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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a suspicious death on Harman St. in Brooklyn, an escaped prisoner from Elmhurst General Hospital in Queens, and a pedestrian struck on Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn.
Not minor league players, but the organization staff of the Brooklyn Cyclones played a dozen 2-hour games of baseball against different opponents in a 24-hour baseball marathon whose purpose was to raise funds for charity. All baseball players everywhere must tip their caps to the participants.
The federal government has given coach bus companies millions of dollars to install devices that, in the event of a hijacking with the intended threat of ramming a bomb-packed bus into a vital structure, will allow remote shut down of buses.
Masked hoodlums are the new scourge of Harlem, brazenly terrorizing residents and making it unsafe to go out at night. Not even children are safe from the raccoons who residents believe are migrating from Central Park to threaten the welfare of their neighborhood.
A Staten Island man, unhappy that he was accused with allegedly slipshod auto repair work and unpaid, was arrested for burning down his neighbor-customer's house in retaliation. His arson job unintentionally torched four other homes, including his own.
T-Mobile is suing Starbucks over its proposed plan to offer free wi-fi Internet access to customers via AT&T.
A man described in his 40s was found dead at the southern end of Central Park near a pond, with a crackpipe next to him. Lenny Briscoe would have had something pithy to add.
If one can't take the heat, just pretend one is gliding along in an ice gondola.

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By Dave Hogarty in News on June 8, 2008 6:15 PM

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Politburo

"When did Homeland Security start basing their funding on B-movie plots?"

From the beginning.. remember plastic sheeting and duct tape?

dbc

According to the SILive link, the fire was set by the mechanic's son, not the mechanic himself.

Rocknrope

Nice Dave, I wonder if the body was found on top of a cross of Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia.

sonyactivision

#1: Remember that idiotic story about Homeland Security hiring Hollywood writers to "Imagineer" future 9-11 style attacks? Well guess what they came up with. Irwin Allen would be proud.

Dave Hogarty

A pipe and a pond; the pipe would be good for you . . .

dguido

Fyi, there is a pretty large blackout going on in North Park Slope, centered around the Bergen St. 2/3. It started around 4pm today and they haven't gotten power back yet.

berniegoetz

Lennie Briscoe: "I used to smoke a pipe, too...before I became a drunk that is. You do know that I used to be a drunk, right?"

Murray Hillster

When did Homeland Security start basing their funding on B-movie plots? How stupid can they get?

They're using our millions of tax payer dollars to equip buses with absolutely useless technology. How many buses have been used as explosive battering rams in the history of the world? None? Terrorists seem pretty satisfied with using cars as explosive battering rams, or blowing up buses that aren't ramming buildings.

Worse, is Homeland Security going to equip these devices to every large vehicle in the United Stages? Should Escalades have them? Maybe every Supershuttle van should have one. If a terrorist wants a vehicle to pack full of explosives, there are plenty of them out there. And as our Iraq "adventure" has shown, if one car isn't enough, they can send more than one.