Post by terra on Feb 27, 2007 18:13:56 GMT -4
Today was quite an interesting day for me. I was on my way home from work today on a crowded subway train and I feel something funny along my back pocket. Turns out it was someone trying to reach and grab my wallet for whatever reason as we were leaving the train (must've had something to do with me boneheadedly opening it on the track to check if I left something at work and showing off the cash in it).
Anyway, the dude tries to actually pickpocket me, and here I thought that crap went out in the 80s. I of course responded as any upstanding New Yorker would, raring back with an elbow as hard as I could swing it leaving a crowded train. I caught him in the face but he still wasn't done yet. Keep in mind the irony here: New York is still in Code Orange (that's a security level for you foreigners...been Orange since 9/11 and the next level is RED) and there was no police officer in sight for the next thing, he pulled out a knife on me.
Of course like any idiot thugs, he uses a slashing motion instead of a stabbing motion and slices through my coat, which was pretty thick by the way. He swings again and I block it with my arm and another slice goes through and I'm think to myself how much I love North Faces right now. His arms flails back and and charge forward with something resembling the STO, taking him down and landing on his arm as well.
All through this the conductor manages to call some transit police and they show after I have this asshole on the ground trying to pound at the back of my head to get me off of his arm. The cops show up and see the knife then the two of them break it all up. They were about to cuff the both of us before I tried to explain to them what had happened, and thank goodness people on the train saw him make the attempt to swipe my wallet.
Still didn't stop me from winding up at the nearest police precinct to answer some question. They actually asked me, ASKED me if I was pressing charges, as if I was just going to go home and let that slide? Bottom line is that I'll be going to court in a few weeks to make this son of a bitch pay dearly.
Anyway, the dude tries to actually pickpocket me, and here I thought that crap went out in the 80s. I of course responded as any upstanding New Yorker would, raring back with an elbow as hard as I could swing it leaving a crowded train. I caught him in the face but he still wasn't done yet. Keep in mind the irony here: New York is still in Code Orange (that's a security level for you foreigners...been Orange since 9/11 and the next level is RED) and there was no police officer in sight for the next thing, he pulled out a knife on me.
Of course like any idiot thugs, he uses a slashing motion instead of a stabbing motion and slices through my coat, which was pretty thick by the way. He swings again and I block it with my arm and another slice goes through and I'm think to myself how much I love North Faces right now. His arms flails back and and charge forward with something resembling the STO, taking him down and landing on his arm as well.
All through this the conductor manages to call some transit police and they show after I have this asshole on the ground trying to pound at the back of my head to get me off of his arm. The cops show up and see the knife then the two of them break it all up. They were about to cuff the both of us before I tried to explain to them what had happened, and thank goodness people on the train saw him make the attempt to swipe my wallet.
Still didn't stop me from winding up at the nearest police precinct to answer some question. They actually asked me, ASKED me if I was pressing charges, as if I was just going to go home and let that slide? Bottom line is that I'll be going to court in a few weeks to make this son of a bitch pay dearly.
Wrestling has done something for people 
