Gothamist: Yarmulke Robber Gets Hit by Car

Think twice

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:21:04 -0500

Karma, gotta love it. "Allah Fubar!" lol #23

jpeditor

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:52:12 -0500

Allah Fubar! (after pausing a second after logging in, to "submit"....

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:45:44 -0500

Too funny. anyone got the vid?

tien mao

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:43:59 -0500

@Rocknrope - that's funniest comment i've read on the internet in a long time. well, at least this week.

edEx

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:38:40 -0500

that's a shame.

Colochita

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:11:41 -0500

Sommelier - waiting for what, exactly? How many mosques do you plan to visit tomorrow to find out what's being said?

thelostl

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:37:51 -0500

Thanks Jen; from what I read of other news stories where the MTA booth employees witnessed bad stuff like this, they do have a system by which they can contact the police and whatnot in their booths, perhaps a button of some kind...I guess I had just been hoping for the MTA guy to say he had done that or would do that. Thanks for reading.

Sommelier

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:34:02 -0500

Let's see how many Imams read this story in their mosques and instruct their young Muslims that this is not the way to live their lives, and that shouting "God is great" while committing a crime is, clearly, blasphemy. I'm waiting.

Jen Chung

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:11:29 -0500

thelostl, that's a crazy story. Re: calling and taking photos on your own cellphone, sure you can do that, but I totally understand the desire to tell someone who actually works in the system, because they might also have a prepared response.

zodak

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:09:53 -0500

"(I'm well aware that MTA employees aren't supposed to leave their booths during these kinds of situations)" so what did you want him to do exactly? "when I got outside, ten people had their cell phones out" 10 people who did the right thing: stay at the scene & give information to the authorities to help find the criminals. even a blurry photo of the terrorists would have been helpful.

HowBoutDemCowboys

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:06:38 -0500

"Allah-hu, ack! Car!" GENIUS!

HowBoutDemCowboys

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:06:02 -0500

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands." -Friedrich Nietzsche

Rocknrope

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:50:20 -0500

Ok, one more... Allah-hu, ack! Car! I'm done.

Rocknrope

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:48:23 -0500

"He couldn't move. He broke his leg. He was crying." God is indeed great.

thelostl

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:14:57 -0500

I also spoke to the police when they arrived, kids were running too fast for pictures.

thelostl

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:13:38 -0500

...when I got outside, ten people had their cell phones out, so I thought adding to the 911 phone lines would have obviously been moot. Thanks, though, Zodak, for your reprimand, I guess approaching the most immediately available city authority was not action enough. The Internet rules.

zodak

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:09:25 -0500

thelostl: why didn't you use your cell phone & call the police? or take pictures of the criminals with your cell phone camera? stop blaming others for your inaction.

FrankMartin

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:00:34 -0500

thelost: don't let the bastards get you down. Good on you for doing something! And CARma is a bitch!

Ph

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:57:44 -0500

You're not from here are you thelostl.

thelostl

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:44:22 -0500

I live in Park Slope and saw this incident as it was happening around 6:30 on Tuesday. I came out of the stop and the four boys were running in all directions, with one dressed in red holding a yarmulke and charging out of the station toward Fourth Avenue. The Hasidic man yelled "GIVE IT BACK, GIVE IT BACK!" as he chased after the boy in red. I approached the MTA man in the booth at the time and said, "Sir, I think four boys are harassing a Hasidic man." Before I was able to say anything else or request that he call the authorities (I'm well aware that MTA employees aren't supposed to leave their booths during these kinds of situations), the MTA employee (a white man with a grey moustache, whose booth and badge number I did not get) glared at me and said, "Yeah, ya think that's what's happening?" He didn't say anything else; he just kept glaring. So I walked out, feeling really disturbed that that's the reaction an MTA employee would have after I approached him about the kind of bias crime we were both witnessing at the same time. Of course, the article describes what I saw next; a crowd gathered around the yarmulke thief who had been hit by a car. The Hasidic man was on his cell phone, and the boy kept yelling, "GET HIM AWAY FROM ME!" The whole scene left me feeling a lot of dread about these sorts of Subway harassment situations and the lack of recourse New Yorkers may have from Subway authorities. I hope, at least, that the MTA employee was just angry that I had approached him about the situation and had already contacted authorities, although his rudeness was really disheartening.

cary whittier

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:36:31 -0500

Religions sure are funny!

thenamesdave

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:32:28 -0500

God, why do you insist on causing more problems than you solve?

virgil

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:32:15 -0500

Hit by a Volvo: that's Park slope karma.

Muscley Armed Paper Boy

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:16:59 -0500

"Bias" crimes like this are strange. How can the three Muslim youths possibly think they are better than a Jewish youth? They are delusional, and if I ever hear someone yelling "Allah-hu Akbar" on the street I will expect the blast of a suicide bomb to follow.