Crime Blotter

BIDING THEIR TIME Several criminal trends from recent months continued this week, as local thugs, ne'er-do-wells and potential suicides wait to see what's next.

The week started with a high-profile jumper. (Jumping from tall buildings has surpassed jumping in front of trains as the suicide method of choice in the city this year.) Early Sunday morning, a 36-year-old porn actress/film student/transsexual/AIDS patient by the name of Susan Shah went out her 20th-floor window, thumping near the corner of 24th and 6th. Before ending it all, Princess Shah (as she was known on her naughty websites) was apparently planning to make a film about her own horrible life.

It was a popular week for another recent trend-robbers eschewing banks to hit places you normally wouldn't expect to be robbed. On Monday alone, according to the Post, there were two such robberies.

In the first, a man entered a Murray Hill candy store at 6 a.m. and told the poor schlub behind the counter that he had a gun. Noticing that the "gun" in question was really more of a "pipe," the clerk wrestled with the thief. But the thief prevailed and was able to grab some cash out of the register. It's also possible that he grabbed a couple bags of Twizzlers and some Jujubes before fleeing.

Just a few hours later, two armed men busted their way into a Bronx bakery and grabbed some cash and muffins, pistol-whipping one employee in the process.

From the "Always Say 'Excuse Me'" file comes another story that also occurred on Monday morning, and also appeared in the Post. Two men bumped into each other around 5 a.m. as they were walking on 22nd St. near 5th Ave. They yelled and postured and no one did the polite thing. Then one of them, Francisco Blanden, hopped into a friend's nearby car, snatched a 9mm pistol and fired a shot at the other fancy walker. No one was harmed, and police stopped the vehicle less than a block away.

Now, when we were kids, if someone shot you in the belly with a BB gun, you'd yelp, then you'd shake it off and laugh. Then it would be your turn to shoot the other guy in the belly. So long as no one put an eye out, it was all part of the fun. Nowadays if someone gets shot in the belly with a BB gun, the cops are called-even if the shooter is three years old.

That's what happened Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn. A three-year-old accidentally shot his six-year-old sister. She was taken to the hospital to get checked out. (How many times did he pump that thing?) Doctors called the cops, and they arrested the father. The father, who's being charged with weapons possession and child endangerment, told police that he "found the gun the night before and brought it home."

And, finally, in other news of the ridiculous, two women in Bed-Stuy are facing multiple charges after beating on each other-one using an umbrella, the other a baking dish. The argument apparently arose over some loud children.