That’s Not To Say They Wouldn’t Have Given Up Their Seat On The Subway For Her, However

The kind of crime story that warms the heart and cheers the soul:

Two thugs mugged a pregnant woman in the lobby of a Midtown building and ran off with her wedding band and engagement ring, police said yesterday.

Poster On Online Forum Finds Reason To Dispute Website’s Title

And always, always distrust men on bicycles:

Another victim, Kate S., 28, of Astoria took to the website, WhyLeaveAstoria.com, after she was groped twice in one year. She said the most recent incident occurred last week on 31st St., when the man grabbed her breast.

“He rode right up to me and grabbed me,” she said.

Stupidest Holiday Ever Claims Another Victim

The bizarreness that is Brooklyn-Queens Day is causing yet more trouble:

As the sun faded following a thunderstorm, police were walking shoulder to shoulder on the boardwalk, shining flashlights into the crevices of the pieces of lumber, looking for shell casings.

. . .

The mayhem on the boardwalk unfolded after hundreds of kids enjoyed a day off from school for Brooklyn-Queens Day.

God Rest Her Soul, Speed Her To Heaven, Use Her Prescription For More Drugs Before Anyone Realizes She’s Gone

The Advance continues its investigation into prescription drug abuse on the Island, highlighting the case of a son and daughter-in-law who used their dead mother to score more oxycodone:

He was so desperate to score prescription drugs that he and his wife had a script written out in his sick mother’s name — two weeks after she died, prosecutors allege.

Earlier: Must Be Why Everyone On Staten Island Is So Mellow.

And Let’s Face It, “78” Looks Basically Like “80” On The Speedometer . . .

The Times reports that it turns out those buses are going as fast as you think they’re going:

The casino bus that crashed in the Bronx this month, killing 15 of its passengers, was exceeding the speed limit by more than 20 miles an hour before it drifted off the highway, rolled over and skidded into a sturdy signpost, a federal official told a United States Senate panel on Wednesday.

Deborah A.P. Hersman, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a hearing in Washington that federal investigators had not yet determined the cause of the crash, but noted that the bus was traveling “at up to 78 miles per hour.” The speed limit is 55 m.p.h.

Earlier: Trains May Suck In A Lot Of Ways But At Least They Don’t Flip Over On The Thruway.