July 7, 2006
Man attacks subway riders with two power saws
Wow, this is really scary.
At 3:30 am the other night, an ex-con grabbed two cordless power saws that had been left behind by workers at the 110th Street station on the 1 train, and began menacing passengers and MTA workers on the platform. Then, he attacked one person in particular, a 63-year-old postal worker. The victim had this to say to the NY Post from his hospital bed:
I screamed for help, 'Please help, please help me,' " Steinberg said. "The Transit Authority people heard me - they just looked. They never stopped to help me, and that disturbs me more than anything else. I begged for someone to call an ambulance and get this guy off me.
"He just kept on stabbing me, and stabbing me and stabbing me, and the transit employees kept on working and working and working."
Eventually, the attacker let up and demanded his victim's money. He then fled the station, dumping the tools in the garbage. He assaulted someone else shortly thereafter, and was eventually caught by police on West 93rd and Broadway.
The Post is right to point out this incident is reminsicent of the Kitty Genovese story. It is shocking and disgusting to me that people would just stand there and let this guy get attacked. When stuff like this happens, people need to get involved, as a group, and stop pretending that it doesn't affect them or it's not their problem. When a helpless person is attacked like this, it is a problem for all of us.
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categories:
Assault,
EDP,
Strange,
Subway
posted by adm at July 7, 2006 3:56 PM
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