A 63-year-old girl had a plant dropped on her head at a Midtown subway station.
Helayne Seidman
It was like a scene out of a real-life, and nightmarish, Popeye cartoon.
A Manhattan girl on her method to jury obligation was damage within the subway when a maniac dropped a heavy, foot-tall plant on her head.
The sufferer, 63, was getting into the station at East 51st Road and Lexington Avenue in Midtown on Monday round 9:30 a.m. and was on the backside of the steps when the flying flora got here smashing down.
“He did this only for kicks. His intention was to harm me. For what purpose?” native New Yorker Cecile Komplita fumed to The Publish. “Fortunately it was not in a pot it might have cracked my cranium or worse.”
The twisted suspect’s accuracy was “so good,” Komplita stated, she believes he’s “carried out this” earlier than.
Cops advised Komplita they imagine her attacker flung one in every of two crops he ripped out from “large concrete planters” positioned by the station entrance, she stated.
The surprised straphanger initially thought she had been struck by a chunk of falling plaster, however “I regarded down and there was a plant and my head was filled with grime. . . . I went again up the steps and that’s after I noticed him.
“He undoubtedly regarded loopy. He didn’t appear like somebody who was homeless and down and out. He undoubtedly regarded like somebody who had psychological issues,” Komplita stated.
Komplita flagged down a police officer, however the NYPD couldn't discover the madman.
Cops advised Komplita they imagine her attacker flung one in every of two crops he ripped out from “large concrete planters” positioned by the station entrance, she stated.
Komplita stated she didn’t file a police report as a result of she was late for jury obligation.
“I’ll get arrested for not displaying up, however he’ll by no means get arrested,” Komplita stated of the irony. Cops advised her that in the event that they do discover her attacker, “they'll carry him in, write him up, give him a ticket to go to court docket and he by no means reveals up.”
Komplita stated she had a “delicate concussion. The primary day was fairly dangerous. Now I've to go to a unique station as a way to keep away from this loopy particular person. So my life is disrupted.”
The monetary planner posted the horrific incident subsequent door “so individuals would watch out as a result of clearly nothing occurs except one thing severe occurs to anyone. I’m attempting to assist stop that from taking place.”
The born-and-bred Staten Islander, who has lived in Manhattan since 1984, stated the town is “shifting within the incorrect route” and she or he’s “critically contemplating” shifting to Texas.
“Bail reform has obtained to alter. The police have gotten to be given extra leeway. Their fingers are tied. Bail reform is uncontrolled. Principally, if I don’t steal lots and I don’t kill anyone, I can do no matter I need,” she snarked.
“First it was the taxes and now it’s the crime. Now you're giving me two causes to go away. The one purpose left to remain is the meals.”
Transit crime in Midtown North, the place the crime occurred, is up 40% this 12 months by Dec. 4, with 66 incidents in comparison with 47 in the identical interval in 2021, NYPD knowledge present.
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