A DCPI report just came in that a sanitation truck driver was killed after being crushed between his truck and parked cars, while attempting to stop the vehicle from rolling down the street. He had exited the truck without switching the engine off, and had climbed atop the vehicle to try and stop it from rolling.

The driver was a white male, 52, and has yet to be identified. He was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where he pronounced dead on arrival.

The accident took place on Lexington Avenue, between Franklin and Classon.

Sputnik, a club venue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is emerging as a haven for Bed-Stuy’s gay residents who don’t want to trek all the way to Williamsburg for a night of dancing. While times are surely changing, Prop 8 did recently pass in notoriously liberal and gay-friendly California. Surprisingly, opposition in this Brooklyn neighborhood is coming from within. The established but underground gay stronghold in Bed-Stuy, typically comprising “homothugs” and nonwhites, has complained of gentrification. Newcomers are always a scary thing, but it seems like they’re going to party through it.

The New York Times leads this sad story uncomfortably close to “a man walks into a bar,” considering it involves a murder.

Joe Seals, 64, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, was convicted of the second-degree murder of Robert Ellis, a bouncer at a local bar. Seals, a regular at Sportsman’s Athletic Club over the years, admittedly shot Ellis in the face in front of a bar full of people.

During the trial, Seals claimed self-defense from years of bullying and harassment by bar patrons. He testified to repeated mockery for his financial situation and romantic and personal life. Prosecutors argued that murder wasn’t a justifiable defense against bullying, and the judge agreed. Seals will serve a maximum 15-year sentence.