Posted on 07/19/2011 8:15:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sad, but predictable ...
"I asked them to lower their voices and then they started in on me, 'Shut the f--- up, white boy. We'll beat the s--t out of you, cracker.'" ...said that was the first exchange he had with three black men and a Hispanic man on the #4 subway train... by the time the train got to Fordham Road, Fordell says he was being beaten and stomped by other passengers who were egging the original group on... Most of the suspects got away, after stealing his bags and money... Fordell told us he's blind in the left eye, so the eye turns in, and the group started taunting him about that... two guys from the original group stole his bags, so he chased them down to the Metrocard booth at Fordham Road. The fight continued. When cops arrived, he pointed out a straphanger that he said had joined in the beating... 54-year-old Barminth Ramoutar of Queens, who... is being charged with felony gang assault. The original group got away... When we called the NYPD to ask why the incident wasn't deemed a hate crime, a spokesman said detectives had to evaluate a number of things... Fordell said the Goth accessories that were stolen were worth between five and ten thousand dollars.... "I don't want to be on unemployment like everyone else. I manage to pay my rent."Remember that story that circulated a few years back, about a possible landslide in the Canary Islands which would send tsunamis toward the East coast? Just askin', no reason.
Note: this topic is from July 18, 2011.
That's like saying the water's pretty clean for a cesspool. To each their own.
“Doesn’t seem too bright for new yorker on a subway at 0500.”
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Highly instructive that THAT is what you choose to pull out of this.
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