Since the MTA has officially started to remove its wooden subway station benches in favor of stainless steel ones, the financially-troubled agency is trying to take advantage of nostalgia and ignorance by offering the wooden benches to the public for $650. We can see the ad now: "Bedbugs come free of charge!"
Would You Pay $650 For A Used, Wooden Subway Bench?
Is Urine Tossing The Best Way To Calm Unruly Youths?
New York is full of stories of old folks losing it when faced with rambunctious young whipper-snappers. Every few months you'll hear about one opening fire or storming a school bus when they just can't take it anymore. But with a few notable exceptions, at least we don't have to deal with urine tossers. That's more for the old folks living in the wilds Pennsyltucky.
From Urine Water To Astronaut Ice Cream: A Look Back At How The Shuttle Program Changed Food
When Atlantis—which launched for a final time earlier today—returns to Earth in a couple of weeks, NASA will retire its shuttle program. Are you feeling nostalgic? Let's take a look back at some of the great traditions of astronaut food, which will certainly continue as we enter the era of deep-space exploration. Click through for some of our favorite "future foods", but first, some fun facts:
Natavia Lowery Back In Court For Urine Tossing
Even though Natavia Lowery is behind bars for 30 years to life for the murder of Linda Stein, it doesn't mean she's staying out of trouble. Back in January she was charged with tossing urine at a jail guard on Rikers Island, and yesterday she had her day in court for the incident.
Murder Suspect Lowery Charged With Urine Tossing
While awaiting jury selection to be completed for her trial, Natavia Lowery is getting into more trouble behind bars. The NY Post reports that she now faces felony charges for tossing a large container of urine (and "some solid material") in the face of a Rikers correction officer.
Delicatessen's Soho Neighbors Not Going to Take It Anymore!
You'll recall that neighbors living near the revoltingly trendy Delicatessen in Soho are getting really fed up with all the obnoxious tools blathering through the night, with one man going so far as to urinate down onto the roof, which is part glass. Could this be the same scold who led a near-riot last night, according to this priceless email sent to Eater by one witness? "Some young super-angry dude storms up to the bar and starts laying into the bartending staff screaming shit like, 'Fuck you!!! Fuck your restaurant!!! Fuck your hipstery little patrons who think they are so fucking cool!!! People fucking live on this block!!! I can hear these people screaming outside my fucking apartment all fucking night!!!'" The situation escalated "when a bunch of people in the apartments above the sidewalk tables simultaneously dumped buckets of water down on the people dining below." Worse, it wasn't even sparkling water!
Urine Trouble, Dad!
We're sure that one Long Island father thought to himself, "If I can't use my for a urine test, I'll use my child's urine..." when he decided to take his 9-year-old out of school. The problem is, Suffolk police officers happened to be passing by the deli where the 36-year-old father and son were and became suspicious when they saw "the child fixing his pants and watched as the father poured something from a coffee...

