The Oil Drum

Staten Island is mostly known as being the forgotten borough, the safe, quiet suburbs in the midst of urban chaos. But today, it is taking center stage mostly because of automobile death and destruction. First, there was an incident of Cop vs. Cop Road Rage:

A retired hero Port Authority cop from New Springville, out with his wife to pick up Chinese food, was shot dead last night, hit at least eight times in a barrage of 17 bullets fired by an ex-NYPD detective who snapped in a fit of road rage because the victim had been driving too slow, cops said.

It seems the shooter was drunk, with two equally deadly weapons: A car and a gun.