In today's Obvious News, police give out just 400 tickets for horn blowing every year, despite noise being one of the top 311 complaints. And the signs warning of a $350 fee for honking, which cost the city $51 to put up, don't seem to be doing much. Transportation consultant Sam Schwartz told NY1 that not only are the signs "laughable," but that honking doesn't even do anything. "It's not going to change the world in one bit, except increase our blood pressure, the blood pressure of other drivers, the blood pressure of the pedestrians." [ MORE]  | Recently, City Councilman Leroy Comrie Jr. floated the idea of requiring fast food meals to meet certain nutritional standards if they include toys. However, his mission is being thwarted by...free will! In a lawsuit, Sacramento mom Monet Parham accuses McDonald's of luring children with toys, but the fast food chain says the case should be dismissed because parents can always choose not to buy the meals for their kids. "In short, advertising to children any product that a child asks for but the parent does not want to buy would constitute an unfair trade practice," they said in a statement. However, not everyone is buying it.... [ MORE ] |  | Start planning now, because you have only a few scant hours left on this earth to accomplish whatever puny human goals you're clinging on to. No—it's not mysterious green goo, or birds falling from the sky, or a nine-month early New Year's—this one is serious. Anyone who knows anything about the science, the future, and/or Arnold Schwarzenegger knows that as of 8:11 p.m. tonight, April 19th, 2011 Skynet, the military-designed artificial intelligence system, will become self-aware and turn against its human creators.... [ MORE ] |  | More facts have emerged from yesterday's subway face slashing. Despite initial reports that the attack on the 3 train took place with a pencil, it now appears the weapon was a pen. And that cigarette that the attacker was supposedly lighting up on the subway? It was actually more like a blunt. Perhaps he thought yesterday was 4/20?... [ MORE ] |  | Rutgers University inspired a Bronzer-tinged outcry after they paid Snooki of This Jersey Shore Life an absurd amount of money to come fist pump and shotgun education at the school. Amazingly, this was just one of several low points leading up to the chaotic celebration that is Rutgersfest: 11 people were arrested and four people were shot over the course of the one day event. And now, the school’s president has sent out an email saying Rutgersfest has been permanently cancelled.... [ MORE ] |  | A grand jury today indicted the roommate of a Rutgers student who committed suicide after he realized that his homosexual encounter had been recorded on webcam. The 15-count indictment against Dharun Ravi, which you can read below, accuses the former Rutgers student of bias, invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering. Another student, Molly Wei, was not indicted "at this time"—prosecutors say Ravi watched roommate Tyler Clementi's liaison via webcam from Wei's dorm room. (Wei already faces invasion of privacy charges, but her charges have not been presented to the grand jury.) ... [ MORE ] |  | With warm weather just around the corner, USA Today has taken a look at some of the strange new drinks coming to chains near you (Mountain Dew Coolattas! Jamocha Oreo Shakes!) and one new drink in particular deserves calling out for its sheer genius (really a new cup). In June 7-Eleven will be putting out a line of dual-chambered Slurpees for those times when one flavor just isn't enough. And it gets better.... [ MORE ] | | |
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