Two Off-Duty Cops Jumped in Washington Heights

A gang of five trailed a pair of off-duty cops in Washington Heights around midnight last night and jumped them in an attempted robbery that did not go well. Things went sideways for the assailants almost immediately when one of them initiated the attack by picking up a wooden folding chair from the trash and hitting one of the officers on the back of the head with it.

The approach has been known to work with professional wrestlers, but they typically use a metal chair, and in this case the wooden version just shattered into pieces. In the ensuing brawl, the officer shot the chair-wielder in the neck; he was rushed to Harlem Hospital and is listed in stable condition. Two other suspects were arrested, and police are looking for as many as seven other men who may have joined in the attack once it kicked off.

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By John Del Signore in News on May 30, 2008 10:37 AM

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purplerodriguez

dr zippy, Harlem hosp is a trauma center, and presbyterian is not.

sonyactivision

I would have taken them to a spot three blocks from Woodhull and pointed the direction there.

yoplay

bankers wear a lot of pink, hit the gym and they are azz f'ing people all the time... and I believe it makes them feel pretty masculine.

I do think it would be great to remove the gyms, then they would come out fat, and they'd having nothing left to do but watch american idol and assimilate.

FrankMartin

zodak,

Your link is an article about texas. While I wrote about Alabama. So you didn't link a story "about it" here there or anywhere. Maybe you were patting yourself on the back so hard you couldn't read.

Snoopy

I believe the hero sheriff of Maricopa county in Arizona gives the boys pink underwear. That will calm them down.

zodak

"Not sure they still do it but in the mid 90s some Alabama prisons made inmates wear pink jumpsuits."

ummm, yeah, i linked to the story about it here.

Rocknrope

What the cops shoulda done is give them all a good piledriver, Orndorff chair style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stkVCATJhVA

UnrepentantFenian

Skells who smack people with chairs and try to take what's not theirs go to shitty city hospitals...slowly.

PBRK

Do like in Superjail and dress everyone in bunny and wolf uniforms.

savior78

FrankMartin, it's not about humiliating them, but about feminizing them. See, jerking off still counts as a form of masculinity.

But I'm not going to even try to convince you that this is a good idea. Have a lovely pink day.

FrankMartin

Not sure they still do it but in the mid 90s some Alabama prisons made inmates wear pink jumpsuits. Why? Said inmates liked to jerk-off in from of female guards. I suppose the pink was supposed to humiliate them. Which begs the question, can you humiliate someone who goes to prison and jerks off in the yard? I'm thinking gloves with a no slip palms might be more effective.

jaja007

I love stories like this that have a happy ending.

Anna_Merkin

That's awesome. It reminds me of the time that some Special Forces friends of mine were out at a bar and some idiots tried to start trouble over a pool game. It didn't work out too well for the trouble makers.

nomnomnom

@dr zippy i think the city/EMS takes any injured people to designated hospitals.

zodak

savior78: i agree, pink jumpsuits is a good idea

donner

I'm assuming the assailants didn't know they were messing with off-duty cops?

savior78

i remember someone saying that they should take away the gym from prisons and teach the inmates ballet lessons instead. they should also get rid of the orange jumpsuits and put on the inmates pink ballet dresses, adorned with Hello-Kitty stickers.

that'll take away the whole masculinity bullshit, don't you think?

of course, this was proposed once and the human rights group went nutso over it.

Dirk

Yeah, those attackers got what they deserved. They're lucky the cops didn't shoot all of them.

dr zippy

Why would they rush someone to Harlem Hospital, which is more than 30 blocks away, when they are only five blocks from Columbia-Presbyterian's emergency room?