New York Post - 27.08.2019

New York Post, Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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Weird

true

BUT

Only in Florida.

An iguana was captured

walking on a luggage con-

veyor belt at Key West Inter-

national Airport as travelers

waited for their baggage.

In a 36-second video, the

critter is seen trying to walk

along the belt and failing mis-

erably as the conveyor moves

in the opposite direction.

“It’s always exciting at the

Key West airport!! Folks

your luggage will be out

shortly..... SURPRISE!!!”

Pony Charvet captioned

the viral video.

Instagram

By JOSHUA RHETT MILLER

Retired Red Sox slugger Da-

vid Ortiz has hired a former

Boston police commissioner

to get to the bottom of his June

shooting in the Dominican

Republic.

The news came as Ortiz, 43,

shared a photo of himself for the

first time since the shooting —

posting a snap on Instagram

with daughter Alex as he

dropped her off at Boston’s Berk-

lee College of Music (right).

The baseball legend is ques-

tioning the Domincan govern-

ment’s official explanation that

he was shot at near-point blank

range in a Santo Domingo bar in

a case of mistaken identity —

and has hired former police

commissioner Ed Davis to in-

vestigate, his spokesman told

the Boston Globe.

“He’s damn interested in find-

ing out what really happened,”

spokesman Joe Baerlein told the

newspaper.

“David has been carefully

monitoring the government and

police investigation,” Baerlein

added.

“He had no basis for a long

time to challenge their theory

of mistaken identity. However,

as new facts continue to come

up, it lends

some opti-

mism that

there may

be some

other con-

clusions that

are drawn before

it’s over about why

David was shot.”

Baerlein said the “new

facts” include the govern-

ment’s reconsideration of jail-

ing one of 14 suspects arrested

in the shooting, and the bust of

an international drug-traffick-

ing ring based in Santo Do-

mingo last week

“We’re open to these new

facts perhaps shedding more

light on what exactly the motive

was for people shooting David,”

Baerlein told the Globe. “Maybe

something will turn up. Stay

tuned.”

Ortiz was shot at the Dial Bar

and Lounge on June 9 when a

gunman walked up to the 10-

time All-Star and three-time

World Series winner and

blasted a bullet into his back.

He was rushed to a local hos-

pital for emergency surgery

and then transferred to Massa-

chusetts General Hospital,

where he initially hired Davis

for security.

Local law enforcement ulti-

mately rounded up 14 suspects

in the shooting — then made

the shock announcement that

one of Ortiz’s pals was the in-

tended target, and the shooter

mixed the two men up.

Police alleged that suspect

Victor Hugo Gomez Vasquez

ordered the assassination at-

tempt against his cousin, Sixto

David Fernandez, in the belief

that Fernandez had snitched on

him in connection with a 2011

drug case.

Fernandez was with Ortiz the

night the slugger was shot.

But many Dominicans didn’t

buy that explanation, given Ortiz

and Fernandez don’t look alike.

If Ortiz was the target, how-

ever, he has no idea why, Baer-

lein said.

“I have no enemies on that is-

land,” Baerlein said, quoting Or-

tiz, a Dominican native.

Dominican National Police

Col. Frank Felix Duran Mejia

said just “15 to 20 percent” of

evidence in the case has been

made public due to the coun-

try’s judicial process.

One additional suspect, Luis

Alfredo Rivas Clase, also known

as “The Surgeon,” remains on

the run, the Globe reported.

Ex-Boston top cop

to probe shooting

up, it lends

some opti­

mism that

there may

be some

other con­

clusions that

are drawn before

it’s over about why

David was shot.”

Baerlein said the “new

facts” include the govern­

ment’s reconsideration of jail­

ing one of 14 suspects arrested

Ex-Boston top cop

to probe shooting

Employees at a Colo-

rado power plant had

quite a shock when they

found a naked man at the

top of a 150-foot steel power

line, officials said.

Police ultimately coaxed

the 29-year-old man off the

power line.

“He had held onto his box-

ers and actually paused and

managed to get them back on

before getting onto the lad-

der,” the Pueblo Police De-

partment said.

The unidentified New

Mexico man’s father said his

son has been struggling with

narcotics.

North Carolina police are

“searching for Sasquatch.”

Some real monsters swiped

a 6-foot-tall, 180-pound

statue of Bigfoot from its

perch in front of Mountain-

eer Landscaping in Linville.

The Avery County Sheriff’s

Office now wants to talk to

“anyone that saw anything at

this location.”

There was a bit of monkey

business at a Texas zoo when

three howler monkeys es-

caped their enclosure.

The primates busted out of

their pen at the Abilene Zoo

after a staffer accidentally left

a door open.

They were secured by zoo

personnel and brought back

to their enclosure within 15

minutes, the zoo said.

Nearly 900 people in the

Mexican city of Guadalajara

broke a Guinness record for

world’s biggest folk dance

when they danced to mariachi

music for five minutes straight.

On Saturday, 882 people in

traditional costumes beat the

record previously set in Gua-

dalajara in 2011 with 457 danc-

ers. Natalie Musumeci,Wires

national Airport as travelers

waited for their baggage.

In a 36­second

critter is seen trying to

along the belt

erably as the conveyor

in the opposite direction.

“It’s always exciting at the

Key West airport!! Folks

your luggage will be out

shortly..... SURPRISE!!!”

Pony Charvet captioned

the viral video.

rado power plant

quite a shock when they

found a naked

top of a 150­foot steel power

line

Police

the 29­year­old man off the

power line

Former Met Lenny Dykstra

moved out of his New Jersey home

Monday in the wake of numerous

quality-of-life complaints, telling

the neighbors who reported him to

“go f--k themselves.”

“I made the house a great home,”

Dykstra, 56, told NJ.com about his

abode on Linden’s Stockton Circle,

which he recently sold for $439,000.

“Those Stockton-ites can go f--k

themselves. They complained they

heard my chicks screaming during

sex. Now they don’t have to hear it

anymore.” The former center

fielder boasted, “I’m a giver. I’m a

helper. I’m a man of the people. I

took a Hurricane Sandy home and

made it shine. I did wonders for

that neighborhood.”

Shortly after he bought the house

in 2017 for $347,500, neighbors on

the quiet cul-de-sac complained

that Dykstra turned his single-fam-

ily home into a rooming house, the

news site reported.

Police were called to the home

many times. Kenneth Garger

Dykstra curses neighbors

It was a short stint.

“Bagel Boss” guy Chris Morgan

has been sprung from the hospital

after he was caught ranting on cam-

era again Sunday near a Long Island

marina and then taken by cops for a

psych evaluation.

Within hours, the 5-foot-nothing

Bay Shore resident was released

without any charges filed against

him, officials said.

“I’m free f--kers,” Morgan wrote

on Twitter along with a video of

himself listening to the “Cops” TV

show theme, “Bad Boys.”

Morgan, who became infamous

last month after his viral rant inside

a Bagel Boss about women rejecting

him due to his short stature, and a

subsequent brawl with a customer,

told The Post he landed in the back

of a squad car Sunday after patrol-

ling officers saw him bickering with

a pal.

Thanks to his notoriety, Morgan

is set to box troubled former Met

Lenny Dykstra in Atlantic City on

Sept. 28. Jackie Salo

Bagel brawler out of psych