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| Geezer Guns mugger Gets arrested (or why I left NY) |
| 2003-11-06 |
| Don’t ya hate this crap? A mugger in the Bronx got quite a surprise when the 80-year-old man he attacked in an elevator pulled out a .38 caliber handgun. There was a struggle, a shot was fired, and now the elderly victim is being criminally charged. Whats the charge sir? resisting mugging without a license? Marcus Solis is in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx where he talked with the man. Lester Campbell says the gun belonged to his mother, and that it was passed onto him when she died. And he said he would carry it with him when he went to cash checks. Campbell had just cashed his Social Security check and gone to the supermarket near his house, when the mugger followed him into the elevator of his building. What the mugger didn’t realize was that the octogenarian was packing heat. And after Campbell pulled out his gun, a fierce struggle ensued. Lester Campbell, Mugging Victim: "He tried to keep the barrel away from him, twisting and turning. And when I was going to pull it, see, I lose some grip. And that’s when he started twisting and twisting." The mugger had knocked Campbell to the ground and ripped his pants while grabbing for his wallet. The retired security guard fired one shot that hit the side of the elevator, and richotted up into the ceiling. The elevator stopped on the third floor where the suspect ran out, and Campbell cried out for help. The thief made off with $262 in Social Security money. And now Campbell’s eye is bloodshot, and his cheek is purple from injuries he received in the assault. Police however arrested Campbell and charged him with misdemeanor criminal possesion of a weapon. While he admits he knew the gun was unlicensed, Campbell insists he did nothing wrong. Lester Campbell: "He had no business doing that. I was minding my business. I don’t bother nobody." Ernest McKenzie, Building Resident: "The way I feel, if he didn’t have the gun probably something would happen to him, serious. And at the same time, he has to be licensed." Ernest was on break from his new movie "Ernest rethinks the Constitution" Police confiscated the gun, along with another one in the apartment. So Campbell was cited for two counts of misdemeanor criminal possession of a weapon, and was given a desk appearance ticket. He’ll have a court appearance next month. |
| Posted by:chriskarma |
| #13 City boy sure wouldn't like living in my neck of the woods.Not a word of support for the victem of a vicious crime just condemnation,what a Liberial ass.NMM lives in NYCity doesn't he. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2003-11-7 8:46:31 AM |
| #12 That's what you get for living in NYC where the Second Amendment is considered "obsolete". NewYorker--I hope you're the mugger's next victim, asshole. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-11-7 1:04:11 AM |
| #11 Actually NY City is more my "city" then yours. I can trace my lineage to the founding Fathers of both NYC & the U.S.A! If you hate freedom so much why stay in the USA? you are free to live in gun control utopia China/Mexico/ or your old friends the Taliban could have ya! they disarmed all of Afghanistan according to the NY Times |
| Posted by: chriskarma 2003-11-6 11:48:39 PM |
| #10 I'm glad you left my city, ya right wing nut. Grow up. Seeing NY turn into a cauldron of lefty crime victims in my lifetime would be sweet indeed. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-6 10:13:00 PM |
| #9 OP -- Calling for a "Committee for Aesthetic Deletions"? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-6 9:54:35 PM |
| #8 There is only one solution to this nonsense, and that's to hang, poison, stab, or shoot every idiot that wants to suppress the rights of free men, and anyone obeying the dictates to suppress such rights. That's the ONLY thing these nanny-groups will understand, and then only after the majority of them are dead. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-6 6:19:30 PM |
| #7 Just for the record, "NewYorker", any comment about the mugger? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-11-6 6:12:33 PM |
| #6 I'm glad you left my city, ya right wing nut. Grow up. |
| Posted by: NewYorker 2003-11-6 5:25:20 PM |
| #5 It's a good thing that Mr. Campbell didn't hit the mugger. He probably would have been charged with assault, and sued by the mugger (or the mugger's survivors) |
| Posted by: Joel 2003-11-6 4:40:58 PM |
| #4 Secret Master, right on my friend. Gun control means two hands on the weapon and a 2" grouping. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-6 4:28:52 PM |
| #3 This kind of stuff makes my blood boil like an old tea kettle. Once again gun control punishes the innocent while assisting the criminal. A pox upon the houses of all gun control advocates: the blood of the people is on your hands, you phonies! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2003-11-6 3:54:33 PM |
| #2 Sad to say, it's better to be tried by twelve than carried by six. |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-11-6 2:58:39 PM |
| #1 So Campbell was cited for two counts of misdemeanor criminal possession of a weapon, and was given a desk appearance ticket. He’ll have a court appearance next month. Could shape up to be Bernhard Goetz Lite. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-6 2:57:53 PM |