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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A shooting at Nostrand Ave & Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn, a hazmat at 41st Rd & College Point Blvd in Queens and a suspicious package at East 3rd Street & Ave B in Manhattan.
  • In its biggest recall ever, Toyota announced it'll replace the gas pedals of 4 million vehicles in the U.S.
  • Baggies of heroin stamped "Twillight" are entering NYC; a DEA official explained, "They’re selling heroin with the brand name of ‘Twilight’ in order to be attractive to teenagers and young adults."
  • Some Cobble Hill public school parents raised $40,000 online to save their kids' school art program.
  • 11 Spring Street, once filled with graffiti and later turned into luxury apartments, sold for 50% off its near $40 million asking price.
  • Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Thanksgiving turkey is from Carvel!
  • Swiss judges approved $4.5 million bail for director Roman Polanski, because the amount represents quite a bit of his fortune and because he's 76.
  • A Republican elder tells the Daily News that Sarah Palin “doesn’t understand there’s no way she’ll ever be President. She may figure it out someday, but she hasn’t yet. But I’ll tell you one thing - her endorsement will have real value for some Republican who could be President.”
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  • mmuhaka19

    That's Nice Idea..



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  • Steven

    Just make the drugs legal and drug dealers will go out of business.

  • Mr Mel

    Palin may help decide who the next Republican Presidential nominee will be? If that comes to pass W would look like Thomas Jefferson.

  • inoyourider

    The real scum are the heroin dealers and users.

    Twilight is a very appropriate name for that trashy drug.

  • potsmoker

    the drug war is full of stupid contradictions and outrageous statements that appeal to somebody.

    somebody out there actually believes that children are in danger because of a drug brandname called twilight.

    drug brand names are catchy so addicts can identify

    what works, and dealers frequently use ironic pop culture references to identify their product.

    cutting your supply too weak, rebrand it and create a new buzz. same old drug, same dumb customer base.

    if theres a kid who will od on heroin and thought the twilight logo was a great incentive, do you really want that kid driving your bus or teaching your own kids years later, good riddence.

    Clayton Patterson has a nice collection.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/nyregion/01INK.html

  • thefacts

    "a DEA official explained, "They’re selling heroin with the brand name of ‘Twilight’ in order to be attractive to teenagers and young adults.""

    More bullshit from the scum at DEA. If drugs were legal, they would be out a job,, and we'd save billions.

    I knew a drug dealer who was caught with $250,000 in cash. The DEA logged $125,000 and pocketed the rest for themselves! Who is the criminal?

    Also, I know the owner of a large storage facility in Jersey that DEA rented to store confiscated drugs before incineration. The night before the burning, he caught them loading a few bales of pot into their car trunks. They didn't speak to him, but just fingered their pistols as a warning to keep it quiet.

    Real scum.

  • dhex

    oh, no doubt legions of young teenage girls were all waiting to get into hard drugs but thought to themselves "there just isn't a street name that speaks to me and my interests" until twilight brand heroin hit nyc.

    if the dea didn't wield real power they'd be hilarious.

  • jaycjay

    Marketing drugs to young people! Brilliant!

    Until this move by these so-smart drug dealers, most of the heroin in this country was sold to elderly grandmothers, and carried brands like "Matlock" and "Golden Girls". This apparently is the first time drugs were sold labeled with a reference to anything current or that appeals to "teens and young adults."

    Too bad, now we're going to lose a whole generation to this menace.

  • NannyState

    Good point. Now pardon mne while I go bang some more "Bea Arthur" in my veins...

  • Twilight drugs? That so sad, its mostly teen girls that go crazy for twilight because of guys, lets hope these teen girls arent drawn to this new twilight drugs.

  • Fritzdecat

    Baskin Robbins or Carvel?

    Whatever happened to Cookie Pus?

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