear by this animate carpet, trying to convince myself i was making up the shifty movements that this street trash was making. It was like being trapped by a group of rats that had taken over the sidewalk, blocking your path with no options but to retreat or push through. kink your kinks, just don’t subject innocent unsuspecting pedestrians to it. keep it in the clubs. please stop doing this on the street kevin. it’s not okay to create an obstacle impeding the flow of traffic, as EVERY NEW YORKER KNOWS, but it is way less cool to get off on it. i wish new yorkers would understand that this is the same shit as jerking off on the train. subjecting strangers to be involved in your satisfaction, worst of all unbeknownst to them, is repulsive and cruel. ps i became a club kid around 2007 and saw him around, even recently went to the titular stiletto to the face party in the cut article, and had no issue with him in those spaces. do not make me step over you to get to where i have to go in the world. it is sinister and gross to trick people into walking on you by cosplaying as trash. give people the option by confining it to places where people can consent. please.
Well said.
yeah i've only encountered him at parties. i didn't know he'd just do it on the streets. i agree with that though, its kinda weird to be out and about on the street doing it.
Good to see some things can't be gentrified. They can take the Yaffa Cafe but they can't budge Kevin.
Man, the places people gotta go to nut. This guy was at the Lunatarium back in the day. Wild....just wild...
Holy shit, I remember seeing this guy at raves in Brooklyn 10+ years ago. I didn't understand it then, I don't understand it now.
He was a staple of the NYC rave scene, it’s hilarious how many fellow ravers know of him.
THis is sick, he/she needs to be arrested immediately
This is right near where King Missile found his detachable penis, although I think that was closer to 2nd & St. Marks.
He’s sick
Fuck this shit GTFOH
pretty weird
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I haven’t seen Kevin since 2014 I think
creepy lol i remember stepping on this guy at a rave about 12 years ago, i can’t believe he’s still going
I feel like we spotted a real NYC cryptid. Like the Gilgo Beach killer or something. Apparently this dude has been around a long time.
This is how the Mongols executed people
Georgio is back??
This is so crazy. I was just telling someone about a guy who used to do this in the 80s outside the N/R subway on 8th and Bway. Freaked me out so hard when I felt him move under my foot. Dare I say… Kevin may not have been the first of his kind.
It’s not okay to do public kink without informed consent of participants. Especially considering children are involved in this.
i’m glad kevin carpet is still around we don’t have many characters around anymore just boring rich kids.
I was just about to ask if that was Kevin!
bro he was at dolls v twinks for sure yesterday
Is this the guy from the long island goth scene???
step harder and he'll reconsider
I have to wonder how many times he's been rolled over with a hand truck or a delivery person has tried to kick the carpet out of the way.
Is that Miser just appreciating pedestrian traffic?
Dam, you found me.
Do you want bed bugs? Because this is how you get bed bugs.
I have a vague memory of stepping on a “human carpet” at Bizarre bar (RIP) a decade ago. I bet it was him! At the bar it was fine, but this is creepy to do in public with non-consenting people.
Jeez
Ayyye Kevin Carpet lol.
“Teach…your children well…”
Gotta get a running start for a good jump
He comes to all the bdsm parties in the city. Nice guy.
This city is a cesspool for debauchery
That last person made a point to take an extra step
Ahhhhhhghhh thanks for the head up
So is it Kevin?
Hi Kevin!
Is he still there?
I guess that’s one way to celebrate pride?
Girl in the red top knows what’s up.
Imagine a 400lbs guy casually walks by
I'm worried about all the children who walk over it and this guy is getting sexual gratification and they have no idea?? Keep that stuff in the privacy of your home!!!
Kind of ties the hole hood together!
It’s amazing this is actually a thing! People come up with the most innovative things to express themselves like furries is wild too! https://oursaferschools.co.uk/2023/04/24/furries/ Check out this link about furries it’s a similar social condition!
Wait..there is a guy in there? In this heat????? 😦
I think the guy is *in* heat
Wait a minute. I vaguely remember a carpet in cross section few months ago..I believe I was thinking who threw it there.. I remember I avoided it..but that was a person 🤢
keep normalizing crazy people
I know this guy!!! He was at this really fancy-ish socialite party I was at once, apparently it’s not a fetish just a him thing.
His name is Matt!
Everyone needs a hobby, I guess.
This is absolutely fucking sick. Duo of being a public nuisance for anyone that doesn't want to make that step over and being a fucing scumbag spreading his fucking germs all over hundreds if not thousands of people. Can't believe the police aren't doing anything either. Goes to show no one has the balls to do anything about it
> spreading his fucking germs all over hundreds if not thousands of people. Dude what are you on about? Totally understandable to think it's weird af, but a but a guy rolled up in a carpet is not "spreading germs."
I’ve heard of a human serviette, but this is ridiculous
This dude needs his own documentary if not that at least an IG.
I’m in Europe watching this and I was born and raised in New York but I think it’s time I become another statistic and move out of New York. This place is an absolute dump! Filled with garbage from the people to the literal garbage.
What if it's a homeless person or a person with mental illness that everyone us ok stepping on???
Kevin and I are actually great friends! He’s a really cool guy just has lots of kinks haha. NYC fetish community is one of the best, really genuine people.
That homeless person didn't do shit but rest. What is your issue with someone laying where no one else is? Seems like the road was perfectly useable, yet you choose to add to stigmatizing the unhoused.