This is actually a friend who is near and dear to me and I get sick even reading about this. However, I must defend her and her boyfriend. You have to understand that his #1 concern was her and getting her help and therefore he made sure he called the cops/ambulance rather than taking time to kill the guy. Let it be known that the guy was terribly injured and though he put up a fight, her boyfriend prevailed in the end WHILE managing to dial 911. He is truly a hero. As far as her not coming up immediately, she is a friendly and outgoing girl and at 7:00 at night he most likely assumed she was chatting, etc. in the hallway with the neighbors like she is known to do. He has an instinct and went with it, so we have to respect that and thank God that she is OK.

I have always made sure that people I am expecting are safely on their way or people I drop off are in their apartments. I ask them to call me and if they don't, I call them after a few minutes. I have also been known to wait outside a person's place to see the lights go on and if they have visble windows, I ask them to give me a thumbs up. They probably think I'm being silly but I want to know they are safe. And I have always insisted that guys do the same with me when dropping me off or when I am expected to visit.

After reading this, I am glad I have always insisted on this small act.

New York is a crazy place where this type of stuff can happen in broad daylight to a nun. I don't know why I'm so weirded out by this brazen act-- but I intend to keep doing my check-ups even if my family & friends laugh at my insistence.

Do these monkeys just walk around with erections all the time? 'I have boner. time to rape.' filthy sub-humans.

Good job, boyfriend. I hope he subdued the crap out of him. Then I hope the perp "resisted arrest". Where are the sodomizing cops when you need them?

"matty - No, it's not legal, but there would be a pretty good chance of jury nullification."

Came here to say this. All you need is one guy on that jury and you'll never see the inside of a cell.

/I threw a baby killer down a flight of stairs once and I don't have a criminal record.

Jeez, I live in one of maybe five non-doorman buildings on 5th Ave in the Village - I'm gonna be more careful when my GF rings up!

"hopefully "was able to subdue" is journalist speak for "beat the everloving shit out of."

"Subdue?"

"With extreme prejudice."

@zodak:

and every girl's nightmare too. It's everyone's nightmare I guess!

Suddenly my boyfriend's insistence at meeting me either in the vestibule or at the train or bus stop is even sweeter than I initially thought.

Also, "was able to subdue" the attacker has a wide range of definitions - hopefully "was able to subdue" is journalist speak for "beat the everloving shit out of."

this is like every guy's nightmare.

"I followed her into the building so I could rob her." What did you use as holdup weapon, your dick?

matty - No, it's not legal, but there would be a pretty good chance of jury nullification.

Justice is often served when these guys get to prison...rapists and child abusers tend to be locked away in special housing units so the general population can't get to them. they are at the bottom of the food chain and tend to get beaten on a regular basis. corrections officers just look the other way.

can you legally kill a person if you catch them doing this? I guess it wouldn't be self defense but I think I'd take the chance.

*learned from internship

I hope the bf kicked him right in the groin. Hopefully not once, but many times there.

If I had buzzed my boyfried and didn't show up in a few minutes, you can bet your ass that he would have been looking for me right away. It's good that the BF got to her, but bad that she was already getting raped when he got to her.....

The rapist should be put in a bucket of acid, then thrown in shark infested salt water...ha ha

can you legally kill a person if you catch them doing this? I guess it wouldn't be self defense but I think I'd take the chance.

hey, that guitar hero game is addicting.

Rapists and molesters of any kind have to be lowest of the scum walking the earth. They should be locked up in some rat infested hole until they die.

Seriously, I would have made that call about 5 minutes later, after choking him out unconcious and then curb-stomping his face apart.