Posted AT 12:54 PM EDT on 28/08/06
Watch what you say in New York
NEW YORK — In a city of eight million people, someone's always saying something strange. And, odds are, someone is around to hear it. Like the guy on the D train who said: "Yeah, it ain't safe for kids to go missing these days." Or the woman on her cellphone in Bryant Park who noted: "Quite frankly, I'd rather be pole dancing." And that's the clean stuff.
Chronicling such utterances is the mission of
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