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'Flashy' NYC porn star busted again

NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A New York City porn actor has been arrested for the second time in five months for allegedly giving free previews of his acting equipment to subway riders.

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Kenneth Hoyt faces a charge of public lewdness after two women said he exposed himself to them while riding a train, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

In June, Hoyt, 41, was arrested and charged with the same thing after allegedly flashing several females, including underage girls on another subway line.

He was apprehended that time when one of the women memorized his pornographic Web site address embroidered on his jacket, the Post said.

Earlier this year, a chef named Dan Hoyt was arrested for flashing on the subway, although the two men are not related, the report said.


Boston film student sparks terror alert

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BOSTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A Boston film student trying to recreate an armed sequence from the film, "The Matrix," instead created a full-blown terror response and faces charges.

Police received a 911 call about people dressed in camouflage and wearing masks on an apartment rooftop, pointing guns toward the street.

Alex Stinson, a 21-year-old student at the New England Institute of Art and three others were arrested and six other people were being sought, the Boston Globe said.

Stinson told officers he had alerted both Boston and Brookline, Mass., police of his filming plans but neither force had any record of such a call, the newspaper said.

The group was charged with trespassing and disturbing the peace, and Stinson will also miss his Monday deadline for the school project, the Globe said.


Postsecret.com reaches 50,000 submissions

GERMANTOWN, Md., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The Germantown, Md., operator of the popular Web site Postsecret.com said he has received more than 50,000 postcards containing the secrets of the senders.

The Web site, which allows people to release their secrets anonymously on the Internet by mailing postcards to creator Frank Warren, has received more than 50,000 submissions during its two-year existence, ABC News reported Wednesday.

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Warren said he was surprised by the willingness of people to share their personal secrets with the world.

"I think when you look at each postcard, it can almost act like a 6-inch-by-4-inch window into someone's soul. And they're allowing you to peek in and share something from their own lives that they haven't felt comfortable sharing with their closest friends and family," Warren said.

Warren's Web enterprise has spawned two books, "Post Secret," and the recently released "My Secret," which features postcards sent by teenagers and college students.


New driver crashes into license bureau

PORTAGE, Ind., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- An Indiana teenager appeared to be on the road to a successful driver's license test -- until she crashed her car into the license bureau office.

The unidentified girl was not hurt, but a worker at the motor vehicles bureau, in a Portage, Ind., strip mall, suffered a minor hip injury, The Gary (Ind.) Post Tribune reported.

"We jumped up and we went to the door and saw the car half in and half out of the license bureau," Amazing Travel Manager Susan Williams told the newspaper.

Added Jennifer Stover, a clerk at Bryan's Florist: "(It was) like a big boom. The building shook a little bit. My reaction was, 'Oh, my God!'"

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A large plate-glass window was shattered and its metal frame was bent in the Tuesday afternoon accident. The branch reopened Wednesday.

Portage police were completing an accident report.

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