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Video: Pompous Olbermann Compares Himself To $10 Million Chandelier On Letterman

Video: Pompous Olbermann Compares Himself To $10 Million Chandelier On Letterman

If you didn't think Keith Olbermann could get any more insufferable, then you didn't watch his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. While he admitted, "I screwed up. I screwed up really big on this," and "It’s my fault that it didn’t succeed in the sense that I didn’t think the whole thing through," he discussed his $10 million/year salary (part of a $50 million/5-year contract he wants Current TV to commit to), "I didn’t say, ‘You know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in.' Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn’t going to do anybody a lot of good." more ›

Anti-Semitic Driver Drops "KILL JEWS" Notes Around NY

Anti-Semitic Driver Drops "KILL JEWS" Notes Around NY

Once a Jew-hating note scribbler, always a Jew-hating note scribbler it seems: Demetrios Apolonides was arrested by police yesterday on a hate crime charge of aggravated harassment for writing threatening, anti-Jewish notes on torn up vouchers and dropping them around Long Island. This isn't the first time Apolonides has done this dance though: it took the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force 16 months to catch him earlier this year for a similar crime. more ›

Homeless Use Ambulances As Car Service, ERs As Hotels

Homeless Use Ambulances As Car Service, ERs As Hotels

The Post is ready for its readers to be outraged with an "Exclusive" on how some people abuse 911, the city ambulances and emergency rooms. Example one is "Ricky Alardo, a homeless alcoholic nicknamed Ricky Ricardo" who "swigs cheap vodka by day at his favorite corner in Washington Heights, then calls an ambulance to chauffeur him to the hospital for a free meal and a warm place to sleep, courtesy of taxpayers who fund his Medicaid benefits." (More details here.) He calls 911 "four or five times a week," which works out to $300,000 a year—or $3.9 million over the 13 years he's been running the scam. Alardo proudly says the medics "treat me like a king"—the Post explains,"By law, EMS workers cannot refuse to treat or transport any patient. And ERs have to at least evaluate and stabilize homeless patients." One medic said, "It's not always easy to pick up these guys and take them in. But our policy is: 'You call, we haul.' We have no other choice," while another admits, "When Ricky passes on, I'll probably even go to his funeral. I've seen him almost every day for the last 13 years." more ›

Possibly Fake Livery Cab Driver Attacks in Brooklyn

Possibly Fake Livery Cab Driver Attacks in Brooklyn

In the latest livery cab nightmare, a tipster points us to an incident that occurred on March 12th, when a woman used a car service to get home at night.

Last night [name redacted] took Metro Car service home. At our house the driver followed her to our door and groped/molested her. She fought him off and he left. I called Metro Line to let them know what happened and try get a name of the driver. They denied everything, basically told me to f*ck off and make a police report, and hung up on me. more ›

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