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Thread ID: 9491 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2003-09-03
2003-09-03 14:24 | User Profile
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/03/nyregion/03PARK.html]http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/03/nyregion/03PARK.html[/url]
Officer Halts Rape Attempt at Midday By TINA KELLEY
A man with a long criminal record attacked and tried to rape a 33-year-old woman yesterday in Prospect Park, but was stopped by a police officer who chased him down and arrested him, the authorities said.
The attack, which occurred at noon near a popular Park Slope playground, upset people who regularly use the park, which has long been considered relatively safe during the day.
The victim was taken to a hospital with a broken jaw and multiple head and face injuries, but her condition was not considered life-threatening, the police said. The woman usually walks daily in the park with a friend but was alone yesterday, a police official said.
The police identified her attacker as Bennie Hogan, 39, of Osborn Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn, who was released last month from a six-month jail term for sex abuse charges. The police said he had been arrested 18 times before on charges including assault, sexual abuse, drug offenses and grand larceny. The police said he has been jailed under various names and dates of birth, which they were still compiling yesterday.
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Ryan Smith, 28, who was walking his Rottweiler, Bear, in the park yesterday near where the attack occurred, said that the park was not safe and that it was not unusual to see people acting deranged.
"They're trying to make this side safe," he said of the authorities. "But if you just walk over the hill to the other side, you'll see drug dealers and stuff just 200 yards from here."
2003-09-04 15:54 | User Profile
Park Suspect's Long Record Has No Pattern of Sex Abuse By SHAILA K. DEWAN (translated into English by Israel Fagowitz) [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/nyregion/04RAPE.html]http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/nyregion/04RAPE.html[/url]
He has been arrested on 14 felony charges, records show, but convicted only of two. Picked up for 38 misdemeanors, but convicted only of 15. He was first arrested when he was 16, and he is about to turn 45, having spent much of the intervening time in jail.
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The woman, 33, suffered a broken jaw, major blood loss and was left blind in one eye after the attack on Tuesday, prosecutors said. The man, Bennie Hogan, was chased and tackled by a police officer on patrol, Anthony Ward.
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His most recent conviction, in February, was for grabbing a woman's behind on the subway, a law enforcement official said. He was released last month.
But before that Mr. Hogan was picked up for assault, robbery, heroin possession, car theft, check forgery and, quite often, violating court orders relating to his sentences.
The Prospect Park victim, who was punched more than 12 times in the same eye in the attack, according to court papers, told the police that Mr. Hogan had said he was going to rape her, officials said. They also said that Mr. Hogan was carrying condoms, and others were found near the crime scene.
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Mr. Hogan's cases never went to trial, and he was frequently allowed to plead down his charges. But spokesmen for the two district attorneys who handled most of his cases, Richard A. Brown of Queens and Charles J. Hynes of Brooklyn, defended his sentences, saying they were commensurate with the crimes.
[Isn't it fortunate that Niggy never committed a serious crime, such as denying the Holoco$t.]
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His girlfriend, who is pregnant, appeared yesterday in court.
2003-09-04 17:32 | User Profile
We have to start something that will make other races wary of whites. For example, in the mall last week the proprieter, an older white woman, of a candy store said two Hispanic customers were eating candy off the shelves without paying for it, and I approached them and said loudly "You'll pay for that right now!". They looked at each other and then walkied to the counter without a word and paid. I was ready to fight them right there in the store-over someone else's problem that amounted to a palmful of candy-because the proprieter was white. Despite the risk, and the trivial issue at hand, I still recommend confronting nonwhites and not letting them get away with wrongdoing. Learn to fight if you don't know how, ( karate, not boxing, is best ), and your rights when arrested and confront them when they are into something that you know is just not right. In addition, on making a first aquaintence with nonwhites be brusque and curt with them, there will be time enough to be friendly if they are decent-and remember to be extra relaxed and friendly to other whites on meeting them for the first time. If possible take the white person's side right from the start in an issue between a white and a nonwhite. Never mind with personal differances between you and the other white person-or a bond between you and the nonwhite involved-stick up for the white man or woman when they lock horns with another race. You will feel better, and if it still matters to doubters that have read this post, the nonwhites won't hold it against you for standing up for your own kind.
2003-09-20 22:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=new and improved]Right on, Mack. I wish I could have seen that!
Regarding Karate vs. Boxing: interested ODers should also check out Wing Chun Kung Fu (even small women can be effective), and Kali (Philipino). Also, muay thai (thai boxing) teaches kicks to the upper leg that can cause a man to crumple to the floor with pain.
I've learned how to fight; the problem now is a fear of JAIL. I haven't figured out a way around that one. Especially since jail, by design, is hell for a white man, or so I've heard and can imagine.[/QUOTE]
have you ever been in a real fight? that karate crap is garbage. boxing and wrestling are what you should study. the idea that some broad could beat up a man with the right karate training is ridiculous. any guy who's been in a few bar fights and has never trained in any martial art will beat the hell out of some karate geek who has never been in a real fight.
2003-09-21 02:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=W.R.I.T.O.S]have you ever been in a real fight? that karate crap is garbage. boxing and wrestling are what you should study. the idea that some broad could beat up a man with the right karate training is ridiculous. any guy who's been in a few bar fights and has never trained in any martial art will beat the hell out of some karate geek who has never been in a real fight.[/QUOTE]
:D
Better yet, have you ever been in a fight with a karate master? :D
Always entertaining and short. Wrestlers on the other hand, are very bad news. Be their friends.
2003-09-21 02:58 | User Profile
Karate is overrated just as many other Asian "exotic" things. The Chinks got SARS from eating everything that moved.
2003-09-26 21:07 | User Profile
Boxing, kickboxing, Kung Fu, the Force.....
Those of us who cannot use our bodies as God intended anymore have taken up the fine martial art of Ching Ching Pow.
People forget that the Art of the Gun is still a martial art... a martial skill. I live in a state that actually encourages its' citizens to carry concealed, and have carried concealed professionally and as a civillian for years now. Nothing like 3 pounds of steel on your hip when you're contemplating staying on your side of the street when a bunch of minorities come your way.
By the way, in celebration of 'diversity' here in the Commonwealth, 3 Mexican illegals were recently arrested for murdering 3 Texans, wrapping their bodies in plastic and duct tape and dumping them in a nearby handy river (they are currently seeking a 4th man in Tennessee). If it were a state law that everyone [U]had[/U] to go about carrying concealed all the time, the illegals would stop that silly sh*t immediately. The blacks would be a lot more polite as well, I wager.
As an aside, before becoming disabled, I studied Judo and Aikido regularly and still retain some of the skills. If you have the athletic ability to study a martial art, I would reccomend something that focuses on the grappling arts.. Judo, Aiki-Jutsu or Greco-Roman wrestling, since most of the altercations I have been involved in were good old fashioned street scraps (not that I'm some streetfighting god or anything). Putting your opponent in an excrutiating lock or dislocating a joint will just flat ruin someone's day and make him totally disinterested in you. If you cannot study anymore, get competant training, purchase the best firearm your means will allow you to and carry all the time, everywhere, law permitting. It ain't no good to you if it's at home in the safe.
Ausonius
2003-09-27 02:43 | User Profile
Karate and other Eastern martial arts are crap. Learn boxing, learn grappling. That's all you'll need if you get into a fight - if you don't have a gun you can use to cancel the attacker's ticket right there. In CA, it's a misdemeanor to carry a concealed handgun, so more and more people are carrying. The potential fine is worth it. Like the old saying goes - "Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six."
Go and take some regular boxing lessons for two months,that's all. Then spar, full contact, with anyone you know who is a whiz at Karate, even a black belt. You'll knock them on their ass in seconds. Guaranteed. The first thing you'll realize, is that you've been taught automatically to react to whether the guy is right or left handed. And you move accordingly. Also, most of these kung fu types don't really get hit, I mean hit, in practice. That takes getting used to. Learn grappling/wrestling in case you wind up on the ground. Brazilian jui-jistu is only impressive in controlled situations, in a ring. You want to try and stay off the asphalt in the real world. Knowing how to actually throw real punches is the name of the game. Even most of the hard talkin' street thugs out there don't know how to really throw a punch. But they are used to being in fights. Russian SAMBO is a pretty good system for street fighting, so is SCARS. Teaching you to get over "freezing up" when a fight starts is 90% of the battle. Most martial arts are based on your opponent cooperating with your moves, on predictability. Most street attackers are wild animals who will kill you and run, if they can. Bruce Lee wouldn't have lasted 1 minute in a real brawl using that crap he did in movies. It looks great on screen, but if some thug threw him a right cross - fake - then a left hook, he'd be hurtin' if he could stand up. If he were tackled, forget it.
If you want to go with something exotic, go with Muy Thai, it's still boxing,with kicks and elbows (good stuff), or straight kickboxing. But learn some grappling, just in case. Stay away from Karate and Judo for the most part. You can incoroporate some moves/holds into your defensive 'system', but if you solely rely on them, you'll be spittin' teeth or worse.
Yeah, I'm biased. Fought in Golden Gloves and Diamond Belt for several years, and still spar and workout, weights and grappling, for the exercise and just in case. But if you can, carry ... Glock, H&K, Browning, etc. If there's more than one guy, try and get out of it. Despite what you see in the movies, you're in really bad trouble trying to fight more than one person, even if you're a lot bigger. All it takes is one getting behind you, while the other is in front of you.
2003-09-29 12:31 | User Profile
I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I choose not to do it in college because of the time commitment. One of my good childhood freinds who is a couple of years younger than me won the high school wrestling national championship and is now a college all american. He has two more years to win the NCAA championship(I hope). I worked out with him this summer and he kicked my ass. Technically he's garbage, but he makes up for it with world class athleticism and extreme confidence. Wrestling alone taught me enough to crush any untrained individual in a street fight. I try not to hit opponents in the head with my fist because I don't want to hurt them too badly. The difference in ability is usually so much that I'm just playing with them. I threw some fool down a flight of concrete steps this summer. One of those short, juiced up napolean complex idiots. Fortunately, he was not seriously injured. Only people who are really drunk try to fight me.
A little closer to topic, but still unimportant, at some point in my teenage years I believe I was yelled at by some of New York's finest on prosepct park southwest for being too loud and having open containers after leaving a house party with a group of friends.
2003-09-30 09:59 | User Profile
Guns, baby.
Without em, human history would be a tale of five-foot-five men beaten senseless & enslaved by six-foot-five men.
There's a reason they're called [I]Equalizers [/I], and [I]Peacemakers[/I].
2003-10-05 03:34 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]Guns, baby.
Without em, human history would be a tale of five-foot-five men beaten senseless & enslaved by six-foot-five men.
There's a reason they're called [I]Equalizers [/I], and [I]Peacemakers[/I].[/QUOTE]
Sounds like Mexico.
2003-10-05 07:00 | User Profile
I lived a couple of years near Prospect Park - back in the mid-1980's.
What a beautiful place it was. It had gentrified pretty well by that time - but it was still rough. The first snow in Prospect Park is enchanting.
I guess it's gone down hill since then.
It makes me sad. Brooklyn is so charming, so wonderful - at least it must have been when it was white.
I want my country back.
Walter