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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I ended an altercation that was headed toward a fight by buying my antagonist a drink. Best move I could have made in the circumstances. I said, literally, "Hey, man. I'm sorry. What are you drinking?"
I'm much bigger than the guy. I don't have a lot of experience as a fighter, but I probably could have just sat on him until the cops got there. Instead I spent a couple bucks to chill him out. We see each other there occasionally and wave cordially. That was as close as I've ever come to fighting as an adult.
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Here you go, here's an example of how someone tried to say sorry for doing something stupid and ended up dead. It could be like rat said, but maybe not. The OP may try that in their neck of the woods, but here in NYC, you just never know. One lady getting mugged not too far from my neighborhood said to the assailant, "What you going to do shoot me?" Those were her last words.
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Two friends fatally stabbed aboard No. 2 train
By LARRY CELONA, JAMIE SCHRAM and PERRY CHIARAMONTE
Last Updated: 10:27 AM, March 29, 2010
Posted: 5:09 AM, March 29, 2010
Pals heading home from a Midtown nightclub yesterday tossed their trash out a subway door, setting off a senseless slashing rampage that left two of them dead -- and added to the explosive spike in homicides around the city.
The carnage erupted at around 5 a.m., shortly after the 10 Brooklyn friends -- who had been at the trendy Cellar Bar in the Bryant Park Hotel -- boarded a southbound No. 2 train at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue, police said.
One of the men had a bag of trash and tossed it out the door as the train stopped at 14th Street, said Brian Woods, 24, of Flatbush, Brooklyn, who was with the group.
The trash struck one of four men boarding the train at that stop -- and he pulled a knife, Woods said.
"We apologized to them," Woods said. "We tried to tell them, 'Let's be cool about this. It's the end of the night. Everyone's going home.'
"But they took it as an insult. They came at us with knives."
The attack proved fatal for Darnell Morel, who died on the floor of the train, and Ricardo Williams, who was pronounced dead at St. Vincent's Hospital.
Morel, who was originally from Flatbush but lived in New Jersey, and Williams, of Flatbush, were both 24.
The killer and his cohorts fled the train at Christopher Street.
Two men taken into custody for questioning were released, and no weapon was recovered.
"He got stabbed over nonsense," cried Morel's mom, Florence Kwiatkowski. "He would be the one to put peace to things."
Another one of the friends, Mark Joseph, 23, also of Flatbush, was wounded in the arm and neck in the attack. He was treated at St. Vincent's and released.
"It seemed [the other group] couldn't accept 'sorry,' " Kwiatkowski said. "It's just barbaric. Who walks around with a kitchen knife? They have to find this pig. This man is a murderer."
Kwiatkowski said her son had been waiting for word on a job application at a Children's Place store in Secaucus, NJ.
And Woods said Williams "just got engaged a week ago."
The violence left straphangers fearful -- and disgusted.
"I feel like the city is losing its grip," said Liz McCarvill, 44, of the West Village.
"I have to take the subway at 4:30 in the morning to get to the airport. It'll be me and the people who kill each other."
Lisa Johnson, 29, of Jamaica, Queens, said, "The city is definitely going back to the '80s, with all the gangs and everything."
The slayings come amid a troubling 22 percent rise in murders in the city so far this year.
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