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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck on Pennsylvania Ave. and Fulton St. in Brooklyn, a bank robbery on Co-Op City Blvd. in the Bronx, and a commercial high-rise fire on Broadway in Manhattan.
An actor who once played a police lieutenant on L&O: SVU turned himself in to NJ cops today on suspicion of possession of child pornography.
YouTube wants to subpeona comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in a lawsuit charging that the pair appear in purloined Internet videos clips of their shows on the video-sharing site.
A family court judge is being investigated for perhaps being too TV-friendly while serving on the bench of an actual family courtroom. She's mocked the foreign accent of a lawyer and routinely trash talks people who appear before her.
We doubt this story about dressing up dogs in wigs is worth an email to the ASPCA, but it's getting close.
A man was crushed to death between an elevator car and the elevator shaft at an industrial site in Brooklyn.
Staten Island's Victory Diner was carted from its Dongan Hills location to a Parks Dept. location thanks to the donations of the Richmond County Savings Bank and several other local organizations. "'I was so happy when I heard it was going to be saved I actually cried,' said local resident Susan Pugliese, who was married in the diner."
A directory to charity thrift shops around NYC.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on August 14, 2007 6:35 PM

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Nick S

while dont agree with the dude having kiddie porn..what the fuck is some tech at best buy doing snooping around on his computer? how is that not illegal?

guest

yep stupid for giving the PC to a best buy or whatever traitor store. go to your local muslim owned place not a traitor snitch store.

at least with your local repair shop you can go back and get reparations. make sure you tell your subordinates where you sent your PC so they know who to go to when you're in the clink.

Steven

Stupid for sending the computer for repair then getting caught with the child porn on the hard drive. DUHHHH!

Dave Hogarty

[3] You are absolutely correct. This lawsuit is about Viacom-owned tv programs being re-transmitted over YouTube. Calling Stewart and Colbert to testify, however, seems like a huge publicity stunt.

guest

i don't think the youtube article says what you say it does. although colbert has been accused a few times of ripping things off from the internet, that's not what this article is about. maybe there is another article that ties the two together?