Muppets In The Hood

I can believe anything of Bert and Ernie:

"A high school in Massachusetts has banned certain T-shirts featuring Sesame Street characters.

But these aren't typical pictures of Big Bird and the crew.

In some, Bert and Ernie are standing in a gang posture, armed with automatic weapons. Others feature Oscar the Grouch emerging from his garbage can, wielding a 9 mm handgun."

Ernie looks like he'd really cap you. Bert is drinking supposedly from a paperbag-covered bottle, but at first glance, to me it looked like a bota.
With several decade's worth of rumors swirling around the pair, I couldn't be sure.