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Teens Busted for Making Giant Swastika in Synagogue Lot

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Great Neck, Long Island: Once upon a time this little North Shore village was home to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the United Nations, and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Today its illustrious residents include Erik Bracamonte and Joseph Cianciulli, who are accused of spending their Saturday night arranging 28 folding chairs into a 12-by-12 foot swastika in the parking lot of a local synagogue. Kids these days, eh?

Rabbi Isaac Bakhshi discovered the swastika outside the orthodox North Shore Sephardic Synagogue at about 6:30 p.m. The Daily News reports that synagogue security cameras showed the teens skateboarding to the scene of the crime, and police tracked down Bracamonte within three hours. His alleged accomplice Cianciulli was arrested around 1 a.m., and both were charged with first-degree aggravated harassment. "They took advantage of the darkness," one police source tells the Post.

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  • langleycollyer



    "Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, dude, at least it’s an ethos."

  • slope185

    Stupid Yes - A crime No. They would have had to cause some damage in order to make it Aggrevated Harassment in the First Degree.

  • rasputinsghost

    http://law.onecle.com/new-york/penal/PEN0240.31_240.31.html

    "Etches, paints, draws upon or otherwise places a swastika, commonly exhibited as the emblem of Nazi Germany, on any building or other real property, public or private, owned by any person, firm or corporation or any public agency or instrumentality, without express permission of the owner or operator of such building or real property"

    You can stop anytime you like

  • philosophy

    http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/symbols/swastika.htm

    You can stop anytime you like...just sayin'!

  • langleycollyer



    Plus: they're idiots. That swastika is backwards. Kids these days, indeed.

  • Guest

    Maybe they're Hindu and not anti-Jewish at all.

  • chuzzlewit

    widdershins! advantage of darkness not properly taken, -2 evil points.

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