The cat-on-a-leash phenomenon continues unabated today with a new firsthand account in the Times on the trials and tribulations of training your cat (sorry, make that “pedicat”) to walk on a leash. We’ve seen it before , but not until now have we known, in such vivid detail, how to do it ourselves. [ more › ]
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How To Get A Cat On A Leash, Redux
Cops in the Bronx got a break last night after a 16-year-old chose to shoot a 19-year-old man multiple times early this morning directly outside of a police precinct . The shots were fired just after 1:25 a.m., according to the NYPD, and the perp was nabbed soon after. [ more › ]
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Police Arrest Teen Who Shot A Man Outside Police Precinct
Today, the NY Times publishes a terribly sad photograph of the three little girls who died inside their Stamford, Connecticut home during a Christmas Day fire . In the picture, the girls, 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah and 9-year-old Lily, are with their father Matthew Badger, smiling and happy. According to the Times, funeral arrangements are still being made, but it’s expected that they will take place next week. The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home’s vice-president, Dominic Carella, said the girls would be placed in individual coffins. [ more › ]
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Stamford House Fire Was "Raging…Like If You Opened The Door Up To A Furnace"
For years, many New Yorkers have enjoyed the pleasures of drunk shopping—whether it’s for a snazzy suit or a puppy , the phenomenon is nothing new—the fashion blog Racked even has a regular column called “Drunk Shopping.” Today, the Times looks at the people who prefer to drunk shop on the internet, where no one can peer pressure them into buying anything but themselves, and oh, it is magical: [ more › ]
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NYT Discovers Drunk Shopping…On The Internet!
The funeral of deceased North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Il was performed yesterday with “totalitarian choreography,” as the Times puts it , with a 25-mile procession through the snowy capitol of Pongyang. Thousands of dramatically weeping mourners lined the route and broke into hysterics as a giant portrait of “Dear Leader” was escorted by. Kim Jong-un, who despite rumors to the contrary appears to have solidified control of the country and now bears the title “Supreme Commander,” walked alongside the funeral procession for a bit, then rode the rest of the way in a limo. Here’s video of the scene that greeted him along the route: [ more › ]
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Watch Kim Jong-Il Mourners Try To Out-Sob Each Other At Funeral Procession
After decades of focusing their expansion efforts on the suburbs, a growing number of Southern Baptists are flocking to northeast cites for what’s known as “church planting,” or establishing new congregations in wicked Godless places. And NYC, with its gambling and bars that sell spirits til the ungodly hour of 2 a.m ., is a top target for proselytizers, the Times reports today . Years of investing God-capital in NYC seems to be paying off, with some 45 Southern Baptist “church plants” established here since 2001, and another 50 churches planned for the NYC area in the next five years. Which comes as an enormous relief because, as the Southern Baptists point out, NYC really needs Southern Baptists. [ more › ]
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Southern Baptists To NYC: You Need Our Help
Last week, a Brooklyn teen standing on a street divider in Gravesend was struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver. Driver Vitali Korzavin, 46, was arrested and charged with a DWI, speeding, and vehicular manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old Stuyvesant High School student Terence Tsao. Yesterday, Korzavin’s charges were upgraded to aggravated vehicular homicide from manslaughter, after it was revealed his blood alcohol level was .32, four times over the legal limit. [ more › ]
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Alleged DWI Driver Who Killed Stuy Student Had Blood Alcohol 4 Times Over Limit
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
Investigators trying to determine what caused Wednesday’s horrific elevator death in a Madison Avenue building are focusing on a maintenance company that was working on the elevator hours before the malfunction. A Buildings Department spokesman says the company, Transel Elevator, had sent an unlicensed worker to do electrical work that morning. Why was the worker unlicensed? Well, as you may or may not know, you DON’T NEED A LICENSE TO WORK ON AN ELEVATOR IN NYC. As one union rep tells the Times , “Anyone with a set of tools can work on an elevator.” Food for thought as you’re climbing the stairs today. [ more › ]
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Elevator Was Being Worked On Hours Before Freak Death
The New York Times blog The Moment asked readers to send in photos of their souped-up, tricked-out, and generally awesome man sheds. So click over for a geodesic dome, reclaimed stoplights, a tree house, and, of course, an Australian folk song devoted to such dwellings. [The Moment]
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