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Subway mugger killed in subway

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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7698613

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- A subway mugger fleeing police fell to his death under a subway train in Lower Manhattan.

The suspect, a man in his 20s, allegedly robbed another straphanger at knifepoint on a train Thursday morning.

He stole about $150 cash from his victim and fled through the train, police said.

The quick thinking victim called 911, and police officers met him at the World Trade Center station.

The victim pointed out his suspect to police, who ordered the mugger not to move.

Instead, the suspect fled towards a northbound E train, which was pulling out of the station.

Police said he tried to jump from the platform to the train, attempting to land in the space between train cars.

He lost his balance and fell under the moving train. He was rushed to New York Downtown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Detectives believe the mugger attempted another armed robbery earlier in the evening in the area of Pace University.
 
Fuck thieves. Good riddance.

Looks like he chose $150 as the price of his life.

LMAO stupid fucker.
 
ThatSunrise said:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7698613


The suspect, a man in his 20s, allegedly robbed another straphanger at knifepoint on a train Thursday morning.

He stole about $150 cash from his victim and fled through the train, police said.
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This guy threatened someone's life for $150. Then he tried to avoid the consequences. It also sounds like he'd done this before (maybe even the same day).

No sympathy at all for this guy. Choices have consequences, sometimes they cost you your life. Good riddance.
 
Something just occurred to me - how did the victim call 911 from the train? It's pretty much impossible to get a signal underground except in a few select places where repeaters have been installed.
 
Consumer said:
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This guy threatened someone's life for $150. Then he tried to avoid the consequences. It also sounds like he'd done this before (maybe even the same day).

No sympathy at all for this guy. Choices have consequences, sometimes they cost you your life. Good riddance.
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But, what about his family and friends? Don't their feelings matter? Would you feel differently if he had been caught, tried and convicted, then given the death penalty?
 
for robbing 150 bucks with a knife he'd just have been given a few months, I'd think. A serious criminal would have used a gun (they are easy enough to get in the US anyway).
I have the gravest doubts that he'd actually have used the knife. Sticking a blade into someone takes a considerable lot of courage, physical strength and anatomical knowledge. Plus it's terribly messy for both the victim and the attacker.
A gun is much easier to use, people are less inhibited about their use and they generally cause less bloodshed which is much safer for the attacker and serves him in getting away. He'd just have to run a few steps, then turn around and come back, seemingly an innocent bystander who maybe even tries to help the victim. Who could be less suspicious?

This young man however did nothing of that sort, so we can safely assume that he didn't have much practize and acted spontaneousely, propably out of despair. 150 Dollars is a fortune for a lot of people. And they are getting more in these times of economical hardship.
Count the homeless in your respective towns who have to sleep in the street every night! Be grateful you aren't one of them (yet!)! DO something against people literally starving to death along your way to work. And only then you have a right to judge on that young man.

And apparently carring such a big sum around openly is a completely idiotic idea, I might add. When I take a stroll through let's say Downtown LA, I have 20 bucks in my wallet to satisfy a robber and carry about 100 in my old and very shabby looking hollow belt which no robber would consider worthy of a second look. One must use common sense! This guy practically asked to be robbed!
 
My Dear Ms. Nature,

Have you ever been threatened by a stranger with a knife before?

I give people this: if you are serious enough to threaten me or my loved-ones with any lethal object I will assume that you are competent and serious. I will not stop and ask for your motivation, life-history, or situation. I will stop you. Often killing someone is easier than disabling them, and in a situation like a mugging, I won't waste time. If I can run, I will. If I can't or someone else is in danger, I'll take you out by whatever means is available. That means I go for the eyes, the throat, I'll fight "dirty", throw you in front of a train, whatever. If I don't have a weapon, being more savage than the one threatening me is in my arsenal.

This person CHOOSE to do this. They did not consider the consequences to their family, friends, the feelings of those people or the feelings of their victim when they choose to threaten someone with a weapon in exchange for money. That they 'weren't serious' is ridiculous, and a view-point of someone who has never been in harms way.

I've had to put people back together after a "harmless" mugging, people who won't go places, who are afraid to leave their homes, who get upset even driving by the site of the mugging, who are afraid now where they were not before. Not all injuries can be seen on the skin.
 
Consumer said:
My Dear Ms. Nature,
Have you ever been threatened by a stranger with a knife before?
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Not exactly.
I was not threatened but attacked not by one but by three. I won.
Admittedly not completely unharmed, but I think Daystrom will confirm that the scar doesn't look too bad.
 
The Call Of Nature said:
Not exactly.
I was not threatened but attacked not by one but by three. I won.
Admittedly not completely unharmed, but I think Daystrom will confirm that the scar doesn't look too bad.
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I'm not sure if you won but they didn't kill you. As for the scar Consumer, it doesn't look too bad but their obviously is one.
 
Daystrom said:
I'm not sure if you won but they didn't kill you. As for the scar Consumer, it doesn't look too bad but their obviously is one.
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LOL with that answer you'd definitely qualify for a scientific career. You confirm facts and neither confirm nor decline theories. Excellently done!

No, I'm serious. It's exactly the way of thinking required for a scientist. Have you ever considered a career as a lab tech for physics or biology? I think you'd be damned good.
 
The Call Of Nature said:
for robbing 150 bucks with a knife he'd just have been given a few months, I'd think. A serious criminal would have used a gun (they are easy enough to get in the US anyway).
I have the gravest doubts that he'd actually have used the knife. Sticking a blade into someone takes a considerable lot of courage, physical strength and anatomical knowledge. Plus it's terribly messy for both the victim and the attacker.
A gun is much easier to use, people are less inhibited about their use and they generally cause less bloodshed which is much safer for the attacker and serves him in getting away. He'd just have to run a few steps, then turn around and come back, seemingly an innocent bystander who maybe even tries to help the victim. Who could be less suspicious?

This young man however did nothing of that sort, so we can safely assume that he didn't have much practize and acted spontaneousely, propably out of despair. 150 Dollars is a fortune for a lot of people. And they are getting more in these times of economical hardship.
Count the homeless in your respective towns who have to sleep in the street every night! Be grateful you aren't one of them (yet!)! DO something against people literally starving to death along your way to work. And only then you have a right to judge on that young man.

And apparently carring such a big sum around openly is a completely idiotic idea, I might add. When I take a stroll through let's say Downtown LA, I have 20 bucks in my wallet to satisfy a robber and carry about 100 in my old and very shabby looking hollow belt which no robber would consider worthy of a second look. One must use common sense! This guy practically asked to be robbed!
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This is a troll right?
 
Yeah, I'm with Consumer on this one. Somebody comes at me with a lethal weapon, I'll do what I can to evade and escape. If that's not feasible, or if someone else's life is jeopardized by the aggressor, the aggressor has forfeited his life. What's the morality of that position? It's the moral position. To refuse to neutralize such a threat is to agree with the aggressor that the lives of strangers are inherently less valuable than your own. I don't agree with that, and if pressed, would demonstrate my disagreement with a mugger on that score with extreme emphasis.
 
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