Safety: Woman, 73, Raped

This is just awful. Thanks for sharing...more reason to always be aware and although it can happen anywhere in any neighborhood always remember Central Park does have this kind of history. Scary! I'm still not moving but, will keep this in mind.

Wasn't this the story of e woman who was targeted because she photographed the rapist a week or so earlier committing a lewd act? This is definitely an awful crime but not as random as one might think.

Yes I often times see a man masturbating in Central Park..... So on average we should all expect to get raped in nyc.

w67, When you see this, are you near water during the day?

Indeed, the sky is falling! Quick, call Charles Bronson!

Rape Kit Kiosks will be all the rage when they open for business at all major park entrances.

"Rape" & "Central Park" have historically scored extremely high on word association tests.

The advantages of running with a dog.

Honestly the line about impact on real estate is puerile. This is not an every day occurrence. Crime is everywhere. Even in the small towns.

Exaactly.

Reminds me of a worry-wart, neurotic, umarried aunt of mine, who talked non-stop about a news story she heard concerning two women who were allegedly abducted & raped upon exiting their plane in Trinidad. This was back in the seventies.

She was in HER seventies at the time, & it never failed to crack my sister & I up when she would exclaim, "Well, now I'm NEVER going to Trinidad!"

Knowing her, I don't think she was trying to be funny or sarcastic - she meant it!

Family folklore has it that she ran home with a newspaper over her head in an effort to protect herself from the "deadly rays" during the "War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

coz cops were sent to beat up the jobless OWS protesters

"Any impacts on Prime Manhattan?"

expect pudgies from Short Hills NJ who can't get any to beg Mom to allow her to move from her Weehawken abode to CPS.

"Pudgies from Short Hills".

LOL to that one, because the two names compliment one another so well.

Sounds like a colony of chubby munchkins...or a new NJ restaurant chain!

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/permits/handgun_licensing_information.shtml

Handgun license won't help you in Central Park.

..& then of course this old New York classic:

TEX ANTOINE - What Happened?!?

Tex Antoine was the weatherman on WABC's "Eyewitness News" in the early '70s. I believe it was in 1974, when after a story on a rape attack in NYC, Tex "jokingly" said something to the effect of "When rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it", and was promptly fired (I recall watching this on tv during dinner, and my mother's shock at the remark). I believe he made an attempted comeback a short time before his death, but his poor judgment in that one instance essentially ruined the career of what was otherwise a witty and talented newscaster.

Now can you even begin to imagine - especially in today's era of communication - how this would have played out?

Poor Tex would have been driven mad, & severely injured while attempting to rape himself as a show of remorse - capturing it all on video, of course, for posting on YouTube for the whole world to see & comment on!

>Now can you even begin to imagine - especially in today's era of communication - how this would have played out?

Could run for US Senate.

LOL! Of course!

Now THAT'S a good one!

Like good ol' Coach Sandusky so [in]famously proclaimed : "I stand behind each & every member of my team!"

the Tex Antoine story was even worse in reality. Tex had a bit of a drinking problem; and didn't hear that it was a pre-teen girl who was raped. He was gone for good the next day

Can't believe this happens during the day.

TEX ANTOINE....
totally remember that broadcast, remember my folks looking at each other like, 'did we just hear that'?
To be fair, Tex was a drunk with an EZ high paying job.
What a fool.

If he had been an NCAA title winning basketball coach, he would have kept his job for a few more years (until he physically abused someone).

Jerry is now getting 30-60 years in prison.
But the cover-up continued for years,as he continued.

walpurgis:
I remember that rape/abduction Trinidad story.
I continued going to Trinidad and also to St Thomas, where in the late 1970's I was warned not to go alone to a secluded beach that I had previously been to many times.
A tourist got raped there, earlier that year.

ABC Eyewitness News' guys liked to party after the newscast.
At The Americana Hotel.

Truth:

Wow...I don't EVER recall that Trinidadian Tale on the news- I'll forever associate it with my Aunt!

Please remind me to tell you how she once made us a green matzo brei (I kid you not).

So let me get this straight: Despite your repeated trips there - always hopeful that perhaps...well, you had no luck?!?

(Sorry, Truth - I just couldn't resist THAT one! I hope you realize I'm joking (in my typical twisted way!)

walpurgis:
It's all good, lol.
The 1970's was a time of crime down in de Islands, mon.

walpurgis:
You are the Michael O'Donoghue of streeteasy.
Michael was the master of satire. Without him, there would have been no SNL.

Yes, I knew him.
R.I.P.

of course.

Thanks for the great compliment, Truth!

Don't know if I'd enjoy it as much if I did it - that is, if I were even able to do so - for a living.

I guess here on SE I'm "volunteering my services" (not that anyone asked me, mind you!)

Funny you should mention SNL: A friend of mine just lent me "My Life in France" by Julia Child.

When I sent him a thank you Email, I couldn't resist telling him the order form for a free turkey boning knife, tourniquet & first aid kit was still intact.

He actually believed me - & I had to actually explain it was a joke...geesh...

walpurgis:
Michael didn't just "do it for a living".
He was always finding and revealing satire in his real life observations and conversations.

No internet back then.

Well, now I see what you mean. I honestly can't help but see the absurdity in many things today - especially the ones we're all expected to take oh-so-seriously & heaven forbid have the audacity to question.

Sorry I didn't get to know him like you did; sounds like he was a lot of fun!

What about the police officer who was looking to cook people and was arrested yesterday?

this whole foodie thing is just out of control...that simple.

Coming soon to a theatre near you:

"Blue Wall of Silence of the Lambs".

I genuinely feel sorry for some poor hapless police officer - somewhere out there - who's name just happens to be Eaton Cook...

lol, walpurgis.