It might not have had the high drama or ingenuity of Shawshank, but you have to give this guy props for slipping out of the handcuffs like Houdini and at least making it to the Staten Island ferry terminal before he was rearrested. |ABC News|
Just days before the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a homeless woman was arrested for her smashing salute at a Staten Island memorial. 56-year-old Kathryn Cronin faces up to four years in prison for allegedly attacking two granite plaques with a metal pipe. |NYDN|
Three Staten Island weed farmers were arrested on Sunday after calling the cops on themselves. The thickheaded trio neglected to hide the “large marijuana plant on a table in the living room and 15 more on a rear deck†before inviting police over to investigate a burglary at their apartment. |SI Advance|
One of the problems with creating exceedingly gigantic 9/11 memorials is that there are few places in New York City to actually contain them. A Staten Island nonprofit blames their difficulty displaying a16,000-square-foot memorial quilt says people forgetting about 9/11, not the city’s lack of space. |NYP|
After asking the DOT to stop trying to focus on making bicycling safer and toditch a new shared lane design, Council Member James Oddo insists he’s not against bike lanes and Staten Islanders aren’t a “bunch of Neanderthals who don’t get sustainability.” |NYT|
S.I. Teen Arrested For Tagging Police Chief’s Car
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Staten Island police arrested a local graffiti writer after he allegedly tagged an undercover cop car. On top of that bold move, KEYONE unknowingly managed to vandalize the one vehicle assigned to 120th Precinct Commander John Denesopolis, virtually guaranteeing the force would come down on the dimwitted 19-year-old. On Sunday, the police provoking vandal was caught while painting on a box store, then rearrested on Wednesday and charged with tagging the police chief’s undercover ride.
Staten Island Ferry Crash Injures 15
It’s reported that the Staten Island Ferry that crashed into a St. George Terminal dock last night had lost power moments earlier. The 7:10 PM crash left 15 of the more than 750 Shaolin bound passengers with minor injuries. Ferry Chief James DeSimone compared the power failure to “a car suddenly losing its brakes,†saying the captain “took the appropriate action.” Mandatory drug and alcohol tests were given to all crew members. Read more »
NYPD cop turned EMT Mark Musarella was fired last month for taking a cell phone photo of a dead woman while responding to a crime scene, then posting it on his Facebook page. Now the 49-year-old necrophotographer is being charged with misdemeanor official misconduct and facing up to a year in prison. |NYP|
Yesterday, we pointed out that Staten Island was the only borough without confirmed or suspected cases of Swine Flu. Unfortunately, it may be too late for the desperate quarantine measures we suggested to prevent the Wu Tang Clan’s island home from becoming infected:
Health Department officials would not confirm today whether they were testing for swine flu at New Dorp High School, which was the subject of rumors on Staten Island that a case may have surfaced there.
Though we hope the island of Shaolin remains a stronghold of health, we’ve upgraded it’s status to “questionable” on the New York City Swine Flu Map until more accurate information is reported.
Currently, Staten Island is the only borough without any confirmed or suspected cases of Swine Flu. Earlier today, cases of the somewhat-dangerous, but media over-hyped virus were confirmed in Brooklyn and the Bronx, while a suspected outbreak was found at a Catholic school on the Upper West Side. Although the flu may already be lurking on the island of Shaolin, a few preventative measures could go a long way to keeping residents healthy: cut off ferry service with Manhattan, close the bridges to Brooklyn and New Jersey and throw up some barriers that not even Snake Plissken could surmount.
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