Mugging and knif attack near Italian Market

**EdMundo** · 11-16-2012, 11:58 AM

Heads up folks. Keep an eye on your surroundings. Hopefully they'll catch this clown soon.

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**Volanova** · 11-16-2012, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by EdMundo

Heads up folks. Keep an eye on your surroundings. Hopefully they'll catch this clown soon.

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Too bad he didn't do this to someone with an LTCF.

Here's to hoping they catch the animal.

**EdMundo** · 11-16-2012, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by Volanova

Too bad he didn't do this to someone with an LTCF.

Yeah, because a gun is so useful when someone sneaks up from behind and slashes your face open.

When you're on the ground in an expanding pool of your own blood, in shock, screaming for help and trembling uncontrollably from the massive dose of adrenaline that just entered your brain, that's when you've got to pull your piece and show this punk who's in control.

**Eastcoast** · 11-16-2012, 01:25 PM

Man, I hope they catch that bastard.

Does the Wishing Well have any exterior cameras?

What kind of a moron starts slashing first and stealing after.

**thoth** · 11-16-2012, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by Eastcoast

Man, I hope they catch that bastard.

Does the Wishing Well have any exterior cameras?

What kind of a moron starts slashing first and stealing after.

There are definitely cameras all around that intersection. Some dumb ******* like this doesn't sound like he's going to be on the streets too long. I feel terrible for the woman who was cut up out of nowhere. Monstrous.

**Volanova** · 11-16-2012, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by EdMundo

Yeah, because a gun is so useful when someone sneaks up from behind and slashes your face open.

When you're on the ground in an expanding pool of your own blood, in shock, screaming for help and trembling uncontrollably from the massive dose of adrenaline that just entered your brain, that's when you've got to pull your piece and show this punk who's in control.

I managed to miss the part about the ambush. Let me change this: Too bad he didn't do it when someone with an LTCF was nearby who was willing and able to help. Or someone who had an LTCF who was able to draw and fire after the first jab. Or had done this to someone who would have had an opposite reaction to a slash to the face (adrenaline rushes effect people differently). Regardless, is just goes to show that you have to be 110% aware of your surroundings when you're about to unlock your door.

But I think we can all agree that it would be better if this punk had been perforated before he managed to mangle this poor girl.

**Volanova** · 11-16-2012, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by thoth

There are definitely cameras all around that intersection. Some dumb ******* like this doesn't sound like he's going to be on the streets too long. I feel terrible for the woman who was cut up out of nowhere. Monstrous.

It does take a special kind of idiot to just start slashing away. With the cuts to the face and neck, he's looking at much more serious charges than robbery when he's caught.

**EdMundo** · 11-16-2012, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by Volanova

I managed to miss the part about the ambush. Let me change this: Too bad he didn't do it when someone with an LTCF was nearby who was willing and able to help. Or someone who had an LTCF who was able to draw and fire after the first jab. Or had done this to someone who would have had an opposite reaction to a slash to the face (adrenaline rushes effect people differently). Regardless, is just goes to show that you have to be 110% aware of your surroundings when you're about to unlock your door.

But I think we can all agree that it would be better if this punk had been perforated before he managed to mangle this poor girl.

Yeah, it also would have been awesome if a unicorn had been galloping down the street before the perp slashed her face and climbed over a rainbow impaling the attacker as it came down to the base of the other side where the leprechauns gold is hidden...but it didn't

**thoth** · 11-16-2012, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by EdMundo

Yeah, it also would have been awesome if a unicorn had been galloping down the street before the perp slashed her face and climbed over a rainbow impaling the attacker as it came down to the base of the other side where the leprechauns gold is hidden...but it didn't

Glad to see that neighbors immediately ran to help the victim. Notice how no one ever pays attention when people do the right thing, but love to predict the collapse of human civilization when there are no good samaritans.

**2happy4u** · 11-16-2012, 05:59 PM

I hope they can get prints off the handbag , A white hoodie ain't much to go on. Why do they say "NEAR" the Italian Market it's right in the heart.

**Eastcoast** · 11-16-2012, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by 2happy4u

I hope they can get prints off the handbag , A white hoodie ain't much to go on. Why do they say "NEAR" the Italian Market it's right in the heart.

Dunno for me the IM Proper (sniff, sniff) starts at 9th and Christian.

**Story** · 11-21-2012, 02:09 PM

Not so much an ambush, as the guy was following her.

$10k reward.

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**Volanova** · 11-21-2012, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by EdMundo

Yeah, it also would have been awesome if a unicorn had been galloping down the street before the perp slashed her face and climbed over a rainbow impaling the attacker as it came down to the base of the other side where the leprechauns gold is hidden...but it didn't

What are you going on about now?

**EdMundo** · 11-21-2012, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by Volanova

What are you going on about now?

I'm going on about ridiculous and implausible "what if" scenarios that serve as meaningless arguments for the efficacy of firearms in random, confused, frightening, and stress-filled incidents such as this one.

You said:

"Too bad he didn't do it when someone with an LTCF was nearby who was willing and able to help. Or someone who had an LTCF who was able to draw and fire after the first jab. Or had done this to someone who would have had an opposite reaction to a slash to the face (adrenaline rushes effect people differently)"

Which is pretty much a useless comment given the location and circumstances of the incident. Like a lot of crimes of this nature, it was sudden, occurred very quickly, the perp was right up against the victim as he slashed her, and then escaped just as quickly after the slashing. Someone nearby with a weapon would have either not reacted in time, shot the victim when trying to hit the perp, or fired randomly after the perp when he fled, endangering countless people in their homes and cars.

In fact, the whole incident probably wouldn't have happened if someone were nearby and in sight, with or without a gun because a POS like this guy preys on people when no one is looking. That's the whole aim of a mugging, right?

Your elaborate concealed or open carry fantasies have no bearing on the real life situation.

**concourse** · 11-21-2012, 10:12 PM

**mixiboi** · 11-21-2012, 10:16 PM

I couldn't tell anything...HD cameras in the future will end this fuzzyness....

**lucidinnature** · 11-25-2012, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by mixiboi

I couldn't tell anything...HD cameras in the future will end this fuzzyness....

He should be relatively easy to find since he has parallel shoestrings and a stormtrooper hoodie that should stick out like a sore thumb in south philly.