This Just In!

According to Mark, TFMITW's Tucson correspondent, New York City sidewalks are responsible for 33,000 deaths per year--sidewalks are the true "silent killer."*

I would like to inform Mark about a commercial I saw yesterday while waiting for a burrito: there are law firms, in this city, that specialize in sidewalk-related injuries. For 30 seconds, while the law firm's number scrolled along the bottom of the screen, I saw nothing but people falling into sidewalk grates and basement doors, or tripping on uneven sidewalks, potholes or curbs. It's too bad I didn't get the law firm's name, because I just stubbed my toe on Waverly and could use $15 for lunch.


*This is a fabricated statistic from our fabricated tour of New York in July. Other wonderful "nuggets" of wisdom passed along as facts include the fact that because of geographical separation, the squirrels in Central Park are a different species than the squirrels in Washington Square, and that the GAP store at South Street Seaport is the oldest GAP store in the nation, dating back to 1806 (and it was this GAP store that outfitted soldiers for the War of 1812).