The NYPD has a zero-tolerance policy toward students, and hasn't hesitated to cart kids out of school in handcuffs for such offenses as doodling on their desks. But one Queens mother thinks the NYPD went too far when they dragged her 7-year-old son out of his special-ed class in handcuffs. The Daily News reports that Joseph Anderson, a first-grader at P.S. 153 in Maspeth, had been wetting himself throughout the morning on April 13th, and then became upset when he was dyeing Easter eggs and "the color on the egg he was painting didn't look the way he wanted." Yes, it's a sad story. [ MORE]  | Passover started at sundown Monday night and continues until next Tuesday, but somebody forgot to explain the whole holiday-starting-at-sundown concept to the NYPD. Though the community had arranged for the suspension of parking rules for the first two days of the Jewish holiday, the NYPD got confused and thought that meant Monday and Tuesday. You can see where this is going.... [ MORE ] |  | Last week, Princeton University senior lecturer Antonio Calvo was found dead in his West 26th Street apartment. The NYC Medical Examiner's office determined that he died of self-inflicted stab wounds, and his friends are suggesting that he was devastated after the school refused to renew his contract in the Spanish department. A friend told the Post, "[The firing] came after a long campaign was launched against him by a group of graduate students and a lecturer from the department." And a student says that Calvo had been forced to leave the Friday prior to his April 12 death. ... [ MORE ] |  | Governors Island will be reopening for the 2011 season on May 27, but one creature was so excited that she arrived early: A calico cat was found on Saturday night during the storms, covered in seaweed. The Governors Island blog says, "We think this kitty was swept out to the river from Jersey during the big storms over the weekend, hitched a ride on some floatsam, and eventually landed on the rocks that encircle the Island...she’s otherwise healthy and very friendly."... [ MORE ] |  | Parody song superhero Weird Al Yankovic has been doing his thing his way for over 25 years now; for a good stretch of that time, getting a Weird Al remake was a sign you had truly made it, and everyone from Michael Jackson to Nirvana gave their hearty approval at Weird Al's accordion-laced, PG-13 homages. But it seems Weird Al has hit a little snag with his latest parody: the Lady Gaga doth protest. [HAPPY UPDATE BELOW]... [ MORE ] |  | Shockingly, Pentecostal minister and State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., does not like the just-announced renewed push, aided by Governor Cuomo's office, for marriage equality in New York. So naturally, he put out a statement about it. For starters, the timing sucks: "I am deeply offended that during this Holy Week, which is a most sacred time to millions of New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo is working hard to mobilize elected officials to legalize homosexual marriage in New York." Well, the dude lives in sin, so what does Diaz expect?... [ MORE ] |  | Nothing livens up a library like a good old fashioned porn fight! Two men got into a fist fight at the Brooklyn Public Library over the weekend, allegedly because one was waiting for the other to finish looking at porn on one of the library's computers. And in the end, only one of the men was given assault charges...and it wasn't the one looking at porn!... [ MORE ] |  | It seems that Donald Trump, the potential Ross Perot of 2012, has really been making friends during his fake presidential campaign. According to the Post, Jerry Seinfeld canceled an upcoming appearance at a benefit for his son's Eric Trump Foundation, because of Trump's hotheaded birther rhetoric. And Trump was none too pleased: "You should be ashamed of yourself!" he wrote Seinfeld in an angry letter. As Frank Costanza might say, "THEY DON'T WANT ME, I DON'T WANT THEM."... [ MORE ] | | |
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