Video of Credentialed Photog Barred by NYPD From Getting Shots of OWS Arrests This Morning [Update]

The video above is from Occupy Wall Street's Goldman Sachs protest at the World Financial Center this morning, where 17 people were arrested. Watch starting at around the 2:00 mark. The photographer, who's been identified as New York Times freelancer Robert Stolarik, is blocked repeatedly from getting photos of arrests happening in the atrium by cops, even though he has a press badge.

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Video of Ray Kelly's Columbia Heckling

Remember how Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was heckled by Occupy protesters at Columbia this week? There's now video of the incident online, via Democracy Now! reporter Ryan Devereaux.

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Black Friday Shopper Uses Butt Crack Instead of Pepper Spray To Secure $2 Waffle Makers

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Is that a tramp stamp too?

By now, you have certainly heard about the lovely Los Angeles woman who pepper-sprayed her fellow shoppers on Black Friday, over discounted Xboxes. Or the hot deals on cheap yoga pants that inspired a punching match at Victoria's Secret in Pennsylvania. Or the Arizona grandfather who was bodyslammed and bloodied, after his grandson got trampled. Or maybe you just heard about all the rest of the father-tasering, food-court gunplay, and consumer nonsense that took place on November 25! But did you hear the one about the Wal-Mart waffle mini-riot?

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Entertaining Video of Man in Suit Freaking Out at OWS Protesters

Never gets old! An unhinged (drunk) business-y guy loses his cool at some Occupy Wall Streeters who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The best part is when they start chanting "We love you!" at about 1:50 until about 2:30 when the guy smacks another dude's hat off his head.

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The Starbucks Bathroom-Closing Taiwanese Animation

The great Starbucks bathroom scandal of 2011 finally has its Next Media Animation treatment. Even though it was never really a story to begin with and we can all continue to use Starbucks bathrooms at will.

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Video From Inside the Zuccotti Eviction

The video above by journalist Luke Rudkowski is the most comprehensive we've seen of what was happening inside Zuccotti Park and the immediate environs on Monday night. Rudkowski appears to have been one of the only reporters to get inside the park, though as you can see at around the five-minute mark, he was quickly made to leave.

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Mike Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Isn't So Bad!

Mayor Bloomberg appeared on Morning Joe this morning and was unusually generous about Occupy Wall Street, though he "doesn't know what a movement is."

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Skaters Break MTA Rules (Like, All of Them)

These guys prove that under special circumstances, it is in fact possible to have fun while using the New York City subway system.

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Kardashian Sham Marriage/Divorce Given the Next Media Animation Treatment

Here it is. The worker elves at Next Media Animation have cranked this one out in the blink of an eye, post-Kardashian/Humphries split:

Not their best, but solid.

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Earthquake Video From Apartment in Van, Turkey

The above cameraphone video (via @stevesilberman) was taken from inside an apartment during the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Van, Turkey. It's titled, "VAN DEPREM SON DAKİKA," which, according to Google Translate, means "Van earthquake last minute." If anyone speaks Turkish and has a better translation, please tell us.

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