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Did Trump Hack BK Juice Store?; John Legend's $25K Cufflinks Stolen; Singing Biker Scolds Tourists: Weird NYC
Here's a roundup of this week's weirdest stories from the New York City Patch.

NEW YORK, NY — There's no place quite like New York City — which means things can get a little weird sometimes. Patch operates 25 hyperlocal news websites in NYC, so our reports come across some of the most wonderfully strange and downright odd happenings on a weekly basis. Here are this week's weirdest stories from the New York City Patch.
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Park Slope juice store owner thinks Trump hacked his website and prank called him to say "stop being a little b--ch":
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Jose Franco, the 50-year-old owner of Stoop Juice, an organic juice shop on 7th Avenue, noticed something had changed about his shop's official Wordpress site this week. At the tail end of his company slogan, "AUTHENTIC HEALTHY SUSTAINABLE," there was now another phrase: "NO FAT ASSES." And Franco is pretty sure he knows who did it: U.S. President Donald Trump.
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That feeling when you snatch a random bag at JFK that just happens to contain John Legend's $25,000 cuff-links:
The man who swiped singer John Legend's Louis Vuitton bag after the singer left it at the airport was arrested and charged with grand larceny among other charges, District Attorney Richard Brown announced Friday.
John Legend landed at JFK Airport Thursday from France and left his Louis Vuitton carry-on unattended in a luggage cart while waiting at the baggage claim. When he went to grab the bag, it was gone, according to the DA.
Harlem congressman is not a fan of Airbnb's new safari-like "expeditions" into the neighborhood:
Harlem's Congressman Adriano Espaillat is picking a fight with online rental giant Airbnb following the announcement of the company's new "Harlem Experience Tours." Espaillat, in a letter to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, accuses the company of "exotifying our community for corporate profit."
“Airbnb’s ‘Harlem Experiences’ platform sounds like it was tailor made to promote the rapid gentrification of our community," Espaillat said in the letter.
Read how Airbnb responded here.
Singing biker creatively reminds tourists not to walk in the Brooklyn Bridge bike lane:
A cyclist explained why he went viral while singing on the Brooklyn Bridge: he figured out it was the best way to get people to move out of his way.
Noam Osband wrote in the Daily O on Monday that on New Year's Day 2017, he was in a "particularly good mood" because of a concert he had seen the night before. So he decided to sing — not yell — to people that they were walking in the bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge.
One Brooklyn politician is finding a use for Facebook Live — to slam de Blasio in real-time:
Assemblywoman Diana Richardson took to Facebook Live on Tuesday morning for a pair of fiery screeds against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other elected officials over plans to redevelop the Bedford-Union Armory and put a new homeless shelter a block away.
Check out the fiery live videos here.
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