Posted on 02/12/2016 2:24:49 PM PST by lowbridge
A would-be robbery victim got some street justice on Friday when a man held him up at gunpoint - and he sped away so fast, it ripped the gunman's arm off, police sources said.
The pair met through Craigslist, where they had arranged to exchange a pair of Air Jordan sneakers near East 86th Street and Avenue M in Canarsie.
But instead, the 17-year-old would-be robber pulled a gun on the 39-year-old man, who was sitting in his car, sources said.
The victim then stomped on the gas to get away, dragging the crook, whose arm was ripped off, law enforcement sources said.
"I saw a kid under a car," said Alex Saint Fleur, a bus driver who lives across the street.
"The guy ran him over. He got out, the driver said, 'He's trying to rob me. He's trying to rob me.'"
"I saw the gun on the floor," Saint Fleur added. "The arm was in the floor near the gun."
The teen got out from under the car, he said, and ran onto a city bus.
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What, no video???
What’s really neat is hitting a car with a snowball and finding out it’s an unmarked police car...
I sing of arm, and of a man...
By the reaction of the would be victim and the location the guy was almost certainly a Russian. The brothers have to learn that F%^king with the Russians is very different than smacking any other Whitey and taking what he has.
So the good citizen became ‘armed’?
Leni
I wonder if he made a clean getaway, or if someone fingered him. /rimshot
That was very humerus.
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