A Boerum Hill Jeep owner thought he could pull a fast one on the city's traffic agents by writing a note on his car saying it was infested with bedbugs. Ok, so he says he got a few bites and "wanted to see if we had them in the house by not using the car at all for two weeks." Two weeks? Those things can live up to a year between feedings! The car was still ticketed—gotta feed the alternate sides monster. more ›

The NYPD has suspended the highway patrolman whose idling vehicle was stolen yesterday morning while he sat in a Bronx diner. Officer Nelson Robles stepped into the breakfast joint at 7 am, and just two minutes later his car went screeching from the lot, with Anibal Lugo—a batty local—behind the wheel. Both men now face the consequences of their brainless acts. more ›

A 24-year-old Columbia University student studying late at the library Friday evening is in critical condition at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan after his bid to escape a pair of muggers ended in serious injury under the wheels of a Jeep. According to WABC News, the student had just left the library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus and was waiting for a bus around 9 p.m., when he was approached by two young men. It's unclear whether the student was mugged or already mugged, when he fled into the street near 120th and Broadway. more ›