After about five hours of deliberation, the New York State Senate voted tonight to expel state senator Hiram Monserrate, marking the first time since the 1920s that a sitting state lawmaker has been expelled from the Legislature. The Times reports that Monserrate’s lawyers are drafting a temporary restraining order which seeks to have him reinstated.

We almost missed this story over the weekend, but we're glad we caught it now. Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan made headlines over the weekend when he caught airport employees at Heathrow passing around printouts of his naked body, as revealed by full-body security scans. "I saw these girls — they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said 'give them to me' — and you could see everything inside," he said on British television last Friday. "So I autographed them for them." Hahaha! Funny story, right? That guy must be well-endowed. But wait. This brings up a very important point, one that Intel guest blogger Lindsay Robertson made not long ago: There is no way that celebrities are not going to have images of their genitals recorded and shared because of this new machinery! (Robertson argues that this is a good thing.) The TSA and advocates of the full-body scan technology assure us Americans that the machines don't save images, but how can we believe this!? A Bollywood star has had his जबेरी छड़ी printed out! No one is safe!

Shah Rukh signs off sexy body-scan printouts at Heathrow [Yahoo]

"At Foreign Cars Italia of Charlotte, where cars run from about $100,000 to $1 million or more, bank bonus season used to provide a boost every February. But Gary Furnas, a sales consultant at the dealership, said he hasn't been involved with a sale to a bank employee since November 2008. That customer, a Bank of America employee, bought a black Ferrari, but then kept it on the lot for two months because he worried that it was too flashy. It wasn't a matter of money — "he could have bought four or five of them if he wanted," Furnas said. In the end, the customer asked the dealership to resell the car, and he opted for a less showy Maserati instead." [Charlotte Observer]

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Did anybody else find themselves laughing hysterically for no explicable reason at the screaming chickens from the Denny's Super Bowl ads? Well, you wouldn't be laughing if you lived on Edward L. Grant Highway in the Bronx, where wild chickens have taken over an entire block of the city. Released from a coop that used to exist in a commercial parking lot two years ago, the chickens are now completely feral. "Walking up the street like they belong there," nearby human Danny Quinn told the Daily News. They scavenge for crumbs, and are so unafraid of humans that they have taken to trying to intimidate owners of a nearby body shop into giving them food by showing up at the doorstep every morning.

A life-size fiberglass cow originally created during the city's CowParade art project in 2000 has vanished from Seth Low Intermediate School in Bensonhurst. The cow had been bought by the school and repainted in a peace motif by the students in 2006. Now it's gone, people are reportedly crying, and everyone knows who to blame: terrorists. "I think it was terrorists, because they don't like peace," posits 11-year-old Niki Lam. That's right, Niki — whether the culprit is an official member of Al Qaeda or simply a common prankster, he (probably a he) has, in fact, inflicted terror in the hearts of you children, and is therefore a terrorist. Or some kind of sex pervert with a faux-cow fetish. Once they waterboard him, we'll find out the whole story.

Brooklyn kids cry over cow-ardly school theft [NYP]