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Suspect wanted in Steve Buscemi NYC sucker-punch identified
He absolutely has. I don't think NYC is super dangerous, but this shit happens more than people think.
Example, it happened to me.
I knew a person that got beat up by a homeless guy in Charleston, SC, many years ago. She said he kept shouting that she was too pretty while he punched her. Crazy.
What a backhanded compliment
What a slap in the face
What a knee slapper.
conflicted updoot
At least one person appreciates this.
I agree. There’s only been a handful of times I’ve felt threatened living in this city. Albeit I am an average, younger man. NYC gets a worse rep than it deserves
Fuck Eric Adams though
To be fair I feel this way about LA. Like any big city there’s some areas worth avoiding, but overall I’ve felt safe all over LA. LA isn’t even mentioned in the top 25 cities for crime. The study only included cities with population over 100k.
It’s people that’s the problem, you just encounter them at a much higher frequency at any city, increasing the odds of coming across a psycho.
Haha sad statement but yeah
That’s why you go on a rampage yourself anytime you feel in danger. Can’t sucker punch you if they’re blocking!
Out crazy the crazies
Whoop whoop
I live on the other side of the world, so when you say New York is safe what are you meaning. You can walk around any time day or night without fear kinda thing or ?
Basically, though some would have you believe NYC is like the 70s and 80s again... were it was dirty and overwhelming unsafe to walk around at night in.
Pretty much. You'll likely not have any problems, but moving in numbers is always safer.
That is terrible and I hope you're doing okay!
Happened to me too, not even in the city in Queens
What is wrong with these people?
They are allowed to walk around the street. That's what's wrong. Dude would better serve humanity at the bottom of the Hudson feeding whatever fish are left
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Didn’t the same thing happen to Rick Moranis? Probably this guy
No it was a different asshole. And that one had other assaults and he got a 2 year sentence for attacking Moranis who (besides everyone in America loving him! is a senior citizen and could have easily died from the attack. *He will be out of jail on the streets this summer!!!
Seriously we need justice reform in this country = letting the potheads go free now!, junkies should get help not prison, and people randomly assaulting a senior citizen should be locked until they themselves are senior citizens
We just had a judge let a lady walk with no jail time for being .216 BAC and who had killed one passenger and critically injured another.
Not one single day.
NYC may have it's issues but one thing you don't do is harm Steve Buscemi in the city..
Agreed. He’s a national treasure. I also heard he’s one of the most down to earth guys you can ever meet. After 9/11 he was down there helping in the rubble, but didn’t broadcast it to the world like other celebs do.
A 50 year old (non-homeless looking) dude punched him out?
Not some teenage TikToking dipshit... Why?!
Piece of shits are gonna piece of shit. Too many people walking around thinking they're tough guys and only know how to handle their mental illness and emotional incompetence coupled with a lack of problem solving and de-escalation skills by lashing out aggressively and make us suffer from their assholeness.
Some people just walk around like a tinderbox and look for the match.
Pieces of shit are corny as hell these days
Yup. They may be crazy, but never let’s-punch-a-guy-bigger-than-me crazy
They absolutely know who to victimize and seldom learn their lesson or show remorse. Just shit humans
I’m going to borrow that last line. Brilliant.
I had to get stitches a couple weeks ago because a deranged dude split my lip on the UES literally exactly like what happened to Buscemi. Shit is wild and there’s genuinely no rhyme or reason to it.
Some idiots will blame it on migrants or whatever minority and say we need to spend more taxpayer dollars on nyc’s finest candy crushers, but there are just a lot of mentally unstable people in this city with no plan for how to handle them.
Edit: if the reddit cares suicide thing I just got was related to this post, what? I got attacked, I’m not suicidal for christs sake
If you got a reddit cares it just means someone who is passive aggressive didn't like your post which means that it was an effective post and got through to someone they just didn't like the post so take small satisfaction in the fact that you made an idiot feel stupid sorry for lack of punctuation it's that kind of day
i got a reddit cares too lol.
There are bots going to town on reddit making cares reports
Just reply with STOP and report the message with targeted harassment and you won’t see one again.
Thank you.
I got one too. I didn’t realize until your post that bots are reporting people.
I got one because I said I was gonna take a year off watching basketball because the Raptors lost their 1st round lottery pick.
I'm sure I'll be ok not watching my 4th favourite sport for a year random dude!
And when these things start, it sort of "shakes the crazy tree" and becomes a trend.
Yeah, the city goes through phases—I mean New York dies every ten years and then it begins again. Right now, the whole ‘punching strangers and running away’ thing is very trendy, and I’m really not a fan of it, it’s fucked up how my mustache grows in. But I don’t know what to do to stop this particular brand of crazy other than potentially invest more in mental health, but how to do that effectively is an absolute quagmire.
and I’m really not a fan of it, it’s fucked up how my mustache grows in. But
Um, huh?
I got punched in the face right off the subway which split my face open right below my nose (the guy was probably wearing a ring which was able to cut almost totally through my lip). I had to get the wound stitched up, and the wound scarred.
I’ve had a mustache for several years, and now a small portion of it does not grow in because of scar tissue.
All told, not so bad. Thank God I have insurance, that I was only attacked with a fist and that the attacker only struck once and that my brain parts are only as muddled as they’ve always been.
But I do reserve the right to be a little bitter that my mustache is slightly fucked up. I didn’t realize that I was vain until the ER doctor stitching me up told me it would fuck up my mustache, that was upsetting.
Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
Here's to your once glorious stache!
Oh it’s still glorious, it just now has a story
Edit: if the reddit cares suicide thing I just got was related to this post, what? I got attacked, I’m not suicidal for christs sake
It's also used as the Reddit version of swatting. So if someone doesn't like something you said, they do that instead. I've had people do it to me, but if you report them as abusing the feature, they can get in trouble for it.
I’ve seen so many complaints about Reddit cares lately.
I got one for saying the name of a band sucked. I can only assume it was a member.
I just got that Reddit Cares message too. Weird.
I got a reddit cares as well. I think it's a prank thing to tell the truth. Like a Mr. Rogers version of swatting.
Honestly, I’m wondering if the Reddit Cares thing is a glitch right now. I just got one for the first time today when I hadn’t posted anything remotely controversial. Then I saw a bunch of other people saying they got it today.
Same here
Straight to jail 👉
Believe it or not (not actually)
He gonna get out after a day or two. It’s NYC after all.
Mental illness, or he wasn't a fan.
Might could be he’s just an enormous flaming asshole.
Phil Leotardo sends his regards
20 years in the can, he had to compromise
That animal Blundetto had it coming.
He can't even say his name.
If a white dude punched a black actor reddit would be shouting about racism. But that doesn't seem to be on anyone's list here.
Roid rage. Dude’s entire look screams “testosterone replacement meds.”
The “50yr old looking” with the brain of 14 yr old , that’s why. Some peoples brain never grow up with their body.
Everyone who’s tried physical shit that I’ve seen is an adult over 30. Nobody’s gotten them in trouble before and institutions aren’t a thing so why stop swinging at people?
Because he knows that there are no real consequences. The Manhattan DA will lower the charges or drop them
Mental illness doesn’t come with a uniform.
Idk they issue us neat socks
We don't know if this guy is mentally ill or not.
Reddit loves to jump to “mental illness”
Steve Buscemi? The 9/11 firefighter?
I know! There needs to be a lot more outrage. He isn't just some famous guy. He is a legit hero, like all 9/11 first responders.
How much more outrage you thinkin?
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At LEAST this much
Is that outrage for ants?! It needs to be at least 3 times that much!
No he's a pre-board certified massage therapist. Common mistake.
Steve Buscemi? A firefighter on 9/11?
Next you’ll tell me that Leonardo DiCaprio really cut his hand in that scene from Django Unchained and just kept acting!
Let’s not shit Leo. He’s a brilliant actor. Have you seen that he’s currently acting as if he were attracted to a woman who’s almost 26 years old?
An Emmy-worthy performance, if you ask me.
Maybe you didn’t know this but the above was not a diss of him. He really did cut his hand during that scene in Django, and used the bleeding hand to enhance the scene. Man is a badass.
Also kind of gross he put his legit blood all over Kerri Washington's face without her permission (assuming so since cutting his hand wasn't scripted)
Cutting his hand was not scripted. After he did it they added in the part where he wiped his blood on her, so it was not his actual blood that he smeared on Kerri Washington.
To be fair he was no longer a firefighter at that point. He returned as a volunteer to clear rubble with his old company. He wasn't there on the day of the attacks.
There were people under that rubble -- still a hero.
And god awful shit in the air
“To be fair”
To be fair to whomst?
Hope he gets arrested
They’ll probably release him the next day unfortunately. The pendulum swung too far in one direction and major course correction is seriously needed.
They'll only release him if he's mentally ill and they want to absolve themselves of any responsibility for his care. You know, not like there's an imperative to care for mentally ill people from a public safety standpoint or anything. But if some jailer can make a buck on warehousing him, then he'll definitely go to jail.
Can you really punish someone more than this though? He’s 50 years old, wears a shirt one size too small and skinny jeans….clearly he already hates himself.
If a person can so easily just assault someone unprovoked that person is a danger to society and will never change
Especially when they are 50 years old
Yup, old people can be dangerous too. I mean 70+ year old guy shot a PM, so even "grandpas" can be on demon time
Dudes still mad about Joey peeps and Billy leotardo
Whatever happened there?
WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE?!?!?
He was just a kid
That animal, I cant even say his name.
Peeps? It’s a fuckin’ nickname, his name is Pepparelli!
Fucking Jason....He's dyslexic
What’s that got to do with anything?!?
Or how he pimped out a child to the Commodore.
Blundetto…that animal!
Gimmie your gameboys! I'm giving them both to the Salvation Army.
Twenty fucking years.
West Cald-well.
That fucking animal I can’t even say his name
TURN THAT OFF!
No more Butchie, no more of this
Why would anyone punch Steve Buscemi? Dudes a national treasure (to me)
Do you think this person was aware it was Steve? No. This was a random attack on a smaller, older man. That’s what these people do
As a New Yorker I hope he gets the maximum not because of who Buscemi is as an actor but for being an nyc firefighter who also heard the call of duty on 9/11 and showed up even though he retired. He’s the utter heart of what being a New Yorker is.
Clifton Williams. So they’ve ID’d him. I’m sure they’ve been to his place and not found him.
He’s in hiding?
Laying low so’s Tony and Chrissy don’t find him an teach him a lesson for laying a hand on Tony Egg
He’s in the wind, on the lam, and flying low
Good. Put him in a room with Mr. Blonde
Anyone who enjoys randomly assaulting others, and who does so thinking they can get away with it, deserves the max punishment. No slap on the wrist please.
You don’t sucker punch one of New York’s Bravest and get away with it… this guy has no idea what’s coming to him.
I picture you typing this while looking at the mall katana that almost certainly is wall mounted above your hentai collection
Lmao - so specific! No mall Katana, or hentai, but I do have a lovely knife from Kyoto in my kitchen and a pretty decent comic book collection so potato potato I guess?
Potato potato
NYC is crazy, I was a tourist from Australia and a guy came up and told me to give him my phone.
I was outside the bar having a cigarette so I kinda poked him with it and ran back inside.
He just wanted to see if the screen was upside down
Underrated comment.
I see you've played knifey spooney before
Punching a senior citizen in the face, one who stopped his career to go to NY and help immediately after 9/11
I hope something terrible befalls the assailant
They need to start putting people that commit these crimes in jail for a minimum of 10 years. No chance of bail and no early release.
“These men are cowards, Donny”
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Elections have consequences. He has 27 priors
the real travesty is that it takes a celebrity for real action to be taken
if this happened to a regular citizen this wouldnt even make headlines
I would bet that this same guy has also randomly attacked plenty of normal citizens and will only now face the music because he unknowingly did it to a famous person.
Jfc that’s a big fucking dude. He better have somewhere to go cuz from what I’ve learned Mr buschemi is a national treasure and doubly so in nyc. Be as big and scary looking as you want, can’t fight everyone
Thought it would have been a woman waitress, because of Mr. Pink’s no tipping rule!
I can only imagine how Tony Blundetto or Nucky Thompson would deal with this guy.
Sucker puncher must really hate high school kids.
Don't fuck with my boy, Nucky.
*Pattern recognized
Wow, the other victim was also in Boardwalk Empire? Weird coincidence…
The fuck? Who would hurt Steve? Dudes a treasure.
Put em away without parole.
It’s wild they took the time out to find him.
It was OJ. He didn’t die, just doing shitty things in strange disguises.
Not sure why they want to arrest him so bad, he’ll be out the next day shout outs the DA and Eric Adams
just give him the death penalty and get it over with. fuck him and anyone that randomly punches people. Stop punching or else get punctured by a hot shot.
100% people like this do not deserve life and they eo not deserve prison. Theres too many people on this earth already to be sympathetic to the assailant's life story
I agree with you!
Isn’t being punched in the face while walking in NYC a normal thing?
It’s the new normal
You know what needs to happen to this guy from now on
hey fuck you clifton!
His punishment should be that any time, any where, for the rest of his life, Mike Tyson has 2 free unannounced sucker punches.
Wonder if living that nightmare compares to jail.
Someone hit that animal Blundetto?!?!
I hope Mr. Williams resists arrest for an extended amount of time.
This attack was racially motivated.
I hope he has the day he deserves.
66-he’s a fucking kid!
Damn bro, you're way too fucking old to be punching strangers on the street.
Don't tell me another fan was so upset Nucky killed Jimmy Darmody it still stings to this day?!
That's no way to deal with animal Blundetto
Dudes jacked. I assumed it was some dipshit kid.
Nike killshots will now be know as Buscemi sucker punches.
Damn, somebody snuffed Stevey B?
He's 50? He's way to old to be acting like a punk teenager
think that guy has lived enough
wait, is that how you pronounce his name?! I’ve been saying “bu-shemi” for years…
He was seen limping away.
After what happened to his brother Billy he just couldnt wait to get revenge on that animal Blundetto
His blood test showed 80% zeppoli
Throw the dude in the wood chipper
Off his meds. He roams free to do it again
Hate to be him. The Buscemi’s are a dangerous crime family not Steve but the rest of them
I knew OJ faked his death
I wonder if he has randomly sucker punched other people on the street?