Yoseph Robinson, a Jamaican-born former hip hop label exec who converted to Orthodox Judaism and was working on an autobiography, was killed in a Brooklyn liquor store robbery last night. He lived an interesting life. [NYDN]

Bumrushed by a thief on the street, an innocent female shrieked: Her cellphone had been stolen! Just then, a Vespa scooted onto the scene. Chromed wheels shining like justice, its passengers chased down the bandit and retrieved the maiden's phone.

Adnan Shukrijumah spent 15 formative years in Brooklyn. Then he joined Al Qaeda as a dishwasher in an Afghanistan camp. Now he's al Qaeda's "chief of worldwide operations." Those Brooklyn boys! They just pick up and forget what made 'em.

Magnus Saethre, "Old Man Mike," is a 97-year-old WW2 veteran who pays $63.29 per month for his one bedroom Sunset Park, Brooklyn apartment. So, naturally, his landlord is trying to kick him out "for the [benefit] of the building's tenants."

Riding a Brooklyn-bound 4 train, amateur photographer Kate Black noticed a man "pitching a tent" and "thrusting his hips" in ladies' faces. Thinking quickly, Kate photographed him, then declared a jihad against the pervert on her Flickr page.

What a crazy storm last night, no? Just ask the 54-year-old man who was struck by lightning in Crown Heights. A witness said, "His feet were smoking and he was bleeding from the mouth." He was revived and is recovering.

Is someone in Bushwick hiding a ginormous 747* behind a bunch of trees in a park? Untapped New York has discovered a mysterious, airplane-shaped apparition on both Google Earth and Google Maps, in a place normally occupied by a playground.

On Sunday, The New York Times took a jaunt to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, and called it "arguably the coolest place on the planet." But is it really?

Brooklyn yuppies are cooking up more than just artisanal pizza and nuclear reactors these days. Looking to cultivate their Great Depression chic schtick, "hipster kids" and "foodie enthusiasts" are making illegal moonshine. Ride the Williamsburg White Lightning!

The Agriculture Department rounded up 400 Canada geese in Brooklyn's Prospect Park last week and killed them so they'd stop flying into jet engines. One Brooklyn resident said it looked like the geese had "been Photoshopped out." [NYT; pic]

Neighbors of the abandoned Black Lady Theater in Bed-Stuy are trying to evict squatters from an ancient Rastafarian sect, the Nyahbinghi Order, for creating a "drug den." Police in April arrested four people there for drug possession and trespassing.

Cornelius Abson, convicted of robbing five people between the ages of 67 and 85, was sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday. Abson was caught on a security camera choking an 85-year-old woman, then stealing $900 and her cane. [NYDN]

This map of Brooklyn shows the neighborhoods broken down by which type of ethnic cuisine dominates based on the Village Voice's restaurant guide. We're surprised Williamsburg isn't colored cheap-pizza-slices-and-taco-trucks. Here's the one for Manhattan. [Very Small Array, via]

A man wearing only underwear and a shirt stole a delivery truck and led police on a car chase through Brooklyn on Thursday, hitting two 12-year-old girls before finally crashing. Also: He ate "leaves straight from tree branches."

Like most Brooklynites, web developer (for Gucci!) Mark Suppes has a hobby and a craft project to occupy his free time. Only, his hobby is physics. And his "craft project" is a working nuclear reactor, that he built himself.

Back when we were amateur bloggers, even a comment from someone who wasn't a friend could turn the whole day around. So we can see why a bunch of Brooklyn bloggers took up Absolut vodka's offer of schwag for posts.

[Our most gullible vice president, Joe Biden, forked over big bucks today for a bridge in Brooklyn. OK, he was actually kicking off a $500 million renovation project of the famous landmark. So, same thing. Image via Getty]

Bedford Avenue accessories-and-trinkets shop Catbird seems to have been burgled recently by a tiny accidental crook. On their blog, the store published this mea culpa from a child who walked off with a locket without paying.

Week Four of Brooklyn Kickball is in full effect! "Scrappy," "The Kaiser" and "The Clarkmeister" are fighting for a title against a tough field of ironically-clad competitors. They even eat cupcakes with beer in them before games. Yay! [NYP, pic]

Andrea says she met Michelle when she realized they shared a boyfriend. She says he two-timed them in the same bed, without condoms, during Michelle's period, so they teamed up to humiliate him. Michelle says none of this is true.