A HEIST DONE HOLLYWOOD STYLE.....

This morning I had the choice of human immortality, Neo-Nazis in Brooklyn, or NYPD impersonators to share with you today in the blog, and all were interesting topics, but I couldn't help myself than to be drawn to the latter story. It turns out, three cop impersonators, who are still at large, are wanted for stealing $200,000 from a Queens check-cashing business, but the unique thing about this robbery was that they were wearing Hollywood quality masks. Wow! No makeup artist has ever thought of this before?

Investigators started to suspect the trio that pulled off the Valentine's Day caper had worn masks that were far from the average costume shop masks. One of the false faces even looked like pro-wrestler Bill Goldberg. I, personally, think he looked like John Travolta in From Paris With Love.

One this is certain, the detectives really have no clue as far as the ethnicity's of the crooks, who cleaned out an unlocked safe inside a Pay-O-Matic store in Rosedale, Queens because they wore gloves and sunglasses so that their skin wouldn't show.

If the masks were, in fact, made by pros, the robbery would be reminiscent of the $1.5 million dollar London jewel heist of 2009, in which two thieves had a makeup artist disguise them in liquid latex masks that made them look older.

The day after the Queens heist, the NYPD described the three suspects as white men who wore dark blue jackets with NYPD logos, 'police-type shields hanging around their necks', and they identified themselves as detectives. Later, the NYPD got a tip that the robbers may have been wearing masks that made them look like three white guys. Now, can you see why I was so drawn to this story? Yes, a bad thing happened here, but it's so Hollywood! I feel like I'm watching a movie awaiting the outcome!

One police source said that they don't even know if the trio was white, black, or Hispanic, but people in the neighborhood saw them in a van for two or three days before the robbery, and claimed they saw three white guys. Investigators believe that the robbers were wearing the masks as they cased the joint before they struck. Witnesses say they drove off in a dark-colored Ford Expedition.

I seriously find this story fascinating, and am dying to find out if these guys are a different color under those masks. That's also providing they ever get caught! I guess stay tuned to see if they ever catch these guys. I know that this is terrible to say, but part of me wants to see these guys get away with it because of the creativity that went behind the robbery, but from an upstanding citizen standpoint, breaking the law is breaking the law, and criminals should be punished if they're ever caught. I would be out of the country already, though, but that's just me!

BILLY CRYSTAL'S BLACKFACE CAUSES OUTRAGE?

Okay, I know that I'm a day late on this one, but it took a day to settle in and really piss me off about how sensitive a society we've become, including myself! For many of you who follow me on Facebook, you already know that I've ranted over ESPN's "Chink In The Armor" comment and FOX's rapist morning show host, Greg Kelly's comment about Jeremy Lin's eyes. Was I being too sensitive about it? At my first reaction, I didn't think that I was, but as people started to comment about what I wrote, I started to think that some of them might have been right and that maybe we have become too sensitive as a society. I mean, as far as ESPN goes, I know that the comment wasn't mean as malicious in anyway, but the word "chink" to many of us Asian-Americans, it really makes us cringe because many of us heard that word a lot used in a derrogatoy form. I really don't believe that the writer at the time meant to use it in that manner, but seeing the word, did cause an uproar in the Asian community. You know what though? Somebody mentioned Archie Bunker in one of the comments, and they were dead on with it. Back when Archie Bunker was on TV, he used every racial term in the book, and that show lasted 11 seasons. Would that show last on the air now? I'm thinking "No" because we've lost our sense of humor and have become too uptight as people. As for Greg Kelly's comment, he's just an a**hole, and his comment was totally racist, but did we really need to make a big stink about it?

At first, I felt "yes", we needed to make a big stink about it, but then I saw this story about one of my favorite comedians Billy Crystal, who did an amazing job as always hosting the Academy Awards this past Sunday. Apparently, in Billy's opening segment for the Oscar's, he did a part with Justin Bieber to help his "18 to 24" demographic, so he said, where he played himself and Sammy Davis Jr. This is where the trouble started! Hundreds took to Twitter to complain about Crystal performing as Sammy Davis Jr. in blackface. Um, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The Sammy Davis Jr. imitation is a character that Billy Crystal has done for many, many years! And he's the best at it! He's even done the character in full makeup like he did on Sunday night! To me, what he did was not blackface and he shouldn't be held accountable for portraying a character! Ted Danson, on the otherhand, did perform in blackface many years ago, which also caused outrage, but rightfully so. Trust me, there was huge difference in Billy Crystal's and Ted Danson's makeup. 

    

To those Twitter complainers, if you're going to get mad at Billy Crystal for portraying Sammy Davis Jr., who was a black man, in full makeup, then you might as well get mad at the Wayans brothers for portraying two white girls in makeup in the movie White Chicks. That's the same thing! Why is that okay? Two black guys in white makeup? Why is that considered funny as opposed to Billy Crystal portraying a black man? I see no difference, but now I'm reading that the Academy is catching some flack for it because of the complaints and Crystal might not be invited back to host ever again. Personally, I think that is just plain dumb because Billy Crystal, in all my years of watching The Oscars, is the best host they will ever have, and his opening monologues have become legendary!

We, as a society, really need to let some stuff go! Not everything is meant to be malicious or racist! America is a melting pot of nationalities, and we've suddenly learned to live and work together. In some regions of the country, they're a little behind with cultural diversity, but at the end of the day, the bottom line is, there are different nationalities all over the place, and there will be things said that are a little "off-color". Does it mean, we should be too sensitive and react like we're being attacked in a racist manner? No way! It's just words and no one is really getting hurt! Time to re-develop that sense of humor, America! Billy Crystal is a comedian! There was nothing racist about his acting like Sammy Davis Jr.! Unbelievable!

A REAL-LIFE SUPERMAN?

Beyond all of the Oscar buzz and J.Lo's nip slippage live on national TV, I wanted to start this week off with an amazing story rather than rant about something and make someone look dumber than they really are. Today, I wanted to let you know about a real-life Superman! You see, a New York City police officer's life was saved recently when his gun belt deflected a suspect's bullet in a Lower East Side shootout Monday (today) morning.



According to NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, father of that idiot FOX morning guy Greg Kelly who got away with raping someone, he stated that if the bullet hit an inch away from where it landed, it would've been right in the officer's stomach. Or was it? You know, in the comic books, whenever Supermen got shot, he always made it seem like the bullet would hit something else if he was dressed like his alter-ego, Clark Kent. In an NYPD statement, the officers shot and wounded the suspect, followed his blood trail right to his apartment and arrested him.

The gun battle in the Baruch Houses unfolded at around 1:40 am when officers Thomas Richards and Thomas Dunne left their police van to approach a man who was acting suspiciously on Columbia Street. The suspect, Luis Martinez, muttered something at the officers, turned to Officer Richards and blasted away. One round struck the spare ammunition magazine on Richards' gun belt bending the magazine....Or did it? Maybe it actually did strike the man of steel?

Commissioner Kelly stated that it was a very close call for Officer Richards, and that the magazine may have well saved his life......Or has it? Are we sure it wasn't Officer Richards' steel plated body that he was born with on the planet Krypton? Anyway, Officer Richards returned fire and chased Martinez as he fled on Columbia toward Baruch Drive, where 200 feet from 64 Baruch Drive, Martinez stopped, turned and opened fire again on Richards and Dunne, in which both officers returned fire.

Martinez began running again, stopped outside the aforementioned address and shot at the officers for a third time, while a return fire ensued. Martinez was hit in the upper right leg, but still managed to run into the building, where responding Emergency Service Unit officers followed the blood trail to his apartment and took him into custody. Martinez's 9-MM handgun was recovered in the building's trash compactor. I'm pretty sure that Officer Richards found that with his X-Ray vision.

Officer Dunne and Richards are said to be fine and in great spirits. The incident marked the fourth time a NYPD police officer was shot in two months. Not a good sign for the NYPD. By the way, I don't care what anybody says, unless proven otherwise, I think that Officer Richards might be a real-life Superman!  No can be that lucky!

OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK.....

How safe does this picture make you feel when your riding on a New York City subway? If I was still living in New York City, I'd be pretty pissed off seeing my tax dollars at work. If I was part of the NYPD, I'd be pretty embarrassed! Especially after the flack New York's finest has been getting for fixing tickets. Now, we have this?

A hero police officer has recently been disciplined for catching a nap on the F train while still armed and in uniform. Officer Matthew Sobota, 43, was caught sleeping on the subway by a straphanger, who snapped a photo with his cell phone camera and emailed it to the NYPD brass.

A music producer named Martin Bisi, from Brooklyn, took the photo of the sleepy cop on February 16. Bisi said that he thought that maybe a teenager could've taken the officer's gun and sell it or even use it. He emailed the photo in because he felt that the situation was potentially unsafe. Bisi noticed the officer nodding off on the train at Carroll Street just after 3 p.m. He said that the officer was asleep during his entire 7-minute trip.

Officer Sobota admitted that he'd screwed up and blamed the overtime he'd been working for the catnap. A police source did say that officer Sobota, who had been assigned to the mounted unit, was actually off duty at the time, but was headed to do outside security work sanctioned by the NYPD. Okay, but it still doesn't give him the right to sleep on a public train, while his gun is still holstered. The music producer was right! Something severe could've come out of this! Luckily, nothing bad did come out of except for the photo of officer Sobota napping on the train in uniform. Oh, and the fact that he's been disciplined for failure to be alert while in uniform, which could only cost him some vacation time. Why didn't anyone think about about putting make-up on his face or painting his nails with nail polish? What happened to "You Snooze, You Lose"? Well, I guess in a way, he did lose!

PHOTOS OF WHITNEY'S OPEN CASKET?...COME ON!!!!

Believe me when I say that I really, really wanted to stay away from this one because, though I felt sad that the world lost another icon, I also felt that that we lost her the minute she married Bobby Brown and fell into his hellish lifestyle. Anyway, I'm not here to write about Whitney Houston's life or death, as many of you have already read as soon as the the story came out they she was found dead in her hotel room. The story that disturbed me was that the National Enquirer actually had the cojones to publish an open casket photo of Miss Houston causing an outrage from her fans.

That's right! Whitney Houston fans expressed shock and outrage on Wednesday after the National Enquirer (no shock here!) printed an image of the iconic singer in an open casket on it's cover. The morbid photo, which was reportedly taken inside the family's private viewing at the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, NJ, last Friday, shows Whitney's body lying in her half-opened, polished bronze casket. The late pop star was wearing what looked like a purple dress along with a brooch pinned to her chest and an earring sparkling in her ear.

The headline claimed that Whitney was buried wearing $500,000 worth of jewels and gold slippers on her feet. Who the hell cares what she got buried in? When people die, they want to be buried with their favorite things! If that's what she wanted to be buried in, let the women rest in peace! I don't get what the big deal is!

Anyway, Facebook and Twitter users lashed out at the tabloid, calling them trashy and shameful, but didn't we already know this about the National Enquirer? It's not like they're a reputable paper or anything. Of course, the death photo is nothing new for the National Enquirer. In fact, back in 1977, they also famously ran a photo of "The King" Elvis Presley in his coffin.

Personally, I'm not sure this really bothers me. Yes, it's a little morbid as we'd like to remember these icons in their top form, and seeing them laying in a casket is anything but that. Was there really a need for outrage at this point, though? Besides, I'm sure the National Enquirer did it to sell papers. That's what they do. They're in the magazine selling business and the fact that it caused this much of an outrage means that it caught much attention and I bet more than half bought that issue, so that they can show others how disgusting of a paper the National Enquirer is. Mission accomplished! I guess my hats off to you National Enquirer! What are your thoughts on this? Outrage or Who cares?

NEVER BREAK UP WITH THIS GUY!

Just for the record, I am in no way related to this guy, and no, this is not Jeremy Lin! Okay, with that being said, the man in the picture above, Charles Ann is an absolute psychopath! Originally, I was going to write about the house of horror in Dayton, Texas, where some sex offender was holding 11 children in his house with a few of them tied to beds. I felt like in the past few days, I've written too much about children, so you can read about that story in the news! Back to Psycho Charlie Ann!

Apparently, this New Jersey resident had been embroiled in a lover's quarrel with his girlfriend and was charged with murder on Tuesday Morning for running her over, not once, not twice, but three times! According to authorities, 26-year-old Ann intentionally mowed down his girlfriend on Monday night in Fort Ree..... I mean, I mean Fort Lee, NJ, after she told him that she wanted to break up. Witnesses told cops that Ann slammed his Hyundai Sonata (go figure!) into his girlfriend Aena Hong, 25, at around 4:55 p.m., and then ran over her body repeatedly! Okay, first of all, if you're going to kill your girlfriend, why would you do it in broad daylight with witnesses all around you, dummy! In Ann's defense, may be accidentally hit her in a fit of rage, and when he realized what he'd done, he panicked and tried to get away, but instead, he put the car into drive and reverse a couple of times on accident. Either way! This guy is an idiotic psycho!

One witness stated that the incident was 'horrific' and that he hasn't seen anything like that since he was overseas in combat. Hong was pronounced dead at an area hospital, while police launched a manhunt for Ann, who sped away from his girlfriend's lifeless body. Bergen County detectives with the help of the NYPD found Ann hiding out at a friend's apartment in Flushing, Queens at 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning. What an idiot! I would've fled the country after committing a crime like that!

Ann, a student from Korea (that explains everything!), was carrying his passport and a large sum of cash, leading investigators to believe he was planning on skipping the country. Ann, who was living in Fort Ree, was charged with first-degree murder and his bail was set at $3 million dollars. The couple had only been dating for a year.

As of Tuesday, Ann was awaiting an extradition hearing in Queens. Here's what you can do, send him back to Korea and let them deal with this freak! Or better yet, fry him because what he did to that poor girl is inexcusable! Temporary insanity shouldn't be able to work in this case because what happens if another girl in the future breaks up with him? I hope he likes boys too, because it looks like from here on out, he's going to be getting nothing but man love in prison! Then again, he can always plead temporary LIN-sanity! Okay, I'm sorry! Didn't mean to go there!

GONE LOCO FOR FOUR LOKO?

I found this story to be absolutely disturbing! Especially because I thought that this drink was banned from liquor stores, but even worse, this is a tale about a 13-year-old boy who drank it and was killed. That's 8 years under the legal drinking age! Ummm, hello? Parents? Are we paying attention?

So, a 13-year-old Maryland boy died in a tragic car accident after his family says he drank a can of Four Loko, which is a caffeine fueled can of booze usually drank at parties, while hanging out with a couple of friends. Michael Thomas Truluck felt sick during the ride home with his mom's fiancee early Saturday evening. According to the teens mom Kristina Keys, Michael opened the front passenger door to vomit and immediately struck by a Ford Explorer and died hours later at a nearby hospital. She went on to say that he must've felt so sick that he was probably not thinking about anything else. How about at 13-years-old and drinking a party drink like that, maybe he was too drunk and out of his mind? I too would not be thinking too straight, dummy!

His two friends said that Michael spent most Saturdays scarfing down fast food and playing basketball, but on this Saturday, he's already vomited twice before he left them. It wasn't clear who bought the teens the dangerous party drink, which has been outlawed in it's original form in many states around the country after a rash of deaths last year. Okay, the why wasn't it banned in all states if it caused deaths? Why didn't the FDA go after this if it was that harmful? Michael's mother also stated that the drink is illegal and way too powerful for kids, but they all think they're invincible, and that this will show that they're not. Hey, honey, thanks for the life lesson, but your without a son now! If you were a better parent this probably would not have happened!

For those of you unfamiliar with the drink, in it's original form, the drink is the equivalent of four beers and one cup of Starbucks coffee, which is a dangerous combo that can fool any party goers in thinking they're not drunk, while packing a potent punch of alcohol. To me, this is just another case of irresponsible parenting! I don't condone underage drinking, but if it's going to be done, make sure the kids stay on your premises even if they have to sleep over! This way no one gets hurt and they are under your supervision. Most of all, you don't get into any trouble for serving the kids alcohol. Wait, does that make me irresponsible? Either way, this is absolutely tragic and I blame the mother!