So which is more annoying? The scourge of crack cocaine, cigarette butts or car alarms? Car alarms! And no one’s doing a damn thing about it:
Posted: January 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Grrr!, Quality Of LifeDespite a flood of noise complaints over sleep-destroying car sirens, only four tickets were handed out in the city last year for faulty alarms, according to the city Department of Environmental Protection.
The state’s real message behind the soda tax? Save money, drink beer:
Posted: January 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Feed, Follow The Money, Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The Chin, Things That Make You Go "Oy"“A six-pack of soda is going to cost you approximately $4.99” if the penny-an-ounce tax goes through, [New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes chairman Nelson] Eusebio said, “where you can pick up beer from $2.99 to $3.99.”
Apparently the cops need stuff to do:
Posted: January 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Jerk Move, Law & Order, That's An Outrage!, The Bronx, You're Kidding, Right?Two Bronx men were locked up and left to rot in a filthy jail cell for nearly a week after a pair of bumbling cops mistook their candy for a bag of crack.
The “drugs” were finally tested five days later and determined to be popular Coco (coconut) Candy. The charges were dropped — but there were no apologies from the NYPD.
“Sweet happens,” a police source glibly said of the boondoggle.
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The trouble began the night of Jan. 15, as José Pena, a 48-year-old plumber, and his longtime pal and colleague Cesar Rodriguez, 33, were headed to a party, and decided to stop at a bodega on 181st Street and the Grand Concourse.
When they came out, cops were waiting and asked to search their Ford minivan. “I said ‘Go search.’ I even opened the door,” Rodriguez told The Post.
An officer rummaged around, came out holding a “Hello Kitty” sandwich bag, and shouted “Bingo!” the men said.
“It’s only candy!” Rodriguez said, as the cops handcuffed him and Pena, and several other police cars rushed to the scene.
Rodriguez said he buys a 50-cent bag of Coco Candy, a hard coconut-based treat, almost every day. Because it easily crumbles, he puts it in a sandwich bag.
“I didn’t know having candy was a crime,” he said.
It’s hard to believe that a crew flying in and out of La Guardia had never seen this before:
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Filed under: Things That Make You Go "Oy"A US Airways crew panicked by a Jewish teen’s prayer ritual aborted a flight from LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, landing in Philadelphia amid unfounded fears of a terrorist bomb.
The trouble began when the 17-year-old White Plains youth pulled out two small Scripture-filled boxes used for his morning prayers on the Louisville, Ky.-bound plane, authorities said.
The frightened boy and his sister, headed for a four-day visit with their grandmother, were instead greeted in the City of Brotherly Love by bomb-sniffing dogs, police and the FBI.
Some enterprising cable network should make a reality show/cage match called “Front Of House Vs. Back Of House”:
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Filed under: FeedAn angry waiter . . . picked up one of the normally dull [butter knife] blades during a brawl in the legendary [Algonquin] hotel’s eatery and wound up stabbing a sous chef and a host, police said.
Jesus Payano, 43, was arrested for assault after the fight, which began at about 5 p.m. at the West 44th Street hotel.
The trouble started when sous chef Christopher Goodwin got angry because Payano was playing a radio, and shut it off.
The dispute escalated, and Payano allegedly grabbed the knife and slashed Goodwin in the hand.
