Hump Buster

Every once in a while it’s good to remember why you probably shouldn’t be picking up hookers:

A hefty hooker threw a hussy fit yesterday when she was collared for trying to pick up an undercover cop on a Staten Island street corner, threatening to bite him and give him AIDS because he was white, sources said.

Then when officers took her to the 120th Precinct station house, she continued her rampage, allegedly jumping on a wooden bench and crushing it.

Omenebele Young, 32 — who is 5-foot-4 and 250 pounds — had been strutting her ample stuff at the corner of Harbor Road and Richmond Terrace in the Mariners Harbor section just before 4 a.m., authorities said.

Young approached an undercover cop and allegedly flashed her breasts. When the cop tried to cuff her, Young, who is black, allegedly scratched and pinched him, then screamed, “I’ll bite y’all and give you AIDS! I’ll go to jail for the rest of my life just to kill a white cop!”

Did The V Train Forget To Wipe Off Its Feet After Playing Outside Or Something?

See, no one ever answers the bigger question, which is where the mud comes from in the first place:

Major flooding during last week’s subway washout was caused by clogged drains, just like in 2004, a top transit official said yesterday.

The official, who requested anonymity, told the Daily News that the backup occurred even though the drains had been cleared before Wednesday’s downpour.

The power of the torrent from the storm was such that it carried muck and debris into the tunnels, clogging the drains anew and blocking the flow of water to subway pumps.

“There’s mud in the troughs,” the official said. “It wasn’t causing a problem where it was but when water runs in like the Amazon River, now you’ve got a buildup of mud.”

Once workers cleared the drainage systems in the area around 23rd St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan and Court Square in Queens the flow to pump rooms resumed.

Last week’s flood crippled the entire subway system as did a similar storm in 2004. A 2006 report by the MTA’s inspector general faulted the authority for not keeping its drainage system clear.

The same storm also spawned tornadoes on Staten Island and in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where FEMA, the federal agency that let New Orleans down after Hurricane Katrina, set up shop yesterday.

(Jeez, poor FEMA!)

Who Needs Surveillance Cameras When You Have Webcams And MySpace?

Come on — seasoned criminals know to keep a low profile online:

A photograph lifted from MySpace.com and handed to a grieving relative of a victim in Sunday’s fatal subway shooting led to the arrest yesterday of a 16-year-old Bronx boy, police sources said.

“This is the kid who shot your nephew,” a man unknown to the family told the aunt of Rayquon Story, 19, who was killed early Sunday on a parked No. 5 train in Eastchester, the Bronx, police sources said.

After handing her the photo, the tipster went on to tell the aunt that the suspect, identified by police as Robert Denis, lives in Co-op City.

She turned the photo over to detectives, who then spoke to Co-op City security. They recognized the teenager and he was taken into custody.

Denis is accused of squeezing off five rounds during a 2:30 a.m. confrontation at the Dyre Ave. and E. 233rd St. subway station, striking four people, including Story, cops said.

He made a videotaped statement at the 47th Precinct stationhouse, and was awaiting arraignment at Bronx Criminal Court on charges of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon last night.

Astroland To Astroturf

Because of course the YouTube demographic is closely aligned with the big-time New York City developer demographic:

A video posted on Coney Island developer Thor Equities’ Web site and YouTube last week has ruffled some fins out in the seaside neighborhood.

The clip, which opens and closes with the Mermaid Parade logo, features costumed revelers professing their love of Coney Island and the parade. Then, in the last few seconds, a woman wearing a Viking helmet slips in: “The spirit of Thor matches that of Coney Island!”

The woman was Digna Rodriguez, a Thor Equities employee.

The video was designed as goodwill promotional material and showcased the High Steppers, a Brooklyn-based marching band Thor Equities sponsored in the parade. Absent from the video were the many protesters who marched in the parade to “Save Coney Island.” Many fear Thor’s proposals to transform Coney Island into a year-round attraction with upscale hotels will wash away the local character(s).

And see what you get when you renege on plans to save some dumpy old building? They revoke your ability to mediate experiences on the internet:

“Thor has just been sent an email,” Dick Zigun of Coney Island USA, the group that runs the Mermaid Parade, wrote on his Web site, “informing them that they have NO PERMISSION to use the name or logo MERMAID PARADE within their FUTURE OF CONEY ISLAND logo such as they have done at the start and finish of the YOU TUBE piece.”

See also: “thorothunder”‘s Thor at Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade YouTube Video.

When That Engine Roars, It Enters My Blood Like A Fever

As the last of the Four Hundred passes on, a new dynasty emerges:

For almost nine hours on Sunday, Eliot Spitzer, the Upper East Sider with the Princeton and Harvard education and the reputation for a hyperkinetic braininess, indulged his other side. Nascar, possibly the vehicle for the nation’s most overt display of country fried machismo, has recently become a calculated interest for ambitious politicians trying to appeal to a working-class male demographic.

Mr. Spitzer, however, can lay a legitimate claim to fandom, and appears to relish the sport as fervently as he does the Yankees.