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Title: Crook’s arm ripped off after failed robbery attempt
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NY Daily News
URL Source: http://nypost.com/2016/02/12/crooks ... -after-failed-robbery-attempt/
Published: Feb 12, 2016
Author: Tina Moore, Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen an
Post Date: 2016-02-13 08:44:51 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 5086
Comments: 36
A 17-year-old robber’s arm was severed in Brooklyn after he held up a 39-year-old man at gunpoint for a pair of pricey sneakers, police sources said. Through the app Wallapop, the pair had arranged to meet up at 1 p.m. on Friday in Canarsie. But when the seller showed up, asking $490 for a pair of Air Jordan 8 Retro sneakers, the teen crook pulled out a gun and demanded the kicks for free inside the older man’s car, police sources said. The 39-year-old stepped on the gas pedal, but the gunman jumped out of his car at the intersection of East 86th Street and Avenue M, sources said. Instead of speeding off, the seller turned his car around and drove after the teenager, crashing into him in front of a fence. The robber’s arm was ripped off when he was pinned against the fence. “I saw a kid under a car,” said Alex Saint Fleur, a bus driver who lives across the street. “The guy ran him over. He got out, the driver said, ‘He’s trying to rob me. He’s trying to rob me.’” “I saw the gun on the floor,” Fleur added. “The arm was on the floor near the gun.” The teen got out from under the car, he said, and ran inside a city bus. “Everyone is screaming, ‘Come back, come back, your arm. You’re bleeding too much,’” Fleur said. The crook got out of the bus and started running down Avenue M, he said, before finally collapsing in the street. The teen was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he remains in serious but stable condition, law enforcement sources said. The 39-year-old driver will likely be arrested, according to police sources. On Friday afternoon, the bus was pulled over on 80th Street, blood spattered on its front entrance. “I was walking up the sidewalk and I heard a boom behind me,” said a postal worker who declined to give her name. “I just kept it moving. I saw somebody run on the bus with a missing arm.” 
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
The driver will be convicted.
The driver will be convicted. Yes,and he should have never been charged.
We don't agree. The kid tried an armed robbery but backed down and tried to flee when his victim resisted. The intent of this driver was clearly to maim or kill. The kid didn't have the guts to kill over the sneakers but the driver did act with malice and intent. The driver demonstrated intent from the moment he turned the vehicle around to pursue this kid. Courts and prosecutors can't just ignore it even if we have no real sympathy for the wannabe robber.
THIS time. Who knows what he would have done the next time? The one thing we can be sure of is there would have been a next time. There might even be a next time still,once his SS disability checks start rolling in and he can afford to buy another gun. One of life's universal truths is that if you keep sticking a gun in people's faces,sooner or later you will either end up using it to kill or be killed yourself.
You can't punish people for what they might do. If I were a reporter writing this story, I wouldn't be able to resist working the phrase "one-armed bandit" in somewhere. : )
You can't punish people for what they might do. You call it punishment,I call it giving them what they ask for.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestInstead of speeding off, the seller turned his car around and drove after the teenager, crashing into him in front of a fence.
#6. To: TooConservative (#1)
Instead of speeding off, the seller turned his car around and drove after the teenager, crashing into him in front of a fence.
#7. To: sneakypete (#6)
#12. To: TooConservative (#7)
(Edited)
The kid tried an armed robbery but backed down and tried to flee
#15. To: sneakypete, Fred Mertz (#12)
THIS time. Who knows what he would have done the next time?
#24. To: TooConservative (#15)
THIS time. Who knows what he would have done the next time?
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