According to a Manhattan restauranteur, a camera-shy health inspector fired off a litany of violations as soon as he began documenting the inspection. Bill Koulmentas, the owner of George’s diner in Tribeca, tells the Post that because he pulled out his iPhone to document a visit from a DOH inspector yesterday, the inspector became angry and wrote him up for 65 points worth of violations, and shuttered the restaurant for the first time since September 11, 2001. “They can do anything they want, Koulmentas says. “Something’s out of control here. It’s lies, lies, lies.” [ more › ]
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Diner Owner Claims DOH Shut Him Down For Citizen Journalism
A plainclothed Brooklyn cop was badly injured when he was pinned between cars during a routine traffic stop yesterday. According to the Post , the unidentified detective had pulled over a black vehicle in Flatbush with four men inside; he was standing behind the car when a white van rammed into him, crushing his legs and sending blood everywhere. “When they pulled him out of the car, his legs were hanging, dangling, it was terrible, there was blood everywhere,” said one witness. [ more › ]
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Plainclothed Brooklyn Cops’ Legs Mangled In Accident
According to police, a thief had such a good time when he broke into an elderly woman’s Brooklyn apartment during the holidays, he decided to stay for a week! Bronx resident Toniquek Todman, 22, has allegedly admitted to police that he broke into the East Flatbush apartment on Christmas Eve, and decided to stay in the empty apartment till New Year’s. “What a nut job. He should have been taken directly to Bellevue Hospital to get his head examined,” a law-enforcement source told the Post. [ more › ]
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Goldilocks Burglar Gets Comfy, Stoned During Week-Long Break-In
The city went back to work yesterday, but it’s technically still Christmas (through January 5th!), and our post-holiday season stupor is not going anywhere—it’s never a good sign when you find yourself thinking, ‘if only we could turn back time to two weeks ago, when it was blissful and holiday music was in the air and it was 50 degrees outside.’ But while work on the flux capacitor is still ongoing, a little bit of Elf goes a long way for us. The area man in the video below made this homage to Will Ferrell’s effortlessly sweet NYC Christmas movie, Elf : “Decided it would be a great idea to dress up like Buddy Elf and wander around NYC. It was a great idea.” Watch it below, watch the montage from the original film below that, and ask yourself what Buddy would say next time you’re outside and realize you can’t feel your face. [ more › ]
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Video: Area Man Brings Elf To Life In City
With a walloping 46.2 million Americans living in poverty right now, it’s the perfect time to start an anonymous internet thread about how much money you make and how it makes you feel, right? No, really: check out this “What’s your hhi and do you FEEL poor, middle class, upper middle class or rich where you live. No judging” thread on UrbanBaby , and prepare to feel nauseous inside. [ more › ]
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UrbanBaby Income Thread Will Make You Feel Horrible About Life
According to the Post , conductor Thomas Christopher, 35, allegedly got into a verbal argument with the 18-year-old boy aboard the southbound R train as it traveled near the 36th Street station in Astoria around 3:50 a.m. today ( DNAInfo claims the incident occurred around 11 p.m. last night). The conductor lost his cool and allegedly punched the teen. Christopher, an MTA employee since March 2007, was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges. [ more › ]
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Subway Conductor Rings In New Year By Allegedly Assaulting Teen
Despite the pleas of a thousand desperate tourists , Mayor Bloomberg will not allow the Wall Street bull, currently barricaded to stay safe from dastardly OWS protestors , to roam free. Looks like they’ll just have to figure out how to take the subway back to Times Square. “The cops have to make a decision,” he told the Post . “If it looks like somebody’s going to deface it, they’ve got to be there. It’s just sad that there are people who might want to [vandalize] it.” [ more › ]
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Bloomberg Won’t Let Wall Street Bull Roam Free
Overall crime has been relatively calm in 2011, according to the NYPD, but not in the increasingly hip Rockaways where the Post warns of a recent ” Tidal Crime Wave .” And it sure has seen a surge . Still, crime on the peninsula is just a drop in the ocean of citywide crime. [ more › ]
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Crime Wave! Rockaway Sees 50% Surge In Major Crimes
The 17-year-old accused of shooting a Chinese food deliveryman at the Bushwick Houses is being held on $500,000 bail. Victor Cubero, an alleged member of the Latin Kings, was in court yesterday “where he threw a temper tantrum after court officers prevented him from talking with family members,” according to the Post . [ more › ]
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$500,000 Bail For 17-Yr-Old Accused Of Shooting Chinese Food Deliveryman 5 Times
Comedian Joe Mande pointed us in the direction of a new holiday-themed video comedian Denis Leary posted on his website this week. It turns Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special into some sort of very uncomfortable jihadist joke. As Mande put it, “I still can’t get over how profoundly fucked up and confusing it is. That said, pleeeeeease watch.” [ more › ]
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