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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an injured police officer at Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn, a gas leak on South 8th St. and Wythe Ave. in Brooklyn, and a bank robbery at the North Fork branch on 87th St. and Broadway in Manhattan.
The FDNY will be stationing a battalion chief at the Deutsche Bank building until it is fully dismantled.
Someone in the Clinton campaign said that there's a 5% chance that in the event of a deadlock between Obama and Clinton at the Democrats' national convention, Al Gore may arise as a compromise candidate.
Plans for a Veselka on the Bowery may be on the rocks, as a liquor license for the Avalon building location looks unlikely.
The 69-year-old man, who was killed after being sideswiped by a cab and then run over by a bus on West 57th St. yesterday, was on his way to deliver candy to Oprah's best pal Gayle King.
A 500 lb. man is suing the FDNY for $5 million after ten firefighters, who were trying to take him to the hospital using a pulley-and-platform rig to get the man out the building, dropped him down a flight of stairs.
Patty Hearst's French bulldog won Best of Opposite Sex in the breed's category (a male won Best of Breed) at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed a citywide network of water-borne mass transit, where boats could ferry New Yorkers from stop to stop all over the city's five boroughs.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on February 12, 2008 6:15 PM

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eyekantspel

retirement plan: Step 1. Eat until you are too fat to leave home. Step 2. Call FDNY to carry your fat ass to the hospital. Step 3. Sue for $5 million. The American Dream.

mdow

great photo.

i love the morbidly obese, especially when they're litigious.

dwightsupremacy

Ugh! I hope that morbidly obese and morbidly litigious slob's plan backfires and the judge makes him pay however much it costs NYC to care for his out of control behind. Annoys me to no end!

Snoopy

Can you just imagine it took ten firefighters to move this slug. Even with ten they were each carrying fifty plus pounds of human blubber down a flight of stairs. OK so they didn't actually carry him down, they threw him down, but still. I'm sure one of them sprained something. Who's going to pay for the broken block and tackle equipment?

mocanlagunas

maybe a firefighter sprained a finger or something and he can sue the bastard back!

mocanlagunas

maybe a firefighter sprained a finger or something and he can sue the bastard back!

ugh

oh please let me be on the jury! Lets' see... how much did his gluttony cost the CITY???

and let me guess... he was on disability due to his morbid obesity??

Steven

The 500 pound guy reminded when Kevin James and Adam Sandler in "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry" were trying to get a fat guy out his burning home.

Snoopy

Perhaps the next time that the FDNY tries to remove and rescue a 500 pound fat fuck, they should open the window and just throw him out and see if he survives. Then sanitation can pick him up and deliver him to the appropriate facility.

On the other FDNY news beat. Do they really need a battalion chief as a watchdog for the Deutsche building? A captain might work as well.

rcltrh

Shoulda left his 500 pound butt in the apartment and said go help yourself. I mean its bad he fell, but good lord they were just trying to help. Next time someone like this calls the FDNY they should just say no.