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New York Post, Tuesday, August 13, 2019

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Weird

true

BUT

A sweet-toothed skunk

got its head stuck in a Mc-

Flurry cup in Maine over the

weekend.

Video posted to Facebook

by the Bridgton Police De-

partment shows the critter

scurrying around a grassy

area with the McDonald’s

ice-cream cup covering its

snout. It finally got free with-

out raising a stink.

Brooke Mills, of Auburn,

Ala., was posing for a photo

on her first day of seventh

grade when her mom no-

ticed a photo-bombing

snake on a tree next to her

daughter.

“I said, ‘Brooke, come here,’

and she looked at me like,

‘I’m not done taking pics!’ So

I said, ‘Brooke, get away from

the tree now!’ ” ShaneJoy

Mills said.

A naked Florida bicyclist

tried to trade in his two-

wheeler for merchandise at a

local sex shop.

Witnesses spotted the bare

biker weaving through rush-

hour traffic in Wilton Man-

ors last Thursday. He then

wandered into RockHard

Lovestuff, snatched a pair of

“a--less” underwear, put it on

and offered his bike to em-

ployees in return.

It took a sting operation to

catch this German fugitive.

Authorities in Oldenburg

were trying to arrest a 32-

year-old man Monday, but he

jumped off a balcony — and

straight into a wasps’ nest.

The insects attacked the

man, and when cops tried to

nab him, they went after the

officers, too. The frantic fugi-

tive finally jumped into an

inflatable pool — escaping

the wasps, but not the cops.

Ever since Lil Nas X re-

leased his country-rap hit,

“Old Town Road,” in early

April, street signs have dis-

appeared from a road by that

name in Wellesley, Mass.

The two signs on each end

of the short, residential

street, have each been stolen

three times.

“The Highway Department

is waiting until the popular-

ity of the song lessens, which

will hopefully help keep the

signs on the posts,” said town

project manager Stephanie

Hawkinson.

Amanda Woods, Wires

By ELIZABETH ROSNER, TINA

MOORE and KATE SHEEHY

He’s quite a bawler!

Former NBA player Sebastian

Telfair landed 3¹/₂ years behind

bars Monday on weapons raps —

after suffering an emotional melt-

down, crying and yelling, in

Brooklyn court.

“Please don’t take me from soci-

ety right now,’’ the onetime Lincoln

HS star from Brooklyn said in a

rambling statement to Judge

John Hecht.

“I am 34. I can go play in

China for six years and take

care of my family. I’m waiting for

my daughter right now to get her

period. Real mental illness be-

cause I wasn’t around... She

hasn’t even gotten her period yet.”

Shouting and crying as he

spoke, Telfair added, “Sebastian

Telfair is going to jail for a...

victimless crime.

“Put a gun in his hand and fight

for us, n---a... I go to the gun

store. I got an American Express.’’

He also kept interrupting his

lawyer, screaming, “Everything

they say is a lie!”

When relatives urged him to

“calm down,’’ Telfair, who was

dressed all in black, replied, “No,

Aunt Sylvia, they’re gonna put me

in jail!”

His mom cried the entire time.

The former Portland Trailblaz-

ers and Minnesota Timberwolves

player — who once graced the

cover of Sports Illustrated in 2004

under the headline, “Watch Me

Now’’ — had faced up to 15 years

in the slammer.

He was stopped in his electric-

blue Ford F-150 pickup truck in

Prospect Heights in 2017 for driv-

ing without his lights on and ille-

gally parking on the median of At-

lantic Avenue. Cops then found

three loaded handguns, a subma-

chine gun, ammunition, extended

magazines and a ballistic vest dur-

ing a search of his vehicle.

Telfair told The Post on Monday

before his sentencing that the

weapons were his and legally li-

censed, although in Florida. He

was not licensed to have them in

New York.

He claimed that he didn’t know

they were in the car because he

was going through a divorce at the

time and had movers put some of

his stuff in his truck and drive it

up for him from Florida to the city,

before he got it back again.

The larger weapon was out of

sight in an ottoman in the back of

the truck, Telfair said, while the

handguns were locked in consoles.

Telfair claimed the search of his

vehicle was illegal because the of-

ficers didn’t have a warrant.

The cops said they smelled pot

emanating from the car and that

gave them cause to search. They

said they turned up a marijuana

cigarette.

The judge refused to side with

Telfair on the warrant issue.

Still, his claim was investigated

internally by the NYPD, a high-

ranking police source told The

Post on Monday.

The department’s Internal Af-

fairs Bureau was looking into

whether the cops were lying about

having probable cause to search

the truck, the source said.

But Telfair’s assistant told The

Post on Monday that IAB eventu-

ally sided with the officers.

The NYPD declined to comment.

[email protected]

Desperation shot

rambling statement to Judge

China for six years and take

care of my family. I’m waiting for

my daughter right now to get her

period. Real mental illness be­

cause I wasn’t around... She

Ex-NBAer Telfair

wails before he

gets 3 yrs. in jail

COURT DRAMA: Sebastian Telfair pleads for mercy Monday at his weapons-rap sentencing in Brooklyn.

Paul Martinka

Whoa, where’s the fire?

A drunk-driving, off-duty

FDNY firefighter was

busted early Monday for

going 100 mph in a 50-mph

zone, cops said.

David Fung, 27, failed a

Breathalyzer after he was

pulled over for the triple-

digit speed on Grand Cen-

tral Parkway near 82nd

Street in Queens, where the

speed limit is 50 mph, just

after 2 a.m., cops said.

Later in the afternoon, he

pleaded guilty to operating

a motor vehicle under the

influence and speeding.

He was granted a condi-

tional discharge and must

complete two substance-

abuse programs and pay

$400 in fines.

Fung has been suspended

without pay, the FDNY said.

Craig McCarthy

City Council Speaker

Corey Johnson is not sold

on a push for mandated

paid vacation time to all

employees in the Big Apple

— fearing it could be a

small-business killer.

Asked whether he backs

Public Advocate Jumaane

Williams’ paid-vacation

plan, Johnson told WNYC’s

“The Brian Lehrer Show”

Monday he thinks it’s a

“great goal” but “a lot of de-

tails” in the legislation still

have to be “worked

through.”

“If payroll costs are going

to go up, and small busi-

nesses are seeing rent in-

creases and seeing all of

these costs that are not go-

ing down, how do we do it

in a way that [doesn’t have]

advers[e] effects [on] small

businesses?” Johnson said.

He was responding to

“Natasha in Brooklyn,” a

small business owner who

called in to complain about

the legislation.

The legislation obligates

employers with five or

more workers to offer 10

days of annual paid leave

for any reason. Rich Calder

Corey on vacay-pay fence

Fireman drunk & speeding