August 10, 2008 – An unidentified man is in serious condition at New York Methodist Hospital, after being hit by a MTA New York City Transit B41 bus on Flatbush Avenue near Prospect Park yesterday.

The man, who witnesses described as agitated, was heard yelling over and over, “I don’t care about the Americans. I want to watch the best of the world not just Americans. If I want jingoism I’ll watch Fox News! Someone shut Bob Costas up please! NBC can’t do the Olympics right! I need to stop the pain.”

“He was yelling something about Fox News and the Olympics and he hurled himself in front of the bus. I didn’t even know they were still doing the Olympics anymore. There are always some nutter who get too worked up about sports. The TV has an off button you know,” said witness Hannah Schwartz of Park Slope.

“The guy was lucky that that bus was only going about five miles per hour. Otherwise it would have been lights out,” said NYPD Highway Patrol officer Stephan O’Toole. “Who gets worked up over the Olympics anymore?”

The Limes chief television critic, Larry Rawson, said of the NBC coverage, “Who cares about those damn foreigners. They all hate America. NBC does it right by focusing on the Americans like a good American should.”

NBC did not issue a response to repeated inquires by The Limes.