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Extra, Extra: This Is Not How You Toilet-Plank


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Published Aug 14, 2011

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Ben Yakas
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Published Aug 14, 2011

Modified Aug 14, 2011


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  • Okay, fine, it is how you toilet plank if you're looking for a school bully to flush the toilet.
  • Department of Correction Chief Larry Davis quit today after the city began a criminal investigation into allegations that he used underlings as his personal valets.
  • A Bronx man has been put through a bureaucratic nightmare because his first name was mistakenly listed as "Male" on his birth certificate.
  • Vendors only have till August 23rd to sign up to sell their delicious foods at the West Indian Day Parade!
  • A Queens woman was fatally shot after a fight.
  • The new vehicle in The Dark Knight Rises has been spotted out and about in Pittsburgh.
  • Every night may be ladies night at Rikers, but female inmates get half as many visitors as male inmates.
  • A NY Times critic really hates pop-ups: "We need to put a stop to the pop-up infestation now."
  • Lindsay Lohan appeared to remain vertical while in NYC.
  • Take a look behind the scene at Five Guys.
  • And Charlie Sheen hosted the Gathering of the Juggalos this weekend. And it may well have been an all-time low.

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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