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Man attacks NY subway passengers with power-saws
Victim says suspect was trying to 'cut through' him
NEW YORK
A man wielding a cordless power saw in each hand rampaged through a Manhattan subway station early Thursday, using one of the buzzing blades to carve into the chest of a postal worker who later said it felt like "he was trying to cut through me." Police were questioning a 33-year-old man they captured about two hours later after he allegedly punched someone in another random attack on the street a few blocks away on the Upper West Side.
The subway victim, Michael Steinberg, 64, was hospitalized in stable condition. Speaking by phone to reporters who gathered outside the hospital, he said the attack was unprovoked.
The assailant "never spoke," Steinberg said. "I think he was out of his mind." Steinberg claimed that transit workers who witnessed the assault did nothing to stop it, even when he screamed for help.
"He just kept stabbing me and stabbing me and stabbing me and the transit employees just kept working and working and working," he said. "It's a sad commentary on how people just don't give damn." A New York City Transit spokeswoman, Deirdre Parker, said officials were looking into whether the workers in question actually were employed by a private contractor, not the city.
The incident began at about 3:30 a.m. when the attacker snatched the two saws from a cart being used by workers upgrading the public address system at the station, located at West 110th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
The suspect took a swipe at one rider on a platform and missed, police said. Moments later, he assaulted Steinberg just as the victim was about to run his subway card through a turnstile.
"He looked at me and before I knew it, he was attacking me," Steinberg said. "The motor kept going on. He was trying to cut through me. ... I screamed for help -- 'Please help! Please help me!'" He said the attacker finally paused to demand money, then bolted out of the station with his wallet and the power tools. The saws were later found ditched a trash can on West 110th Street.
The attack came two weeks after a Boston man was charged with injuring four people -- three of them tourists -- during a 13-hour stabbing spree in the subway and the theater district in Manhattan.
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Victim says suspect was trying to 'cut through' him
NEW YORK
A man wielding a cordless power saw in each hand rampaged through a Manhattan subway station early Thursday, using one of the buzzing blades to carve into the chest of a postal worker who later said it felt like "he was trying to cut through me." Police were questioning a 33-year-old man they captured about two hours later after he allegedly punched someone in another random attack on the street a few blocks away on the Upper West Side.
The subway victim, Michael Steinberg, 64, was hospitalized in stable condition. Speaking by phone to reporters who gathered outside the hospital, he said the attack was unprovoked.
The assailant "never spoke," Steinberg said. "I think he was out of his mind." Steinberg claimed that transit workers who witnessed the assault did nothing to stop it, even when he screamed for help.
"He just kept stabbing me and stabbing me and stabbing me and the transit employees just kept working and working and working," he said. "It's a sad commentary on how people just don't give damn." A New York City Transit spokeswoman, Deirdre Parker, said officials were looking into whether the workers in question actually were employed by a private contractor, not the city.
The incident began at about 3:30 a.m. when the attacker snatched the two saws from a cart being used by workers upgrading the public address system at the station, located at West 110th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
The suspect took a swipe at one rider on a platform and missed, police said. Moments later, he assaulted Steinberg just as the victim was about to run his subway card through a turnstile.
"He looked at me and before I knew it, he was attacking me," Steinberg said. "The motor kept going on. He was trying to cut through me. ... I screamed for help -- 'Please help! Please help me!'" He said the attacker finally paused to demand money, then bolted out of the station with his wallet and the power tools. The saws were later found ditched a trash can on West 110th Street.
The attack came two weeks after a Boston man was charged with injuring four people -- three of them tourists -- during a 13-hour stabbing spree in the subway and the theater district in Manhattan.
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thanks to Slade
how do people expect to stop terrorism when no one is willing to do anything when the chance comes...
the article says 'workers' plural... when you outnumber the assailant, even an armed one, he has buggar all chance if winning. and if two cordless saws were lying around, there were probably wrenches and other tools...
people are selfish apathetic cowards. although this was probably the ONLY time transit employees wer ACTUALLY at least pretending to work...
the fact that they appeared to be working suggests that they DID infact know what was going on.
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