I've tipped a few other media outlets to the truly magnificent Trump Stagecoach Accident Cover-up story, but so far everyone else is too timid and afraid to pick up this bombshell and run with it. Granted, so far most of what we have is speculative conjecture, but I feel it is very compelling and plausible speculation. Encyclopedia Brown has put many a criminal behind bars with far less to go on, and if it's good enough for Idaville, Florida, it's good enough for New York City. Here are the facts of the case:

1) On Friday morning, two white horses (Hero and Princess) pulling a red carriage were heading to Union Square for a Shania Twain perfume promotion. At 14th St. and Eighth Ave. they were clipped by a van and broke free from their harnesses. After a wild and wooly chase police were finally able to capture the horses.

2) Shania Twain perfume will not go on the market for several weeks, said the woman who answered the 800 phone number listed on the side of the stagecoach. Later, the number was disconnected.

3) Susan Goldberg of Tractenberg & Co., the public relations firm which represents the maker of the perfume (Stetson/Coty), said she did not know of any promotional event for the new fragrance that was scheduled for Union Square yesterday - far less one involving two horses and a red stagecoach.

4) Dave Sansoucie of Chateau Stables refused to identify who paid for the coach.

5) At lunchtime on Friday, IAAFOTS reader Andrea B. spotted Apprentice 1 winner Bill Rancic (who has been known to participate in further installments of The Apprentice as a replacement for Trump henchman George Ross) in front of Lee's Art Shop at 57th and Broadway. He was being filmed by a camera crew while a large poster for Shania Twain perfume was put up in Lee's window. Also in the immediate area was a van with a giant advertisement for the same fragrance and a man with a bullhorn unintelligibly blabbing out the window.

Sources: IAAFOTS, New York Daily News, New York Times, New York Post

So the speculation is that the two teams competing in the Apprentice 4, currently filming, were given the task of devising a promotion for the new Shania Twain perfume, which is a really great perfume, fabulous fragrance. As is very often the case, one team was sent to midtown and the other went to Union Square. The latter team had the brilliant idea to hire a stagecoach to play up a western theme. And the reason no cameras, contestants, or Caroline were noticed at the scene of the accident is that it was that the stagecoach was on its way to Union Square for the Twain promotion, where it would presumably have been met by the Apprentice team. But it never made it.

See what I mean? Compelling and plausible. All that is needed now is a copy of some kind of communication between Mark Burnett Productions or the Trump Organization and either Chateau Stables, Tractenberg & Co., or Coty Inc. and I will have my long-awaited sweet revenge on Donald Trump for the wrongful termination of Stacy Rotner last fall. And this investigative triumph will finally impress Ms. Rotner and win for me her love and admiration (or at least boost sales of the Blatant Legalism E.P. by Stacy Rotner's Army, my kick-ass skate punk outfit). If any readers have copies of such damning communications, please forward them to the IAAFOTS tipline posthaste, and feel free to forward this post to any and all scaredy-cat media outlets - Daily News, Gawker, Primetime Live, etc. - as well (just click on the little envelope icon next to the Comments link there). Update: and now I've even got the addresses to forward to. New York Daily News: news@edit.nydailynews.com (main news desk), rharrison@edit.nydailynews.com, agendar@edit.nydailynews.com (reporters who wrote original story), New York Post: cshaw@nypost.com (news desk), rjohnson@nypost.com (Page Six), New York Times: news-tips@nytimes, and Gawker: tips@gawker.com. It should go without saying, but just in case it's not: IAAFOTS EXCLUSIVE!!! MUST CREDIT IAAFOTS!!! Operatives are currently going undercover to infiltrate Lee's Art Shop and confirm the A4 connection to events there, assuming Trump goons have not already shut their employees up. Stay tuned for further revelations.