Steve Buscemi punched in face by stranger in New York City

[True Dough]

What the hell is wrong with some people???

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Steve Buscemi is OK after he was punched in the face by a man on a New York City street, his publicist said Sunday.

The 66-year-old star of “Fargo” and “Boardwalk Empire” was assaulted late Wednesday morning in Manhattan and taken to a nearby hospital with bruising, swelling and bleeding to his left eye.

“Steve Buscemi was assaulted in Mid-Town Manhattan, another victim of a random act of violence in the city,” according to a statement Sunday from his publicist. “He is ok and appreciates everyone’s well wishes.”

The assault was first reported by the New York Post. The New York Police Department put out a nameless statement on the assault Wednesday. Buscemi’s representative confirmed Sunday that the unidentified assault victim in the police statement was the actor.

https://apnews.com/article/steve-buscemi-punched-new-york-d523254e03c7fee368676057708c6341

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. I don't get this, why would a stranger walk up to anyone and just randomly punch them?

I did thoroughly enjoy his character in Armageddon.

[True Dough]

4. Apparently it's been happening occasionally lately,

especially to women. The motivation is cruelty, and stupidity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/29/women-punched-nyc-tiktok/

[marble falls]

34. In some cases there is a contest going to see who one punch someone into unconsciousness.

[birdographer]

51. So, trumpers. nt

[Dorian Gray]

53. In the city

it isn't trumpers. It's mostly homeless, drug addicted and/or mentally ill men. I don't know why there is an epidemic of this stuff happening. Social contagion.

[cayugafalls]

56. A social contagion...nice. I was thinking along the lines of a meme complex which dovetails perfectly

with a social contagion.

[Traurigkeit]

57. trumpers, then

[IronLionZion]

33. It happened to at least 3 of my neighbors in DC

none were celebrities. One was Asian, the other 2 were white, all males.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

45. That's just plain nuts.

[IronLionZion]

46. Most likely mental illness, drugs, and general frustration with life I suppose

There have been other random acts of violence like shooting out windows, punching indoor walls, and breaking car windows.

[Polybius]

50. Hopefully, the attacker punches the wrong guy one day

[IronLionZion]

55. They can punch a brick wall if they want

or concrete.

[Dorian Gray]

52. Unfortunately it's happening here a lot lately

My husband was hit on the subway on his way to work two months ago. His 86 year old aunt was punched in the face and knocked down a few weeks ago. Another father at my daughter's school was punched in the middle of the day on the subway in front of his two sons.

It's happening a lot, and most of the perpetrators are drugged out and need interventions. They're arrested and let out right away.

It's bad enough in the city that it's making me reconsider where we send our daughter to high school.

[mnmoderatedem]

54. A friend and former boss had it happen to him

A complete stranger walked up to him in his garage of all places, and sucker punched him and fractured his jaw.

The perp was strung out on crack. Will make you do some inexplicable things.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

64. they are never so strung out that they pick a fit strong male, usually women, elderly, less fit

[Shermann]

2. I'll always think of him as "Mr. Pink". nt

[MarineCombatEngineer]

3. Resevoir Dogs,

great movie.

[happybird]

5. Maybe his tipping habits

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finally got him punched in the face.

EDIT: Omg, I was making a joke about Mr. Pink, the character he played in Reservoir Dogs, in response to a comment about that character. The tipping thing is a famous bit from the movie.

I stepped away for a few hours after posting and didn’t realize what had happened… thank you to those who tried to clear it up.

I certainly don’t want anyone to think ill of Mr. Buscemi. From everything I’ve ever heard, he’s a kind, lovely person (which suggests he does tip well lol), and I wish him a speedy recovery.

[ornotna]

6. Do you have knowledge of his tipping habits?

[Shermann]

7. He doesn't tip merely because society says he has to.

If somebody really puts forth the effort, he’ll give them something extra.

[Dave says]

8. I wish I didn't know that

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I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve seen him do. However …

No tipping? F him.

Does he vote Republican?

On edit: I’ve been corrected. It was Mr. Pink who did not believe in tipping, in Reservoir Dogs. I am again a big fan.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. It's a line from the movie Reservoir Dogs

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[Dave says]

28. Thank you. I feel foolish.

He is a wonderful, gifted actor.

[happybird]

42. Thank you for posting these clips

I was away for several hours after posting and didn’t realize until now people thought I was talking about Mr. Buscemi, himself. I just left a note/edit on my original post.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Mr Pink doesn't tip

Not Buscemi. There's great clips and convos amongst Tarantino fans about this almost 30 years later.

[jimfields33]

14. Thankfully you can like him again.

[Dave says]

27. O my! Of course, this makes sense

Sorry Steve B, you are a wonderful actor (says the “film buff” from Jackson Heights, born a few months after you - I might need to stop calling myself a film buff).

[Doc Sportello]

16. He is a strong Democrat

Who I have seen at least at two Democratic conventions. He was also pictured at the March in Washington after dump was sworn in, standing next to a sign that read "Shut the fuck up, Donnie." That was BTW, also a movie reference like the tipping comment.

[Dave says]

25. This is how I understood him

I did not realize the tipping remark referred to Mr. Pink, even though I’ve seen Reservoir Dogs multiple times (I love it!).

[Doc Sportello]

32. It went by me the first time I looked at it too

Hey he didn't want to be Mr. Pink anyway.

[former9thward]

19. You don't know that.

A character he played in a movie does not tip.

[Dave says]

26. Yes, Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs, a good film

My mistake, I feel a little goofy.

[former9thward]

20. It was a movie line.

Not real life.

[Dave says]

29. I've been corrected

[GenThePerservering]

39. Stay tuned

there will be at least five more people coming along here to say the same thing. I guess people don't read.

[marble falls]

35. That's rationalization. He'll over pay the restaurant without a bleat, and stiffs someone making under minimum ...

... wage from the same price gouging owner. And the server also tips out bartenders, busboys and hostesses out of the nothing thoughtless people who stiff servers leave them. Let him try to serve himself at the same time as all the other patrons, dealing with a kitchen, bartenders, dishwashers. I wish him luck. It is a crime and totally outrageous what happened to him, I wish him full recovery ans some justice out of the ordeal - but he's a major jerk about tipping. Why give recognition to firefighters at ground zero - they were only doing the job they were paid to do, right?

[Shermann]

47. You know what this is?

It's the world's smallest violin playing just for the waitresses.

[marble falls]

58. So you're a Democrat who doesn't stand up for the working poor, for someone who actually gets less than .....

... minimum wage, $2.13 an hour. Anti-union are you, also?

[Shermann]

61. Maybe watch the video in post 10?

Then maybe read posts 12, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 39, 42, and 44.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. It's from the movie:

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[robbob]

22. It's a scene from the movie Reservoir Dogs

See clip below…

…oops, I mean above!

[Dave says]

30. Yes, I've been corrected. Mr Pink!

Steve did a wonderful job in that film.

[robbob]

44. Sorry, I posted my reply

Before scrolling down and finding 5 other people had already corrected you, with clips! It’s hard having a wry sense of humour, isn’t it? 😂

[Initech]

38. He'll always be Donny from the Big Lebowski to me!

"SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY!!!"

[ProudMNDemocrat]

43. He complained about his name.

"Why am I Mr. Pink? Why can't I be Mr. White or something?"

I first saw Steve Buscemi in a film about a gay writer dying of AIDS in PARTING GLANCES.

[Celerity]

11. Buscemi's "Boardwalk Empire" co-star Michael Stuhlbarg was hit in the back of the neck with a rock while walking in

Manhattan’s Central Park on March 31. Stuhlbarg chased his attacker, who was taken into custody outside the park.



Police released a surveillance image of Steve Buscemi's alleged attacker, dark baseball hat, blue T-shirt, black pants, and white sneakers

[ornotna]

13. If that's him

I hope they find him and make his life miserable. Anyone who would randomly attack another needs to be outed.

[RussBLib]

17. Blue T-shirt is a pretty big guy

...looks like he could do some damage, but he doesn't look like the TicToc challenge kind of guy.

Maybe a personal grudge of some kind.

Hate that random violence shit.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[LT Barclay]

31. Look again, he has nothing from below the ribs down. Legs and core are the foundation of strength. I wouldn't want to

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have to grapple with him, but 9 years of martial arts says he propably can't punch very hard.
I had a very tough instructor and guys like him usually would only last about 3 months.

[GenThePerservering]

40. He looks weak in the legs

like a lot of gym bros, 'leg day' doesn't exist. You can destabilize someone like that and once he's down, he won't get up as fast as I can run.

[LT Barclay]

49. Exactly.

[captain queeg]

15. I liked his portrayal of kruschev in "death of Stalin".

[Retrograde]

18. Same here

He played a credible Krushchev, despite the skinniness and the American accent (but then the Soviet higher-ups came from all over the Soviet Union and would have different accents)

One of my favorite movies - it also has Michael Palin as a nebbishy Molotov.

[hardluck]

23. Great movie!

It’s a family favorite here.

[captain queeg]

24. I loved the scene where Kruschev was trying to recruit Zuekov to the plot

I’m sure I didn’t spell his name correctly but the highly decorated general. He looked at Kruschev seriously and said he have to report the conversation, then started laughing.

[usonian]

36. We read Notes from the Underground in high school.

Zverkov was a big hit. We couldn’t stop chortling for weeks.

[Celerity]

65. Georgy Zhukov

Red sash:

FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY DECORATES RUSSIAN GENERALS AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE IN BERLIN, GERMANY, 12 JULY 1945.

The Deputy Supreme Commander in Chief of the Red Army, Marshal G Zhukov, the Commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, Marshal K Rokossovsky and General Sokolovsky of the Red Army leave the Brandenburg Gate after the ceremony.

[JoseBalow]

21. Seymour

[NanaCat]

41. I guess he thought he lived in a world

Where he could walk down the street without some thug attacking him. I don't think we live in that world, anymore, and haven't for quite a long time now. Seems like most celebrities and even government officials are having to hide behind ever-deeper layers of bodyguards and other security measures.

A while back I read something in a Dorothy Sayers & Jill Walsh book that played back to me on hearing about Mr Buscemi's attack:

Once you have secured to yourself the sort of government that nobody dares to criticise, the way is open for the bulletproof car, the bodyguard armed to the teeth, and the iron hell of a discipline tightened to hysteria.

--from Thrones, Dominations

Or maybe America has always been a violent nation, led by a violent government, and thus it's no surprise when so many of its citizens are violent.

[LeftInTX]

48. Did Steve ask for a clean mug? Was Danny Trejo running lose in NYC?

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[DemocratInPa]

59. I knew someone was going to get him back for

Almost sending Tony into the house during Tony's dream after Junior shot him on the Sopranos.

[Traurigkeit]

60. America has always been a violent nation, led by a violent government, and thus it's no surprise when so many

of its citizens are violent.

[True Dough]

62. UPDATE: Arrest made

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[ornotna]

63. On the plus side

He won't have to stay in the homeless shelter for awhile.