OK, first I want to apologize that I have never heard of the town of Southeast, NY.

Actually, maybe I have heard of this town. For all I know, I have heard of it many times. How would I even know? Because the name of the town is freaking ‘Southeast’!!!

I want to take this opportunity to chastise the descendants of whomever named the town for doing something as stupid as naming a town after a compass direction.

I mean, I guess it could be worse – you could name it after a map coordinate, like ‘G7′, or maybe you could incorporate it with the name ‘Unincorporated, NY’, or maybe the misspelling of a nearby town over the border, e.g. ‘Danbery‘.

But probably what bothers me most of all, is that, yeah, it is in Southeastern New York, but it isnt all THAT Southeast. Now New York City – that’s Southeast.

Sometimes I wish I could get unknowable statistics from God. For example, I would like to ask God ‘how many people in the history of NY have gotten confused and lost because someone decided to name a town in NY ‘Southeast’?

OK enough.

Two women in SOUTHEAST, NY were in a car and they stalled on the tracks at the Route 312 crossing.

Unlike some people, they were smart and abandoned the vehicle before a southbound Metro-North train carrying 5 passengers slammed into it, causing minor damage to the train. No one was hurt. The 5 passengers squeezed into a cab.

via LoHud.com