The Final Score

Guess it's probably just as well that NYC did not get the 2012 Games.

Tom and Rita Glenister don't want to pay the £33.33 levy (appx. $60) imposed on Londoners to help pay for the Olympics and say that they'd rather be martyrs and go to the pokey.

I can understand how they feel. That's, like, a whole tank of gas.

"Why should Londoners alone pay for the Olympics? We are two old age pensioners who might not even be here in 2012.," said Torn, 78.

Anyone who has ever walked the streets of New York at night can relate to that, too.

Although London mayor Boris Johnson that the Olympics will not cost more than £9.3billion ($16.6 billion) , that number is four times higher than the estimate in the 2005 bid. And if London's estimate was that low, consider how much more building supplies would have cost in NYC.

Here's more from the Daily Mail.