You know we're completely in favor of anything that suggests NYC IS EDGY. But we'd argue things have gone too far when shopping for ironic t-shirts becomes a potentially fatal extreme sport. A tipster reports:

Perhaps August isn't as boring and uneventful as you mentioned. Someone just got killed by a truck on the corner of 6th and 14th, in front of Urban Outfitters.

We're not making this up. Photographic evidence after the jump. And here's our public-service announcement of the day: Be careful out there, kids.

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