Years of frustration at having his candy taken away by babies finally boils over
A fair fight, apparently - Rose Morat, 101 years old, lost $33 when a mugger assaulted her in the lobby of her Queens apartment building. Thanks to surveillance footage we can see that Ms. Morat - who was born during the Theodore Roosevelt administration - stayed on her feet after her assailant punched her in the head four times and fled.
The unidentified attacker held the door open for Ms. Morat, who turned sixteen the year the Ottoman Empire was dissolved, and then struck her repeatedly in her 101-year-old face. He then left with the pocketbook of the still-upright Queens resident.
It appears that the attack on Ms. Morat, who could have celebrated her twenty-first birthday at the grand opening of the first 'talkie' and who did not lose her balance after being punched four times in rapid succession, may not be the first mugging perpetrated by this particular miscreant. Recently, an 85-year-old woman was similarly assaulted in the same neighborhood. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly resolved to "stop him before he strikes again" - or before he becomes overconfident and gets himself killed trying to mug a Boer War veteran.
Some law-breakers help pay their debt to society by doing community service with the elderly. This guy wouldn't last ten minutes. That alone earns him a big minus-sign, which he may wear upon his forehead as protection against walker-bound women less than a century in age:
y The biggest wimp in New York - We live in a permissive culture at a permissive time. There is practically no manifestation of sociopathy that can't be glorified. But remember, this is America - the one vice we cannot tolerate is mediocrity, and this centigenarian-slapper simply doesn't make it. Let there be no confusion: mugging is wrong. Mugging old women is very wrong. But even things not worth doing are worth not doing well, and if you can't plant granny on her101-year-old ass with the fourth punch, you should really consider a change in career. Perhaps grave robbery is more this guy's speed?
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