As Homer Simpson once opined, we're none of us perfect. Still, this is bugging me -- either the folks at Channel 10 are setting us up for the mother of all sweeps stories, or someone over there dropped the ball.

I bring this up because earlier tonight, I found an interesting headline on their site: "Naked Man Dies After Being Chased by Police." Well, okay, I'll read on. The skinny: Cops in Dover, Del., were called to a scene over a report of a naked man. They found said man, who quote "ran from them and then ran into a parked car. Police called for an ambulance and paramedics started CPR en route to the hospital. Police said he was pronounced dead at a hospital."

And that, folks, is pretty much the end of the report. Anyone else feel like something is missing here? Like the middle of the story that tells us what happened after the naked man ran to his car and before the cops called for the paramedics? Eh?

I digress from the naked story .... and not-so-smoothly segue back to our city, which has a host of its own unanswered quetions. All are specifically tied to the latest round of homicides. As I write this 10:30ish Monday night, we've had three homicides since yesterday, with the possibility for two more -- two gunshot victims are not expected to survive the night.

Those of you keeping tabs know that five more homicides would put us at 78 murders for the year ..... compared to 60 at this point last year.

New York -- that city of 8 million -- has 66 homicides, down from 106 at this point last year. I'm not trying to create an endless line of posts that say "We have X, New York has Y, and wow they're better than we are," -- and if I do, please stop me -- but it's sobering looking at the numbers side-by-side. (If you don't believe me, check out the NYPD's link to their CompStat numbers, updated through Sunday. Hello, inferiority complex!)

On the bright side, I can report something positive tonight. (Note: Save this post. Print it out, laminate it and pass it on to your children. Will likely revert back to strictly negative thoughts tomorrow.) A missing person case we wrote about Saturday has been ... solved!

Sara Gebretekle, and 85-year-old Ethiopian woman who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, was found alive and well in Lansdowne Saturday afternoon, reports Lt. John Walker from Southwest Detectives. Gebretekle, who scared the bejesus out of her family when she disappeared Thursday, checked out fine at the hospital.

And to all a good night ....