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Almost ten months ago, postal worker MIchael Steinberg was going to work and taking the train at 110th Street and Broadway. But then Tareyton Williams grabbed two electric, reciprocating saws from a Transit Authority contractor's work table and sawed into Steinberg's chest as he threatened passengers. Williams, who pleaded guilty after being found fit for trial ( in spite of him carrying a huge stuffed gorilla like a baby before the attack), was sentenced to 18 years in prison yesterday.
Steinberg said at the sentencing that he's still afraid to go into the subway. "To be honest, I'm afraid to walk the streets at times. I wasn't afraid of nothing. Now I'm afraid of everything and everybody." Williams apologized again at the trial, saying, "I feel real bad for what happened to his family, but I guess I'll pay for it," which Steinberg accepted. Williams had also sent him a letter last year, inviting Steinberg to the strip club where he had worked as a bouncer.
Steinberg, who suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs - not to mention the whole sliced-open chest thing - and even told his story to the media after the incident, said he forgave Williams because "we're all God's children," but said, "I don't forgive the Transit Authority." Steinberg contends that subway employees saw him get attacked but did nothing to help; the MTA says that some of the workers were contractors, not official TA employees, and that the token booth clerk had called the police. But the AP reports that the Manhattan DA's office announced that "power tools would no longer be left unattended in the future," which is reassuring but it makes ou wonder why they were unattended in the first place.
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I'm sure a big fat lawsuit against the TA will be filed quite soon, if indeed it hasn't been filed already/
They should make it a law, like in Europe, that if you don't help someone, you're just as liable!
I still can't believe those TA workers (contractor's or not) ran away.
"They should make it a law, like in Europe, that if you don't help someone, you're just as liable!"
ok i know we love to hate ourselves here in 'merica and can't do nothing but jerk off over how great it would be to join the european union of socialist republics and all but think about this for .3 seconds:
- you're on the train.
- DUDE GRABS TWO POWER SAWS
- DUDE CUTS INTO SOME POOR FUCKING GUY OH GOD OH GOD BLOOD'S FUCKING EVERYWHERE
- everyone else on the train who got sprayed and freaked the fuck out because - i repeat - DUDE CUT SOME POOR FUCKING GUY WITH TWO POWER SAWS is liable?
"They should make it a law, like in Europe, that if you don't help someone, you're just as liable!"
ok i know we love to hate ourselves here in 'merica and can't do nothing but jerk off over how great it would be to join the european union of socialist republics and all but think about this for .3 seconds:
- you're on the train.
- DUDE GRABS TWO POWER SAWS
- DUDE CUTS INTO SOME POOR FUCKING GUY OH GOD OH GOD BLOOD'S FUCKING EVERYWHERE
- everyone else on the train who got sprayed and freaked the fuck out because - i repeat - DUDE CUT SOME POOR FUCKING GUY WITH TWO POWER SAWS is liable?
Well... it wasn't quite like that. It was 3 in the morning, and it was in a nearly empty station, not on a train. The power saws belonged to the track workers who didn't do anything, so not only did they stand around and watch a guy getting sawed nearly to death, they did so knowing that the killer was using saws they had negligently left lying around. Obviously the "oh god, blood's fucking everywhere" response still applies, but I feel like these weren't exactly the most innocent of bystanders, as you make them out to be.
Still, a Good Samaritan law reminds me of the final episode of Seinfeld...
"Williams had also sent him a letter last year, inviting Steinberg to the strip club where he had worked as a bouncer."
Classy.
Good Samaritan laws are bullshit.
You can not legislate how people should react in a moment of crisis or danger.
The man with the saw was responsible. No one else.
Remember when Harmid Karzai was almost assassinated by a gunman? Two "good samaritans" grabbed him and pulled him away. All three were mowed down by Navy SEALS.
So much for trying to help.
"The power saws belonged to the track workers who didn't do anything, so not only did they stand around and watch a guy getting sawed nearly to death, they did so knowing that the killer was using saws they had negligently left lying around. Obviously the "oh god, blood's fucking everywhere" response still applies, but I feel like these weren't exactly the most innocent of bystanders, as you make them out to be."
there's no polite way to say "are you really going to attack someone with two saws in a city where it is goddamn fucking illegal for law-abiding citizens to carry weapons?" so, uh...yeah.
yes, they were negligent, but that doesn't mean you can expect unarmed people to do shit to someone with a fucking power saw. really.
Transit workers make a habit of meandering along the platforms and tracks - yes, meandering - in groups, doing nothing. It's not a lot to ask them to pick up their tools or try to help someone who's potentially being murdered because they didn't.
They weren't transit workers, they were contractors for SIEMENS-AG installing an upgraded PA/information system [that still doesn't work].
could noone unplug them???