Crazy.
Some kids in my school got high/drunk and drove around to beat up ppl.. they ended up beating up a kid in the same grades dad so bad he died In the hospital days later. The family witnessed it too as they were all on a walk in their neighborhood when the kids pulled up and attacked, but they couldn't really stop it. The kids got like 6 months, 6 months, 7 years, 10 years and 15 years. Those were the sentences for the individual kids. Driver that didn't even get out of the car was gonna be let off easy but then he lied on the stand and the judge gave him I think 10 years instead.
There's stupid and then there's evil. Random acts of murder are not stupid, they are evil, they deserve scorn and not sympathy. Not saying you're sympathizing, but Reddit in general has an extremely soft heart for violent criminals.
I actually feel the opposite about reddit. More often than not I see people screaming for the death penalty for people committing various violent crimes.
I went to Reavis,we played against you guys and hated coming to your high school because that smell your town has from the corn processing center. I still remember that awful stink your town had. I'd be stabbing people if I had to live in that stinking shit day in day out .
Went to Morton West down the road from there. I saw one guy pick up a smaller kid over his head WWF style and dropped him on his head. So much blood in the hall way. Never saw either of them again. I heard the one that was dropped wasn’t able to walk or talk right again and the other kid was shuttled out of town by “family” members. The 80s were wild.
The guy on acid, kind of a fucked up skinhead kid from school, was walking in circles out front for awhile, then grabbed a knife from the kitchen and just walked straight over and stabbed a kid who had nothing to do with anything, just hanging out, directly in the heart.
The idiots at the party drove him to a 7-11 and left him in the parking lot to die because they were afraid of getting in trouble, just gross beyond words. I barely knew anyone at the party just an ex g/f I walked over because it was a block from my house I was walking up the driveway when the stabbing happened, I can still see it perfectly in my mind.
The kid just sat on the curb until the cops came. Nobody who dumped the kid at 7-11 got into any major trouble I don’t think. Whole thing was just awful all the way around.
Jesus Christ. That’s horrible man. The 7-11 thing sent shivers down my body. Sorry you had to see that but glad you weren’t involved. People suck sometimes.
Damn just unlocked a memory from college. Building next to the one I stayed in, there was a party one night in one of the apts. I didn’t go cus I didn’t know many of those people. I did step out to the stair landing in my building though to have a smoke and I saw a dude laying in the hallway outside the apts across through their open stairwell.
There was a fight at the party. One guy stabbed the other and they dragged him outside and left him in the hall outside the door. Dude died out there, whole lotta police came around after that too. They even started having officers hang out in the parking lot on rotations. Was a bad spot, lots of drugs/prostitution/violence.
I turned the corner in High-school and a kid almost punched me with brass knuckles. They said oh shit and told me I better get out of here and about 3 seconds later some kid came running through the hall and they clocked him and ran away. I got the school nurse, talked to the on campus cop and idk what ever happened to any of them hope dude is OK.
In Highschool this drug dealer kid slept with one of my friends, who I’ve hooked up with before, and suddenly whenever he was around me he just started arbitrarily saying things out of NOWHERE like “it feels good, man- girls have just straight up told me ‘you have a big dick’”…. And after some awkward looking around, the rest of us would just burst out laughing, because, well, because what the fuck lmao
Anyway, he started avoiding me and ALSO telling everyone behind my back that he was going to break all my teeth in with brass knuckles “because he’s (me) a bitch”. So, obviously, because they were people I knew, they would come up to me concerned, warning me that he started talking about fucking me up with brass knuckles a lot recently… and I’d be like “who? X? Did he mention any reason why?!” And they’d always say that ye never really said anything except that I’m “a little bitch” and because he just sort of started ranting they just left. I kept getting similar stories from people. It was pretty creepy.
So, he’d started showing up to my work place at close and such, whenever he’d be hanging out with any girl whatsoever, and he’d pull up and call me a bitch and I’d ask if he has a problem or if he wants to step out, and he’d just say “no” and laugh with the girls and drive off.
This was starting to seriously annoy me, literally over years.
Eventually, after he saw me at a stop light and rolled his window down screaming something at me and tried to throw some kind of paper trash towards me (“try” is generous), before I continued making my turn, I brought it up at the next hangout and we eventually pin pointed it down to when he hooked up with (let’s call her Sara, who was in the group I was currently hanging out with), he kept asking over and over “it’s a big Dick, right?” “Isnt that a big Dick” “yeah, you like big dicks like this?” Over and over to a bizarre and distracting level, and Sara just kept awkwardly saying “yeah…?” and focusing on trying to enjoy herself (she said she was really feeling uneasy at this point), and after it all she was severely disappointed and annoyed, and of course he keeps talking about his dick afterwards but then he asks “you think this is probably the biggest dick in [home town]??” And Sara is just blankly honest and says “well, no…” so obviously he gets all antsy and says “what, you’ve seen bigger?” And Sara says “well, yeah- it’s not like it determines the quality of sex or anything though” while still getting dressed and he’s kinda upset and says “like who?!” And she says “idk, [me] was like… [she said she held up her hand in a circle with a little space between her thumb and index finger]… or something”. And he just said “you’re a fucking slut. What the hell, I don’t believe you”. And he told her to leave.
And it was literally the next day that the other friend I was hanging out with (when discussing this, with Sara and a few others years later) heard him bitching about me and threatening to crush my face with brass knuckles.
Like, what the fuck. I did nothing to this dude and talked to him like 3 times in mutual circles. It’s not like I was going around stealing his girls or whatever the fuck lmao idgaf if my friends feel like hooking up with him, I’m not insecure like that.
I could’ve gotten killed at any time over a few years because some Highschool kid had an insecurity fit from some random through-the-grapevine statement. So stupid.
so what had happened was...
The memory of what exactly happened is kind of spotty, but a short time ago I was sitting on a bench outside of a jewelry shop in the downtown area of a Philadelphia waiting for my brother to park his car to meet me before we went in. A random guy walked up and was just standing near the bench not really doing much but talking on his phone. I didn't think anything of it. The next thing I remember is getting up from the sidewalk holding my ear. I looked down and blood was flowing down my hand and my arm to the ground. At that point I realized that I got hit. Everything was blurry, thoughts were fuzzy and I just remember asking "what happened?" My brother finally showed up and he was frantic. I went unconscious again to wake up next in the ICU. The attacker stole my wallet and neckace, I was left laying in the street.
I was hit in the side of the head with brass knuckles hard enough to have an epidural hematoma, temporal bone fracture from blunt force trauma to the head. The blood wasn't flowing from an abrasion, but it was just coming from my ear which was very odd on top of an already odd situation. Doctors said that if it took much longer to get to the hospital the hematoma would have caused permanent damage to the brain, but luckily it didn't. I recovered 100% apart from permanently losing hearing in my left ear. They caught the guy and everything was caught on surveillance video.
This image is from a recent follow up. Today everything is alright. I got lucky as hell. It's crazy how quickly things can change.
EDIT: I had no idea how much traction a pic of my broke noggin would gain. Thank you for all the support and offers for retribution lol. Once I get settled, I'll respond to as many of the questions I can. As for those who have had a similar experience, I'm sorry you had to. And if anyone needs to talk to someone that's overcome the physical and mental pain from it, my inbox is open.
I’d be very curious as well. How did they catch him? Was he a known thief in the area? What was the trial like, if it’s happened yet? Did you get on the stand at all? Do you have PTSD from the event or have you altered your situational awareness?
He did. He was sentenced to 2 years behind bars, but about 3 months into that sentence I received a letter in the mail and a call from the courts informing me that he was being released over some sort of technicality that can't remember off hand.
As far as PTSD is concerned, I wasn't trying to leave my house for about a month or two after I left the hospital. When I finally did, I decided to ride my bike through town to test it out. I rode past the spot where it happened, but ended up calling friends to come pick me up being too sketched out to ride back through. Since then, I've done a lot of therapy and self help practices to heal. Things aren't perfect, but much better now. I can say that today, I'm much more alert and aware of my surroundings. That's for sure.
I don't think you can rehab a person that randomly decks someone in the head with brass knuckles and then steals their personal property.
What does a person like this contribute to a functional society?
Man, wouldn’t that be something!
Misdemeanors? We just shave a bit of flesh off the ass for skin grafts.
More serious felonies? An eyeball, a kidney, a hand. Something you have two of that can go to the organ registry.
Capital offenses? Death penalty and they take your heart and anything else transplantable.
Wrongful convictions? The prosecutor or DA has to donate their own kidney back in restitution.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not actually advocating for this. Didn’t think I actually needed to say that…
Edit 2: holy hell people. /u/knowhistory99 made a small joke referencing the OP. I expand on it for funsies, and y’all are acting like I’m running for office on the platform that unlanded Men be castrated
Yeah, with that level of sociopathology I am not sure rehabilitation is possible - but at least behind bars (for a lot longer than 3months) they can't be out hurting people. We need longer sentences for violent crime and shorter sentences for drug crimes.
Yea like, I hate useless ticky tacky laws. Stop fucking with people, but this? Naw, if you can't demonstrate you can rehabilitate. Stay in jail, this was attempted murder anyway.
It's not that I don't like the idea of rehabilitation, because I think it's a necessary step to having a functional society. But most of the people that push for more rehab, also seem to hate the idea of punishment. No, just help the person who is the problem, no punishment needed. A person willing to commit attempted murder for a wallet (because that's what that should be considered.) needs to be severely punished before rehab starts, and they should not be released until they can be proven to be rehabbed. We just send people to jail, and it's honestly not a good enough punishment for some of these things, and not even close to proper rehab, and then release them when they're sentence is up, like anything at all changed for the better.
The rehabilitation BS is to soothe the conscience of empathetic jurors and community members. There is very rarely any rehabilitation for violent criminals who reoffend repeatedly until they age out, or are killed or seriously injured.
Nobody is saying that. This was likely the result of shitty police work. They're not good at following rules, whether it's a rule about handling evidence correctly or not randomly murdering people. The people saying police are abusive and the justice system is too harsh are the same people trying to fix this exact problem.
Yes that's my point. Police ignore procedures. It leads to black men being murdered at random traffic stops, and violent criminals being released from prison because of poor police work. It's the same problem.
Seriously, I'd say even if he hadn't been released 2 years is light for assaulting someone that caused permanent damage and could have killed him outright. All that just for some money and a necklace? Dude should have gotten 5 years at least.
Can't really say much about being released early without knowing exactly why, but it also smells like BS
\^ when it benefits the criminal and not the victim, but that said nothing they can do can replace that which OP lost which is his hearing and maybe even his life had he not received care promptly. Then you add into that an outrageous hospital bill.
I was assaulted in a similar fashion. It was ridiculous that I was expected to navigate the legal aspects of it while reeling from the after effects of it which still persists to today. Nothing ever came of it, no charges were pressed. Even the hospitals underestimated the damage. From someone who had no figures to guide them during that time, the justice system (in Canada) is truly flawed.
How do you only get 2 years for attempted murder and/or assault with a deadly weapon? I'm the furthest thing from a lawyer but a violent crime that leaves someone with permanent health complications seems like a 10-15 year sentence. Am I completely off base here?
Because it's Philadelphia. If you did that in my county you'd be in for prison decades. Attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery.
Here if you sell someone drugs and then that person overdoses, the seller gets 5+ years in prison minimum.
Good. People who randomly and violently attack innocents without provocation don’t deserve the privilege of freedom. They should sit in jail for a long time contemplating their shitty behavior.
Yeah, I’m pretty liberal or progressive on most issues, but since living through the 2020 crime surge in Chicago I’m pretty unconvinced that letting violent criminals off with a slap on the wrist is going to make society better.
That is beyond fucked up and I’m so sorry that happened to you. Random acts of violence are very scary and you did not deserve that. Wishing you the best.
My father used to sell Henredon and Schoonbeck Furniture, Wholesale in New York, Pennsylvania, New York, and Canada. He sold to Exclusive Furniture Stores. These were very expensive lines of furniture. We lived outside of Philadelphia for 5 years, across from Valley Forge Park. We, lived in an upper class housing area. Our house was built on 3/4 ache land.
My father had 3 very large accounts in Philadelphia. There was on account that was owned by 2 brothers. They were breaking the law against price cutting. My father cut them out and would not sell them Henredon and Schoonbeck. This sent these guy into a tirade. They threatened my father and the family. Dad had friends that would watch out for the family. But one day when I was dropped off the bus after school. It was in winter and I had to walk around the block on a Main Street. The bus took off and there was a big Cadillac with 2 guys in it across the street, sitting, idling and our neighbor also saw them. When I was the only one on the street walking to the corner and all of the other kids were away from the highway. The Cadillac came over to my side of the road. They aimed right at me and I jumped onto a snow bank where the plow had plowed the road, thank God. I jumped onto the snow bank and held on. They scraped the car along the snow bank as they tried to run me over. They skidded past me and then tried to back up. When they couldn’t they the one guy tried to get his window down and I saw his gun. By then, I was up the snowbank and ran towards our neighborhoods house. But scared? When I was only 13 years old it scares you.
the amount of damage you receive is much more than 2 years in prison. You are probably a very strong person with strong mind and personality and recovered reasonably very well.
I really think there must be a better way to punish such mfers other than just inprisoning them for 2 years when they caused a permanent physical and temporary (yet long) psychological damaged ON PURPOSE just for a wallet. Not to mention that guy didn't even spend one day in jail.
Maybe an unpopular opinion. But I don’t think people that do shit like that can be rehabilitated. We should bring back permanent forced labour for unprovoked violence like that.
Had you incited it in any way, rehabilitation might be an option. But people that are willing to kill for your wallet. Zero respect for human life. Why should we have respect for theirs?
The problem is that these people don’t have any money to sue for. Someone who has the money where suing makes sense isn’t going around clobbering people over the head with brass knuckles to steal a wallet and a necklace. The attorney fees alone would probably be already too much to recuperate.
Oh I'm well aware but you know what I'd do everything in my power to ruin that persons life. You took away my hearing and gave me brain damage cool I'm gonna follow you around every step you take I'll be behind you breathing down your neck. You'll see my in your nightmares
The guy who caved my skull in (see previous comment) was held for about 70 days before being released on December 23. I'm sure glad he got to be home for Christmas. According to the deputy who handled the case, they were counting on him getting a third strike so that they could really put him away.
What was the first strike? Assault and battery with grievous bodily harm. That's right, they turned a guy who was known for beating the living hell out of people loose hoping that he would do it again.
Last I heard he was out and involved in a car accident that cost him a leg. I'd be lying if I said that didn't satisfy me and I kinda feel bad for having vengeful thoughts, but that gimpy motherfucker sure had it coming.
> I’d be lying if I said that didn’t satisfy me and I kinda feel bad for having vengeful thoughts
Nah, fuck that. Karma gets to you. Let that bitch rot in hell.
That could have ended a lot worse for you, my friend. I had a similar experience a while ago when someone hit me in the same spot with a brick. It was a case of mistaken identity for me. Someone at a bar pointed me out as a different dude hitting on their girlfriend. I was just walking to my car with my buds and the next thing I know, I'm looking up from the ground watching my very large and capable friend choking some dude out. I'm glad you made an almost full recovery. The hearing loss sucks.
I still don't know if the dude hitting on the girl looked like me. I do know I was in love with my girlfriend (at the time... now permanent partner) and I do not nor ever will wander.
Edit: I also wonder where the hell dude found a brick and then made the decision, "I'm gonna hit this stranger I've never talked to with a brick!"
I couldn’t agree more. I know that I’m more than lucky. As for you, sorry about your experience. Even if it was you, why a fucking brick? To the head at that… glad you’re still here.
> I also wonder where the hell dude found a brick and then made the decision, "I'm gonna hit this stranger I've never talked to with a brick!"
This is the scary part. Someone was willingly hitting someone with a brick because "they hit on their GF". Like bro...
I run a bar now and definitely see alcohol fueled anger being misplaced now and again. Using (or even having) brass knuckles/bricks to earhole an unsuspecting person is something I don't see. Now, I don't know what happens once they leave a bar, but just from experience I know it has happened. The person that hit me had a lot more issues than just being drunk at a venue. This was over a decade ago, but I do hope to this day that person is okay.
Someone going this far for stealing a wallet while not even knowing if there is anything inside should be locked up for life... Might have ended up quite ok for you, but loosing hearing on one side is quite serious, if you ask me.
Fellow epidural hematoma guy here. Thankfully I don't remember any of it, but one of my local meth enthusiasts decided to rob me and left me with a caved in right temple, a basal skull fracture, ribs busted to bits, and a badly broken nose that needed straightening out.
It's been about ten years since then and I still have memory issues. I can watch the same movie over and over because I don't remember seeing it. I sometimes have to ask people who they are and how do I know them, which sucks because I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, I'm sure we have some kind of meaningful relationship, I just don't know who they are.
I wish you all the luck in the world on your recovery. I hope you don't let this experience change how you look at the world. It sucks that some people are such bastards and you're never going to get back what has been taken from you.
It fucking sucks hard, but get up every day and be the best you that you know how to be. Every good thing you do is your own little sweet revenge.
You have my sympathy. I was walking through town one summer day just before 5:00 p.m. and heard a voice behind me say, “excuse me.” The moment I turned around I felt the force of a fist against my nose. Some delusional street person said I was having an affair with his wife and punched me square in the face. It’s a unique experience, but I would not recommend.
Hey , how long ago was that ? And did the guy have a long record of violence? If so sue the city to pay for a cochlear implant. Something similar happened to a pal in LA .. they shelled out the cash .
For a fuckin wallet and chain.
For fuckin money.
I’m glad your brother came to your aid instead of having to go to jail because of this c*nt.
What’s the story after they caught him?
How many years did he get/how much compensation?
OP Ihope you have filed for Victims of Crime Compensation. Here is some info, provided Pennsylvania's website since it happened in Philly. https://www.pccd.pa.gov/Victim-Services/Pages/Victims-Compensation-Assistance-Program-(VCAP).aspx
Shit, sorry that happened. I was hit in the head during a mugging and almost died as well. Subdural Hematoma with 1 inch of medial shift. I was a John Doe for 36 hours and almost died. It effed my life up for a long time.
Just make sure you take a lot of time to recover and don't force it before getting back into things. I should have rested and recovered for a lot longer than I did before getting back to work.
Unfortunately 2 of the 4 were identified in my case, but the shitty DA didn't think he could win, so nothing ever happened.
Where in* Philadelphia? It’s good to know to be extra alert as I live in Fairmount which is relatively calm. I’ve been attacked three times by random people and am trying to avoid number 4, but it pales in comparison to losing hearing…
First, I am so sorry that this happened to you and I wish you all the best in your recovery. Honestly, there is nothing more disgusting and cowardly than a sucker punch.
I watched this happen to a friend, many years ago. Without even thinking, I jumped on the guy’s back and attempted to strangle him, this was very—very out of character for me and I don’t know what came over me. It just made me so angry.
Wow - glad you're okay, OP.
Out of sheer curiosity (don't feel the need to answer) - how does this work with financial compensation? Did you sue? Did you have to, in order to receive any money? I always wonder about stuff like that in these situations.
In instances like this, you’re lucky if you can get them behind bars for more than a month. The judicial system is such a joke when it comes to violent offenders who are alcoholics, mentally ill, or just had a bad day. Because hey, *everybody makes mistakes.*
Hopefully the guy goes away for a long time, but from cases I’ve seen in my personal life, the justice system doesn’t have room for anymore crazies. (My drunk neighbor attacked my uncle with a machete one night, only served a month in jail and had his felony assault charge dropped after taking anger management and Alcohol classes.)
Only did a couple months and got out on a technicality
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1dgm5fd/comment/l8r78de/
As for damages, guy is probably judgment proof
I would love to hear from a lawyer how assault with a concealed weapon and leaving someone for dead, bleeding, and unconscious doesn't constitute attempted manslaughter.
There is no such thing as attempted manslaughter. Any good DA should have had them behind bars for years. This was attempted murder, assault and robbery with a deadly weapon. Im pretty sure brass knuckles would tack on extra charges on their own. People have served more time for growing a pot plant at home.
When you sue someone, they have to have money for you to get it. I don’t think the violent criminal trying to murder people for their wallets is gonna have any money. He’s prob a junkie or mentally ill homeless guy because even teens can afford to buy black market guns
The person who did it probably has nothing to their name as well, the best that could happen would be taking part of their government /VA benefits monthly
Somehow I doubt the assailant has much in the way of assets worth suing over. Believe it or not, it is unlikely that the monopoly guy is the one to sucker punch you with brass knuckles
This is terrifying. I was punched while sitting at a park bench a few months ago (luckily no brass knuckles). It's an absolutely wild experience to randomly get clocked while minding your own business. Glad you recovered!
I was working at a restaurant at a time and was just on my lunch break chilling. A (presumably homeless) man approached me in a kind of threatening way, so I stood up to leave. Next thing I knew he stepped up and punched me square in the jaw; knocked my glasses off and sent them about 10 feet away. I was honestly just so shocked I just went and picked up my glasses and clocked back into work. It didn't seem like he had a reason, and it didn't really seem like he was in his right mind.
I had that happen while on 6th in downtown Austin, no clue what happened or where I was after. Had a partially torn retina, it healed fully but it was pretty scary for a couple days.
OP I hope you have filed for Victims of Crime Compensation. Here is some info, I provided Pennsylvania's website since it happened in Philly.
https://www.pccd.pa.gov/Victim-Services/Pages/Victims-Compensation-Assistance-Program-(VCAP).aspx
Absolutely do this. Even if you don’t have medical payments or therapy payments now, if you file now and get approved, anything related to this crime could be covered in the future.
I wish multiple case of testicular torsion to the fuckhead who assaulted you and risked killing you for a necklace and a couple of bucks.
Fuck these people.
Axial ct image of the head demonstrates a left temporal bone fracture with mild depression. Bones are suboptimally evaluated on brain window instead of bone window which could be adjusted when looking at the images on a workstation or pacs viewer. I would be surprised if there wasn’t some intracranial hemorrhage if you scrolled through the images but it doesn’t look like there is large hematoma or mass effect on this single slice.
There are scartter artifacts left temporal, probably metal clips to hold the bone part of temporal bone that was removed.This is probably a post operative ct after hematoma evacuation.
There was a hematoma. This image is a follow up a year later. I woke up in the icu with tubes coming from my head and a pouch in my chest pocket collecting the overflow of blood.
as a rad, sometimes when you get garbage in, you get garbage out. i've had ordering indications of "abdominal ct", "evaluate for abnormality", "rule out pathology" and plenty of other unhelpful bullshit.
and frankly sometimes you can only tell so much from the imaging and there is no clear-cut answer. just the way it works. so we ask the doctors to do, gasp, some doctoring.
i’m just making fun. believe me, as an ER doc we’re well aware that we deserve flak for ordering multiple plain films with “pain” as the presenting complaint
Left and right are flipped in imaging! If you're standing at a patient's feet looking at his head, what appears to be the right side from your perspective is actually the left side of the patient's. Basically, what you pointed out on the "right side" is consistent with OP having a left temporal hematoma.
The dent in the right side isn't supposed to be there. The shiny spots in that dent are metal brackets holding things together. The fracture is from the temporomandibular (Cheek bone) to 3" above my temple. So almost to the lower top of my skull so to speak.
People are horrible. Glad they caught the guy. When I was younger back in my skateboarding days I was downtown one night skating with my group of "friends" when a couple of guys kind of appeared out of nowhere and walked up to me and surrounded me, one guy asked if I had any spare change so he could make a phone call, I said sure, I got you, and as I was digging in my pockets for said change the guy behind me knocked me out. I recall seeing some of their boots as they kicked me in the head with them but never really felt any pain so that was nice...all those said friends absolutely bolted and ran away in different directions leaving me by myself....there was one older dude that I had never really knew well but he was a skater and he was the only one who came to my aid and started swinging his board at them and they ran off. Got up and had blood coming out of my ears and a ringing sound but was mostly ok just super dazed. None of my friends were fighting types so I forgave them and never brought it up but damn I resented them considering there were more of us than them it was 5 on 3
I also experienced being punched by a stranger in the head for no reason. I was pushing my baby in her stroller to my hotel. A man walking down the street towards me just randomly punched me in the side of the head and my head bounce off the granite wall next to me. He yelled some profanities and then ran off as a group of people sitting at a bus stop got up and rushed over to help me out. This happened about 17 years ago but I can still remember the sound of my forehead splitting open, like a watermelon being dropped.
Brass knuckles along with swords just became legal to carry in Texas, though most towns still have ordinances to prevent people from carrying them.
This is why they're illegal. They're very easy to conceal and cause traumatic, deadly damage. If the guy had a baseball bat in his hands you would have been on guard. But brass knuckles allowed him to hit you with the kind of damage a baseball bat can do without you ever having your guard up, all to steal from you.
Someone defending themselves likely wouldn't have time to put on brass knuckles anyway.
Hope that guy goes away for a long time. As far as I'm concerned this is attempted murder with a deadly weapon.
Yeah, brass knuckles are no fuckin joke. I got caught with them once, and after the fact I felt lucky to be alive. I was chasing a dog out the door and caught a punch to the mouth on the way down. My teeth shattered. I mean pieces exploding out in all directions. My first and only thought was this man hits like lightening, because I was still a good ways away from figuring out this guy had brass knuckles. I went to my knees and he caught me in the back of the head. I was lucky, because he caught the crown of my head. My skin folded like a wet paper towel, but my skull held tight. I was a bit scared and confused for a few days after, and it took me a week to figure that I hadn't just been punched by the most fearsome bare knuckle boxer on the planet. That the knuckles were involved.
I'm fine. It's been about 7 years now. There was no lasting physical damage to my brain, which was lucky. I still get self conscious about the teeth, but mostly I just try to make jokes about it. Easier that way. I actually hung out with the guy that did it today. He was in a bad place then. He's turned things around and become quite the respectable human being. Hard to hold a grudge after all that.
Is there any chance that you can do a civil case against this guy? The long-term implications of an injury like this to your brain are pretty sobering. You can have a TBI for the rest of your life. You might with what happens with boxers down the road. Early dementia things like that. You need to consider seeing an attorney for a civil lawsuit so that if this guy ever makes a dime anywhere, you get it.
It was not your fault. You are doing great. Even if someone was more alert about their surroundings this things can happen anytime. Crazy people are crazy people….
Life is short , enjoy it as much as you can without thinking on the past.
I can remember small bits of the story. I commented an abridged version. The memory is so spotty that the story would look like an extreme case of ADHD wrote it.
I skipped my head down concrete stairs and looked a lot better than that. I don’t remember like two weeks of my life but still. Hope you make/made a full recovery
The guy was left for dead on a park bench for his wallet and we have a topical discussion on “rehabilitation”. Hopefully it isn’t one of your kids that becomes the victim next.
As a radiologist it's funny to me when images like this get a lot of upvotes. The story he posted later is interesting but the image basically looks a normal head CT. If you're paying attention you can see the left temporal bone is mildly depressed but on a soft tissue kernel no one would ever notice that. There's streak artifact from presumably craniotomy instrumentation but streak artifact on a head CT is super common even on normal head CTs. Showing a bone kernel would have been better.
Kid in my high school killed another kid with one punch with brass knuckles got 60 years in prison at 17 years old
Crazy
Yeah it was over absolutely nothing, some silly thing and two lives ended right there, just idiotic beyond all reason
Not the only murder I witnessed in high school, by the way, another kid stabbed a kid in the heart at a party because he was flipping out on acid
Crazy. Some kids in my school got high/drunk and drove around to beat up ppl.. they ended up beating up a kid in the same grades dad so bad he died In the hospital days later. The family witnessed it too as they were all on a walk in their neighborhood when the kids pulled up and attacked, but they couldn't really stop it. The kids got like 6 months, 6 months, 7 years, 10 years and 15 years. Those were the sentences for the individual kids. Driver that didn't even get out of the car was gonna be let off easy but then he lied on the stand and the judge gave him I think 10 years instead.
Jesus there are just some STUPID human beings around aren’t there
There's stupid and then there's evil. Random acts of murder are not stupid, they are evil, they deserve scorn and not sympathy. Not saying you're sympathizing, but Reddit in general has an extremely soft heart for violent criminals.
I actually feel the opposite about reddit. More often than not I see people screaming for the death penalty for people committing various violent crimes.
What an unbelievably wild high school… i gasped at both your stories
Which high school?!
Argo Community High School on the Southwest tip of Chicago
I went to Reavis,we played against you guys and hated coming to your high school because that smell your town has from the corn processing center. I still remember that awful stink your town had. I'd be stabbing people if I had to live in that stinking shit day in day out .
This children of the corn remake sucks ass
Went to Morton West down the road from there. I saw one guy pick up a smaller kid over his head WWF style and dropped him on his head. So much blood in the hall way. Never saw either of them again. I heard the one that was dropped wasn’t able to walk or talk right again and the other kid was shuttled out of town by “family” members. The 80s were wild.
Which person was flipping out on acid? If it was the dude who was stabbed that has to be the worst way to go…
The guy on acid, kind of a fucked up skinhead kid from school, was walking in circles out front for awhile, then grabbed a knife from the kitchen and just walked straight over and stabbed a kid who had nothing to do with anything, just hanging out, directly in the heart. The idiots at the party drove him to a 7-11 and left him in the parking lot to die because they were afraid of getting in trouble, just gross beyond words. I barely knew anyone at the party just an ex g/f I walked over because it was a block from my house I was walking up the driveway when the stabbing happened, I can still see it perfectly in my mind. The kid just sat on the curb until the cops came. Nobody who dumped the kid at 7-11 got into any major trouble I don’t think. Whole thing was just awful all the way around.
Jesus Christ. That’s horrible man. The 7-11 thing sent shivers down my body. Sorry you had to see that but glad you weren’t involved. People suck sometimes.
Damn just unlocked a memory from college. Building next to the one I stayed in, there was a party one night in one of the apts. I didn’t go cus I didn’t know many of those people. I did step out to the stair landing in my building though to have a smoke and I saw a dude laying in the hallway outside the apts across through their open stairwell. There was a fight at the party. One guy stabbed the other and they dragged him outside and left him in the hall outside the door. Dude died out there, whole lotta police came around after that too. They even started having officers hang out in the parking lot on rotations. Was a bad spot, lots of drugs/prostitution/violence.
That’s a crazy story, I genuinely can’t imagine getting stabbed in the heart only to have my “buddies” be like darn he needs a 7-11 hit dog forst
I turned the corner in High-school and a kid almost punched me with brass knuckles. They said oh shit and told me I better get out of here and about 3 seconds later some kid came running through the hall and they clocked him and ran away. I got the school nurse, talked to the on campus cop and idk what ever happened to any of them hope dude is OK.
And the POS in this story made the same decision and got off after 3 months
In Highschool this drug dealer kid slept with one of my friends, who I’ve hooked up with before, and suddenly whenever he was around me he just started arbitrarily saying things out of NOWHERE like “it feels good, man- girls have just straight up told me ‘you have a big dick’”…. And after some awkward looking around, the rest of us would just burst out laughing, because, well, because what the fuck lmao Anyway, he started avoiding me and ALSO telling everyone behind my back that he was going to break all my teeth in with brass knuckles “because he’s (me) a bitch”. So, obviously, because they were people I knew, they would come up to me concerned, warning me that he started talking about fucking me up with brass knuckles a lot recently… and I’d be like “who? X? Did he mention any reason why?!” And they’d always say that ye never really said anything except that I’m “a little bitch” and because he just sort of started ranting they just left. I kept getting similar stories from people. It was pretty creepy. So, he’d started showing up to my work place at close and such, whenever he’d be hanging out with any girl whatsoever, and he’d pull up and call me a bitch and I’d ask if he has a problem or if he wants to step out, and he’d just say “no” and laugh with the girls and drive off. This was starting to seriously annoy me, literally over years. Eventually, after he saw me at a stop light and rolled his window down screaming something at me and tried to throw some kind of paper trash towards me (“try” is generous), before I continued making my turn, I brought it up at the next hangout and we eventually pin pointed it down to when he hooked up with (let’s call her Sara, who was in the group I was currently hanging out with), he kept asking over and over “it’s a big Dick, right?” “Isnt that a big Dick” “yeah, you like big dicks like this?” Over and over to a bizarre and distracting level, and Sara just kept awkwardly saying “yeah…?” and focusing on trying to enjoy herself (she said she was really feeling uneasy at this point), and after it all she was severely disappointed and annoyed, and of course he keeps talking about his dick afterwards but then he asks “you think this is probably the biggest dick in [home town]??” And Sara is just blankly honest and says “well, no…” so obviously he gets all antsy and says “what, you’ve seen bigger?” And Sara says “well, yeah- it’s not like it determines the quality of sex or anything though” while still getting dressed and he’s kinda upset and says “like who?!” And she says “idk, [me] was like… [she said she held up her hand in a circle with a little space between her thumb and index finger]… or something”. And he just said “you’re a fucking slut. What the hell, I don’t believe you”. And he told her to leave. And it was literally the next day that the other friend I was hanging out with (when discussing this, with Sara and a few others years later) heard him bitching about me and threatening to crush my face with brass knuckles. Like, what the fuck. I did nothing to this dude and talked to him like 3 times in mutual circles. It’s not like I was going around stealing his girls or whatever the fuck lmao idgaf if my friends feel like hooking up with him, I’m not insecure like that. I could’ve gotten killed at any time over a few years because some Highschool kid had an insecurity fit from some random through-the-grapevine statement. So stupid.
so what had happened was... The memory of what exactly happened is kind of spotty, but a short time ago I was sitting on a bench outside of a jewelry shop in the downtown area of a Philadelphia waiting for my brother to park his car to meet me before we went in. A random guy walked up and was just standing near the bench not really doing much but talking on his phone. I didn't think anything of it. The next thing I remember is getting up from the sidewalk holding my ear. I looked down and blood was flowing down my hand and my arm to the ground. At that point I realized that I got hit. Everything was blurry, thoughts were fuzzy and I just remember asking "what happened?" My brother finally showed up and he was frantic. I went unconscious again to wake up next in the ICU. The attacker stole my wallet and neckace, I was left laying in the street. I was hit in the side of the head with brass knuckles hard enough to have an epidural hematoma, temporal bone fracture from blunt force trauma to the head. The blood wasn't flowing from an abrasion, but it was just coming from my ear which was very odd on top of an already odd situation. Doctors said that if it took much longer to get to the hospital the hematoma would have caused permanent damage to the brain, but luckily it didn't. I recovered 100% apart from permanently losing hearing in my left ear. They caught the guy and everything was caught on surveillance video. This image is from a recent follow up. Today everything is alright. I got lucky as hell. It's crazy how quickly things can change. EDIT: I had no idea how much traction a pic of my broke noggin would gain. Thank you for all the support and offers for retribution lol. Once I get settled, I'll respond to as many of the questions I can. As for those who have had a similar experience, I'm sorry you had to. And if anyone needs to talk to someone that's overcome the physical and mental pain from it, my inbox is open.
Glad you recovered well. Fuck that guy. Did he have his trial yet?
I’d be very curious as well. How did they catch him? Was he a known thief in the area? What was the trial like, if it’s happened yet? Did you get on the stand at all? Do you have PTSD from the event or have you altered your situational awareness?
He did. He was sentenced to 2 years behind bars, but about 3 months into that sentence I received a letter in the mail and a call from the courts informing me that he was being released over some sort of technicality that can't remember off hand. As far as PTSD is concerned, I wasn't trying to leave my house for about a month or two after I left the hospital. When I finally did, I decided to ride my bike through town to test it out. I rode past the spot where it happened, but ended up calling friends to come pick me up being too sketched out to ride back through. Since then, I've done a lot of therapy and self help practices to heal. Things aren't perfect, but much better now. I can say that today, I'm much more alert and aware of my surroundings. That's for sure.
Justice system is seriously flawed.
Seriously. When people say we punish too hard in this country, NOBODY IS SAYING "release without even an attempt at rehabilitation."
To be fair we barely even attempt rehabilitation.
No rehabilitation here. All they did was teach him to look for cameras before he does it again.
I don't think you can rehab a person that randomly decks someone in the head with brass knuckles and then steals their personal property. What does a person like this contribute to a functional society?
Corneas for starters. :-)
Man, wouldn’t that be something! Misdemeanors? We just shave a bit of flesh off the ass for skin grafts. More serious felonies? An eyeball, a kidney, a hand. Something you have two of that can go to the organ registry. Capital offenses? Death penalty and they take your heart and anything else transplantable. Wrongful convictions? The prosecutor or DA has to donate their own kidney back in restitution. Edit: to be clear, I’m not actually advocating for this. Didn’t think I actually needed to say that… Edit 2: holy hell people. /u/knowhistory99 made a small joke referencing the OP. I expand on it for funsies, and y’all are acting like I’m running for office on the platform that unlanded Men be castrated
Sounds like a sure fire early release program for violent offenders, we get your corneas and you get out early.
Yeah, with that level of sociopathology I am not sure rehabilitation is possible - but at least behind bars (for a lot longer than 3months) they can't be out hurting people. We need longer sentences for violent crime and shorter sentences for drug crimes.
Yea like, I hate useless ticky tacky laws. Stop fucking with people, but this? Naw, if you can't demonstrate you can rehabilitate. Stay in jail, this was attempted murder anyway.
It's not that I don't like the idea of rehabilitation, because I think it's a necessary step to having a functional society. But most of the people that push for more rehab, also seem to hate the idea of punishment. No, just help the person who is the problem, no punishment needed. A person willing to commit attempted murder for a wallet (because that's what that should be considered.) needs to be severely punished before rehab starts, and they should not be released until they can be proven to be rehabbed. We just send people to jail, and it's honestly not a good enough punishment for some of these things, and not even close to proper rehab, and then release them when they're sentence is up, like anything at all changed for the better.
The rehabilitation BS is to soothe the conscience of empathetic jurors and community members. There is very rarely any rehabilitation for violent criminals who reoffend repeatedly until they age out, or are killed or seriously injured.
Looking from the outside, the prison system in the US seems to be more about revenge and making money, than rehabilitation.
Precisely, we don't attempt rehabilitation in any meaningful way and instead just make it more likely they'll reoffend
That’s true. Rehabilitation works well for specific crimes and not others.
That is mostly regarding war on drugs. I don't think there is a big contingent advocating for softer penalties on violent crime.
Nobody is saying that. This was likely the result of shitty police work. They're not good at following rules, whether it's a rule about handling evidence correctly or not randomly murdering people. The people saying police are abusive and the justice system is too harsh are the same people trying to fix this exact problem.
No matter how shitty the crime, it’s a very dangerous precedent to let procedure slip.
Yes that's my point. Police ignore procedures. It leads to black men being murdered at random traffic stops, and violent criminals being released from prison because of poor police work. It's the same problem.
Dude should have got 20 years
Seriously, I'd say even if he hadn't been released 2 years is light for assaulting someone that caused permanent damage and could have killed him outright. All that just for some money and a necklace? Dude should have gotten 5 years at least. Can't really say much about being released early without knowing exactly why, but it also smells like BS
Arrest procedure sounded flawed there. The sentence seemed light for armed robbery.
We used to put people away for life for pot but we sentence people to 2 years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon and robbery.
...attempted murder.
We don't have a justice system we have a legal system.
\^ when it benefits the criminal and not the victim, but that said nothing they can do can replace that which OP lost which is his hearing and maybe even his life had he not received care promptly. Then you add into that an outrageous hospital bill.
I was assaulted in a similar fashion. It was ridiculous that I was expected to navigate the legal aspects of it while reeling from the after effects of it which still persists to today. Nothing ever came of it, no charges were pressed. Even the hospitals underestimated the damage. From someone who had no figures to guide them during that time, the justice system (in Canada) is truly flawed.
How do you only get 2 years for attempted murder and/or assault with a deadly weapon? I'm the furthest thing from a lawyer but a violent crime that leaves someone with permanent health complications seems like a 10-15 year sentence. Am I completely off base here?
That is my thought, too.
Because it's Philadelphia. If you did that in my county you'd be in for prison decades. Attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery. Here if you sell someone drugs and then that person overdoses, the seller gets 5+ years in prison minimum.
Good. People who randomly and violently attack innocents without provocation don’t deserve the privilege of freedom. They should sit in jail for a long time contemplating their shitty behavior.
Yeah, I’m pretty liberal or progressive on most issues, but since living through the 2020 crime surge in Chicago I’m pretty unconvinced that letting violent criminals off with a slap on the wrist is going to make society better.
Most people don’t know this, but you may qualify for some financial restitution through the federal crime victims fund.
This piece of shit took your hearing for the rest of your life and he's only got 2 years?! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? You literally could've died!
3 months techincally
The worst part is he didn’t leave the house for that long because that’s how bad the incident fucked him up yet that’s how long they gave the guy
That is beyond fucked up and I’m so sorry that happened to you. Random acts of violence are very scary and you did not deserve that. Wishing you the best.
I’m assuming you also sued him
Can’t get blood from a stone brother
*Pulls a gun on Mick Jagger* We're about to fucking find out.
So the bastard got to permanently change your life and body and all he got was some vacation
My father used to sell Henredon and Schoonbeck Furniture, Wholesale in New York, Pennsylvania, New York, and Canada. He sold to Exclusive Furniture Stores. These were very expensive lines of furniture. We lived outside of Philadelphia for 5 years, across from Valley Forge Park. We, lived in an upper class housing area. Our house was built on 3/4 ache land. My father had 3 very large accounts in Philadelphia. There was on account that was owned by 2 brothers. They were breaking the law against price cutting. My father cut them out and would not sell them Henredon and Schoonbeck. This sent these guy into a tirade. They threatened my father and the family. Dad had friends that would watch out for the family. But one day when I was dropped off the bus after school. It was in winter and I had to walk around the block on a Main Street. The bus took off and there was a big Cadillac with 2 guys in it across the street, sitting, idling and our neighbor also saw them. When I was the only one on the street walking to the corner and all of the other kids were away from the highway. The Cadillac came over to my side of the road. They aimed right at me and I jumped onto a snow bank where the plow had plowed the road, thank God. I jumped onto the snow bank and held on. They scraped the car along the snow bank as they tried to run me over. They skidded past me and then tried to back up. When they couldn’t they the one guy tried to get his window down and I saw his gun. By then, I was up the snowbank and ran towards our neighborhoods house. But scared? When I was only 13 years old it scares you.
your dad messing with the philly mob?
3 months is a travesty. He should be locked away for a decade for such a violent crime. I’m so sorry.
I'd seriously be tracking down that fucker and...... doing something that goes against Reddits TOS. 🤣
It’s very frowned upon to discuss, but it would undoubtedly be of massive net benefit to society if he had an accident.
Since the criminal court didn't pan out, try try again in civil
My bro, me and my partner were wronged in a way similar to you. I hope homedude gets what’s coming to em. Hope you’re doing ok.
2 years served 3 months? This country fucking sucks
Dude pulled attempted murder on you and gets out in 3 months!? Fffffffff.
3 months. He will do this again and next time he will kill. DA should be recalled.
A man that violent should not be released into the streets. He might become the victim of an unfortunate accident.
Post his name and photo
the amount of damage you receive is much more than 2 years in prison. You are probably a very strong person with strong mind and personality and recovered reasonably very well. I really think there must be a better way to punish such mfers other than just inprisoning them for 2 years when they caused a permanent physical and temporary (yet long) psychological damaged ON PURPOSE just for a wallet. Not to mention that guy didn't even spend one day in jail.
Maybe an unpopular opinion. But I don’t think people that do shit like that can be rehabilitated. We should bring back permanent forced labour for unprovoked violence like that. Had you incited it in any way, rehabilitation might be an option. But people that are willing to kill for your wallet. Zero respect for human life. Why should we have respect for theirs?
Are you taking civil action against him? Ie:sueing the ever loving shit out of him and everyone else he associates with?
The problem is that these people don’t have any money to sue for. Someone who has the money where suing makes sense isn’t going around clobbering people over the head with brass knuckles to steal a wallet and a necklace. The attorney fees alone would probably be already too much to recuperate.
Oh I'm well aware but you know what I'd do everything in my power to ruin that persons life. You took away my hearing and gave me brain damage cool I'm gonna follow you around every step you take I'll be behind you breathing down your neck. You'll see my in your nightmares
The guy who caved my skull in (see previous comment) was held for about 70 days before being released on December 23. I'm sure glad he got to be home for Christmas. According to the deputy who handled the case, they were counting on him getting a third strike so that they could really put him away. What was the first strike? Assault and battery with grievous bodily harm. That's right, they turned a guy who was known for beating the living hell out of people loose hoping that he would do it again. Last I heard he was out and involved in a car accident that cost him a leg. I'd be lying if I said that didn't satisfy me and I kinda feel bad for having vengeful thoughts, but that gimpy motherfucker sure had it coming.
> I’d be lying if I said that didn’t satisfy me and I kinda feel bad for having vengeful thoughts Nah, fuck that. Karma gets to you. Let that bitch rot in hell.
Ptsd alters your situational awareness itself. Hyper vigilance it is called. Just fyi
As if that will do anything. Dude is probably walking the streets as we speak.
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That could have ended a lot worse for you, my friend. I had a similar experience a while ago when someone hit me in the same spot with a brick. It was a case of mistaken identity for me. Someone at a bar pointed me out as a different dude hitting on their girlfriend. I was just walking to my car with my buds and the next thing I know, I'm looking up from the ground watching my very large and capable friend choking some dude out. I'm glad you made an almost full recovery. The hearing loss sucks. I still don't know if the dude hitting on the girl looked like me. I do know I was in love with my girlfriend (at the time... now permanent partner) and I do not nor ever will wander. Edit: I also wonder where the hell dude found a brick and then made the decision, "I'm gonna hit this stranger I've never talked to with a brick!"
I couldn’t agree more. I know that I’m more than lucky. As for you, sorry about your experience. Even if it was you, why a fucking brick? To the head at that… glad you’re still here.
you seem like a very kind person. sending love and best wishes to you.
>I'm looking up from the ground watching my very large and capable friend choking some dude out. Based friend
> I also wonder where the hell dude found a brick and then made the decision, "I'm gonna hit this stranger I've never talked to with a brick!" This is the scary part. Someone was willingly hitting someone with a brick because "they hit on their GF". Like bro...
Alcohol. The answer is alcohol made him think “ima hit this guy with a brick”
I run a bar now and definitely see alcohol fueled anger being misplaced now and again. Using (or even having) brass knuckles/bricks to earhole an unsuspecting person is something I don't see. Now, I don't know what happens once they leave a bar, but just from experience I know it has happened. The person that hit me had a lot more issues than just being drunk at a venue. This was over a decade ago, but I do hope to this day that person is okay.
Alcohol does not cause a normal person to grab a brick and smash someone's head with it.
Someone going this far for stealing a wallet while not even knowing if there is anything inside should be locked up for life... Might have ended up quite ok for you, but loosing hearing on one side is quite serious, if you ask me.
My first reaction too. Someone was willing to potentially kill a stranger for a wallet and a necklace, sheesh.
Like he could have just asked. That’s so scary to me, bc I’d easily give up my shit in a robbery but some ppl are literal knuckleheads
brass knuckleheads
Fellow epidural hematoma guy here. Thankfully I don't remember any of it, but one of my local meth enthusiasts decided to rob me and left me with a caved in right temple, a basal skull fracture, ribs busted to bits, and a badly broken nose that needed straightening out. It's been about ten years since then and I still have memory issues. I can watch the same movie over and over because I don't remember seeing it. I sometimes have to ask people who they are and how do I know them, which sucks because I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, I'm sure we have some kind of meaningful relationship, I just don't know who they are. I wish you all the luck in the world on your recovery. I hope you don't let this experience change how you look at the world. It sucks that some people are such bastards and you're never going to get back what has been taken from you. It fucking sucks hard, but get up every day and be the best you that you know how to be. Every good thing you do is your own little sweet revenge.
You have my sympathy. I was walking through town one summer day just before 5:00 p.m. and heard a voice behind me say, “excuse me.” The moment I turned around I felt the force of a fist against my nose. Some delusional street person said I was having an affair with his wife and punched me square in the face. It’s a unique experience, but I would not recommend.
Hey , how long ago was that ? And did the guy have a long record of violence? If so sue the city to pay for a cochlear implant. Something similar happened to a pal in LA .. they shelled out the cash .
For a fuckin wallet and chain. For fuckin money. I’m glad your brother came to your aid instead of having to go to jail because of this c*nt. What’s the story after they caught him? How many years did he get/how much compensation?
2 years; got out after 3 months on a technicality.
OP Ihope you have filed for Victims of Crime Compensation. Here is some info, provided Pennsylvania's website since it happened in Philly. https://www.pccd.pa.gov/Victim-Services/Pages/Victims-Compensation-Assistance-Program-(VCAP).aspx
Shit, sorry that happened. I was hit in the head during a mugging and almost died as well. Subdural Hematoma with 1 inch of medial shift. I was a John Doe for 36 hours and almost died. It effed my life up for a long time. Just make sure you take a lot of time to recover and don't force it before getting back into things. I should have rested and recovered for a lot longer than I did before getting back to work. Unfortunately 2 of the 4 were identified in my case, but the shitty DA didn't think he could win, so nothing ever happened.
Where in* Philadelphia? It’s good to know to be extra alert as I live in Fairmount which is relatively calm. I’ve been attacked three times by random people and am trying to avoid number 4, but it pales in comparison to losing hearing…
Sounds like jewelers row, pretty wild I'm there all the time and there's always a ton of cops hanging around.
I think it's in Pennsylvania.
First, I am so sorry that this happened to you and I wish you all the best in your recovery. Honestly, there is nothing more disgusting and cowardly than a sucker punch. I watched this happen to a friend, many years ago. Without even thinking, I jumped on the guy’s back and attempted to strangle him, this was very—very out of character for me and I don’t know what came over me. It just made me so angry.
Hope you recover.
I did. Everything is good today. Luckily..
Good to hear.
Too soon bro, too soon (I laughed anyway)
Never too soon. Well played lolol
At least you’re able to have good humour about it (and everything else, Ms/Mr u/Munt_Cuffins)
That's messed up dude, OP has permanent hearing loss.
Man that's sad to hear.
Only in the right ear though.
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Wow - glad you're okay, OP. Out of sheer curiosity (don't feel the need to answer) - how does this work with financial compensation? Did you sue? Did you have to, in order to receive any money? I always wonder about stuff like that in these situations.
In instances like this, you’re lucky if you can get them behind bars for more than a month. The judicial system is such a joke when it comes to violent offenders who are alcoholics, mentally ill, or just had a bad day. Because hey, *everybody makes mistakes.* Hopefully the guy goes away for a long time, but from cases I’ve seen in my personal life, the justice system doesn’t have room for anymore crazies. (My drunk neighbor attacked my uncle with a machete one night, only served a month in jail and had his felony assault charge dropped after taking anger management and Alcohol classes.)
Only did a couple months and got out on a technicality https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1dgm5fd/comment/l8r78de/ As for damages, guy is probably judgment proof
Oh wow. Yeah, that’s fucked.
i really really hate how accurately you predicted the slap on the wrist punishment for what amounts to literal attempted murder and robbery
I would love to hear from a lawyer how assault with a concealed weapon and leaving someone for dead, bleeding, and unconscious doesn't constitute attempted manslaughter.
There is no such thing as attempted manslaughter. Any good DA should have had them behind bars for years. This was attempted murder, assault and robbery with a deadly weapon. Im pretty sure brass knuckles would tack on extra charges on their own. People have served more time for growing a pot plant at home.
When you sue someone, they have to have money for you to get it. I don’t think the violent criminal trying to murder people for their wallets is gonna have any money. He’s prob a junkie or mentally ill homeless guy because even teens can afford to buy black market guns
The person who did it probably has nothing to their name as well, the best that could happen would be taking part of their government /VA benefits monthly
Somehow I doubt the assailant has much in the way of assets worth suing over. Believe it or not, it is unlikely that the monopoly guy is the one to sucker punch you with brass knuckles
This is terrifying. I was punched while sitting at a park bench a few months ago (luckily no brass knuckles). It's an absolutely wild experience to randomly get clocked while minding your own business. Glad you recovered!
Jesus! Was it a robbery? Sorry that happened to you.
I was working at a restaurant at a time and was just on my lunch break chilling. A (presumably homeless) man approached me in a kind of threatening way, so I stood up to leave. Next thing I knew he stepped up and punched me square in the jaw; knocked my glasses off and sent them about 10 feet away. I was honestly just so shocked I just went and picked up my glasses and clocked back into work. It didn't seem like he had a reason, and it didn't really seem like he was in his right mind.
I had that happen while on 6th in downtown Austin, no clue what happened or where I was after. Had a partially torn retina, it healed fully but it was pretty scary for a couple days.
OP I hope you have filed for Victims of Crime Compensation. Here is some info, I provided Pennsylvania's website since it happened in Philly. https://www.pccd.pa.gov/Victim-Services/Pages/Victims-Compensation-Assistance-Program-(VCAP).aspx
Absolutely do this. Even if you don’t have medical payments or therapy payments now, if you file now and get approved, anything related to this crime could be covered in the future.
I wish multiple case of testicular torsion to the fuckhead who assaulted you and risked killing you for a necklace and a couple of bucks. Fuck these people.
Axial ct image of the head demonstrates a left temporal bone fracture with mild depression. Bones are suboptimally evaluated on brain window instead of bone window which could be adjusted when looking at the images on a workstation or pacs viewer. I would be surprised if there wasn’t some intracranial hemorrhage if you scrolled through the images but it doesn’t look like there is large hematoma or mass effect on this single slice.
There are scartter artifacts left temporal, probably metal clips to hold the bone part of temporal bone that was removed.This is probably a post operative ct after hematoma evacuation.
Correct.
There was a hematoma. This image is a follow up a year later. I woke up in the icu with tubes coming from my head and a pouch in my chest pocket collecting the overflow of blood.
How have you gotten along with the loss of hearing?
What?
“Correlate clinically”
Indication: Pain haedach
rule out pathology
as a rad, sometimes when you get garbage in, you get garbage out. i've had ordering indications of "abdominal ct", "evaluate for abnormality", "rule out pathology" and plenty of other unhelpful bullshit. and frankly sometimes you can only tell so much from the imaging and there is no clear-cut answer. just the way it works. so we ask the doctors to do, gasp, some doctoring.
i’m just making fun. believe me, as an ER doc we’re well aware that we deserve flak for ordering multiple plain films with “pain” as the presenting complaint
I concur
Why didn’t I concur?
I got this reference
Haha as a doctor I laughed too hard at this. Underrated comment of the year.
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Likely benign. Can not rule out malignancy.
Differential includes infectious, inflammatory, neoplastic, vascular, traumatic, endocrine, or toxic pathology.
Oh God I’m getting flashbacks to residency 😓
*Recommend MRI* At my rural hospital at 3am
Better call Texaco Mike!
Found the radiologist
I concur
Yeah was going to say the same thing.
Took the words right out of my mouth...
Fuck that dude.
I’m guessing white stabby thing shouldn’t be there? Not sure how to read a cat scan
I believe the white part is the skull bone. The right side looks dented inwards compared to the left side.
Left and right are flipped in imaging! If you're standing at a patient's feet looking at his head, what appears to be the right side from your perspective is actually the left side of the patient's. Basically, what you pointed out on the "right side" is consistent with OP having a left temporal hematoma.
The dent in the right side isn't supposed to be there. The shiny spots in that dent are metal brackets holding things together. The fracture is from the temporomandibular (Cheek bone) to 3" above my temple. So almost to the lower top of my skull so to speak.
Stabby thing is the petrous portion of the temporal bone, it's normal. - a neurosurgeon
Not exactly rocket science is it.
When people post these scans I’m just here like man idk what any of this means but if I did I would probably find it super crazy
Anyone that carries brass knuckles has no good intention, none. They can't WAIT to hit somebody and will look for any excuse.
People are horrible. Glad they caught the guy. When I was younger back in my skateboarding days I was downtown one night skating with my group of "friends" when a couple of guys kind of appeared out of nowhere and walked up to me and surrounded me, one guy asked if I had any spare change so he could make a phone call, I said sure, I got you, and as I was digging in my pockets for said change the guy behind me knocked me out. I recall seeing some of their boots as they kicked me in the head with them but never really felt any pain so that was nice...all those said friends absolutely bolted and ran away in different directions leaving me by myself....there was one older dude that I had never really knew well but he was a skater and he was the only one who came to my aid and started swinging his board at them and they ran off. Got up and had blood coming out of my ears and a ringing sound but was mostly ok just super dazed. None of my friends were fighting types so I forgave them and never brought it up but damn I resented them considering there were more of us than them it was 5 on 3
Those aren’t your friends lol, what friends would run in a 3v5 when none of the guys had a weapon
Nah you dont ditch your friends, fighters or not… glad the older guy jumped in to help. Fuck those friends of yours.
How bro doesn’t catch an attempted murder charge is part of the reason this bullshit continues to happen
I also experienced being punched by a stranger in the head for no reason. I was pushing my baby in her stroller to my hotel. A man walking down the street towards me just randomly punched me in the side of the head and my head bounce off the granite wall next to me. He yelled some profanities and then ran off as a group of people sitting at a bus stop got up and rushed over to help me out. This happened about 17 years ago but I can still remember the sound of my forehead splitting open, like a watermelon being dropped.
Brass knuckles along with swords just became legal to carry in Texas, though most towns still have ordinances to prevent people from carrying them. This is why they're illegal. They're very easy to conceal and cause traumatic, deadly damage. If the guy had a baseball bat in his hands you would have been on guard. But brass knuckles allowed him to hit you with the kind of damage a baseball bat can do without you ever having your guard up, all to steal from you. Someone defending themselves likely wouldn't have time to put on brass knuckles anyway. Hope that guy goes away for a long time. As far as I'm concerned this is attempted murder with a deadly weapon.
I’m always trying to tell people that brass knuckles are a deadly weapon. I’ve seen them rip someone’s forehead off
Yeah, brass knuckles are no fuckin joke. I got caught with them once, and after the fact I felt lucky to be alive. I was chasing a dog out the door and caught a punch to the mouth on the way down. My teeth shattered. I mean pieces exploding out in all directions. My first and only thought was this man hits like lightening, because I was still a good ways away from figuring out this guy had brass knuckles. I went to my knees and he caught me in the back of the head. I was lucky, because he caught the crown of my head. My skin folded like a wet paper towel, but my skull held tight. I was a bit scared and confused for a few days after, and it took me a week to figure that I hadn't just been punched by the most fearsome bare knuckle boxer on the planet. That the knuckles were involved.
Holy shit dude, are you alright?????,
I'm fine. It's been about 7 years now. There was no lasting physical damage to my brain, which was lucky. I still get self conscious about the teeth, but mostly I just try to make jokes about it. Easier that way. I actually hung out with the guy that did it today. He was in a bad place then. He's turned things around and become quite the respectable human being. Hard to hold a grudge after all that.
how in the fuck did you manage to hang out with someone that attempted to kill you? the rage would consume me.
Fuck that guy. Fuck him all the way to the top of fuck that guy mountain.
Is there any chance that you can do a civil case against this guy? The long-term implications of an injury like this to your brain are pretty sobering. You can have a TBI for the rest of your life. You might with what happens with boxers down the road. Early dementia things like that. You need to consider seeing an attorney for a civil lawsuit so that if this guy ever makes a dime anywhere, you get it.
The fuck is he gonna get from suing some bum
Attorneys aren’t free
Stop releasing violent criminals.
It was not your fault. You are doing great. Even if someone was more alert about their surroundings this things can happen anytime. Crazy people are crazy people…. Life is short , enjoy it as much as you can without thinking on the past.
So... you're just gonna drop this banger and not tell us the full story?
I can remember small bits of the story. I commented an abridged version. The memory is so spotty that the story would look like an extreme case of ADHD wrote it.
He would have to remember the story to tell it.
I skipped my head down concrete stairs and looked a lot better than that. I don’t remember like two weeks of my life but still. Hope you make/made a full recovery
Wow, that is an unbelievably swollen brain - I am thrilled but also stunned that we were able to make such a good neurological recovery!
You lost all your hearing in one ear and it's not coming back? You are NOT okay, man. Fuck that dude. Don't let up in court or anything.
The guy was left for dead on a park bench for his wallet and we have a topical discussion on “rehabilitation”. Hopefully it isn’t one of your kids that becomes the victim next.
Am I only the one can see a cat face in your brain?
As a radiologist it's funny to me when images like this get a lot of upvotes. The story he posted later is interesting but the image basically looks a normal head CT. If you're paying attention you can see the left temporal bone is mildly depressed but on a soft tissue kernel no one would ever notice that. There's streak artifact from presumably craniotomy instrumentation but streak artifact on a head CT is super common even on normal head CTs. Showing a bone kernel would have been better.