I guess the 1000 members of the NY National Guard "patrolling" the subways haven't made the city safe. Woman, 71, heading to New Year's Day church service fights back when teen girls attack, try to rob her in NYC subway station
This story highlights the fact that attitude counts for a lot.
This attack, by 4 teens, against Linda Rosa, a 71-year-old woman, went on for a while. She screamed, "I need assistance," but none came.
“The first person kept fighting,” Rosa said. “She punched me in my face and I have my glasses on, and I have a cut on my nose. When she punched me in my face, my glasses flew to the floor.”
“Meanwhile the other young lady was still trying to distract me to get my pocketbook or go into my purse, to snatch something out of my purse,” she recalled.
The teen ended up grabbing a pocket pouch that held Rosa’s ID and medical records, she said.
The detail that matters is that she fought back.
“I got an impression in me that she was going to stomp me again, but she was going to aim towards my head,” she said. “So I got up right away, and with that, I grabbed her braids and twirled them around my right hand, and then I pulled her down. She had her head down. Then the other young lady said, ‘Let her go.’ And I said, ‘Oh, no, I’m not letting her go.’”
The senior yelled out for someone to help her – when she noticed that the second teen had tossed her pocket pouch to the ground and was coming toward her again.
“So out of nowhere, I grabbed her hair and twisted it around my left hand,” Rosa said. “So I had them both facedown….[like] rams when they’re getting ready to fight.”
In the end, they punched Linda Rosa in the face, and cut her nose. They got away with nothing, but ended up on subway surveillance video. Click thru if you want to see these choir girls.
The Governor of New York, was just recently telling everyone how safe the subway is, and when you travel with armed security, it probably is safe. They also increased the number of national guard members in the subway. That didn't seem to have any effect either.
Now crime can happen to anyone, anywhere, but in large parts of the country the Criminal Justice System is trying to put the bad guys behind bars. In the Blue Cities, the Criminal Justice System seems to be dedicated to increasing crime. New York seems to go out of its way to make it easier on criminals.
Linda Rosa had only the security she could provide herself. She called for help, none came. Now things could have been very different if these teens were armed, but it is a story with a mostly happy ending.
Ms. Rosa is a Christian and has forgiven the girls, and thinks they are just teens acting like teens. Personally I think it is more indicative of the downfall of civilization. See this link on Hobbes' Leviathan for a bit about what the world is like, when law and order break down. (Were you attacking random people when you were a teenager? I didn't think so.)
Graham Combat Killhouse Rules |
- NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOU. Whether an event lasts a few seconds, a few hours, or even a few days – you have to work as though nobody is coming to save you.
- You are your savior, so start working because EVERYTHING IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. You are your security, you are your medic, you are your rescuer.
- You are your own best resource to SAVE WHO NEEDS TO BE SAVED. Nobody wants to save your life more than you, so set yourself up for success by having the simple tools and knowledge to do so: do what you can with what you have. Recognize that nobody is in a better position to start saving your life than you.
- Sometimes saving lives means you have to KILL WHO NEEDS TO BE KILLED. It has been almost 15 years since I first wrote “the more effective you are at taking a life, the more successful you’ll be at saving one” and nothing in the intervening time has changed my mind. Be swift, be decisive, be final.
- Mostly, ALWAYS BE WORKING. There is always something you can be doing to improve your position. Always. Because nobody is coming to save you.
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