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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: 4709
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.
Indeed. He made a conscious effort to return and cause further bodily harm. The armed thief was disarmed (no pun intended) and no longer a threat.
No longer a threat? Are you freaking kidding me? He is 17 years old and already sticking a gun in the face of a stranger to steal a pair of freaking sneakers and casually walking away without even looking back,just like he had done nothing wrong! Are you turning into one of those people who think he is a "gud boi,he be gibbin hiz life to JayZus now,and looking for a steady job!" The little thug is going to be even more dangerous now because he only has one arm. You can bet the farm the next time he sticks a gun in somebody's face he is going to shoot them. I ain't listening to that "he's just a boy" nonsense,either. He is 17,and 17 is old enough to understand robbing people at gun point is a bad thing,as well as being dangerous.
#33. To: sneakypete (#31)
Not at all Pete. If the driver took off and crushed him to death upon seeing the gun, then self defense or stand ground applies. The crime happened, perp went one way and the driver another. Then the driver reverses course and with premeditation decides to use his vehicle to harm the perp. If all of this was done in the heat of a struggle the victim driver would not be charged. And no I don't think the punk is a "good boy." He should still be charged for armed robbery.
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.
#27. To: TooConservative (#1)
The driver will be convicted.
#31. To: redleghunter (#27)
The armed thief was disarmed (no pun intended) and no longer a threat.
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