New York City Kids Seeking Therapy After Unending Exposure to Vagrants and Addicts
New York Post | September 24, 2022 | Griffin Kelly, Matthew Sedacca and Melissa Klein

New York City school kids are losing their minds over the zonked-out drug addicts and raving vagrants they encounter every day – and are flocking to therapists to find ways to cope with the stress, The Post has learned.

In neighborhoods such as Hell’s Kitchen “a lot” of kids are now in therapy, according to mom Katie Hamill, 43, whose 7-year-old daughter is being treated for anxiety.

“My daughter has seen everything from fornication, masturbation, defecation, urination, you name it, she has seen it. … consistently and constantly. She is in this constant state of panic,” said Hamill, who works in real estate.

The little girl gets upset when she sees “the dying people” — the junkies who look dead whom she thinks no one is helping, the mom said. And she sees far too much vile behavior from adults, including one addict trying to rip out his hair after getting high at a West 42nd Street playground.

“It’s a Democrat town:

We really mean it.

Fornication,

Masturbation,

Defecation,

Urination —

You name it, she has seen it.”

Monterey Police look for suspect riding e-bike slapping women on the butt
KION546 | 09/21/2022 | Ricardo Tovar

MONTEREY, Calif. (KION-TV)- Monterey Police say they have responded to reports of sexual battery by a man on an electric bicycle slapping woman on the butt.

So far, there have been two incidents reported to the police. One was on Sept. 15 and the other on Sept. 20, both were in the morning between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.

And yes, I have iron-clad alibis for both of those dates.

On Sept. 15, at around 7:00 a.m., a woman was walking on Second Street and Camino Aguajito when a man riding a black bike grabbed her buttocks and made an inappropriate comment as he rode off, said police.

The suspect was described as a white male adult with blue eyes, wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, a blue facemask and blue jeans, according to police. The bike was described as a black electric bicycle, “beefier than a normal pedal bike.”

Five days later, at around 6 a.m., a woman was jogging along the trail near Custom House Plaza and was slapped on the butt by a man as he rode by, said police. He was last seen riding north on the recreation trail towards Coast Guard Pier.

Did the Secret Service follow or precede him?

In Sydney, a gym removed its mirrors and banned its members from posing for selfies, Daily Mail Australia reported in 2015.

— Choa Chu Kang Gym Allegedly Bans Members From Posing for Mirror Selfies
AsiaOne | Ching Shi Jie | Sept. 19, 2022

U.S., 2022:

A gym in the Hudson Valley is the first in the Tri-state to offer a private posing room for members and non-members.

On Wednesday, Gold’s Gym in Middletown unleashed its private posing room, which according to company officials is the first in the Tri-state.

… area.

I hope it’s all in good fun; but these days, you never know.

(2010) It’s a Tish-grace! Councilwoman Letitia James sues over scratch
Brooklyn Paper | 3/17/10 | Stephen Witt

Councilwoman Letitia James has filed a personal injury suit against an itinerant laborer after she allegedly injured herself walking into his legally parked truck.

The Democratic lawmaker, who makes $122,500 a year as the people’s representative in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, is seeking an unspecified amount of damages for wounds she claims to have sustained on July 11 when she walked into a four-inch trailer hitch protruding from David Day’s parked car.

James sustained “serious, severe and permanent [injuries] to her limbs and body” and “she will be caused to suffer … continuous pain and inconvenience,” according to court papers filed last month in Brooklyn Supreme Court by James’s attorney Robert Mijuca of the powerful law firm of Rubenstein and Rynecki.

The court documents also allege that the injuries caused James to be unable to attend to her usual occupation – though the alleged pain and suffering occurred on the eve of the councilwoman’s re-election campaign, one that she waged with her typical vigor against two primary rivals.

She bounced to an easy victory. Additionally, several of James’s Council colleagues told this newspaper that they did not recall James limping or using crutches during the summer.

But court papers paint a very different scenario of the events of July 11 on Fulton Street between S. Portland Avenue and S. Oxford Street.

The lawsuit claims that James “came into contact with the exposed, unprotected hitch,” contact that led to “great physical and mental pain” — though the actual body part that was damaged is not cited.

James claims that Day’s hitch is illegal and that her injuries resulted “solely [from] the careless and negligent manner in which [he] owned and maintained his motor vehicle.”