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Watch This Bronx Man Bravely Stave Off Thugs…With an Apple!
- Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:29pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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NBC New York reports:
A heroic Bronx parking garage worker thwarted a robbery when he somehow managed to push a suspect wielding a massive butcher knife and his alleged accomplice out of the building, police said.
The attendant’s weapon of choice? An apple.
Authorities say two suspects, one armed with a knife, walked into the garage on East 143 Street just before 5:30 p.m. Sunday and demanded cash. When the 58-year-old victim refused, the armed suspect stabbed him in the torso, police said. The suspects fled the scene without any property.
Watch the incident here:
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Comments (53)
sister1_rm
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 11:36amThe lethal apple. Better than a box of mac and cheese, not as good as a firearm, but apparently it works in a pinch. I’m going to have to start carrying fruit to supplement my arsenal.
Report Post »Bhaub
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:43amWhew, good thing it was a white guy getting attacked, or we wouldn’t care, right Blazers?
Report Post »strongtexan
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 9:14amHow do you like them apples boy??!!!
Report Post »whoopi_goldberg
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 8:52amIMO these are poor excuses of humans, they are cowards, running from an old man and a loaded APPLE. My people would have brought real guns…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 8:43amWow, If that guy had a bannana, he could have the French surrendering to him in an hour!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 7:34amStop it everyone. Obviously the old guy was rich, and the two were merely redistributing wealth. If it had been a gang on them doing it NBC would of called it a wonderful protest.
Report Post »ramburner
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 7:19amWon’t play here either. Also, please get rid of the banner at the bottom of this page. We know how to get to the next article.
The real story here is; where are our morals as a nation? Why can’t we be proud like Japan was proud when after the tsunami hit there was no looting and crime. People actually helped each other. The bottom line is; our society has been stolen from those who really love this country by the progressives who had to re-write the text books in order to convince our children that Marxism was best.
When will we return to God as a nation and embrace the Constitution, begin to love our fellow people again and get rid of ALL of those progressives in Washington who have stolen our country?
Report Post »paulsfam4
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 4:15amA Apple a day will keep the liberals away
Report Post »Beyond
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:45amDangerous weapon, get apples out of schools now
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 8:44amApples don’t kill people, tangerines do.
Report Post »BIGPAPAPUMP
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:40amApples don’t kill people, people kill people. Pretty strange weapon of choice.
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:12amHard core thugs verse apple core attendant…win one for the underdog!
Report Post »BarbWire
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:59pmWow! Some people are really desparate for other people’s money.
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:28pmWon’t play outside the US.
On the report is said he was treated and released. But if he was holding a KFC chicken leg he would of used that too fight of an attacker. You do what ever is needed to save ones life have it be an apple or a Desert Eagle .50 AE.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:03pmTwo hispanic males just doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
Report Post »Scratchingmyhead
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:57pmWill not play for me neither. Maybe because I’m using a PC and not an Apple!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:55pmOh look! Black people organized long enough to ROB people. Martin Luther King, Jr would be so proud of how you two have used the freedoms he died to give you.
Good Grief black community. Is it any wonder you still suffer racism issues today?
I went to a doctor appointment with my wife today. A well dressed black man was the doctor and he impressed me. When he left the room I said to my wife, “Wow. He managed to educate himself in THIS country and is a doctor now. What is everyone elses excuse?”
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:54pmanother video that won’t play.
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:50pmEmily – typo’s “watch this bronx bravely stave off thugs” bronx what? no one else said anything – guess I’m the only crazed perfectionist reading.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:56pmWell, you may be crazed but you’re not quite a perfectionist. You missed a few caps, and made a possessive of a word you meant to be plural …
(just lightheartedly ribbing you)
Report Post »musicory
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:46pmVideo is here: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man-Stabbed-With-Huge-Butcher-Knife-in-Thwarted-Robbery-120866429.html
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:07pmThanks for the vid.link. The one on the Blaze was useless.
Report Post »BarbWire
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:01amThanks for the post. I couldn’t make the one on Blaze play.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 5:29am“GLENN BECK TURNS TO NBC FOR WORKING VIDEO”
Report Post »Too funny…..
KEA
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:39pmStill wont play!
Report Post »Acts_19
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:37pm2 words – Open Carry – Nuff said!
Report Post »Native Texan
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:36pmMaybe folks from the Bronx and Texans have something in common. Like West Texas tolit paper, we don’t take a lot of crap off of anyone.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 2:36amin Montana we use John Wand paper
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:34pmHow come everytime you see someone wearing a ball cap, they’re:
Report Post »1) Never playing baseball
2) Usually a gangbanger, or a wannabe gangbanger
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:39pmAt least they’re not crying, cause there is no crying in baseball.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:40pmWell, at least these two knew the bill belongs at the front.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:32pmTime for apple control. Did that apple have any rail attachments?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:40pmTwo more crooks that are rotten to the core.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:41pmTomorrows headlines:
“Attendant defends himself with an apple in the Big Apple.”
Report Post »“Big Apple bans apples from city due to security risks of people being attacked by hostile apples.”
CatB
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:30pmWon’t play
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:38pmHe was just playting “Apple Core, whose your friend?”
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:40pmVery brave attendant indeed. Of course now New York will probably ban the apple from all parts of the Big Apple since it now has been used for self defense and therefore could be used to harm a person who is attacking someone.
Note, sarcasm in the last sentence is intentional and directed at anyone who agrees with it.
This guy had guts to face down a man with a butcher knife indeed. Glad he was not hurt.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 10:45pm@Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}–Don’t forget the Biblical connotation after all it was the woman who bit the apple. They will ban all apples now.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:05pmWon’t play here either.
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:21pmWow, I guess when the first lady said she wants us “get healthy” some people took her very seriously.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:24pmSnow;
I may have mis-read the article, but I believe he may have been injured: “When the 58-year-old victim refused, the armed suspect stabbed him in the torso, police said.” I hope he is alright.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 11:42pmthis is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! compare the kenyan birth certificate that lucas smith said he bribed officials in kenya to get (pay close attention to the dates/time of birth) to the certificate of birth released by the white house yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:03amWas that apple Granny Smyth?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:16amCat, click on
NBC New York “reports:” above the story and under the photograph, and it will take you to a video that works.
I had to watch it twice. One man, fighting off two Hispanics, with an apple! Unreal! I‘m glad that he’s okay. I hope they catch the guys. NBC NY gave a good description of the two.
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 4:58amWhat a skilled guy. Good for him.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 5:25am@Showtime
I had to watch it twice. One man, fighting off two Hispanics, with an apple! Unreal! I‘m glad that he’s okay. I hope they catch the guys. NBC NY gave a good description of the two.
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Report Post »Are you kidding?? Is NBC racist?? How dare them help those mean old cops catch two Hispanics. How racist can a network get??
MUCH SARCASM INTENDED
jbl8199
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:42pmGlad to see I’m not the only one. Not playing here either.
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