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Extra, Extra: New Yorkers Love Cocks
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 21, 2014
Modified Sep 21, 2014
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 21, 2014
Modified Sep 21, 2014
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- A Daily News writer went undercover as Elmo in Times Square, for some reason.
- Willie Nelson taught Maureen Dowd how to smoke pot.
- Here is the Liam Neeson kill map you've been wanting.
- Pro-bike groups have condemned the cyclist who struck a woman in Central Park this week.
- Mmmmmm marijuana pizza sauce.
- A Brooklyn woman claims she was fired from her job in a doctor’s office after one of the physicians saw a picture of her smoking.
- A man who raped his puppy has been sentenced to five years in prison.
- Cops have been preemptively taking people's bikes around Columbus Circle.
- New Yorkers love to keep illegal cocks.
- Here's what sex in an MRI machine looks like.
- And finally, this is some grade-A service right here:
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