Well, speaking just for myself, I do that already in my own personal sphere. CCW laws be damned, if I deem it expedient.
Individual mileage will, of course, vary.
Posted on 12/21/2002 1:12:47 AM PST by kattracks
On a desolate fringe of a Queens park, a gang of homeless men set upon a woman and dragged her into their squalid encampment, raping her for two hours while cops mounted a frantic search.The 42-year-old victim finally was rescued when a police dog picked up her scent, tracked her to the hobo jungle and sank his teeth into one of the men who brutalized her, authorities said.
"It is a horrendous crime," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said as the five assailants were booked on kidnapping, robbery, rape and sodomy charges.
The attack occurred at 10 p.m. Thursday at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, on a deserted pedestrian path linking Shea Stadium and the National Tennis Center.
Sitting on a bench, the woman and a male friend were jumped by a band of what police called homeless Mexican immigrants who beat and robbed them.
The mob then grabbed the woman and pulled her down a flight of stairs leading to a Long Island Rail Road platform, across the tracks and deep into the woods.
Amid the thick brush, the men had put up several shacks patched together from wood, cardboard and plastic - described by one investigator as human "bird's nests."
The huts were filled with old mattresses and piles of garbage. They were so filthy that one cop said he planned to throw out his shoes after stepping inside.
In one of the ramshackle shelters - impossible to see from even a short distance - the men took turns beating and raping the woman.
Her friend had raced off, found a passerby with a cell phone and called police, who quickly swarmed the park.
For two hours, cops searched the sprawling grounds with dogs for a trace of the woman and her captors.
At one point, electricity on the LIRR tracks was shut off so cops could cross over into the thick brush on the other side.
'Dog went nuts'
As police closed in, two of the suspects, Victor Cruz, 22, and Jose Hernandez, 18, ran out of the woods and were captured.
A 10-year-old German shepherd named Sean and his handler, Officer Kim Flechaus, were the first to reach the shack where the victim was held.
"It was awful. We couldn't find her, and then the dog went nuts," one investigator said.
The bloodied woman, naked from the waist down, apparently heard the cops and bolted. She told them one of her attackers was still inside.
The dog was sent in, and he ripped into suspect Louis Carmona, 20, authorities said. After a brief standoff, the dog then pulled Carlos Rodriguez, 22, and Jesus Torres, 28, from a second shanty nearby.
"God bless Sean. He did a hell of a job," a police official said.
Three of the five suspects were treated at the hospital for dog bites.
When they were led out of the 110th Precinct stationhouse last night, they wore only hospital gowns because their clothes were seized for evidence. Shivering, they tried to cover their faces as they walked past.
The viciousness of the assault recalled the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park, which ended with the convictions of five teens being tossed out Thursday. Convicted killer Matias Reyes confessed to the crime.
Another group attack
"This is eerily similar to the whole Central Park thing," an NYPD source said. "Everyone is crossing the T's and dotting the I's to make sure history does not repeat itself."
The gang rape also bore similarities to a group attack on a Brooklyn woman this month in Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights. Those assailants are still at large.
In Flushing, Queens, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officer told the Daily News that homeless encampments near the unused LIRR tracks are a persistent problem.
Cops regularly sweep through and knock them down, only to see them rebuilt elsewhere.
Rapes in the 110th Precinct are down 23% this year from last year - and Kelly said it wasn't clear whether more security was needed.
"We're always evaluating that issue," he said.
Preferably by public hanging.
Not.
(Bottles, rags, gasoline, bic ligther.)
Well, speaking just for myself, I do that already in my own personal sphere. CCW laws be damned, if I deem it expedient.
Individual mileage will, of course, vary.
Unfortunately this may take a long time.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
I guess Jorge "Ah jez LUV illegal aliens! Bush must have needed his vote to bad to deport him after the first arrest,and have his good buddy Fox jail him in a Mexican jail. After all,we have a American citizen who was arrested in Mexico for a felony there that wasn't even a misdeameanor here who ended up serving time in a US jail. Not only that,but he lost his right to own firearms because of it. I guess like everything else to do with Mexico,this is a one-way street.
BTW,ain't Bubba-2 just DREAMY in his new sombrero and serape?
Enrolled in a mandatory diversity class. Our divirsity is our strength,you know.
Sadly tho I don't think the day will ever come. We have lost our national backbone. There may be a few but not enough to reach critical mass.
I will say that my ancestors, and not that far back were quite willing to act when criminal elements became too bold. The sad fact is that today those ancestors would be demonized in the most vicious fashion possible.
I agree. We have been "feminized" to the point where the only "proper" response is to hide in a corner and hope they don't hurt us. There may be a few around like us who will stand up,but we are a dying breed who are mostly held in contempt by the younger generations.
I will say that my ancestors, and not that far back were quite willing to act when criminal elements became too bold. The sad fact is that today those ancestors would be demonized in the most vicious fashion possible.
Our ancestors didn't have soccer moms and Oprah setting the agenda.
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