These days, it's getting harder and harder to find a good way to smuggle your drugs through airports. The NYPD has finally figured out that you store drugs in your underwear. They know all about the drugs in your hangers, and the drugs in the fibers of your clothing. And now they've finally sniffed out the drugs in your Nintendo Wii exercise pad and carrying case. Jean Vargas, 23, of Paterson, was caught on Sunday at JFK with more than six pounds of cocaine, valued at $280,000, stuffed inside his Wii pad. He faces up to 40 years in prison. "Smugglers are cunning," said Customs spokesman John Saleh, but obviously not cunning enough to use their Xbox. more ›

Some days you wake up angry, and you don't know where it's coming from. The street is empty when you look; that feeling seems unlocatable. Then we saw this video of Carlos Baez violently yanking and choking a dog by its leash inside an elevator, and we should have known that feeling was coming from the infamous Grant Houses. Have people not caught on to the fact that everything you do in an elevator is being videotaped? more ›

This must be one of everyone's worst nightmares: Getting trapped between the subway and platform. Just after midnight on Thursday, a man got his leg caught between the D train and platform at the Grand Street station on the Lower East Side. One onlooker took video of the man while he was trapped. more ›

The tabloids have caught wind of a bird smuggling operation uncovered by customs officials at JFK airport: For years now people have been sneaking Guyanese finches called Towa Towas into New York. The birds are used by Brooklyn’s Guyanese community for singing competitions; people place bets on two birds, and a judge decides which one has the lovlier song. (Here’s YouTube video of a Towa Towa singing.) more ›

The Post has it that a prep cook at Junior’s restaurant in Brooklyn is in hot water after a co-worker spotted him stuffing 15 lobster tails down his pants and into bandages around his legs. In recent weeks, Junior’s staff had noticed that the restaurant’s supply of lobster tails had inexplicably dipped. So when 40-year-old Raymundo Flores was observed in a walk-in freezer bulking up his trousers with crustaceans, coworkers called 911. more ›