{"id":2854,"date":"2007-10-18T07:53:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T15:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/are_you_ready_for_the_suburbs.html"},"modified":"2007-10-18T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T15:53:23","slug":"are_you_ready_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/are_you_ready_f.html","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready For The Suburbs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they never looked better than today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10182007\/news\/regionalnews\/kids_dad_and_uncle_pummel__l_i.htm\">teaching your children teamwork and dedication<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Two brothers who owned an infamous, mobbed-up Long Island restaurant savagely beat a Little League coach after he benched one of their sons for spewing an obscenity at practice, police said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The coach, whose name the police are withholding, had an &#8220;ongoing problem&#8221; with the 11-year-old boy being disruptive during practices of the Bellmore Lightning team on Tuesday night, said Nassau County Police Sgt. Anthony Repalone.<\/p>\n<p>When he tried to discipline the kid, the boy told the 45-year-old coach to &#8220;go f- &#8211; &#8211; yourself,&#8221; said Repalone. The coach then benched the child.<\/p>\n<p>The boy called his father, Frank Basile, 48, of Bellmore, owner of the formerly mobbed-up fish-and-chips eatery Hudson &#038; McCoy in Freeport.<\/p>\n<p>Repalone said Basile, along with his brother Roger, 43, rushed over to the baseball field, screaming and cursing &#8220;in a fit of rage.&#8221; The coach spotted the two men heading toward him and told the kids to move away.<\/p>\n<p>That was when Frank Basile &#8220;immediately punches him, rendering him semiconscious. He and his brother start pummeling and kicking&#8221; the victim, Repalone said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10182007\/news\/regionalnews\/outrage_as_noose_nazis_strike_.htm\">boys will be boys<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A pair of nooses &#8212; including one around the neck of a tar-painted doll &#8212; were found hanging from a forklift truck on Long Island yesterday afternoon at the Town of Hempstead highway yard in Roosevelt.<\/p>\n<p>The find was the latest in a recent rash of noose hangings that have fanned painful memories of segregation-era lynchings of blacks in the deep South.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But you should rest assured that the super-scary super-drug-resistant staph infection moving across the nation hasn&#8217;t come anywhere near the city . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10182007\/news\/regionalnews\/killer_germ_hits_conn__hs.htm\">until now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At least one Weston [Connecticut] HS student has been diagnosed with a potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant staph infection.<\/p>\n<p>School officials sent a letter home to parents informing them that one case of the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus infection, or MRSA, has been confirmed at the school. Health officials are waiting for results of tests on another student.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they never looked better than today. It&#8217;s all about teaching your children teamwork and dedication: Two brothers who owned an infamous, mobbed-up Long Island restaurant savagely beat a Little League coach after he benched one of their sons for spewing an obscenity at practice, police said yesterday. 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