Beware of Greyhound. An overnight bus traveling from Cincinnati to Detroit went off road last night, struck a tree, and eventually rolled over into a field. Amazingly, no one was killed.

In a bizarre confrontation last night, NYPD officers shot two bystanders while trying to arrest a man who was blocking traffic just a block from Time Square.

An unidentified 35-year-old man "was blocking traffic and appeared to be attempting to be hit by cars when a police officer on foot patrol attempted to take him into custody in the intersection," according to police commissioner Ray Kelly. After he resisted arrest on West 42nd street and Eighth Avenue, the man allegedly pretended to point a gun at officers, who then fired on him.

A 54-year-old woman, who was using a walker, was hit in the leg and rushed the Bellevue Hospital. A 35-year-old woman was shot in the buttocks and taken to Roosevelt Hospital.

Omg just witnessed NYPD gun down a pedestrian in Times Square @CNN pic.twitter.com/AMCmFGrSZ4

— Kerri Ann Nesbeth (@knesbeth) September 15, 2013

“The only thing the individual had on his person was a wallet which was recovered from his right rear pocket,” Commissioner Kelly told reporters.

After stumbling around Eighth Avenue, the man, according to witnesses, pulled out his Metrocard and pointed it at officers like a gun.

Witness Mike Favilla told the Daily News that the man appeared to be mentally ill. “He definitely looked like he was high on something or was mentally off. He couldn’t walk in a straight line. He was limping and jerking his legs around," Favilla said.

The man was hit by several cars but was not hit by any of the three shots fired by the NYPD officers. He was eventually tasered and subdued. In the footage above, the NYPD warns bystanders to get back from the man, while the crowd encourages the police officers not to shoot the man. Last year, a mentally ill man with a knife was shot and killed by NYPD officers in Times Square.

Porn participants will continue to go raw for the foreseeable future — even as four performers tested positive for HIV in the last month — after California lawmakers rejected a bill that would make condom use mandatory during filming.

The measure, AB 640, would have required performers state-wide to wear condoms while filming sex scenes, and mandated that producers provide medical testing and training.

In the last month, three performers have publicly announced their positive HIV test results, and an unidentified fourth performer reportedly came forward with a positive test to an advocacy group last week.

While a moratorium remains in effect, many in the industry say that requiring condoms on set would be ineffective and would harm California's economy. It is unclear whether the performers contracted the disease on- or off-set. Opponents of condom porn point to the fact that two of the performers were reportedly dating.

"People have personal lives. All the evidence suggests that these infections were not workplace-related," Diane Duke, CEO of the porn advocacy group Free Speech Coalition, told the Guardian.

The majority of films propelling the $5 billion porn industry has traditionally shot in Los Angeles; some estimates say as much as 90 percent of all productions are shot in the county alone. Last year Measure B passed, requiring condom use in films shot in LA County, but many find the bill toothless because there are no enforcement mechanisms.

Even so, some productions have moved to San Francisco and other parts of California, and production companies have sued LA County to block implementation of the law. But entertainment companies are threatening to film in places like Miami, Las Vegas, and Phoenix if legislators require condom use statewide.

“We don’t believe the current law will stand up to judicial scrutiny,” Vivid founder Steve Hirsch said about Measure B to Time Magazine . “However if the law is ultimately upheld we will have no choice but to leave L.A. As long as we feel the conditions continue to be safe, we can’t be forced to produce at a disadvantage.”

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Holy shit! There's a pretty good chance your holy water is actually contaminated with fecal matter.

In a scene from straight out of a sitcom (or a horrible recession with no end in sight), a judge in Spain has ordered a feuding couple to partition their apartment right down the middle, in an attempt to stop the couple from incessantly fighting.

With Spain's economic crisis having no end in sight, couples who would like a divorce have instead stayed together, citing the high costs of a separation. In this particular case, the husband's parents own the apartment. However, because of the lack of affordable housing and trying to protect the well-being of the couple's two young daughters, the judge decided that it would be better for the former couple to share an apartment, as opposed to putting either of them out on the street.

"It is an extraordinary decision that could encourage other judges to seek similarly extreme solutions,” Josep Maria Torres, a lawyer in Barcelona, told the New York Times. “Spain’s economic crisis has changed everything.”

The judge wrote in her decision that any potential encounters between the former couple presented “the lesser of two evils in view of the economic situation presented by both parties.”

The judge did not specify whether a wall would have to be erected, separating the unit, or if a simple line of masking tape would do the trick.

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Schools in Philadelphia opened this week with 2,400 fewer employees, almost zero support staff, and no art, music, or athletics. Here's the story on how a school district is destroyed in America.

A secret society called the Machine was apparently behind the spate of free-drink-toting, limo-riding University of Alabama sorority girls who showed up to vote in the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education race last month.

The Machine has been around for more than 100 years and members are apparently culled from white fraternities and sororities, who pay at least $850 a year to fund the group. According to the Crimson White, that money goes in part toward toward "bar tabs for Machine representatives at parties and an annual beach trip for Machine representatives."

Once a stop on the Southern route to Congress (“You went to the University of Alabama, got into student government, got involved in the Machine, practiced law a little bit in your hometown, and you went to Washington.”), the Machine's influence has waned in recent years and largely controls University of Alabama student government.

According to current and former members of Machine-affiliated Greek organizations, each of the 28 fraternities and sororities associated with the Machine (many Greek organizations on campus are not) sends a pair of representatives to a secret group, often referred to as “going downstairs,” because the group meets in the basement of a fraternity house. Members decide which candidates to back for student government, homecoming queen and several honor societies. The fraternity-and-sorority rank and file are informed of the choices and put into action on Election Day. Their choices rarely lose.

The society has been pulled into national news this week with an election lawsuit and subsequent coverage by the New York Times.

Kelly Horowitz, who lost the District 4 seat to 26-year-old University of Alabama grad and former student government president Cason Kirby, filed suit this week alleging voter fraud and bribery. Although the Machine is not named in the complaint, the Times details the group's "apparent involvement."

“The limos and party bus are running constantly,” read one of numerous similar e-mails circulated around Machine-affiliated sororities on Election Day. Free drinks were promised at local bars for those wearing “I Voted” stickers. Sorority leaders were careful to emphasize that they were not endorsing a particular candidate but encouraged members to wear Cason Kirby T-shirts to the polls.

The numbers bear out their influence. Of the 369 voters registered in the district this year, 269 registered during one week in mid-August, and 94 percent of those newly registered voters were 21 or younger. Mr. Kirby won the race by 416 to 329 votes.

Paula Deen's here, y'all. The maybe-racist, maybe-sexist fan-of-antebellum appeared at a Texas cooking show yesterday and cried tears of real butter when the crowd gave her a "10-minute ovation" with "thunderous applause." She then looked straight into a camera lens and declared, "I'm back."

In another shooting of an unarmed individual by police this weekend, a former Florida A&M football player was shot and killed as he approached police officers, looking for assistance after getting into a car accident.

Jonathan Ferrell, 24, crashed his car early Saturday morning, and approached a home, looking for help. The residents, unsure of who was outside, called the police. When the officers arrived, Ferell ran towards them, only to be shot several times. Ferell, who might have been badly shaken up by the accident, died on the scene.

"It was a pretty serious accident," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe told CNN. Ferell had to climb out the back window of the car.

The officer who shot Ferell, Randall Kerrick, was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Saturday, a felony charge that means the killing was done in self-defense. Police were called to the scene when a homeowner noticed Ferell outside.

"To her surprise, it was an individual that she did not know or recognize," said Chief Monroe. "She immediately closed the door, hit her panic alarm, called 911."

Ferell continued to attempt to get the homeowners attention, and was frantic by the time police arrived. The police department described the incident as having "devastated a family as well as caused a great deal of sadness and anxiety in our organization."

All three officers have been placed on paid leave.

"The evidence revealed that Mr. Ferrell did advance on Officer Kerrick and the investigation showed that the subsequent shooting of Mr. Ferrell was excessive," police said in a statement. "Our investigation has shown that Officer Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter. "

Stephen Crohn helped care for his partner while he was dying from a disease that didn't even have a name yet. In was 1978, and AIDS had just begun sweeping through New York City. Several of Crohn's friends were dying, except he never got sick. He was immune to HIV. After years of helping scientists gain a better understanding of the disease by studying his genetic make-up, Crohn committed suicide on August 23rd. He was 66.

During the 1981-1982 season, at least three Knicks players fixed games for their unnamed cocaine dealer, “one of the largest dealers on the East Coast,” according to FBI files.

According to informants, the coke dealer usually bet $300 a game, but soon began putting down $10,000 bets, winning six of seven bets through the season.

The FBI also suspected the players were shaving points and betting against themselves.

“Source observed heavy betting by [redacted] toward the latter part of the season . . . on the Knicks to lose certain games. In each case, the Knicks did lose, or failed to cover the point spread.”

The investigation eventually stalled due to lack of physical evidence, and no charges were ever brought. The FBI documents are part of a book released earlier this month, Brian Tuohy's Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing & the FBI. The FBI has verified the authenticity of the reports.

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In addition to chronicling his "lust demons," RFK Jr. also journaled about lunching on a yacht with Larry David, falconing at Martha Stewart's house, playing capture the flag with Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, giving relationship advice to Alec Baldwin, and defending Leonardo DiCaprio's haircut to his three-year-old.

Albert Buitenhuis, the South African chef who was getting kicked out of New Zealand for being too fat, has been given a 23-month reprieve. Buitenhuis will not be allowed access to any publicly-funded healthcare, however.

New Zealand, which was alarmed by Buitenhuis's weight enough to initially reject the chef on those grounds, is now backing away from the fat issue and saying that they rejected him because he has osteoarthritis in his knee. New Zealand has one of the highest obesity rates in the world.

Buitenhuis has actually lost weight since he moved to Christchurch six years ago, and in recent photographs has appeared both healthy, and just kinda big-boned. While fighting the rejection of his visa, Buitenhuis has been keeping a blog called The Too Fat Chef about his struggles. It includes some neat cooking tips as well. Unfortunately, however, the visa struggle has cost Buitenhuis and his wife dearly — they've lost their house.

"Of course, we are pleased and relieved that we are now able to stay. But at the same time we would rather rewind so that none of this took place," Buitenhuis told Fairfax media. "We are really starting from scratch again. We have lost thousands of dollars fighting this and we don't know where we will live because our home is gone. I am glad the fight is over but I am still afraid of what lies ahead."

Buitenhuis is in a healthy mood, however. He plans on slimming down even more over the duration of the temporary visa.

More than 10 percent of our nation's bridges are structurally deficient and in need of rehabilitation or replacement.

Of the 607,380 bridges listed in the federal National Bridge Inventory, 65,605 bridges are structurally deficient and more than 20,000 bridges are "fracture critical" and could collapse if a single component fails. Approximately 7,795 bridges fall into both categories, with more than 400 in New York state alone and another 200 in Illinois.

The Brooklyn Bridge and the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in DC fall into both categories, considered to be a "red flag" category.

The problem is that many of America's bridges were designed for lighter vehicles and a lower volume of traffic.

"The physics is that they could fall at a moment's notice, or next month or next year — if they're left in the current condition," Barry LePatner, author of the book "Too Big to Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward," told the Associated Press. "It's a ticking time bomb."

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Larry Summers has withdrawn his name from consideration for Federal Reserve chairman citing a confirmation process that "would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the Federal Reserve, the Administration or, ultimately, the interests of the nation’s ongoing economic recovery."

The last time we checked in on the Ohio University Marching 110, they were doing a "pretty good" rendition of Psy's "Gangnam Style." (Their performance of "Party Rock Anthem" isn't bad, either.) But during halftime of last night's bout against Marshall, the 110 gave their take on The Song Of The Summer.

OK, a disclaimer. I attended Ohio at a time when the football team was just emerging from decades of being so bad that the marching band was the only reason to attend games. That's fortunately no longer the case, but it's nice that the 110 is still doing that very weird thing they do. Enjoy!

When subscribers of Arizona Highways—Arizona’s “award-winning” travel magazine—receive their October 2013 issue, they’ll be able to turn to page 13 and read all about the edible fly agaric mushroom. The only problem is that the fly agaric mushroom, when consumed raw, has “unpredictable psychotropic and physical effects.” Yet there is no mention of these potential side effects in the “nature factoid” section on the mushroom.

The issue has already been mailed to subscribers, though the magazine’s publishers have since notified all 123,000 recipients that the really cool edible mushroom on page 13 is to be avoided in the raw form. They also announced that the October issue of Arizona Highways will not be sold on newsstands. “We regret the error,” said Win Holden, publisher of Arizona Highways magazine.

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A homeless man found a backpack filled with a large sum of money, travelers checks, and a passport outside a Dorchester mall in Massachusetts on Saturday and turned it over to police officers. He alerted Boston police in front of the South Bay Mall TJ Maxx store and gave them the bag filled with $2,400 in cash, $39,500 in traveler’s checks, and a Republic of China passport. The Good Samaritan, according to Boston police, could only provide them with his name and the address of the shelter where he is currently staying.

Police officers notified mall security about the backpack and were contacted later in the evening by a Best Buy employee who had lost his backpack. Because the passport belonged to the employee, the backpack has since been returned to him. No explanations have been offered as to why a Best Buy employee would be carrying over $40,000 to work, which is clearly where the real story is here.

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Postmates exists within the complex west coast ecosystem of laziness-enabling apps. Say you want a cupcake, or pair of shoes, but don't want to get out of the bath: no problem. Almost anything fungible is within reach—but don't complain, because the founder and CEO of Postmates does not want to hear it.

Seattle resident Erin Boudreau was unhappy with her Postmates delivery experience, so she emailed customer support. At some point along the way, CEO Bastian Lehmann wrote the above message, which was then included in the thread to Erin. Whoops! Corporate transparency is good, and it's always a nice surprise to have the head of the company get his hands dirty in customer support, but not like this. In a pseudo-contrite blog post, Lehmann claimed the email was "a bad joke which was very poor in taste," which is exactly what you would say if you told someone to "fuck off" and it got back to them by accident.

Erin doesn't seem very impressed:

For what it's worth, I accept @basti's apology. However I don't believe instructing his team to tell me to "fuck off" was a joke or typo.

— Erin Boudreau (@Erin_Boudreau) September 15, 2013

Why can't anyone in tech just say "I'm sorry I was an asshole"?

Jonathan Harty, 31, of Lake Steven, Washington was sentenced Friday to 29 months in prison after an April 20 accident that occurred while driving his two young daughters. High on meth, and driving over 100 mph down the highway, Harty eventually crashed into three cars. When officers arrived on the scene, they found Harty wearing prosthetic breasts, a woman’s shirt, and no pants. They also found a full bottle of urine and a pair of ladies panties by his feet. He reportedly told police that he was en route to The Dollar Store to buy toys for his daughters.

This was Harty’s third conviction for a DUI.

After his sentencing, he expressed regret:

"I'd like to apologize to my family and my two daughters," Jonathan Harty told the court Friday. "I don't have any excuse for what I've done. There's no excuse for it. I've made a life-altering decision for a lot of people by my selfish actions."

Relatives say the youngest girl, 4 at the time of the accident, still suffers nightmares is afraid to go anywhere alone.

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