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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a push in robbery at the Pitken Ave & Grant Ave Station in Brooklyn, an unusual MVA on Chambers St and West St in Manhattan and a shooting on Humboldt St in Brooklyn.
- An off-duty cop just "fooling around with his gun" accidentally shot his wife in the groin in their New Rochelle home. He's been suspended without pay.
- Speaker Christine Quinn led the announcement that the city is not going through with initial plans to save money by consolidating more than 300 senior centers.
- No more Maureen Dowd columns for the Chinese, at least not online: The Chinese government has blocked access to the NYTimes.com website. It's unclear if the International Herald Tribune's website.
- It's starting to look more and more like another famous New Yorker might also be joining the US senate by way of Minnesota.
- The Yankees are waiting patiently for the free agent market to land its next major move so they can begin making a play at bringing Manny Ramirez to the Bronx.
- Mono, Epstien-Barr, mercury poisioning: just how many excuses did Jeremy Piven use to get out of David Mamet's play?
- Jerry Seinfeld was on Letterman last night trying out some new stand-up and wondering what is the deal with kids' birthday parties?
- And it's almost shocking that Volkswagen didn't put the Montauk Monster on jet skis and send it into shark-infested water in the latest "sighting" of the summer pheonomeon.
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Um, they don't charge you with misdeamenor assault if its an accident. Theres more to the gun story thans being told
"they don't charge you with misdeamenor assault if its an accident."
Yes "they" do. Third degree assault in NYS is the charge in cases of criminal negligence which causes physical injury by means of a deadly weapon, or in cases involving recklessly causing physical injury.
Depending on what happened before the shooting at least one of those would apply.
Well that's just assinine. Good thing I don't play with weapons, but if I did and had an accident with it I guess I wouldn't report it in NYS. I'd be driving myself or my wife across the border to Jersey or Connecticut or somewhere that didn't have crazy laws like we have here. "Criminal" negligence would suggest criminal intent wouldn't it?
No, in this case "criminal" negligence doesn't suggest criminal intent -- it means that your negligence was criminal, regardless of intent. And it's certainly not unique to New York.