Lukas I. Alpert
The Archive
Something to squawk about
No, you can't play tag with my kids! A mother Peregrine falcon made her feelings clear yesterday when city workers showed up at her nest to place metal tags on...
Weird but true
As if the Gulf of Mexico oil spill weren't expensive enough already. A Pennsylvania alpaca farm is shearing the expensive wool off its fuzzy beasts for donation to efforts to...
Weird but true
Talk about a brain freeze! A Tennessee man who stole cases of beer from a gas station returned a few minutes later to exchange them because they were warm. The...
Weird but true
He won the bet but lost his soles. To win a wager with his teacher, high-school freshman Ben Hedblom wore one pair of sneakers to school for four years until...
Times Square 'bomber' Faisal Shahzad caught on tape buying fireworks
Security cameras nailed Faisal Shahzad buying 23 kinds of fireworks for his failed bomb. Surveillance video released yesterday shows confessed Times Square terrorist Faisal Shahzad buying the fireworks he allegedly...
Weird but true
The war on terror has another casualty -- this guy's ego. A humiliated TSA screener, whose small penis was revealed to all his colleagues at the Miami airport when he...
Surveillance video shows Times Square bomber buying fireworks
This chilling video shows Times Square terrorist Faisal Shahzad buying the fireworks he allegedly used to build the bomb he drove into the heart of Big Apple in a failed...
Sniper kills Qaeda-from 1½ mi. away
It was silent but deadly. A British sniper set a world sharpshooting record by taking out two Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan from more than a mile and a half away...
Grim oil tiding for Bam in Gulf
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill nearly tripled in size over two days -- leading experts to believe that the 11-day-old leak, caused by an oil-rig explosion off the coast...
Darkest day of oil nightmare
The disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill pushed into the Mississippi River Delta yesterday with high winds and rough seas complicating efforts to slow the toxic sludge's spread, as the...
Weird but true
This guy's got problems. A Memphis, Tenn., mom called police to report that she caught her son stealing drugs from her bra in a dresser drawer. The mother of accused...
Driver smashes car through 7th floor wall
Now that's an off-road vehicle! What looks like a flying car after a head-on collision with a high-rise was actually the result of a motorist reversing way too fast out...
Mine-bla$t offer
The company that operated the West Virginia mine that exploded on April 5, killing 29 workers, is offering $3 million to each victim's family, a relative said yesterday. Michelle McKinney,...
Weird but true
Most people try to keep mice out of their houses. But a California man filled his 400-square-foot apartment with 132 mice, birds and a gecko -- all of which authorities...
Weird but true
He picked the one friendly place in enemy territory. A Canada goose that was shot with an arrow by an angry Toms River, NJ, resident crash-landed in the yard of...
Bury nice to see you,
Beyoncé is "sandylicious." The sexy star singer frolicked on the beaches of Hawaii yesterday then got buried up to her neck by friends. At one point, only Beyoncé's head could...
Weird but true
No need to jail him -- this was punishment enough. Cops hunting a man suspecting of running a meth lab found him hiding neck deep in a pool filled with...
Weird but true
She went right to the top -- which was her first mistake. An Ohio prostitute was busted after soliciting a prospective john -- who turned out to be the chief...
Heavy memories, man: Metallica back on bus
Metallica would rather ride the lightning than a bus, but because of the Icelandic volcano, they had no choice. The heavy-metal masters this week rode a tour bus for the...
Volcano forces filmmakers to go on epic journey to get to Tribeca Film Festival
This journey has the makings of an epic film on its own. The Irish producers of a flick scheduled to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival tomorrow night were forced...