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Week of August 16–August 23, 2008 Riders: 11,422 Rider miles: 122,711 DOWN IN THE TUBE Gwyneth Paltrow took the subway from Amagansett to Sag Harbor on Thursday. Separately, and in another car on this train, Alec Baldwin was seen reading a script for an upcoming TV show, but his thumb was over the name. On the platform in Montauk were Paul Simon, Peter Beard and local cowboy Rusty Leaver, looking at their watches for a train that would take them, obviously, west. A TOKEN BANDIT IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AT SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL Apparently, the existence of 600 million old subway tokens, now worth $1 each in Basinoba, Africa, where Hampton Subway tokens are pegged to the dollar as that nation’s currency, have caused a terrible disaster. The tokens are in the hold of a large barge
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were stored, to Basinoba. Apparently, scuba divers with flippers have been down there with buckets and shovels, stealing a few hundred of the tokens from the ocean floor. Their activities had gone unnoticed. However, on Saturday, a landslide of tokens in the hold of the sunken barge apparently buried Christopher Darlington of Noyac up to his waist, as he was busy shoveling. By the time three of his fellow thieves got him out, he was in a desperate condition. The Sag Harbor Fire Department responded to the call with one of their fireboats. And the Sag Harbor ambulance has taken Darlington to the hospital, where we will pray for him. SUBWAY TUNNEL LIGHTING FULLY REPAIRED Our electricians are proud to announce that all the damage done to the lighting system in the tunnels by the double-deckers has now been fully repaired. The new bulbs are 20 percent brighter than the old, but use 10 percent less electricity. (continued on page 63)
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