"when a German tourist is decapitated in Midtown during the annual Gridlock Alert fuckery by a reckless driver with a fake plate - the fucking kind of fake plate that tourists buy on Canal Street for $5 that I have fucking personally told Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Tisch about - you have to let a guy with only a few ticks left on his superannuated clock stick his head out of a pixellated window and scream a barbaric yawp."
"According to police, two German tourists, a woman, 50, and her husband, 55, were in the crosswalk on E. 40th Street on the west side of Fifth Ave. at around 2:40 p.m. when the driver of a minivan that was stuck in the intersection - it's U.N General Assembly week! - suddenly put the van in reverse, pinning them against a truck that was stopped at the red light behind them."
Two German tourists, a 50-year-old woman and her 55-year-old husband, were struck in a Midtown crosswalk when a minivan reversed while stuck in the intersection, pinning them against a truck. One tourist was decapitated. The driver was detained; charges remained unclear at midnight. The minivan displayed a Mississippi front plate and a novelty back plate reading 'Times Square.' The incident occurred during U.N. General Assembly week and a Gridlock Alert. Novelty souvenir plates sold on Canal Street were noted. Several news outlets reported the plate differently, and the event prompted criticism of enforcement, congestion policy, and public-safety failures.
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