How can one story get so many points?

'Do your job, you b#&*h!' slap at cop, New York Post

According to the press accounts, from his car, Wayne Mahlkeshouted at a police office "Do your job you fat bitch".

Here is how I score it:

• The story only is a story because the b-word was used. 1 pt.
  
• The utter pointlessness of it all. 1 pt.
  
• Non-lethal confrontation with a police officer. 1 pt.
  
• One person white, one person black. 1 pt.
  
• Fat person calling person fat. 1 pt.
  
• Very familiar location: Bridge Plaza North at the Queensboro Br. 1 pt.
  
• False claims to work for Bloomberg, Brown. 1 pt.
  
• A gay angle which I don't understand. 1 pt.
  
• The arrogance of being a former staffer for a New York State senator (or two). 1 pt.
  
• Producing two phony parking placards. 1 pt.
  
• Not producing a valid driver's license. 1 pt.
  
• "Don't you know who I am?" 1 pt.
  
• The officer, Denise McDonald, refusing comment to the media. 2 pts.
  
• The great understatement that "this former public servant should have known better" 2 pts.
  
• The revealing insight into how the politically powerful regard themselves and how they regard the police: arrogance. 3 pts.
  

Elsewhere, some comment boxers who have looked at the story that "reasonable suspicion" does not proceed from merely yelling an insult at a cop, so everything that followed the cop's approach to Mahlke's Honda Civic is going to be thrown out, since the stop wasn't constitutional.

I wonder how much time elapsed between his arrest and when he was released on his own recognizance. It might have been a hour. It might have been 24 hours.

Fox News New York:An unholy theft happened in Brooklyn.

Officials of the Diocese of Brooklyn said someone stole the Social Security number and birth date of its bishop and used the information to apply for credit cards.

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio's credit card company called to notify the cleric that someone was trying to open a new account in his name sometime during the Christmas holidays. Diocese spokesman the Rev. Kieran Harrington said the bishop called police.

Harrington says the bishop was lucky because no money was taken and no cards were actually obtained.

I am entirely in sympathy with the bishop. My name is rather common, and along the way linked in some databases to some deadbeats, so I get someone else's collection notices often.

It will be interesting to see how much schadenfreude it engenders on the net.