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Mom Jogging With Baby in Stroller Fights Off Attacker With Bike Pump
DNAInfo New York ^ | 9/27/2013 | Nigel Chiwaya, Ben Fractenberg and Trevor Kapp

Posted on 09/28/2013 6:34:09 AM PDT by mykroar

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — A woman jogging in a park while pushing her 8-month-old son in a stroller Friday morning turned the tables on a would-be attacker, hitting him over the head with a tire pump and sending him packing, she said.

Mary Jane Jarman, 33, a stay-at-home mom from Washington Heights, was jogging home on the Hudson River Greenway near the Henry Hudson Parkway and 190th Street at 9:30 a.m. Friday after dropping her daughter off at school when a man jumped out from a behind a wall holding a broken glass bottle, she said.

"Come here, come here," the man told Jarman, who said she began to run for her life, making it about 100 yards down the path before he grabbed her in a bear hug and took her down to the ground, knocking over the stroller in the process.

"I started screaming, trying to attract attention. He came at me," said Jarman, who spoke to DNAinfo New York after speaking to detectives at the 34th Precinct stationhouse.

Jarman said she managed to struggle free and reached for a hand-held bike pump she had in the stroller, bashing the attacker over the head two or three times, until he began to bleed.

(Excerpt) Read more at dnainfo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bike; jogger; mugging; newyork; ny
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To: HomeAtLast

Her attacker’s lucky she didn’t have a diver’s “Wasp Shark Knife” to use on him.


41 posted on 09/28/2013 9:21:17 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: mykroar

Idiot. Threaten a person and they may roll over and die; threaten a woman’s child (knock over stroller) and the fangs come out.


42 posted on 09/28/2013 9:38:48 AM PDT by Dawggie
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To: mykroar; puppypusher

A happier ending would have been if the attacker wound up a vegetable or dead from the blows to his head.


43 posted on 09/28/2013 9:57:50 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: mykroar
"She said she called 911 repeatedly, but the calls kept dropping in the thickly wooded area. She finally flagged down a biker along the path, who helped her, she said."

Dont call 911. Call 1911.

They work very well in wooded areas.

44 posted on 09/28/2013 10:01:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Secret Agent Man

Do DemoRats!? Seee, we are infested with sick voting people who do not take the proper “medication”.


45 posted on 09/28/2013 10:21:44 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: HomeAtLast

I live in NYC. That area is one of the most dangerous in Manhattan. A person would have to be stupid/out of their mind to jog or take a baby there.


46 posted on 09/28/2013 11:15:06 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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That area is one of the most dangerous in Manhattan

Not according to this article: Safest Neighborhoods in NYC | Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in NYC. It's right in the middle.

47 posted on 09/28/2013 11:50:56 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

I said *in Manhattan* — the article you sent me includes all the boroughs. FYI, there are five (5) boroughs in New York City, of which Manhattan is one. Manhattan is an island.
Eliminate the hellholes in Brooklyn & The Bronx, and the river’s edge of Washington Heights shoots way up as a danger zone. For a white woman to be jogging there alone is lunacy.


48 posted on 09/28/2013 4:36:29 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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