White dog… that’s moonshine, hootch, likker. Who hasn’t dreamed of distilling up a little batch in their basement (What? Is it just me?). It’s also generally illegal. Max Watman, I nice guy I met once (what’s how I learned about his book) has written a gem, Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine.I’m enjoying more than any…
Says the rapist to his victim. It led to his arrest. Timothy West, who broke into a stranger’s house and raped a woman at knifepoint, wanted to continue this beautiful relationship. The 21-year-old victim wanted to get him confessing on tape. Victim: “What do you mean, I’m mad at you? Of course, you know, I don’t know you like that,…
I guess this timewas the charm.
Justin Fenton and Peter Hermann report: So many police officers are at Hopkins at this hour that the department had to call in officers from other districts and detective units to help answer other 911 calls in the Eastern District. One plainclothes officer reported being out in his personal car, and he warned his dispatcher he was patrolling “with no…
Really? Does anybody really think the problem is Craigslist? Don’t we have better things to do?
Just doing your job. Delivering bread in the hood. Driving in your bakery truck. Minding your own business. Next thing you know. You’re dead. Shot. Just like the bad old days. Seems like some idiots were playing with guns on the roof of the Marlboro Projects. Probably just shooting for kicks. Who would think that one of these idiots would…
The New York Times has a link to Omar Thornton’s call. [Update: And the police officer who answered the call gets kudos.]
The UK’s Daily Mailreports how two very criminal families, over the course of four decades, have cost taxpayers £37 million ($59 million). The families were members of two notorious gangs in Birmingham, the Burger Bar Boys and the Johnson Crew. The total cost to the public of these two gangs – as opposed to only the two families themselves –…
Bodega workers take a gun out of robber’s hands. Beyond that nothing too eventful… except it’s less than a mile from my home (though it is, you know, over there, on the other side of 21st St, near the projects… what I half-jokingly call Astoria’s ghetto).
Lost in all the talk about the NYPD juking the stats is the simple fact that each and every year, the value of felony theft (“grand larceny” in NY State) goes down with inflation. New York State defines felony grand larceny (§155.30) as over $1,000. And this is where it’s been for the past 25 years. This makes the 64%…