#3 NYPD cops hospitalized after complaining of bleach taste in milkshakes

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NYPD cops stand over one of the allegedly tainted shakes at the Shake Shack on Fulton St.
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Three NYPD cops were hospitalized Monday night after drinking shakes from a Lower Manhattan Shake Shack they believe may have been spiked with bleach, law enforcement sources said.

The officers immediately noticed a funny taste — possibly bleach — when they sipped the frozen treat from a Shake Shack location on Broadway near Fulton Street, sources said.

The officers, who are from the 42 Precinct in the Bronx, but were on a detail in Manhattan at the time, were taken to Bellevue Hospital to be checked out, sources said. They are alert and conscious, sources said.

Police are investigating the restaurant. As of late Monday, investigators recovered one of the three shakes that the officers threw out after attempting to drink, sources said.

Later Monday night, an officer was seen standing guard over one of the empty milkshake cups next to an outdoor trash bin.