Gothamist: Meals on Wheels Worker Fatally Shot in Brooklyn

chris lee

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:11:21 -0500

We live in a condition. This kind of story is just routine. They should rope off certain neighborhood and make money off of them as wildlife exhibits.

Snoopy

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:45:07 -0500

One more thing Shitof76 who says I have to go to work to survive? Ever hear of investing in your future? Renter! With your brains I bet you will be buying your first studio apartment in a refurbished walk up building in East Williamsburg.

Snoopy

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:09:21 -0500

Snarkof76, I really can't figure out why your mother still allows you to use her dial up service when you don't even contribute a part of your earnings from your paper route.

Spiritof76

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:20:07 -0500

So, that's a "No, still can't get a job," I take it. Enjoy your free time. You'll have lots of it. Nobody wants to hire a hotheaded, elderly pottymouth with no marketable skills.

Snoopy

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:08:03 -0500

SNARKY!? Shithead76 what do you call your comment,"So, Snoopy, how's that job search going? Are you tired of hearing "Get this senile old coot out of my office!" yet? Why don't you do everyone a favor and sign your "do not resuscitate" order right now?" You are really pathetic. Hopefully the boys in your hood realize that you are an easy mark and they serve you up properly.

Snoopy

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:03:50 -0500

What's the matter Shitof76, now you are speculating rather listening to the voice of reason and observation? Could you send me an invitation for your graduation from middle school or did your teacher hold you back for the tenth time?

Spiritof76

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:36:34 -0500

[16] What's your problem? I wasn't justifying it, just speculating on the motivation. Do you have anything constructive to say on the topic, or just wanted to be snarky?

Felix Hoenikker

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:59:56 -0500

Sad thing to be shot over a tray of mac'n cheese and lime jello.

TKaisen

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:11:44 -0500

I bet the creep thought the worker was a regular delivery driver and was hoping he'd be carrying cash from other deliveries. Oh, it's perfectly fine then.

r1b2

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:50:43 -0500

The tragedy is how something like this, based in stupidity, affects levels of volunteerism. Meals on Wheels does such crucially important work, it would be awful if the delivery job developed a dangerous reputation.

Ronkonkoma Ondinnonk

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:58:23 -0500

My sentiments exactly, Think_twice.

Quidnam

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:49:41 -0500

Woah, you guys need to decide whom you're going to focus your blame on here. Is it misanthropic "gangstas from the projects?" Or is it the kind of crime where we'll see "an increase of this crap ten-fold as more people become unemployed," as piggames suggests? Because I'm not sure how you really link one to the other. If the stereotypes about "project people" are true, they weren't gainfully employed in the first place. They're just going to go on "gang-banging" and such without much reference to the macroeconomic cycle we're in. Of course, I suppose it could have been an unemployed investment banker / disgruntled McCain voter in a hoodie (perhaps also in blackface). Presumably he also shot the meals on wheels worker due to his principled opposition to "socialism" and "spreading the wealth."

Spiritof76

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:47:48 -0500

So, Snoopy, how's that job search going? Are you tired of hearing "Get this senile old coot out of my office!" yet? Why don't you do everyone a favor and sign your "do not resuscitate" order right now? Don't worry Snoopy. Some of us actually saw your point and who it was (and wasn't) directed at. Oh? Who wasn't it directed at? Quote: "Tear down the projects with the occupants in them, but first release anyone over forty and under five." Sounds like "Kill all the men, women and children between the ages of 6 and 39 in the projects" to me, unless your understanding of English is different from mine.

Tar_Baby

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:34:04 -0500

I'm sure the guy thought he was being robbed and defended himself. Why are people so quick to judge?

Wza

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:21:05 -0500

Sad story. I hope they find the killer.

donner

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:10:48 -0500

Quick, before Hugo Mego gets here... It's all Obama's fault!!

Think twice

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:00:24 -0500

Nice one gangstas. Your plans to starve your home-bound neighbors to death might actually work. Sell. The. Projects.

UrbanCowgirl

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:59:57 -0500

I live in East Bushwick and, though there are no projects close by, everyone (and I do mean everyone) seems to wear a hoodie regardless of the weather. Hood up, of course. My super favorite that one guy wears daily is white with multi-colored guns and brass knuckles all over it. He could be the nicest guy ever, but it just screams "I did it!". I'm pretty sure he bought it at 'Hood Luv' on Bushwick Ave.

JacqueMehoff

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:54:45 -0500

any news on that Chinatown travel agency robbery? the news said they made out with $20K cash. and they have surveillance tape. God Bless the Projects.

piggames

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:51:21 -0500

No surprise here. Mark my words... there is going to be an increase of this crap ten-fold as more people become unemployed! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Can everyone spell chaos?

MT

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:48:37 -0500

Don't worry Snoopy. Some of us actually saw your point and who it was (and wasn't) directed at.

Snoopy

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:42:51 -0500

Spit76 you should get a job with the FBI with your forensic skills. Those project thugs would kill a person for a stick of gum. I know I hit a sensitive spot when I said projects since you live in one yourself. Also it's not only blacks that live in projects, so I am not racist when I say tear down the projects. On a closing note, I like Obama, but then again he's only half black. Is that what you want me to say?

Spiritof76

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:35:52 -0500

Racism? What racism? Just because Snoopy hates all black people but will make grudging exceptions for the very young and the very old doesn't necessarily mean he's a closeted KKK member who's still bitter that things aren't as they were in his youth, before the "coloreds" got civil rights. I bet the creep thought the worker was a regular delivery driver and was hoping he'd be carrying cash from other deliveries.

Snoopy

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:25:10 -0500

"the police are "looking for a black male in his 20s wearing a hooded sweatshirt" That should narrow the search to about 8,000 thugs. Are those animals for real out there. Tear down the projects with the occupants in them, but first release anyone over forty and under five.