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

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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!
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> Subway sawing psycho
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> 'I'm dying! He killed me!' yells victim during savage
> attack
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> BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA, RICH SCHAPIRO, PETE DONOHUE and
> ALISON GENDAR
> DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
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> Police take power saws used in attack out of garbage can
> at 110th St. subway station.
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> 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.
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> "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.
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> "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.
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> "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.
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> "The next thing I knew he punched me as hard as he could,
> and I fell on a newspaper box."
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> As Vaquer's wife screamed for help, he said, Williams hit
> him in the face again and on the arm, then walked away.
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> "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."
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> After urinating into an empty bottle and tossing it into a
> garbage can, Williams suddenly ran toward the workers,
> witnesses said.
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> "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.
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> Revving the 8-pound, battery-powered saws, Williams
> allegedly pounced.
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> "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."