One woman's rush hour bus ride Tuesday afternoon resulted in a $100 fine, and she wants the whole world to hear her cautionary tale. Daryn Mayer was running to catch a bus that had its front doors closed, so she jumped on via the open back doors and dutifully made her way to the front to swipe her MetroCard. But unfortunately for Mayer, this was an M15 Select Bus, and SBS [Select Bus Service] requires straphangers to swipe their MetroCards at a sidewalk machine. After arguing with the driver, she claims she was told, "OK, don't pay. Ride for free." But at the next stop, the dreaded inspectors got on, demanding to see her papers (receipt). [ MORE]  | A CBS News producer happened to be on a flight to Laguardia from Atlanta when an 86-year-old fell ill. Luckily, the plane was apparently chock full of doctors and she was saved by a pair of doctors heading to see the Thanksgiving Day Parade! Neurologist Tom Devlin (who was... [ MORE ] |  | Shoppers camped out outside an Atlanta Best Buy (AP) It's barely after 9 a.m. and many Americans have already gone to and come back from big retailers' Black Friday sales. Especially since some stores had their Black Friday sales start last night: One Queens resident was at the Times... [ MORE ] |  | The Daily News has an intense jailhouse interview with Michael Brea in which the Brooklyn actor equivocates about stabbing his mother to death with a Masonic sword in their Prospect Heights apartment, "I didn't kill her. I killed the demon inside her." He also said that on Sunday, "God... [ MORE ] |  | Sketch of UES mugging suspect An Upper East Side building resident told the Daily News, "There's really no safe place left - nuts can get to you anywhere. No one's walking into the building alone now. We're going in in pairs," after a man robbed a 56-year-old woman entering... [ MORE ] |  | via Brooklyn Paper In Astoria thugs are putting cars on cement blocks (and milk cartons)—but in Park Slope cars are getting torched! Bad. Old. Days. According to the Brooklyn Paper, three cars were set on fire Monday on 14th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. While no one was... [ MORE ] |  | We've been spiraling deeper and deeper into a depression ever since the FDA demanded that Four Loko cut off its nose to spite its face by removing all the caffeine from its deliciously disgusting jolly rancher by-way-of urine brew. Some store owners have said that they have been stocking... [ MORE ] |  | With all the frenzy of the Transportation Security Administration's more, uh, thorough patdowns for air travelers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano discussed the next frontier with Charlie Rose. In an interview earlier this week, she said, "I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be... [ MORE ] | | |
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