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true
BUTA Pennsylvania family
won’t be handing out candy
for Halloween, but that
doesn’t mean costumed
kids won’t get their goodies.
Vince Mak of York
County designed a secret
“weapon” to keep trick-or-
treating safe amid the COV-
ID-19 pandemic — a candy
catapult that launches
treats into the bags of Hal-
loween goblins and ghouls.
How about those piercing
eyes!
Germany’s Rolf Bucholz,
58, set a Guinness World
Record for most body modi-
fications — 516 — including
tattoos, implants and pierc-
ings, 158 around his lips.
He says he became ad-
dicted to body modification
after getting his first tattoo
at age 40.
A grumpy-faced grouper
is the Hannibal Lecter of his
watery world!
Caretakers at a Finland
aquarium recently bought
down-in-the-mouth Mikko
a special treat — a salmon
cake — for his 16th birthday.
Mikko had appeared glum
because no human visitors
were around after the facil-
ity temporarily closed due
to the pandemic.
He also has no fishy com-
panions in his tank — be-
cause he keeps eating them.
This Florida man was
spaced out.
James Fleurant, 28, was
busted for repeatedly calling
911 to report “seeing aliens,
little ones flying low.”
The Vero Beach resident
told the emergency opera-
tor he did not want “to go
‘Independence Day’ on
them,” an apparent refer-
ence to the 1996 sci-fi inter-
stellar-battle movie starring
Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum,
and Bill Pullman.
The Las Vegas Rat Pack is
back.
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Law-
ford and Joey Bishop may be
gone, but real rats plunged
the Paris Hotel-Casino in Ve-
gas into darkness Thursday
night, panicking patrons
stuck in elevators.
The pack of rodent resi-
dents wreaked havoc in the
building’s power plant.
Dean Balsamini, Wires
Fragments of nails that
were believed to have been
used in the crucifixion of Je-
sus Christ have ancient wood
and fragments of bone on
them, according to a study re-
leased last week.
The fragments first came tolight after the 1990 excavation
of a burial site of Caiaphas,
the high priest who organized
a plot to kill Jesus, according
to the New Testament.
The nails (including one at
right) went missing but re-
emerged after filmmaker Sim-cha Jacobovici said he found
those used in his 2011 docu-
mentary “Nails of the Cross.”
Last week, a study concluded
the nails were the same ones
taken from the Caiaphas site,
and were used to crucify
someone. Isabel VincentDoes this nail come from Jesus’ crucifix?
Aryeh Ervin ShimronBy DEAN BALSAMINIThis mob rat isn’t breaking legs,
but he’s busting chops.
Star wiseguy witness John Pen-
nisi, who testified at three major
trials last year, has launched a
blog that pulls back the curtain
on his Lucchese crime family
“friends” — and has infuriated his
federal handlers, Jerry
Capeci writes at gang-
landnews.com.
The 51-year-old mob
turncoat created sit-
downnews.com to give
“readers education and
insight into ‘the life’
from firsthand knowl-
edge and experience.”
Pennisi is not shy about
chronicling the hits — and misses
— of made men.
In one entry, “A Mob Handbook,”
clueless La Cosa Nostra candidate
John “Butch” Arpino allegedly
seeks advice from Pennisi on how
one wiseguy should let another
know that he too is a wiseguy.
When Pennisi repeats the curi-
ous inquiry to John “Johnny Side-
burns” Cerrella, a then-acting
Lucchese captain, the boss shakeshis head and says, “It is truly unbe-
lievable, a guy like that got no
business [becoming a made man].
What’s it come to? They now gotta
hand them a f--king handbook
after they straighten them out!”
Oct. 16’s “The Gotti Chaperone
Ended Up with a Broken Bone” doc-
uments a circa-2000 snafu involving
the Gotti family. Peter Gotti accom-
panied his niece, Victoria, on a
trip to see her father,
Gambino godfather John
Gotti, in the federal pen at
Marion, Ill. After the visit,
Uncle Pete ordered a long-
time associate to chaper-
one his niece, who wanted
to take in a movie.
“No harm done, just two
adults enjoying a night at
the movies,” Pennisi writes. How-
ever, days later, Victoria’s hot-
headed Gambino capo husband,
Carmine “Bull” Agnello, “got wind
of the movie night.” He sum-
moned the chaperone to his Ja-
maica junkyard and allegedly
broke his arm with a baseball bat.
The revelatory blog by “a poten-
tial trial witness” doesn’t sit well
with a “furious” US Attorney’s Of-
fice and the FBI, who, according toGang Land, “have pushed [Pen-
nisi] to take it down.”
The Manhattan US Attorney’s Of-
fice has spent more than two years
piecing together a blockbuster rack-
eteering case against acting Luc-
chese boss Michael “Big Mike” DeS-
antis and underboss Patrick “Patty
Red” Dellorusso, Gang Land re-
ported. Pennisi “is expected to fin-
ger them from the witness stand.”
Pennisi has posted four times
since the site went up Oct. 13.
“I consider writing the blog
therapy while I await my sentenc-
ing and get on with my life as a
law-abiding citizen instead of the
mobster I once was,” a defiant
Pennisi told Gang Land, noting his
blog musings did not violate hiscooperation agreement and that
he had a “First Amendment right
to speak his mind.”
Pennisi, who was inducted into
the Luchese crime family in 2013,
according to Gang Land, started
cooperating with the FBI about
two years ago after a series of inci-
dents convinced him the Lucche-
ses had him wrongly pegged as a
stoolie and marked for death, he
testified in federal court last year.
He has done time for manslaugh-
ter and weapon possession, accord-
ing to state Corrections records.
Pennisi writes that he “presently
spends his time as a Dad, helping
people, practicing self betterment, a
blogger and living life to the fullest.”
[email protected]Mob rat’s tell-all site angers feds
‘life’ experience: John
Pennisi’s (left) Mafia blog
includes Lucchese captain
John Cerrella’s (inset)
complaints about today’s
mobsters and the time
Victoria Gotti’s husband
Carmine Agnello (together
above) beat an associate for
spending time with her. But
feds aren’t happy about the
potential witness blabbing.Marina Garnier; Ganglandnews.com (2)