Re: NYer attacked by crazed man with chainsaw - vows suit

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YOU NEED TO GET ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION CORRECT. MR. WILLIAMS
WAS RELEASED LAST YEAR ON DRUG CHARGES, THIS WAS OVER 6 YEARS
AGO... YOU SHOULD PUT THE FACTS INSTEAD OF THINGS THAT YOU
DONT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On 7/07/06, Carol wrote:
> On 7/07/06, NY trials wrote:
>> Guy gets attacked with a chainsaw and vows to sue ... the
>> Transit Authority!! The lowlife scum have ruined the name
>> of trial lawyers!
>>
> Saying he's going to sue and actually doing it successfully
> are two very different things. the man was attacked, hurt
> badly is looking for someone to blame. yes and maybe make a
> few bucks off of as well. But sadly, that is a reflection of
> our society, not of our profession.
>
>> Subway sawing psycho
>>
>> 'I'm dying! He killed me!' yells victim during savage
>> attack
>>
>> BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA, RICH SCHAPIRO, PETE DONOHUE and
>> ALISON GENDAR
>> DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
>>
>>
>> Police take power saws used in attack out of garbage can
>> at 110th St. subway station.
>>
>>
>> Toy stuffed ape allegedly carried by power saw suspect is
>> retrieved on subway platform.
>>
>> A maniacal ex-con randomly carved up a 64-year-old man
>> with two power saws in a Manhattan subway station early
>> yesterday - moments after stealing the tools from a
>> construction crew, police and witnesses said.
>>
>> "He stabbed me in the heart! Help me!" postal worker
>> Michael Steinberg screamed as his 6-foot-tall attacker
>> stood over him, madly revving the black-and-yellow
>> cordless saws.
>>
>> "I'm dying! He killed me!" Steinberg gasped before the
>> silent, blood-splattered psycho stole $200 and several
>> credit cards from his pockets and fled from the 110th St.
>> station, witnesses told the Daily News.
>>
>> In the intensive care unit at St. Luke's Hospital several
>> hours after the ghastly 3:22 a.m. attack, Steinberg
>> said, "I was sure, I was positive, I was a dead man."
>>
>> Steinberg said no one in the subway station attempted to
>> help him. "That's what upsets me more than anything else,"
>> he told The News.
>>
>> Cops arrested accused madman Tareyton Williams at 5:40
>> a.m. after he allegedly slugged Oliver Vaquer, 29, who was
>> walking his dog with his pregnant wife on W. 86th St. near
>> West End Ave.
>>
>> "He was big, all muscles, and he had a crazy blank look in
>> his eyes, but I just thought he was going to ask for
>> money," said Vaquer, a commercial voice-over artist.
>>
>> "The next thing I knew he punched me as hard as he could,
>> and I fell on a newspaper box."
>>
>> As Vaquer's wife screamed for help, he said, Williams hit
>> him in the face again and on the arm, then walked away.
>>
>> "It was the craziest thing," Vaquer said. "Not a word from
>> him, nothing. He was either on drugs or didn't take the
>> ones he should have, but we realize now how much worse it
>> could have been."
>>
>> The suspect, a 33-year-old convicted drug dealer, was
>> cradling a stuffed toy gorilla shortly after 3 a.m. when
>> he entered the 110th St. station in Morningside Heights,
>> witnesses said.
>>
>> Construction workers from Five Star Electric Corp. were
>> replacing a sound system when Williams allegedly strolled
>> onto the southbound No. 1 train platform, where he dropped
>> the 2-foot-tall toy.
>>
>> After urinating into an empty bottle and tossing it into a
>> garbage can, Williams suddenly ran toward the workers,
>> witnesses said.
>>
>> "He picked up our tools and started chasing us. He just
>> had a dumb look on his face. He seemed deranged," said one
>> worker. "He didn't say a word. Nobody knew how to react.
>> Everyone ran in the opposite direction."
>>
>> Williams allegedly slammed one of the saws against a
>> random passenger on the platform, but didn't cut him.
>>
>> Then Steinberg, who was on his way to work at Manhattan's
>> 14th St. Post Office, came face-to-face with the madman.
>>
>> Revving the 8-pound, battery-powered saws, Williams
>> allegedly pounced.
>>
>> "It looked like an X-Men movie," said Isaac Prescot, 53,
>> who saw the attack and tried to comfort Steinberg before
>> paramedics and cops arrived.
>>
>> Cops recovered the saws from a trash bin outside the
>> station, along with Steinberg's wallet. Williams, who had
>> been released from prison last February after serving
>> three years on a drug conviction, was awaiting arraignment
>> last night on attempted murder, robbery and weapons
>> charges. He muttered, "No, no, no," as he was led off to
>> Central Booking early this morning.
>>
>> Steinberg - whose lung was punctured - said he was
>> outraged that Williams was able to steal the saws simply
>> by reaching behind a roped-off area on the subway
>> platform. Steinberg vowed to sue the Transit Authority,
>> but TA spokesman Paul Fleuranges defended the contractors.
>>
>> "It's an unfortunate incident," he said. "We hope the
>> customer recovers, but the contractors appear to have
>> taken proper precautions by putting their tools in an area
>> cordoned off from passengers."