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- A NYC woman claims her lawyer ex threw "foul brown liquid" on her after they broke up.
- A most delicious but dastardly crime: 20 tons of Kinder Eggs and Nutella were stolen in Germany.
- Newt Gingrich is going to "spouse school" to learn how to host events because wife Callista is now Ambassador to the Vatican: "I’ll be the person at the front door saying, ‘Hi, I’m Newt Gingrich. The ambassador will be down shortly."
- Two people allegedly attacked a mail carrier in the East Village with a hammer.
- A woman stranded in her pool was rescued after she sent a message on her Facebook group.
- An East Village co-op is suing a resident for allegedly peeping on a neighbor while standing on her fire escape.
- A man thinks he was stabbed because his new haircut looks like the undercut that neo-Nazis seem to like.
- NYC is too expensive for actress Mary Stuart Masterson so she lives in the Hudson Valley.
- And kids, right?
Have kids they said...it will be fun they said pic.twitter.com/twjNH0e7bE
— Baby Animals (@BBAnimals) August 20, 2017
