So this news item is a few days old now, but it's still worth mentioning I think: some douchebag extraordinaire mugged and attacked two old women in New York City. I mean, seriously old women. Try, 85 and 101 years old respectively. Anyway, these attacks were caught on tape, but the perp hasn't been caught. Over a thousand calls, according to this comprehensive coverage by the Gothamist, have been made to Crimestoppers, and while some are helpful tips to the cops that might lead to the arrest of this jackass, a lot of the calls are also from irate citizens mainly calling in to tell the police "...what they themselves would like to do to the suspect when he's caught."

"You better catch him before we do," one angry tipster said of the mugger caught on tape March 4 striking Rose Morat as the centenarian struggled to hold onto her purse.

Another caller suggested the mugger meet the same hanging fate as deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein - "but with barbed wire."

A female caller warned: "If I catch him, that [expletive], I'm going to mess him up." A male voice volunteered to "do to him what he did to her."

Another male caller urged prison-style justice, telling cops to "make sure every [person] in prison knows what he did."

And Mr. T also called in and said, "I pity the fool!...after I get done with him."

This whole situation has a slight comic book tone to it. Spider Man is going to swoop in at any second and apprehend this guy. Then he's going to spidey on over and deliver some flowers to the two old ladies.

Or maybe I'm just really excited for Spider Man 3.

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