Posted on 09/01/2023 2:09:38 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A stranger pummeled a 70-year-old Manhattan straphanger in the face so badly that he had to be hospitalized — all because the elderly man complained about him rolling a cigarette in the station, cops said Friday.
The senior was getting off a southbound C train at the 145th Street station at the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday when he spotted the cigarette-roller in the station and confronted him, police said.
It’s not clear whether the attacker actually got to smoke his cigarette, which is against transit rules, but the elderly man was apparently making a pre-emptive gripe.
The angry suspect repeatedly punched him in the face for his complaint, cops said.
The attacker then ran out of the train station toward the street, police said
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I am going to place good money it was a liberal.
Rolling your own, you miss out on the fire retardant strips of carpet glue spaced along the length of the cigarette to make them fire safe cigarettes. I do the same.
Right. Choose your battles. Rolling a cigarette? Is that really the hill you want to die on?
Besides, these Amish are not people you want to mess with.
Karens get stitches, too.
Most people weren't hippies. Also lots of the hippies from thT generation have died off from the effects of their lifestyle.
people who keep their noses on their face instead of in someone else’s business,tend to live longer than those who don’t.
I work for security company and we have the LRT contract. We can’t approach anybody, regardless of their behaviour. Even if they are snorting coke in front of children and injecting heroin. We can’t do a thing.
Is that a thing? That old folks have to get involved with rif-raf rolling their own in the subway?
Better arm yourself, old man.
...all because the elderly man complained about him rolling a cigarette in the station, cops said Friday...”
Should have been beaten.
Mind thy own business.
And always observed the rule of ten.
Out of all the people you meet one out of ten is having a bad day.
Out of those, one out of ten is on the edge.
And of those, one out of ten is guano crazy.
So leave people alone.
The life you save may be your own.
Yep. Was going to say the same thing.
True
I’m sorry but who cares who’s rolling a cigarette? Minding ones own business is a good way not to meet the potentially violent.
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