Man beats 70-year-old who confronted him for rolling cigarette in NYC subway

NY Post ^ | 09/01/2023 | Amanda Wood

[AppyPappy]

I am going to place good money it was a liberal.

[jacknhoo]

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.

[enumerated]

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.

[gundog]

Karens get stitches, too.

[Paleo Conservative]

A little strange. A 70-year-old would have grown up during the hippy counterculture era. Live and let live, do your own thing.

Most people weren't hippies. Also lots of the hippies from thT generation have died off from the effects of their lifestyle.

[Ikeon]

people who keep their noses on their face instead of in someone else’s business,tend to live longer than those who don’t.

[Jonty30]

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.

[Delta 21]

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.

[Bonemaker]

...all because the elderly man complained about him rolling a cigarette in the station, cops said Friday...”

Should have been beaten.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Granted that this was no cause for violence but why would you say something to someone when they are doing something that is not illegal, immoral or fattening?

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.

[Beowulf9]

Yep. Was going to say the same thing.

[Steely Tom]

True

[muir_redwoods]

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.