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The Atlantic Avenue exit of the BQE turned out to be the exit ramp used by one more passenger than was expected Thursday morning when a police officer ended up helping deliver a baby alongside the highway. 37-year-old Officer George Tsoukaris said he hasn't had to help out on a case like this since his rookie days on the NYPD. When Tsoukaris was flagged down Thursday around 11a.m. by a woman in labor and her husband intending to take the BQE out to a Staten Island hospital, he quickly discovered that there wasn't going to be enough time until an EMT arrived...or even time for him to put on gloves for that matter! The couple has chosen not to reveal themselves after taking their healthy newborn to Long Island College Hospital. But the News got the adorable story out of the cop, who says, "She was screaming at the top of her lungs. he's yelling, 'The baby's coming out, the baby's coming out!' ... It's one thing to see the miracle of life in a controlled environment like a hospital, but it's another thing to have it happen on the highway."

A livery cab driver decided to keep the change when a foreign tourist didn't have anything smaller than a hundred and unwittingly ended up with a baby on board. 42-year-old Jean Pierre Lesly picked up a woman and her three children who had all just arrived from Nigeria yesterday morning, driving them from JFK to the Upper West Side's Milburn Hotel. When the 42-year-old cab driver from Huntington didn't have enough change for her $68 fare, he ran into a nearby laundromat to break the Benjamin. When Lesly returned and didn't see the woman, he decided to hit the road and pocket the full hundred. As a police source told the News, "He boogies, thinking he is going to get the extra $32." Bur Lesly quickly realized that he had inadvertently turned the woman into a generous tipper when he spotted that her baby was still sleeping in his backseat. Upon returning the child, he was greeted by cops who arrested him for petty larceny. Despite the napping kid, he avoided a kidnapping rap, but did rack up a couple more charges when cops discovered he was driving his own car without a TLC license and had a suspended driver's license as well.

Arj Barker will be appearing as part of The Marijuana-Logues at Comix on January 18th, 19th, and 20th. In this interview he shares his opinion on the holidays, the worth of children, and his love of Australia.