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Via The Forum News Group

The reign of the graffiti vandal known throughout the communities of Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven as Sum Z, ended with his arrest at about 4:30 a.m. on Saturday. Police in five precincts, four in Queens and one in Brooklyn, have been looking for the elusive bandit for nearly a year. Authorities say he is responsible for tagging hundreds of locations and his etchings have been seen as far as Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn.

John Colasanti, a 35-year-old unemployed white male, was taken into custody after he was observed by a neighborhood civic member on his way home from work. Scott Jordan was driving home after 4 am on Saturday when he observed an 18-wheeler parked near the triangle at 87th street and Rockaway Blvd.

SUM was derived from the words awesome and handsome, allegedly suggested by Colasanti’s cousin.

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I apologize for the string of “bad” posts but these are the things that are just happening.

A follow up to the Seba Avenue Park a Disgrace

A few days ago the bus shelter that was destroyed on Everett Avenue had its posters turn up at seba avenue park.

The seba avenue bus shelter was wrecked by a thrown beer bottle. Its horrible to have these shelters destroyed like this. We only have a handful of these shelters and alot of people use them.

There is an epic battle being fought “Back Weeds” at the recently paved airplane field. It’s being fought between the Radio Controlled Society of Marine Park (RCSMP) and the legal/illegal street & dirt bikes. The street and dirt bikers have been aggressively riding there on the weekends while RCSMP members are trying to fly.

Even though the RCSMP is no stranger of vandalism, recently the harassment has taken a turn. They are constantly having to fight to fly in their own park that they maintain and pay for. The bikers (not “kids” mind you) have harassed, spit on, damaged cars , threatened violence,  and in some cases physically attacked RCSMP members.

Before the skate park, there were barricades in place around the field that blocked street access. Now there is a clear path to the airplane field from the street allowing street bikes. The dirt bikes always get back there but that has always been an issue and is for parks enforcement to handle.

Calls have been also made to NYC Parks (Fred Wilkins) by RCSMP members with NO RESPONSE. Calls have also been made to 911 with little or NO RESPONSE

Anger has peaked with RCSMP members and there is a group of members of the society are ready to turn vigilante THIS WEEKEND, if they don’t see any response from law enforcement.

Before the skate park, there were barricades in place around the field that blocked street access. Now there is a clear path to the airplane field from the street allowing street bikes. The dirt bikes always get back there but that has always been an issue and is for parks enforcement to handle.

Via Sheepsheadbites.com

An attack, robbery and carjacking of a teacher at Good Shepherd School has caused community alarm, and the police are investigating whether the incident is part of a larger pattern of assaults and thefts.

A female teacher was accosted at 6:30 in the morning on Tuesday as she arrived at the school, on Brown Street and Avenue S. The attacker punched her in the face and stole her purse, then came back moments later and stole her car. The teacher was hospitalized for her injuries, but released the same day. The injury left her unable to speak and give a description.

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We all remember Manhattan Beach right? They have had more of their fair share of crazy news but the flow of this crazy news doesn’t seem to ever stop.

I know some of you hate me for even bringing up Manhattan Beach on this site, but I have to say, some really important stuff going outside our little world. Think of Horton hears a who.

Friday, June 6th was senior cut day for some local schools, and then they head down to Manhattan Beach for a day of sun and fun, but the past two years have been anything but fun. Last year there was the infamous email from Dr. Ron calling beachgoers “thugs”. This year in anticipation of the return of the “thugs”, the residents have been demanding all year for a plan addressing “Senior Cut Day” and all that comes with it.

Well Senior Cut came and it did not go well for beachgoers their civil rights went out the window. Before I get to that really big news. Here is what I personally saw.

Knowing senior cut day was Friday. I made sure to at least make an effort to get down there and catch the “thugs” in action. On my way down to Manhattan Beach I had heard that Gene Berardelli, Sheepshead Bay/Plumb Beach Civic’s attorney, was arrested for disorderly conduct. I was surprised, mainly because this is a guy who sits on the 61 PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL and I couldn’t see him getting arrested.

With this in mind I headed to the beach.

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Thanks to Monsterzro for this wonderful tip.

I know “back weeds” has seen a lot over the years. Most of which no one will ever know. Ever.

There has never been a way to show others what you actually did: show off a fort or show off some party you had. It all had to travel by word of mouth because of that reason you can get away with a ton of stuff and go unnoticed.

However, youtube makes it so much easier to show off your stupidity. Here we have Rob aka Polcok (not a polish joke) with his “100% deadly homemade working shotgun”. It is a 2 by 4 piece of wood with some copper piping, shotgun shells, a “bolt action spring thing”, and a nail.

For the love of god, if your going to do something illegal anywhere DO NOT POST IT ON YOUTUBE, DO NOT TAG IT, and DO NOT LINK IT TO YOUR MYSPACE. If you do we will know who you are. More importantly, the AUTHORITIES will find out who you are:

• Robs Myspace
• Youtube account

Here is another video:

Anyone know what happened? First off, its pointing in the wrong direction and its not on cinder blocks.

Previous Stolen Tire Posts:

• Four Tires Stolen Again!
• Four Stolen Tires on Seba Avenue - Did you see anything?

On the morning of Sunday May 18th, around 5:30 am two local “kids” attempted to break into New Dutch Farms (2876 Gerritsen Ave). They smashed the lock and door completely unaware that there is an alarm system. They were also completely unaware that their loud noises would wake up concerned citizens, one of which saw the two in progress, jump in their car, and was able to write down their license plate and call the police.

Police then went to the home owner of the car, saw the burglar tools, and found the two “kids” at home.