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Playboy's Famous Naked Female Cop Resurfaces

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:10:00 GMT

Carol Shaya made the cover of Playboy in August of '94, back when we still drooled over the magazine... back before we signed up for America Online and found an internet full of nudity. For about two weeks that summer, Shaya was our teenage crush-- back then we still fell in love with the women we lusted after, instead of keeping them (sadly) separate.

We remember reading with little surprise-- even in those days-- that the NYPD had fired her for appearing in the magazine, which apparently made her realize it hadn't been worth it.

Shaya hasn't really been heard from since. As far as anyone knew, she had gone into some small town modeling or a security job in Butte and simply vanished. Then TMZ found her yesterday in Los Angeles and new and interesting details about her life emerged very quickly:

Shaya is a lesbian. Which is not news, of course, but this is: she was attacked and nearly strangled by her ex-girlfriend, whom she had just broken up with. The ex-po-lice claims Jessica Phillips grabbed her by the throat and slammed her against the refrigerator in an incident in March. Shaya also says Phillips assaulted her mom and practically tossed the poor woman out of their shared California home to prevent her from staying with the couple. Either this is the worst mother-in-law ever or Phillips is-- no, clearly Phillips is just from Crazyland.

Unfortunately, all this forced Shaya to return to the spotlight. As soon as her name popped up in court papers, the tabloids were all over the still-young woman. We've decided not to show you her nude photos either... although they can be Googled if you're crafty. We wish her the peace she so clearly needs. From Wikipedia:

At first reports of the appearance, the New York City Police Department attempted to ignore the incident, but then gradually took escalating measures. In July 1994, Shaya was reassigned to a desk job at the Bronx Borough Command, not as a disciplinary action, but due to other female officers in her precinct complaining about verbal harassment from residents, who were asking about Officer Shaya's location and comparing them to her. On October 28, the NYPD filed departmental charges against Shaya, for unauthorized off-duty employment and improper use of her uniform and the Police Department logo. A police panel recommended a month's suspension, but the final decision was left to the New York City Police Commissioner. On March 7, 1995, Commissioner William J. Bratton dismissed Shaya, now using her married name Shaya-Castro, from the New York City police department. Bratton ruled that Shaya-Castro's appearance in Playboy violated the City Charter and the department's rules, so she was unfit to be a police officer. He also cited her record, which included only three arrests in four years.

Via TMZ.

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To Catch a Teacher, Brooklyn Edition

Emily Farris — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:17:00 GMT

Alexander Kravitz (a.k.a. EVRYDAYGURLS), a 26-year-old auto mechanics teacher and basketball coach, had been sending dirty messages and webcam videos to a 14-year-old girl for nearly two months before he arranged for a rendezvous in Queens.

Except, when he showed up for their meeting yesterday with the hopes of making a sex tape, Kravitz didn't quite get what he had bargained for.

Oops! (No that's not supposed to be a gay stripper, just a sexy cop!)

Kravitz had, much to his surprise, been sending his SXY VIDS 4 U 2 C!!! to the NYPD.

A search of Kravitz's home later turned up "a trove of child porn," according to police.

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Burger King Wants You To Have $100... No, Seriously, Take The Money...

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:50:00 GMT

Burger King is deliberately dropping wallets full of cash all over the country and, unlike the wicked New York City Police Department, they aren't arresting people who are kind enough to pick them up...

The blogosphere is abuzz today with stories of people in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois finding wallets on the floor of the local Burger King restaurants. The wallets were deliberately dropped or planted by hired help on a Burger King marketing campaign:

From November 12-14, the fast food chain will be leaving 5000 wallets around Chicago, specifically "in high-traffic areas and landmarks." Inside the wallets? "A BK Crown Card pre-loaded with $5 to $20 and cold, hard cash ranging from $1 to $100."
Yep, the wallets include notes telling the individuals who find them to go ahead and keep the wallets. Time Out Chicago reported on November 12th that Burger King planned to drop 5,000 of these wallets around urban hot spots in Chicago. According to reports from bloggers, the wallets contain actual cash, ranging from a $1 bill to a $100 bill, a gift card to Burger King, a “Drivers License” featuring The King, and a map of Chicago or Orlando area Burger King’s.
This is a brilliant marketing move, and the mainstream media is obviously lagging behind on discovering it - but creative and unique marketing ideas like this one don’t go unnoticed forever. I expect much more widespread attention for this promotion as the word-of-mouth affect begins to trickle up the mainstream media.

The economy is in such bad shape right now, with the highest new unemplyoment filings in years, that you half expect large crowds of people scouring their local BK's, not for the $1 menu, but like those weird beachcombers, hoping that someone hasn't scoured the place as thoroughly as they are about to...

Via the So Good Blog and NBC.

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Retired NYPD Officer Has Mustache of the Year

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:49:00 GMT

A retired New York City cop defeated 14 other Americans, including the animated Cleveland Brown of Family Guy, for the honor of being the first person to be named the "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year."

An amazing overflow crowd of 1,000-plus watched as Tim Galvin accepted one of the silliest honors in recorded history, although at least it was all for a charitable cause...

Check out the moment of truth, right here:

From the news release:

The award recognizes the most impactful Mustached American of the past year.
Galvin was honored Saturday... in St. Louis at 'Stache Bash 2008, the American Mustache Institute's (AMI) annual benefit for Challenger Baseball, a baseball league for children and adults with developmental disabilities.

Just For Men(R) Haircolor [sponsored the award and] announced a $5,000 contribution to Challenger Baseball before placing a purple and gold crown on Galvin's head.

"I accept this honor for Mustached Americans everywhere," [Galvin] told an overflow crowd of nearly 1,000. "After 34 years of proudly wearing a mustache, I am humbled to be recognized by an organization that values and honors it."

Galvin won the "Goulet" award in an online poll, and competed against an all-star roster of fifteen distinguished Mustached Americans, including sports greats Jason Giambi, Art Monk, Goose Gossage and Keith Hernandez; Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr...

Now, as Scanner Emily would say, "Where's the Beard of Year Awards?" Yes, that we'd like to see...

Via the American Mustache Institute.

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While You Were Sleeping: The Jennifer Hudson Horror Story Continues

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:08:00 GMT

Just before we wrapped up for the day on Friday, we heard about a man accusing the NYPD of sexually assaulting him by sticking a walkie-talkie up his ass. We're not sure we buy the guy's story, but he did end up in the hospital after being arrested, so that may mean something's up.

Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney is so scared for his political future, he backed out of a debate with his Republican opponent with barely any notice. Meanwhile, we applaud his wife for sticking up for herself by filing for divorce from this pig.

In a bizarre turn of events, Amy Poehler didn't show up for her Saturday Night Live scenes this weekened, although she gave a fairly reasonably explanation:

[H]er former co-stars were celebrating when the show was aired on Saturday night, telling a cheering crowd: "Amy Poehler is not here tonight because she is having a baby."
Poehler won't return to SNL after her maternity leave - she is planning a spin-off series to the hit U.S. version of The Office.

Aw, man... it's a case of "poof and she's gone." The show won't be the same without you, Amy.

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What not to do if you are afraid to get married: set a hotel on fire so you can ruin the ceremony. (By the way, his reason for not getting married? He already is married... to somebody else.)

"I thought if I set a fire I wouldn't have to go through with the wedding," the Yomiuri quoted him as telling police.

Guests at the hotel were evacuated and no one was injured when he set the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning at the resort hotel... west of Tokyo.
Tatsuhiko Kawata and his fiancee had been set to get married before 80 guests. He was arrested after suddenly cancelling the event and behaving suspiciously, the Yomiuri said.

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NYPD Tase A Nude Man To Death

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:48:00 GMT

At about 1pm yesterday, the NYPD responded to a complaint in Brooklyn about a naked man standing on an awning. About an hour later, after he waved a long fluorescent lighting tube at officers, the man was tased...

...and fell to his death.

We have video of the incident, sfw and without the actual landing (don't worry), below:

The man's name was Iman Morales and, according to his mother, who argued with Morales about an unidentified subject just prior to his leaving their apartment to climb onto the awning, he was very "sick." The fall was only ten feet and wouldn't have killed him if he hadn't landed on his head.

Here is amateur video posted by YouTube user ChooseRonPaul; however, we're not sure who actually shot this footage.

Via YouTube.

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Today in WTF: 10 Year Arrested For Defending Self... With Pea Shooter

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:29:00 GMT

The NYPD didn't kill anyone this time, but they did harm a ten-year-old boy and are about to be sued for millions in taypayer dollars.

Anor Frank, a schoolkid from Staten Island, had been terrorized on the school bus by older, bigger kids, including a girl who stomped his chest. Rather than shoot, stab, or take some other nasty revenge, he decided to get them back in what he thought would be a mild manner...

On Wednesday, Anor was minding his own business on the bus when one his regular bullies began to bug him.

"I said, 'OK, leave me alone,' and he was still bothering me like pushing me around, and I just shot him. I didn't mean to shoot him. I was trying to get him to leave me alone," Annor said. [CBS]

But Anor didn't fire a handgun at the boy. He had rigged his homemade pea shooter to fire harmless objects, and he pulled the toy out and fired it at the bully. Of the many news outlets that have covered this story so far, not one of them has mentioned that the bully received medical treatment or was in any way harmed by the shot. Nonetheless, the "victim's" family agreed that Anor should be arrested.

Meanwhile, the ten-year-old was handcuffed and arrested, taken to the station, and connected to a chair. When Uncle Emmanuel arrived, he found the boy crying from the pain and a disinterested officer filling out paperwork. After being charged with assault and reckless endangerment, Anor was taken to the emergency room because of the brutal handcuffing and now the family will likely sue the city of New York for millions.

Here's the full video which may give you a better idea as to the inanity of Anor's arrest:

Via CBS and other sources.

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Video of the Day: Al Sharpton Tries To Ride A Bike

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Reverend Al Sharpton Rides a Bike! from jenchung on Vimeo.

It's hard to ride a bike when you're shaped like a bowling pin.

Al Sharpton participated in the Critical Mass Bike Ride in New York City over the weekend. Never one to miss out on the pigs clubbing innocent environmentalists, he was whisked to the kickoff by our mutual lawyer friend, Wylie Stecklow, who introduced the welcoming crowd to his Reverendness.

The former Democratic Presidential candidate called for the police to leave innocent, law-abiding cyclists alone (the NYPD has waged a relentless and totally uncalled for war on Critical Mass Bike Rides for many years now) and introduced Sean Bell's father and fiancee to the supportive crowd, who then geared up for the arrests and ticketing to come. The Reverend himself was probably too encircled by paparrazzi and amateur activist-journalists, all of whom were rushing to put this up on YouTube first.

P.S. In the future, Al, it may be better to accept labels like “limousine liberal” rather than attempt this adventure again. Although thanks for sticking up for us serfs!

Via Vimeo and the Gotham Gazette.

FBI Agents Out To Get Democrats

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:10:00 GMT

When we worked with Billionaires For Bush, the grassroots media campaign that pretended to support our favorite Appointee, we often heard card-game speculation on which of our members secretly worked for the FBI. No one was sure that anyone was working for the FBI, but not too long ago, our suspicions turned out to be true-- documents revealed that the NYPD and other authority figures had infiltrated our ranks to determine if we were up to any good, er, up to any terror-related activities for the Republican National Convention or any other anti-GOP activities.

Of course, the question this always raised was: why were those not supporting the President more likely to do something violent than the nutjob warmongers furious at the anti-war Democratic convention?

Now, it turns out, those questions will be raised again this year, as the FBI is attempting to infiltrate, to our eternal amusement, "vegan potlucks."

“She told me that I had the perfect ‘look,’” recalls Carroll. “And that I had the perfect personality—they kept saying I was friendly and personable—for what they were looking for.”

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protesters, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

Carroll would be compensated for his efforts, but only if his involvement yielded an arrest. No exact dollar figure was offered.

NYPD Racially Profiles its Own

Katie Halper — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:29:00 GMT

The NYPD has proven that it is just as racist to its own as it is to civilians, which should make equal opportunity fans very happy.

We just wanted to add to today's police-related-story coverage. It's heartwarming to know that whether you're a civilian or the highest ranking black policeman in the NYPD, you will be racially profiled and harassed for BWB (Breathing While being Black). Chief Douglas Zeigler is the head of the Community Affairs unit. But that didn't matter to the two white cops, who don't discriminate, who confronted Zeigler as he sat in his department-issued sport utility vehicle on a street in Queens. One of the two cops, Officer Michael Granahan tried to force open Zeigler's door, even after the three star chief had identified himself.

But don't worry, the NYPD is really cracking down on its racist cops. NYPD spokesman was maybe too harsh when he said the officer who harassed Zeigler "dealt with the chief in a discourteous manner, which is unacceptable." So unacceptable, in fact, the officer has been placed on modified duty. The NYPD should be saluted for using harsh language to condemn the racist discourteous behavior against Zeigler and for recognizing how racism threatens etiquette everywhere.

Previously: Police Shoot "Drug Dealer" 5 Times, Find No Drugs, Just Because You Played a Cop on TV Doesn't Mean You Can Carry a Loaded Gun onto an Airplane