Leo Gillick
They say you shouldn’t bring a knife to a gunfight, but apparently, you can bring a skateboard to a knife fight.
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The New York subways provide shows comparable to Broadway. Every day, something new and crazy seems to be going on in the rat-infested tunnels beneath the city. It’s either flooding, theft, or, in this case, a knife vs skateboard face-off.
Footage captured by a bystander shows the two men squaring up in the subway. One, clearly the aggressor, has pulled a knife on another man holding a skateboard. The fight is still in the early agro stages, but it could quickly blow up.
The man with the skateboard, clearly hesitant to engage, is backing off, trying to defuse. But the man with the knife keeps stepping towards him. Faced with the option of running or defending himself against the man with the knife, he chooses the latter.
As the knife-wielding man takes another step forward, the other picks up his long skateboard and slams the sharp nose into the man’s upper chest. He chooses not to hit his face, but it still has the desired effect.
The aggressor takes a tumble backward, falling toward the open gap of the subway line. He drops his knife in the fall. Shocked and stunned, the man picks himself up, but realises he has lost his knife. He’s not the big man anymore without his weapon.
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Guy with a knife underestimated his opponent with a skateboard.
NYPD arrived before round two.👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/T8oawx8HFA
Stupidly, he jumps onto the tracks to try to recover the blade and go in for round two.
Police Break Up Subway Brawl
After smashing the knife man to the ground with his skateboard, the young man turns to see two NYPD officers right at his shoulder. Tasers in hand, they order him to the ground. Then, they move in to arrest the other.
However, he’s still down on the subway tracks, and the police have to pull him onto the station by his clothes. Rather than leave his knife and run, he not only incriminated himself by picking the deadly weapon back up, but also trapped himself on the line.
The skateboard swinging man was also detained, but I have no doubt the other will be in a lot more trouble.
