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X-rated fortunes mistakenly sent to fund-raiser

A box of X-rated fortune cookies was mistakenly delivered to a fundraiser that raises money for children to go to summer camp.
/ Source: The Associated Press

There is great embarrassment in your future.

A box of X-rated fortune cookies was mistakenly delivered to a fundraiser hosted by a Brooklyn politician.

The 350 cookies stuffed with “the most graphically lurid” fortunes got mixed up with a batch of 1,750 cookies ordered for the Chinese New Year event, Borough President Marty Markowitz said Friday. Some guests “were stunned, to say the least.”

The annual event — to raise money to send poor children to summer camp — was attended by some 700 guests Tuesday evening, but only about 80 were still there when the dirty cookies were opened, Markowitz said.

The borough president was on the second floor of the two-level restaurant when a guest “yelled to me from the first floor: ‘Marty, did you order these cookies? Did you see what’s inside them? I think you better get your butt down here!”’ Markowitz said.

Markowitz, who was not wearing his glasses, had the “fortunes” read to him by some of the guests.

“I’m sure they were meant for a raunchy bachelor party,” he said. “They were not cutesy. Triple X to say the least.”

He said his office had given the restaurant 10 slogans about Brooklyn to insert into the fortune cookies, and 1,400 were delivered correctly.

They contained such G-rated boosterisms as: “Brooklyn — The 10th Planet,” “Brooklyn — it’s more than a freakin' tree,” and “Brooklyn — it’s like an everything bagel.”