Results tagged “toyotacamry”

Testimony picked up again yesterday in the trial of three police officers for fatally shooting an unarmed man in 2006. The prosecution called friends of victim Sean Bell and the commanding officer of the undercover operation to the stand.

The New York Post profiles a West Village man who's taken to vandalizing cars with incessant anti-theft alarms. Harry Schroder is a retired art director who likes to spend his afternoons practicing the piano in his home on Charlton St. Occasionally, however, he is interrupted by a car alarm. If it goes on long enough, Schroder leaves the car's owner a note in black magic market on an 18-inch by 24-inch posterboard which he sticks...

Yesterday morning, a dump truck and Toyota Camry going west on Atlantic Avenue had a deadly accident. The truck, which was filled with debris, jackknifed and overturned, crushing the Camry and its two passengers.

Around 1:30AM, a livery cab driver who decided to help another livery cab with car trouble is now dead. An allegedly drunk driver fatally struck him near Church Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn

Five cars crashed during a crazy police chase on the West Shore Expressway yesterday afternoon. The whole matter started when the driver of a Toyota Camry was stopped by a Staten Island Highway Patrol officer. The driver took off and exited at Victory Boulevard, hitting a white Ford van. The Camry started to smoke, so the car's passenger got out and, according to the Staten Island Advance, went to call his mom. The passenger ended up waiting at a bus stop, where the police arrested him.

Hmm, we guess the cops who ticket cars don't really pay attention to how it smells, as the police discovered that a car with many tickets actually had a dead, decomposing body in it. In the end, a passer-by complained about the smell, and police found the body, covered by a blanket in what the Post says was the rear of a Toyota Camry (we're not sure if that means the backseat or the trunk). A neighbor told the Post, "You mean to tell me they put tickets on there and they didn't smell it? We didn't even know there was a dead body in it. It just smelled like a dead mouse or a rat or something."