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NYPD Car, Lights Flashing, Speeds Wrong Way for Cupcakes
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 28, 2011
Modified Jan 28, 2011
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Courtesy Fork in the Road
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 28, 2011
Modified Jan 28, 2011
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We've all seen New York's Finest blowing through red lights, stop signs, and speeding down one way streets—and naturally assumed that they're responding to a dire emergency. And if you don't think a craving for Dunkin Donuts constitutes an emergency, then you haven't tried their bacon donuts. But here's a new twist: Robert Sietsema at the Village Voice reports that "traffic came to a halt on slush-choked Bleecker Street as a squad car, lights flashing, propelled up the thoroughfare in the wrong direction." The officers then backed up onto West 11th Street and "hopped out, looking furtively in both directions." And for good reason—there could be snipers, or worse: reporters.
Minutes later, according to Sietsema, they emerged with a box of pastries and cups of coffee from Magnolia Bakery. But we're sure there's a reasonable explanation for their reckless disregard of traffic laws. Like Magnolia's Banana Pudding—we'd mow down a dozen pedestrians to get some of that action right about now.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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