NYC Woman Threatened By Homeless Man Wishes Hero Didn't Have a Gun
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Let's pretend that you live in Gotham City, right, in the year 2035.
And in Gotham City, Batman's there, and you are walking through the streets of Gotham City.
There's so much corruption because of the politicians.
There's crime everywhere.
And you are just about to get mugged How was my horror scream?
I feel like that was pretty good. And thankfully, Batman comes.
He swoops in and he's got his weapons and he saves you.
He takes out one of his super Batman weapons and he saves you.
And then the news cameras come and they say, what do you think about this?
Oh my gosh, your life has been saved by Batman.
What would you say? What wouldn't you say?
Because in a real life Batman story, there was a woman in New York City who was on the brink of being mugged.
Fortunately for her, there was a hero who had a gun who was able to scare off the homeless
man that was about to mug her.
Here is an image of that.
You can see he's pointing his gun at the person that is mugging this young woman who you can't
see and who wishes not to be identified.
So what did this 40-year-old woman who wishes not to be identified say to the New York Post
over the phone?
Well, she says that she wishes that her hero vigilante didn't carry a gun.
Ah, yes, because she was not fearful about being mugged, potentially dying at the hands
of a homeless man.
She was more fearful when she saw the person that was going to save her life.
Here is her depicting what happened to her on that night the scenario unfolded when while she was trying to head
back to her Queen's Home she encountered Matthew Roche a homeless 49 year old
who was allegedly harassing her for money After he held the emergency gate open at the 49th Street
station near Times Square When she tried to walk through he blocked her way and he
demanded money according to court documents She said to him that she was not going to give him any money and she kept walking.
He followed her. He kept demanding the money and he said, if you don't give me money, I'm going to take your bag.
She says she then tried to walk away from him, but he was following her and then he started getting really close.
Roche, who is the homeless man, is known to the police for frequently pulling this sort of a scheme.
That's why obviously he's walking the streets because he's probably done this millions of times, but nobody cares in New York City.
He allegedly then made moves to snatch her bag when a man named John Roat, 43 years old, whipped out a firearm and fired several rounds across the subway to warn the would-be mugger to leave the woman alone.
What did she have to say? She said, But she just wishes that, you know, he didn't have to be carrying that gun because that's also scary to think that people have guns.
So she is upset that a good guy with a gun potentially saved her life because we're hearing these stories every day in New York of homeless men that are pushing people onto the tracks, that are mugging people.
This man could have killed her with his bare hands.
But she is more concerned, of course, about the vigilante justice, about a guy firing into the subways.
So, yeah, she eventually found safety.
Her life was saved, but she felt terrified and she felt panicked.
And so rather than just saying, I am grateful to this man for saving my life because my life could have ended in this subway, I would like to use this time to talk about how people shouldn't have guns in subways because I am a lefty Looney Tunes.
Honestly, if this is your perspective after you get saved by a good guy with a gun from a homeless lunatic, I have no words for you.
I really do. Genuinely, he should have just left her alone.
This is why men don't want to intervene to help women.
There's actually some remarkable statistic about, you know, women, if a man sees a woman
and she's about to be raped, how fearful men are to go over and to try to help her, or
if they see a woman and they're in any predicament because they're fearful that this will be
the female response, that somehow a woman will turn the guy who saved her into the villain.
This is why.
This is a perfect example why, you know?
So what are his options?
Let her die and get pushed onto the subway tracks or to step up to the plate and to be
the kind of hero she needs, which is to say that he should put himself in danger, try
to tackle this guy, you know, try to potentially drag this guy and have him potentially throw
him onto the tracks because the method in which he used to save her is not something
that she agrees with.
What are the options for men out there that are trying to help women?
I'm asking that question genuinely.
In this instance, honestly, this kind of woman should just punch herself in the face.
Super frustrating to read the story and super frustrating that this is the mindset of people that live in these inner cities, that they're fearful of the things that are meant to help them protect themselves.
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All right, guys, now let's jump into reading some of your comments on episodes past.
The first set of comments are about taking your kids to a restaurant.
I'm a restaurant villain, like I am the police in the skies.
I believe that children, if they are not fit, should not be at restaurants.
It's very simple. It's a privilege, as I stated last week or a couple, yeah, last week.
It's a privilege to go to a restaurant.
It is not a requirement to go to a restaurant.
If your children are screaming at the top of their lungs, you are doing everybody in the immediate vicinity a disservice for being there.
And you're not enjoying it either. Railroad Charmer writes, We have a restaurant in my neighborhood that will no longer allow children.
The owner stated that children are not being parented these days and they are out of control.
They let their kids run around and nearly run down waitstaff carrying trays of food.
He said he was sick of it. Believe it or not, he is being applauded and his restaurant is more popular than ever.
Amen! That's how I feel.
And it is because of, like I said last week, a parenting crisis.
People that don't want to tell their children to shut up and to sit down or to pinch the back of their arms and threaten to kill them like my mom did to me.
Totally rational what she did.
Totally rational. I stand by it.
MCH writes, growing up in the Honduras, shouting, throwing any type of tantrum anywhere was absolutely unacceptable in my family.
My mom had to only stare at us, and we knew we were in trouble when we got home.
Try explaining gentle parenting to a Latin mom.
Yeah, I do notice some cultural differences, and definitively what I would say is that minority parents seem a little more willing to discipline.
Take from that what you will.
Blue Violets writes, And the manager was just picking on you and your kids.
You probably just have a very skewed idea of what it means to parent your children and what it means to be a well-behaved child.
And I would be positively mortified.
I mean, I would immediately remove my child from the vicinity.
Even if you were trying it out, I get that, and then your kid's out of control, you pick the kid up and you leave.
Like I said, barring some obviously friendly, kid-friendly spaces like IHOP, Friendly's,
or any fast food restaurant, Cracker Barrel, I almost said Crate and Barrel, Cracker Barrel,
things where you're kind of expecting a little bit of chaos, I just find it to be ultimately
inappropriate.
Next set of comments are about Taylor Swift, my major axe to grind with the fact that she
has entered everybody into a mass psychosis.
And the world believes that she is 15, when in fact she is 34 years old and she behaves
like a 15-year-old, which should concern everybody.
But don't worry about this mass formation psychosis because I am breaking it down.
And people are coming out like munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
They're like, come out, come out, wherever you are.
And they're realizing, yeah, you're right, this is kind of weird.
She's skipping, she's holding hands, she's acting like a little teenager.
Yeah, you have me to thank for that.
H. Shea writes, I absolutely love your stories about Taylor Swift.
I am 39 and the amount of friends of mine who absolutely adore her confuses me to no end.
You're the first person I've ever heard who thinks exactly what I do about her.
It is creepy to me how many people can't see the cringe of her entire persona.
Yes, it is a manufactured persona and I do not fault her at all.
She is about to be a billionaire and She has executed this mass formation psychosis on the entire world, and they think she's permanently 15, and she dresses like she's 15 and awkward, and she dances like she's 15 and awkward, and it's all one big act, but that's what I'm here for.
Paige writes, your take on Taylor Swift actually gives me hope.
Seeing so many women, especially her age, follow her and act like her and infantilize themselves, I simply do not get it.
My closest guess is women this age without children turn themselves into the child that they want to take care of.
Yes, 100%.
And I cannot speak enough about the way that she infantilizes herself when she even speaks.
When she talks about an album coming out, it drives me insane.
I have to find the clip that I saw on Instagram where she was like...
Well, I decided to release the album in September because 9 plus 4, get it?
On September 4th because, like, you know, I'm a nerd and I like 13.
I was like, whoa!
Uh-uh. Uh-uh.
That is not how a 34-year-old adult woman speaks.
It is weird. It is creepy.
Women, do not immortalize yourselves.
It will always be something that really makes me angry.
And I've got a lot of anger.
I'm still pregnant. I'm just going to be angry this whole week.
Just kidding, guys. All right, if you like this video, you are going to like the full episode even better.