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Unemployed grandmother hits street for job

MEMPHIS, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A 58-year-old, out of work, grandmother got several leads after taking to the streets of Memphis to shout her need for a job.

"Job wanted! Ready to work hard for you! Resumes here!" read the poster Denise Caccamisi flashed to oncoming traffic Wednesday in Midtown Memphis.

Caccamisi said she applied for more than 200 jobs this year and each time was ignored or passed over for younger, more-educated applicants. She's been living with friends since Nov. 1 after losing her part-time job as a receptionist in a dental office, The Memphis Commercial-Appeal reported.

To work the streets, as it were, Caccamisi dressed Wednesday in a black pantsuit, a zebra-lined coat and diamond-studded glasses.

"I might not have a college education, but I've got street smarts, business sense and I'm a go-getter," she told the Commercial-Appeal.

By day's end, she had an interview with Shelby County Commissioner George Flinn, who said he was impressed with her gumption and needed an assistant.

"It's out-of-the-box thinking and we need more of that in the world," Flinn said.

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Officer hit by golf cart during parade

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A New York police officer who was pinned to the road by a golf cart during the city's Veterans Day Parade said the bruises are nothing compared to the ribbing.

Sgt. Brian Byrnes, 49, said he was escorting Mayor Michael Bloomberg up Fifth Avenue during Wednesday's parade, along with other members of the Manhattan South Task Force, when a parade organizer riding in a golf cart struck him from the rear, the New York Post reported.

"It hit me, and I went face first on the concrete," the sergeant said. "Then this guy hit the gas instead of the brake, and it drove up the middle of my body."

Byrnes said his fellow officers lifted the golf cart off of him and borrowed the cart to drive him to an ambulance. The sergeant, who suffered bruises to his ankles and hips, said that's when the mocking started.

"Once they knew I was OK, they were ribbing me the whole way," he said. "The first thing over the radio was, 'Got to be careful, those golf carts are dangerous.'"

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Facebook post clears robbery suspect

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A New York man who was held in connection with a holdup said he was cleared by a Facebook message he sent his girlfriend.

Rodney Bradford, 19, said prosecutors dropped the robbery charge against him after discovering he had posted a message to his pregnant girlfriend's Facebook with an inside joke from his father's house in Manhattan only one minute before the Oct. 17 holdup near his own Brooklyn home, the New York Post reported.

"WHERE MY IHOP?" the message read.

Investigators said the electronic fingerprints from the Facebook posting backed up statements from several witnesses saying Bradford was at his father's house at the time of the robbery. Police said one of the victims had identified one of the robbers as Bradford.

"They had me on Rikers Island for 12 days. It was really miserable," Bradford said, referring to the prison in New York. "If it wasn't for Facebook I'd still be on Rikers Island."

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Lawsuit: Trip over dog ruined sex life

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A New York octogenarian claims in a lawsuit against a bar that his sex life was ruined by an injury suffered when he tripped over a dog at the establishment.

Irving Grossman, 81, said in his suit against the Austin Steak and Ale House he tripped over a Pomeranian on his way out of the business and injured his left kneecap, the New York Daily News reported.

"I was in a brace for two months," Grossman said.

He said the injury caused him "severe pain, shock, mental anguish" and ruined his sex life with his wife, Jaclyn. The suit accuses the bar of creating a safety hazard by being too "pet-friendly."

However, a manager at the bar who was working April 29, the day Grossman said he injured his knee, said she could not recall any injuries at the bar on that date, the newspaper reported. The manager said the bar follows city laws by not allowing pets but one of the regular customers is visually impaired and brings her seeing-eye dog.

"No one that I know can remember anything," the manager said. "But there is a customer who's handicapped who uses a dog."