Posted on 04/20/2006 2:33:05 AM PDT by Timeout
A knife-wielding psycho who stabbed a pregnant woman and her boyfriend on a crowded Manhattan subway train last night because she had gotten into a "staring contest" with him later sported a huge grin as cops hauled him off to jail....
Investigators said the 23-year-old woman and Murphy first exchanged stares, then words.
Murphy barked, "What are you looking at!" then got up and started punching her in the head, police said.
When the woman's boyfriend, 22, got up to defend her, Murphy pulled out a black-handled knife and stabbed her in the left shoulder, police said.
Murphy then turned to her boyfriend and knifed him twice in the back, police said.
Panicked straphangers fled to the other end of the car...
The victims chased Murphy out of the train when it pulled into the 14th Street station and tried in vain to catch him. A witness who saw the bloodied couple called 911 and cops quickly arrived. [Police caught him on another train]...
Straphangers were stunned that the attack happened on a crowded train in a safe neighborhood.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Murphy then turned to her boyfriend and knifed him twice in the back, police said.
So he turned his back to the perp in order to defend her?
In defense of the wimps, and in all seriousness:
You know what happens if one of you goes up to the guy and cold cocks him, and, God forbid, he barks his knuckles on the way down. Or to be closer to what actually happens: you see a knife and blood, you have an adrenaline dump, you knock the guy down, and in the throes of the adrenaline you hit him maybe one more time than is minimally necessary to render him not a threat.
Then, still drunk with adrenaline, you make unwise statements to him, as in "Do you need another, you son of a b*tch?" or to the subway police who interview you at the next station when the adrenaaline is still coursing through your bloodstream: "Sh*t NO, I wasn't afraid. I just had to get that b*sta*rd. People like that shouldn't be allowed in public." God help you if the perp is a member of a protected minority!
It is more true than ever that no good deed goes unpunished. You are guilty simply for being capable of defending yourself, and twice guilty if you exercise that capability - THRICE guilty if you exercise it on someone else's behalf, you vigilante, you ...
The left WANTS us to be helpless cowards.
Perhaps Murphy will make a wrong turn or something over at Rikers Island.
A wrong turn into a shank would be nice.
Hard to say because I was not there but I have seen couples get all twisted around in skirmishes before. He (the knifer) lunges. The Boyfriend thinks she will go one way, She thinks he will go the other.
The folks cowering at the other end of the car could sue the MTA for emotional distress, sleeplessness and PTSD. Their spouses can sue for "lack of consortium". They could cash in, Big Time!
RATS IN A CAGE!
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