NY metro mugger wields power saws

[acmejack]

A passenger on New York's subway system has been attacked and injured by a man wielding two hand-held power saws.

Michael Steinberg, 64, described how his assailant looked straight at him before launching an unprovoked attack and demanding money.

"I think he was out of his mind. He was trying to cut right through me," Mr Steinberg said from hospital.

New York police arrested Tareyton Williams, 33, on suspicion of attempted murder hours after the attack.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5157500.stm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. 12 volt or 14.4 volt? I think its important.

Let me guess, Osama sent him to terra-ize the subways.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Power tools need to be licensed !!!

KIDDING !

[farmbo]

3. Would have been much worse, but he couldn't find an outlet...:)

eom

[bryant69]

4. That's pretty creepy.

And would make a good movie image.

Screw "Snakes on a Plane!" We got Saws on a Subway!

Bryant
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[Up2Late]

5. This is no Joke! Here's the New York Daily News story

(I thought about posting this in LBN, but thought it too local or too disturbing. I just did a search, and it looks like when someone did post it in LBN, it got moved to the DU Lounge)

Subway sawing psycho

'I'm dying! He killed me!' yells victim during savage attack

BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA, RICH SCHAPIRO, PETE DONOHUE and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

A maniacal ex-con randomly carved up a 64-year-old man with two power saws in a Manhattan subway station early yesterday - moments after stealing the tools from a construction crew, police and witnesses said.

"He stabbed me in the heart! Help me!" postal worker Michael Steinberg screamed as his 6-foot-tall attacker stood over him, madly revving the black-and-yellow cordless saws.

"I'm dying! He killed me!" Steinberg gasped before the silent, blood-splattered psycho stole $200 and several credit cards from his pockets and fled from the 110th St. station, witnesses told the Daily News.

In the intensive care unit at St. Luke's Hospital several hours after the ghastly 3:22 a.m. attack, Steinberg said, "I was sure, I was positive, I was a dead man."

(more at link) <http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/433259p-364947c.html>

[Up2Late]

6. Related story: 'Positive I was a dead man ...I was bleeding everyplace'

(It was a Dewalt Cordless Reciprocating Saw, a man was almost hacked to death, this is not a joke,)

'Positive I was a dead man ...I was bleeding everyplace'

His lung punctured and his body horribly scarred, Michael Steinberg described how a madman with two power saws attacked him early yesterday in a Manhattan subway station:

I usually start work at 2 in the morning. I was late for work.

I was waiting outside to put my MetroCard through. I saw a lot of ... running away down the platform and I saw this guy with a hacksaw, or whatever the hell it was, running toward me.

They ran away. I wasn't sure what everybody was running from. Then the guy came outside where I was standing. He looked at me and before I knew it he was attacking me.

The motor kept going on and he was trying to cut through me.

(more at link) <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/433141p-364929c.html>