Eater NY- Amed Mohammed, the street vendor near the World Trade Center who was selling hot dogs for $30 to tourists, won’t be wheeling his cart into place today. He was fired. His boss Abdelalim Abdelbaky, whose father owns the cart and vending license, told the Post he was lied to: “He told me he charged the people $2 a hot dog” (that’s still twice as much as the guy around the corner charges, but okay). Abdelbaky also claims that Mohammed pocketed all that extra cash and left him to pay off hundreds of dollars in fines that he was slapped with this week after news of his scam broke. The saddest part is that it sounds like Mohammed and Abdelbaky were pretty close. Mohammed even stayed rent-free in his boss’s home, but now Adelbaky feels betrayed. “I lost money now, and I lost some customers, so I have a lot of losses.”

Ahh yes the New York city hot dog vendor. A staple in the New York tourist landscape. Now i’ve been in New York a lot, got family from there and was born there but up until 17 years of my life at the time, i had never EVER entertained the thought of getting a disgusting New York City Dirty Water Dog. But now let me take it back for a second. I was 17 and it was my senior year in high school and i was in the Model UN (yea, i should be some famous diplomat pretty much). We go on a field trip with our team and a buddy of mines and everything just felt like i should try to be the tourist for once so i did. I was just a tourist at that moment staying at the Hilton around Time Square. So one of the nights there Im out wandering around the city me and a buddy and we’re hungry but poor as fuck trying to save up money so we see a hot dog vendor and say fuck it, cant be that bad. And the truth is it wasn’t. All hot dogs are technically made of gross things but you load it up with condiments and shove that guy down ur throat as fast as possible so you can hurry up and regret eating one. The problem came with the guy selling the hot dog and i think that man and Amed Mohammed are one in the same. All i ordered was 2 hot dogs period but next thing you know they guy starts yappin some jibberish and i thought he was just a crazy person and talking out loud but then he starts point his tongs at me and banging on the cart to get my attention. Im just confused as fuck and he keeps on saying stuff so i just keep saying ” yea 2 hot dogs thats all” and then i hear an “okay okay” next thing you know he starts loading it with like ketchup and mustard but what ever was probably gonna put some on either way. Again to mask the taste of the hudson river water probably. But then he says comes with one drink and i think its a steal. Next thing you know he hands me the 2 hot dogs and a sunkist and is asking me for TWENTY FIVE dollars. Guess what Ed, Your common sense failed you and led you to buy two shitty hot dogs and a sunkist. His old ashy fingers touching the bun and everything. Wanted to puke but i wasnt gonna let my common sense fail me again, i pay with out getting stabbed, eat my shitty hot dog, drink the sunkist that probably had rat piss on it but whatever. Now you know to never do it again.

The lesson is to never go to a tourist trap, or if you do, expect a bazillion dollar mark up. Disney world charged us like 5 bucks for a Mcdouble once when its on the dollar menu. Well Amed and his hot dogs are the same. Tourist gotta be willing to fork over the money or just avoid it at all cost, the decision is yours.

P.s- Right after we got those hot dogs we saw a homeless man jump into the water fountain and try to bath himself. Pulled down his pants and everything. And this was in December.

USATODAY- Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: the uber-bout that wasn’t. The so-called fight of the century was pay-per-snooze, a complete waste of everyone’s time and money — except in a boxing community now rolling in obscene amounts of cash, surely in disbelief they fooled us rubes again.

Now this might not be a popular opinion but I think anyone who’s blaming Mayweather is crazy. If anything I would be pissed at Pacquaio if i actually paid for the fight. You know Mayweather Is gonna play the same defensive game as he always played and if you thought he was gonna change his style in his second to last fight with one of the most hyped matches in history, your crazy.

Mayweather did exactly what everyone should’ve thought he’d do. Pacquaio was playing with house money, nothing to lose, and is one of the fastest punchers in boxing. Freddie Roach has seen him fight live, have specifically been training to fight Mayweather and still couldn’t get it done. Yea Pacquaio might’ve taken more hits but for a fight like this, you gotta get mad dog mean. Have to take Mayweather out of his comfort zone and Pacman just didn’t do it.

Miami Herald- A month after John Timiriasieff’s right leg was amputated at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, homicide detectives knocked at his door with a strange question: Why was his amputated limb found in the garbage? The detectives had suspected foul play. The real story turned out to be about hospital sanitation — but it’s still a whodunnit. Timiriasieff, a Key Largo man in his 50s, went into the hospital, part of the Baptist Health South Florida system, in October for an amputation below his right knee. But the hospital, instead of incinerating the amputated limb as is the normal practice, tossed the leg into the garbage.So Timiriasieff is suing. He filed a lawsuit with the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court on Wednesday claiming the hospital caused him emotional distress. The hospital’s conduct, the lawsuit says, “was outrageous and beyond all bounds of human decency … and utterly intolerable in civilized society.” The homicide detectives found the leg — with Timiriasieff’s name tag still attached — at a waste management facility and notified Timiriasieff, who contacted the hospital for an explanation. Doctors Hospital told him “they would provide no explanation for what had occurred,” according to the lawsuit. Timiriasieff also wrote a letter to the hospital’s administrator in January that went unanswered.

“When we contacted the hospital, they claimed they could not give us any explanation for why or how this happened,” said Clay Roberts, Timiriasieff’s attorney. The lawsuit claims Timiriasieff suffered invasion of privacy, embarrassment and humiliation because of the hospital’s oversight. Doctors Hospital said it couldn’t comment on the details of the case because of patient privacy concerns. But, it added in an emailed statement, that “when Doctors Hospital was notified of this situation, hospital leaders took immediate and appropriate measures to address it. Proper procedures have been reinforced at the hospital to prevent similar situations from happening in the future.”

How did this happen? How does anything like this happen? Simple, Human error from repetition.

We all see the routine happen in office buildings, schools, in this case the hospital. Those lovely hispanic cleaning ladies come in like clock work, clock in, put on some radio and tune out the people they have to work in front of. Its not their place to get involved with the working people. They simply go about mopping the floors, cleaning the counter tops, and empty out every trash can even if theres only a small amount of trash in it. Foot or no Foot in the trash can, their job is to take out the trash and frankly i respect it. I would puke my face and complain to someone that Im not gonna be anywhere within 50 ft of a bloody limb but the janitor just grit his teeth, bagged it up and tossed out the trash. Id give him a bonus.

As for the old guy, i sincerely hope it was just a left leg and if it is then life made. You only need your right leg for driving, you win a massive lump sum from emotional damage and embarrassment and a bunch of other reasons, and limbs weight like 30 lbs minimum so technically you lost weight. Take a picture from the right angle and you wont even notice that missing foot.  I mean you can’t stand up in the shower anymore but fuck it, i can get down with sitting in the shower.