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Spike Jonze and Vice Founder Bribe Their Way Out of Jail in Yemen

?An interesting and surprisingly hip item out of Saturday's Page Six: director Spike Jonze (Adaptation., the new Arcade Fire video) and Shane Smith, the founder of the once-coke-fueled Vice magazine who isn't Gavin McInnes, were detained in Yemen while searching for al Qaeda during the filming of an MTV show called The Vice Guide to Everything. Seriously! How'd they escape?

With an $8,000 political bribe, of course:

While documenting dangerous and absurd tales from Mexico to Libya for a series that's been dubbed " '60 Minutes' meets 'Jackass,' " the crew peppered themselves with $100 bills in case of an arrest. "Most of these places you can bribe your way out of for a couple hundred bucks," a still bullish Smith told us.

The show starts on December 6 and this is perfect press, so it's no wonder they held it until now.

Spike Jonze and Vice founder Shane Smith detained in Yemen while filming MTV [Page Six via Daily Intel]

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Staten Islanders Want Their Bike Lanes Back

?Cyclists on Staten Island are getting worked up over a decision by the city Department of Transportation to strip away the bike lanes along Capodanno Boulevard in favor of a bus lane and a parking and turning lane. City officials, including a city councilman, the transportation commissioner, and the Staten Island borough president, have lauded the decision due to concerns that the bike lanes were unsafe and impeded traffic, but bike riders are not so pleased.

Critics say City Hall didn't consult the community in deciding to remove the bike lanes and accuse Bloomberg of pandering to motorists who are "hostile to anything that slows them down." They also say removing the bike lanes will increase safety issues by forcing cyclists who ride to the Staten Island Ferry each morning to ride in the dark and in paths occupied with pedestrians, children's strollers, and inline skaters.

No word yet on whether Staten Islanders plan to protest the decision, although they may want to take a page from their outer borough brethren. Last year, hipsters in Williamsburg led a "naked bike ride" to protest the city's removal of a bike lane along Bedford Avenue.

Transportation Alternatives, a "bike and pedestrian advocacy group," denounced that stunt, saying the focus of the bike lane issue should be about safety. In a statement today, the group also denounced the Staten Island decision, claiming dedicated bike lanes can "decrease crashes for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers up to 60%."

Last year, Examiner.com tallied up the city's bike lanes when a Staten Island city councilman claimed there was no neighborhood demand for bike lanes. They found that while Brooklyn and Manhattan have a "whopping" 43 and 36 lanes, respectively, Queens has only 27, and the Bronx merely 14. Of the five boroughs, Staten Island came in last with a paltry 11 bike lanes, "most of which are short and disconnected."

[shernandez@villagevoice.com]

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The best never surrender? Smoke Weed, Make their conduct, the framework of their heads (video) video journalists

In company news, it is not for the weak heart. Or low-sportswriter, apparently.

Two "journalists" - one, a radio talk-show host and the other which Incidentally went unnamed via Deadspin is the the Times' Steve Lopez-smoked weed (in honor of upcoming proposal 19 vote California to legalize marijuana) and then took a driving test.Of course, this comes from the ABC of Fresno, California affiliate .the shocking result?

Both noticed slower speed considerably.Radio Talk shows host Peter Tilden getting not impact on his driving until after seeing its results. "It is shocking to me, my son is an important lesson that night to not be in the car with someone who says they are high."

Yes, because a slow driver is therefore much more dangerous than to be, you know, a typical driver in California.Or is more dangerous than someone who is drunk and focuses on a quiet roll through the neighborhood numbness 60 mi/H.Has it occurred to anyone that perhaps Tilden takes the floor in the code?For example, anyone who is stupid enough to announce top how they were before their conduct, Yes, probably increased the threshold from which should lead because if they get on and say some shit silent like that, they are likely to be fitted with a collier.Mais if weeds are proven to make the most paranoid drivers - defensive driving, anyone?-that really is such a terrible thing? move and pass traffic to the left, please.

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