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According to Sasha Alhovsky, eight New York City cops knocked him from his bicycle, put guns to his head and threw him in jail for four hours.


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 Sasha Alhovsky, eight New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 cops knocked him from his bicycle, put guns to his head and threw him in jail for four hours. What did he do to deserve such treatment? He accidentally left a balloon balloon, lighter-than-air craft without a propulsion system, lifted by inflation of one or more containers with a gas lighter than air or with heated air. During flight, altitude may be gained by discarding ballast (e.g.  pump at a local Starbucks one Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. . Someone thought it looked like a bomb and called the police. Four days later, when he was cycling home from Central Park, where he paints faces and sells balloon animals, the police jumped him. "It appears the officers took prudent steps to handle what may have been a dangerous situation," a police official explained.
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Title Annotation:Brickbats
Author:Oliver, Charles
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Date:Nov 1, 2006
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