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Be careful not to be run over by Madonna as she careens about town to promote her new children's book. From yesterday's Post:

By Aaron Naparstek

11:35 AM EST on November 8, 2006

Be careful not to be run over by Madonna as she careens about town to promote her new children’s book. From yesterday’s Post:

Post reporter Marianne Garvey watched Madonna’s drivers zip through 40 red lights in four days as startled pedestrians shook their fists in anger. One driver, who identified himself only as Abel, explained, “Some days she gets in back and says, ‘Abel, I don’t want to be followed’ – and I know what to do.”
“She enjoys this,” he added. “She likes it when we do bad things.”
The star’s lead driver is Patrick Golden, a retired police officer whose brother is also an ex-cop, State Sen. Martin Golden of Brooklyn. The caravan consists of two enormous jet-black SUVs, a Chevrolet Tahoe and a Cadillac Escalade. Both have black-tinted windows to keep the superstar safe from prying eyes.

Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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