Yesterday's post office stabbing-yes, we had one of those! In which a boy from Avenue D who loved pigs got stabbed either randomly or less so on the steps of the giant post office that will never become Penn Station-was documented by an apparently philatelically-inclined German tourist. This tourist begged for anonymity from the papers (as he now realizes when you stick your neck out in New York, we stab that neck). But New York Post photog G. N. Miller was there to snap Herr Dolph Himmlerstein, or whatever his real German name is, for posterity. (Psst: He's the white one!) Thanks, Posties! Now, Internet: please identify this German so we can find him and make sure no good deed, or at least no act of compulsive documentary, goes unpunished.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Who's Knifecrime Island now, U.K.??
All named pigs are named Daisy.
I do hope the omission of Babe is just an egregious oversight (or I am, as usual, missing a joke).
OK, fine. All female pigs.
Nothing a little knife play won't settle!
Willllburrrr!
Are we even sure that Daisy is literally a pig, or was the cousin just using a colourful turn of phrase?
The he-had-a-favorite-pig revelation got me tearing up on the subway, which is not what I expect from stories about stabbings.
I'm confused. Am I missing something, or was this seriously pedestrian rage? They didn't know each other? It wasn't a mugging? Camo was just ready to stab somebody?
Either rage or random, at least as reported.
I'm sure this German has a skeleton in his closet. Let's build him up, then tear him down! USA! USA!
Fashion may be saying '80s', but street crime statistics say '70s.'
The biggest knife I ever saw was in my building on 113th, early eighties. I think it was technically a small sword.
I hope he never found the guy he was looking for.
That was W. 113th.
So ze german photographed the stabber, and the Post photographed ze german photographing the stabber?! I don't get it.
DAS IST NEIN STACKENBLOCKEN!! NEIN!
I'm amazed that on Monday, a full 24 hours after her son was stabbed to death, Mrs Gutierrez "still seemed shocked by the act that killed her son."
I mean, eventually you have to move on, don't you?