The TSA tends to get a bad rap and often ends up the recipient of frequent gripes, especially in the city whose airports lead to three-quarters of takeoff delays nationwide. Maybe it has something to do with the times when we hear that we're waiting in a line that winds down the escalator because they're confiscating cheese, yet having no trouble letting through a passenger with a Hezbollah flag featuring a man wielding an AK-47.
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Customs Agents Will Seize That Drug-Filled Dead Cat
Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse
- SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others.
- Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list.
- Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island.
Feed Your Mind: More Fall Food Books
is considered a classic. It contains recipes such as Blood Cake with Fried Eggs, Tripe Gratin, and Crispy Pig’s Tail. Stuff like that. This isn’t stunt eating, Fear Factor-style, nor is Henderson’s food supposed to be particularly innovative, but it is. The chef’s “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” approach to cooking simultaneously emphasizes frugality and simplicity. In some sense, that's almost unheard of these days.
Sidewalk Grate Fall Victim: "Get Me Out Of Here!"
Everyone is still wondering how a woman fell through a sidewalk grate and into a electrical power vault on West 51st Street yesterday morning. The Daily News reports the victim, 26-year-old Jessica Hinksmon, could have been electrocuted by the 13,000 volts of electricity from the transformer. Hinksmon cried for help before firefighters used a "confined space stretcher and tripod" to lift her out. One of the firefighters who rescued Hinksmon, Lit. Tom Donnelly of Rescue 1, told the Post, "It's a scary thing to be surrounded by almost a foot of mud and electricity."
RITI: Roosevelt Island Tram Investigation
The Roosevelt Island tram continues to sit still as the NY State Department of Labor investigates what Tuesday night when it just stopped working...and the two backups systems didn't work. And the culprit for the problems that caused people to be stuck midair for hours? The air brakes didn't work properly, according to DoL sources, though Roosevelt Island officials disagree. The AP reports DoL will check out the first backup system - a diesel one - at Roosevelt Island today to figure out if it would have worked if the brakes worked; the DoL will also review ConEd's doings, to see what caused the initial power surges that downed the system. Ah, when in doubt, blame ConEd!
Con Ed: Substations Are Dangerous
Last night's Fear Factor featured a stunt at a Southern California power plant, leading Con Ed to issue a statement warning people that substations "are not playgrounds." Apparently, the stunt had contestants "running through web of wires attached to a 10,000-volt substation, suffering stinging shocks while grabbing flags." Well, Gothamist wants to tell you something, Con Ed: We feel most New Yorkers know substations are dangerous since your various faulty wiring has made just walking the street dangerous! If anything, we're sprinting past the substations around town. And we'd like to say that if you're duplicating a stunt from Fear Factor, you might deserve what you get, but given the very young audience of Fear Factor, Gothamist will refrain. But you're eating those rats at your own risk!
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Rats In Your Shower
Gothamist on Rats in the City and we love the book, Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.
Fear Factor, NYC Style
Gothamist would like to say that we're above TV's November sweeps stunts, but then who would we be kidding? We're excited and really disgusted by the 100th episode of Fear Factor because it's a special New York City edition of the show. From the hyperbolic NBC press release:
The landmark 100th episode of this hit reality series starts spreading the fear with a road trip to America's most fearless metropolis: New York City. Taped on location in and around Manhattan, the milestone episode features challenges such as a flag grab from the bottom of the Roosevelt Island tram as it traverses the East River; a "rat stew" served up in the middle of Times Square; and an aerial stunt suspended below two helicopters near the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Joe Rogan hosts this series in which all stunts take place under the supervision of professional Hollywood stunt coordinators.We have to admit, it's freaking brilliant. Making people who want to be famous AND money eat rat guts.
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Fear Factor in New York
"The fear factors there?" he asked. "Basically you got the heat, the maggots and the juice that comes out of the trash bags. That's the three."
Mr. Lopez added, almost casually: "You find a body every once in a while. Sure. People chop them up. You never know."
Of the contestants, he said: "They wouldn't last. We do 14 tons a day."Oh, barf, garbage juice...there's a garbage juice incident in Gothamist's past that stank up the communal hall in the apartment building for way too long. Anyway, we suppose the helicopter stunt will be something like this one from another Fear Factor episode (below).
Mr. Lopez added, almost casually: "You find a body every once in a while. Sure. People chop them up. You never know."
Of the contestants, he said: "They wouldn't last. We do 14 tons a day."Oh, barf, garbage juice...there's a garbage juice incident in Gothamist's past that stank up the communal hall in the apartment building for way too long. Anyway, we suppose the helicopter stunt will be something like this one from another Fear Factor episode (below).
Our suggestions for a NY-centric Fear Factor: Any good sample sale Century 21 on the weekends. Getting a table at a restaurant that the Times has just given a great review. The Upper East Side and Murray Hill on St. Patrick's Day evening. Lower Broadway during a ticker tape parade. Walking on a SoHo sidewalk on a weekend. And since the eating stunt is tonight at Times Square (when, we don't know), give us a shout if you happen to see any of it.
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Severance Packages, Anyone?
With the penultimate episode of The Apprentice tonight with TWO firings, there's a ton of news floating around. Like how the runnerup gets to work at KFC as the CSO for a week (salary: $25,000 for the week) and the whole Ereka-Omarosa fight (check out how Carolyn says Omarosa has "bad management skills" - sigh, Carolyn, you rule, even if you do work for Donald Trump). There's a "You're Fired Funny! Salute to the Apprentice" at Caroline's tonight. Considering the timing is 7-9PM, this doesn't sound like a very good deal to Gothamist, what with the $35 cover and two drink minimum, since anyone remotely interested in the Apprentice would want to be near a TV, even if fired Sam Solovey, the Sotheby's auctioneer Jamie Niven and Marquis Jet owner Kenny Dichter will be there. Finally, the Morning News looks at the sham of episode 7's apartment challenge.
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Stupid Animal Smuggling Stories, Part 2
Is That a Snake In Your Pants Or...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20030924/od_nm/environment_australia_snakes_dc">charged after smuggling snakes - strapped to his legs - to Australia. Four of the snakes were deadly king cobras, who were dead by the time the man got to Australia. Ew, but they were "found dead in containers strapped to the man's calves." The other snakes were emerald tree boas (pictured). The 28 year-old was charged under Australia's Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act. Containers with snakes in them strapped to your calves. This is like a Fear Factor stunt, as Reuters points out, "."
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