Posted on 11/13/2021 4:16:27 PM PST by simpson96
A woman was surrounded, beaten and nearly robbed by a group of preteen children as young as 11 during an attack on a Manhattan sidewalk, the victim told told NBC New York.
The woman, who did not want to be identified, said she was walking home from work when four children, two boys and two girls, attacked her and tried to steal her cellphone. Now she wants to warn others to be on the lookout.
"It was basically a group of kids, that's why I didn't suspect anything when they were coming up," she said.
The incident occurred just before 8 p.m. Thursday on West 26th Street near Eighth Avenue, police said. The victim said she was walking with her headphones in when she noticed a group of 11- and 12-year-olds ride up alongside her on scooters. Before she knew it, one of the boys attacked her.
"He basically grabbed my hair, I had a long ponytail. It happened so fast and you don't exect it, like it's a kid," she said. "But then he had a super tight grip on my head and he started rolling me around. I had the phone in my hand, so they were trying to grab my phone."
The victim said it wasn't until a nearby security guard intervened when the children backed off — and then tried to blame her.
"The boy stopped and then started yelling at the security guard that I had assaulted him," the woman said. She is still recovering from the injuries to her neck and leg.
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Walking after dark with headphones on….bad idea.
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Gosh, no description of the little tikes? Probably just oversight.
Let me guess the two races involved.
Yep, headphones are a bad idea walking down the street . You lose out on situational awareness when you have ears plugged up, and/or playing with a cellular phone as you walk. She may well have been targeted specifically because she looked like an easy mark.
Lord of the Flies.
Walking anywhere with headphones is insane to me. You must be able to hear at all time.
Times
Chelsea? Fag gang?...
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Youth.
I can say "shenanigans," can't I?
I cannot tell you the last time I saw a pedestrian look even one way before crossing a street.
A kid without a phone or headphones just yesterday did that to me. If I had not been half expecting it, or if I had a self diving car he and I would both be unhappy today.
in numbers there is strength...
Photographs of fancy tricks
Go get your kicks at sixty-six
he thinks of all the lips that he licks
and all the girls he is going to fix
She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle
But there’s no place here for the miniskirt waddle
Captial punishment she’s last year’s model
They call her natasha when she looks like Elsie
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
oh no, it does not move me
even though I seen the movie
I don’t want to check your pulse
I don’t want nobody else
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
Everybody’s got new orders
be a nice girl and kiss the warders
now the teacher is away
all the kids begin to play
men come screaming dressed in white coats
shake you very gently by the throat
One’s named Gus, one’s named Alfie
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
oh no, it does not move me
even though I seen the movie
I don’t want to check your pulse
I don’t want nobody else
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
Photographs of fancy tricks
To get your kicks at sixty-six
he thinks of all the lips that he licks
and all the girls he’s going to fix
She gave a little flirt gave herself a little cuddle
But there’s no place here for the miniskirt waddle
Captial punishment she’s last year’s model
They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
oh no, it does not move me
even though I seen the movie
I don’t want to check your pulse
I don’t want nobody else
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
-Elvis Costello
> The victim said she was walking with her headphones in when she noticed a group of 11- and 12-year-olds ride up alongside her on scooters. <
The poor lady broke three important rules.
1. Do not walk with headphones on.
2. Do not walk in New York City.
3. Do not live in New York City.
The first thing I was going to comment on were the headphones, but others have already said that’s a terrible idea. The second is how quickly the assailants claimed that she was the aggressor. It is a nearly universal characteristic of criminals. Create some doubt in the minds of people. And sometimes it works. She’s lucky she didn’t get arrested for assaulting ‘children’.
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