Slice & Dice in NYC
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:42 pm
Could have merely requested permission to move ahead in line. After all, New Yorkers are some of the nicest people; especially if you're carrying the TB. Buffy & Jodie, what are your thoughts?
Subway Rider Sliced in Power Saw Attack
NEW YORK (AP) -- A man grabbed two cordless power saws off a subway station workbench and went on a rampage Thursday, swinging the saws at riders and slicing open a man's chest before running away, police said.
The 64-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Police were searching for the suspect, described by witnesses as a thin man in his 30s, who had earrings in both ears and was possibly carrying a teddy bear.
The attack occurred before dawn at a subway station a few blocks south of Columbia University.
Wielding a saw in each hand, the man took a swipe at one rider on a platform and missed, police said. Moments later, he cut into the man's chest at a turnstile before bolting out of the station, still carrying the power tools, which were later found in a trash can.
Police were reviewing security camera videotape.
The attack came two weeks after a Boston man was charged with stabbing four people - three of them tourists - over a 13-hour period in the subway and the theater district in Manhattan.