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The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Japanese researchers have shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals.

Kent Police set a new legal precedent last week, as they arrested a photographer on the unusual grounds of “being too tall”.

New Yorkers have “enough brains not to walk in front of a truck, but they’ll step right into the path of a cyclist, thereby initiating a game of urban chicken.”

Their comic-book adventure went awry when cops approached the dynamic duo on 43rd Street to see whether they had the required license to perform in costume in public, Frisoli said.

The NYCeattle monsoon is finally over, so I’m convinced the Sun God is satisfied with the sacrifice of all those celebrities.

A team of building inspectors have found 143 stalled construction sites around the city, with the highest concentration in Brooklyn, which boasts a total 63 vacant lots and rusting steel building frames—18 in Williamsburg alone.

‘He’s a little bit like Evita Perón… [sic] is always saying he’s “of the people”, but he’s been stealing from the people as long as he’s been in office’.

It seems more plausible that Delgado’s statement was taken from the police report and leaked to the Post. Which, considering cops’ previously-cited inclination to straight-up lie on police reports, might very well have been fabricated to deflect the provocative allegations.

I definitely called him an asshole, but I wasn’t the one with any power in the situation. I know I called him an asshole, a bad cop, a traffic cop, and said what he was doing was inhumane. I don’t believe you can uphold the law if you don’t believe women have equal rights. When an officer of the law threatens, beats, and oppresses a woman on the basis that she’s acting like a woman—that’s the problem. An utterance of profanity seems normal—at that point all a person has left is her voice. I was begging for help and not using the moment as a platform for antisemitism.

something about it seemed very wrong. The cop’s tone seemed really inappropriate and he kept saying things like, ‘Are you going to act like a woman?’ She tried to walk away, and then he grabbed her and pushed her against the wall outside the turnstile