Posted on 03/22/2008 9:48:30 AM PDT by Pyro7480
NEW YORK - Knife-wielding muggers attacked a jogger running in Central Park to prepare for an Army physical fitness test, police and his family said.
"I'm in a lot of pain," Johnny Reberon, 23, said as he returned from a hospital Friday to his Manhattan home.
He was slashed in the arm and leg by two men who accosted him around 8:45 p.m. Thursday, police said.
His mugging was near the park road where a 28-year-old investment banker was found after being attacked while jogging on April 19, 1989. She became known worldwide as "the Central Park jogger."
Reberon's attackers took his wallet and iPod, police said. They were searching for suspects early Saturday.
"When he saw all the blood coming out, he thought he was going to bleed to death," said his mother, Carmen Zega. "I cried for hours."
She said her son called 911 on a cell phone he'd tucked in one of his socks, but he was in too much agony to talk to the operator. Two bicyclists stopped and helped him, Zega said.
Reberon works as a receptionist at a veterinary hospital, but he recently decided to join the Army, his mother said.
The victim of the 1989 attack was in a coma for 12 days before beginning her near-miraculous recovery. The jogger, Trisha Meili, disclosed her identity in 2003 and published her memoir.
Jogging in the park after dark unarmed....not swift
In a civilized country you should be able to do that. Our penal system is a kindergarten for criminals. Our judical system has confused itself with a social services provider.
And wearing an iPod so you can’t hear a bloody thing.
Once again the whole subject of the suspects' description is absent from the report, thus hampering the "search".
The northern part of the park tends to be dangerous after dark. Gentrification in the area has been moving northward over the years, but it borders on some of the old burned-out parts of Harlem.
Yuppies took up jogging around the reservoir, but I’ve heard you have to be careful. I haven’t been in those parts recently, but that’s what I recall.
As ‘Butter’s’ mom pointed out, “It was some Puerto Rician guy”.
Forrest Gump: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
While I am at it with Forrest Gump quotes:
Bubba: “Have you ever been on a real shrimp boat?”
Forrest Gump: “No, but I’ve been on a real big boat.”
Too many uncivilized people to qualify as a civilized country. Isolated areas of the park at any time of the day are at your own risk. Take appropriate precautions.
The domestic enemies are just as dangerous as the foreign ones, perhaps more so.
Some liberal lawyer in a black robe will just give them probation and ghetto hero status [/sarc]
Rumour has it that the perps were Amish.
Police Bulletin: “A mugging occured in Central Park at 8:45 on Tursday. Be on the lookout for somebody.”
It’s a good thing that handguns are illegal in NYC, or these muggers might have been injured or killed.
I heard it was a couple of (typical White) angry men who did the rob/slash down.(satire)
Respectfully,
NSNR
I was in Cabela's in PA recently and saw lots of young bowl-haired Amish boys shooting video-game rifles. They looked like they were having a great time.
“Jogging in the park after dark unarmed....not swift”
He has a right to use the park. The NYPD aren’t taking out the trash like they should be.
Concealed carry in NYC and this would not happen anymore. No kidding.
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