BEATEN WITH A LAPTOP
The New York City Crime Report with Pat Dixon
Pat Dixon
4.2 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the smallest room in New York City comes a show that gives you a reason to live. |
| 0:05.8 | New York City, where a 65-year-old woman was bashed repeatedly in the head with a laptop on a Manhattan subway train |
| 0:11.9 | after she struck up a conversation with her attacker. Never strike up a conversation with your attacker. |
| 0:19.1 | It only leads to you being attacked by the attack. |
| 0:22.8 | The conversation is frowned upon in New York City among strangers, |
| 0:26.6 | unless you have a compelling reason. |
| 0:29.4 | You want to perhaps, you know, become better friends or, you know, |
| 0:35.3 | for the purpose of sex, things like that. |
| 0:38.3 | You know, I found that that is the safest way to go. |
| 0:41.3 | Don't talk to anybody. Don't have sex with anybody. |
| 0:45.3 | And if you don't have sex with anybody, there's no reason to talk to anybody. |
| 0:49.3 | The NYPD released photos of the suspect on the train and the December 9th attack after the public's help in identifying and tracking death |
| 0:56.9 | The way it happened was the victim was chatting with the assailant on an uptown |
| 1:01.8 | W train |
| 1:02.6 | You don't hear about the W train too much |
| 1:05.7 | It wasn't around most of the time that I was in New York student |
| 1:10.1 | The W train was phased down I, replaced by the Q and the N only. |
| 1:15.6 | And now the W train, it did make its triumph. I returned a few years ago. |
| 1:20.6 | Still, don't hear too much about the victim was chatting with the assailant on an Uptown W. |
| 1:24.6 | approaching the Rector Street Station in the financial district when he |
| 1:30.0 | suddenly pulled a laptop from his backpack and bludgeoned her with it multiple times in the head around |
| 1:35.7 | 10.20 a.m. I would have thought that it was her laptop that he hit her with. Hitting somebody with |
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