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Early Addition: Benevolent Brits sitting at home keep sending rounds of pints to strangers at the pub
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James Ramsay
Published Jan 23, 2024
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where someone keeps littering porn and Bible pages on a Greenpoint sidewalk.
Here's what else is happening:
- The sun is once again setting after 5 p.m., praise Ra.
- The NYPD said it's creating a task force to crack down on drag racing and highway takeovers.
- A San Francisco-based runner who won the non-binary category of the New York City Marathon last year was denied their $5,000 prize after New York Road Runners said they failed to meet the qualification: competing in at least six other NYRR races within the year leading up to the marathon.
- George Santos has a court check-in today.
- "If I don’t come out of this alive I’d like to say a big F—K OFF right now to everybody on Instagram who criticized me for supporting the INNOCENT Woody Allen": Restauranteur Keith McNally shared this thought before undergoing kidney stone surgery yesterday.
- The new craze sweeping Great Britain is kind of like swatting, but instead of sending militarized police to someone's home, you send a round of pints to some lovely strangers who've posted on Facebook which pub they're at.
- Rat selfies!
- And finally, nice tight stride:
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