New York

New stock market themed bar lets you set the price

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New York is notorious for overpricing drinks, but at the bar, “New York Beer Company,” it will be in the hands of the patrons instead of the managers thanks to a stock market themed pricing system. Read more

Mon encourages daughter’s fight with another girl on Facebook, gets arrested

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Long Island mom Daphne Melin probably wanted the best for her daughter, just like any parent. Small problem: Her wanting the best led to escalating a feud between her daughter and another girl, ending in a fight outside an elementary school. Read more

NY politicians looking to teach kids how to sext (or, preferably, not do it)

Lesson 1: Try to look like Blake Lively

From the “stuff that sounds silly but probably makes a lot of sense” file comes this story…New York State lawmakers are pushing for a new bill called the “Cyber Crime Youth Rescue Act,” designed to teach kids that gleefully sending out naked pictures isn’t the best idea. Read more

Woman caught at airport with $170,000 stowed in her underwear

Perhaps the only way to make $170K unappealing is to cover it in the scent of rotting yellowfin tuna

A Queens woman thought she was pulling a fast one to dodge taxes on the sale of a Sudanese property. But odds are the penalties will be much worse for Claire Abdeldaim after officials nabbed her for trying to sneak $170,000 into the US in her underwear. Read more

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A New York man is being hailed as a hero for saving a man from the train tracks on the subway. And maybe he is. But the motives for “hero” Carlos Flores saving the guy from getting pancaked by a train are less altruistic than one might think. Read more

VIDEO: Woman pulls emergency brake on train after creep flashes dong

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So a somewhat common occurrence in New York City is creepy guys showing, and occasionally physically introducing, their penises to women. One woman pulled the emergency brake when a man allegedly rubbed up against her and pulled out his johnson and another helpful stranger filmed it. And here that video is (audio is NSFW). Read more

Police called on 13-year-olds for selling cupcakes

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Children are the future, they say, so it’s important that we oppress them whenever possible now to keep them from taking over. At least, that’s the theorem I assume was applied by local councilman Michael Wolfensohn when he called the cops on two 13-year-olds for selling cupcakes in Chappaqua, NY. Read more

Teenage thief tries to steal 12-lb turkey by shoving it down his pants

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Stealing things from a store is never a good thing, but there are still ways to do it responsibly. Don’t tell that to 19-year-old Deon Williams, who got caught trying to steal a 12-pound turkey by shoving it down the front of his pants in Brooklyn. Read more

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New York is a cultural epicenter so, naturally, this somehow ends in there being a celebration of bacon and bacon products in the city’s SoHo neighborhood called Bacon-Palooza. And, newsflash, people are really into bacon. Read more

BMW owner offers to park his new car in your driveway FOR FREE

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This man offering to park his brand spanking new BMW in your Park Slope parking lot for free is such a generous fellow. You’d be a fool not to accept his generous offer. Read more

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A big story today is the revelation that a Bronx grade-school art teacher named Melissa Petro (story, with pics of Ms Petro, can be seen here) revealed a former life as a sex worker in a column for the Huffington post. Now, the school has caught wind of her experiences and parents are outraged. Read more