- Dan Zak wrote this profile of the Guardian Angels in blank verse. Commenters: “I appreciate the effort, but The Washington Post isn’t a college literary magazine”; “Please just tell us the news. In paragraphs. You really wanted to be a poet — we get it. Looks like it didn’t work out. Please don’t take it out on us.” (See also nuanced responses here and here.) [WaPo/City Paper/Ben Freed]
- By the way, Mayor Vince Gray still hasn’t signed off on the city’s 2012 budget. (Like that’s important.) Tonight’s the deadline, otherwise the budget bill will be pocket vetoed, which sounds like a real pain in the butt. [WBJ]
- Tonight’s National Night Out, so there’s likely a police-sponsored community event going on somewhere near your place of residence. [MPD]
- We knew that Chompy — that huge inflatable shark Discovery occasionally puts on the side of its Silver Spring headquarters during Shark Week — wasn’t going up this year, but here’s more information on why, for those that find themselves incensed by his absence. (One can only hope that Discovery at least invested in some Shark Week-appropriate artwork.) [Arts Desk/Patch/3rd of May]
- Another banner day for the Park Police, as an officer was caught hassling a driver who yielded to a cyclist in a crosswalk. [GGW]
- The Fraternal Order of Police is claiming that several officials appointed by the Metropolitan Police Department do not meet residency requirements. [WaTimes]
- An update on the bidding for 84 new car sharing spaces in the District. [TBD On Foot]
- All you need to know about University of Northern Virginia Chancellor David Lee’s sex dungeon and his preference for women “with slave tendencies.” [TBD]
- There are two Kevin Chavouses (Chavoi?), it seems, and both are politically minded. Small world. [WaPo]
- An interview with Patrick Regan, the attorney who is representing plaintiffs suing WMATA over the 2009 fatal Red Line crash outside Fort Totten: “There isn’t a single time I’m on Metro that I don’t think about it. I think everyone thinks “It won’t be me,” and I’m in that same group.” [Washingtonian]
- Societal question of the day: why are the two most stolen vehicles in the country 17- and 16 year-old models, respectively? [NBCWashington]
- Remember that whole brouhaha which went down last year about humane pest trapping? Yeah, well, people are still arguing about it. [WAMU]
- A group of Apple bandits were selling their stolen goods inside Pentagon City mall kiosks. [Examiner]
- Like Shake Shack? Like baseball? You should probably buy this ticket plan. [Bog]
- University of Maryland students obviously not burning enough couches to move up on this list. [TBD]
- Lord of the Rings actor Dominic Monaghan learned the hard way that the District ain’t Middle-earth. [Going Out Gurus]
- In case you’ve got over $500 to splash on dinner, here’s Tom Sietsema’s early take on newly opened Rogue 24. [WaPo]
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