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Brooklyn Heights Postman Lifts With Neither Knees Nor Back

5.25.09 12:56 PM EDT By Laura Northrup@lnorthrup

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Our country’s postal employees have a well-deserved day off today. However, let this New York mail carrier’s mistake serve as a lesson for the Internet age: don’t do anything stupid in public, ever, because someone will probably be surreptitiously filming you.

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5.25.09By Laura Northrup@lnorthrup

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