Vince Bommarito fights off attackers who flee with briefcase and shoes
Tony's boniface, Vince Bommarito, was attacked by two men outside of his house on Arundel Place about 10:30 p.m. on Monday night but after a brief scuffle the men ran off with his briefcase and a bag of shoes he had in his car."I'm scratched up a bit and have a few bruises but I've had bruises and scratches before," Bommarito said Thursday. "I've lived in that house for 47 years and I've never had anybody look at me crooked before."
Bommarito, who is nearly 80, said he was getting his belongings out of the back seat of his car when the men attacked him.MBT Shoes Clearance - The Anti-Shoe at Low cost Charges He said he managed to kick and squirm and then bite one of the attackers on the hand before they took his briefcase and the shoes and ran off.
A police report on the incident says Bommarito was hit in the face and knocked to the grass by the suspects who then left in a newer model, white full-size pickup truck they had parked nearby. The report added that Bommarito had a minor laceration above his lip but refused medical attention.
Bommarito said the men had bandanas over their faces and tore his pants while trying to get his wallet out of his back pocket -- only Bommarito didn't have a wallet in his back pocket. He said they tore his watch off his wrist but dropped it during the scuffle and that he found it later.
The most valuable thing he lost was his address book, which Bommarito said would be nearly impossible to duplicate. He lauded the police for finding it and calling him about 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning to report that they had recovered the book. He said the robbers also took a checkbook out of the briefcase and two of the three pairs of shoes that were in the bag."They left the Gucci's," Bommarito said. "I guess they didn't know what they had."Bommarito is a former St. Louis Police Board Commissioner who resigned last year after admitting he'd interceded on behalf of a nephew arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence at Mardi Gras. He had nothing but praise for the way the police handled his situation on Monday.
2011年6月21日星期二
NY Senators Stuck on Gay Marriage
NY Senators Stuck on Gay Marriage
Amped-up rhetoric aside and with seemingly little regard for the national microscope being trained on them, lawmakers in New York will go back to the office Tuesday with the galvanizing issue of gay marriage still unresolved after more than a week of shrieking headlines Insurance companies target world markets and backdoor negotiations.
In the true essence of Albany, politicians in this nearly 400-year-old city will bargain and bicker over a host of seemingly unconnected issues as gay couples and other states watch closely for indications about which way the national debate is evolving over using the word "marriage" to describe the union between people of the same sex.
Rent control for New York City apartment dwellers will come up. Same, too, for a cap on the amount of taxes municipalities can raise each year. All are set against the backdrop of what national advocates call a basic human right and what opponents call an assault on the religious sanctity of legal marriage between a man and a woman.
There was little progress Monday, even as hundreds of chanting protesters from each side of the highly charged debate in New York tried to make their case. The key sticking point appears to be how much freedom to grant religious groups who protest gay marriage and refuse to perform services or provide related functions like wedding receptions.
Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa and the District of Columbia all allow gay marriage. Of them, all but Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., allow at least limited religious exemptions.
So, with only two days left in the scheduled legislative session, Republicans who are the last hurdle to gay marriage in the nation's third-most populous state will likely adjourn Tuesday morning to their conference room on the right flank of the ornate Senate chamber while reporters and New Yorkers gather outside and wait for the door to open.
On Monday, after a three-hour meeting behind those closed doors, the 32 Republican senators emerged without comment. A vote within the private session to even move the bill to the floor for final legislative approval was pushed to at least Tuesday as private negotiations continued between Republican Senate leader Dean Skelos and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made same-sex marriage a major initiative.
Amped-up rhetoric aside and with seemingly little regard for the national microscope being trained on them, lawmakers in New York will go back to the office Tuesday with the galvanizing issue of gay marriage still unresolved after more than a week of shrieking headlines Insurance companies target world markets and backdoor negotiations.
In the true essence of Albany, politicians in this nearly 400-year-old city will bargain and bicker over a host of seemingly unconnected issues as gay couples and other states watch closely for indications about which way the national debate is evolving over using the word "marriage" to describe the union between people of the same sex.
Rent control for New York City apartment dwellers will come up. Same, too, for a cap on the amount of taxes municipalities can raise each year. All are set against the backdrop of what national advocates call a basic human right and what opponents call an assault on the religious sanctity of legal marriage between a man and a woman.
There was little progress Monday, even as hundreds of chanting protesters from each side of the highly charged debate in New York tried to make their case. The key sticking point appears to be how much freedom to grant religious groups who protest gay marriage and refuse to perform services or provide related functions like wedding receptions.
Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa and the District of Columbia all allow gay marriage. Of them, all but Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., allow at least limited religious exemptions.
So, with only two days left in the scheduled legislative session, Republicans who are the last hurdle to gay marriage in the nation's third-most populous state will likely adjourn Tuesday morning to their conference room on the right flank of the ornate Senate chamber while reporters and New Yorkers gather outside and wait for the door to open.
On Monday, after a three-hour meeting behind those closed doors, the 32 Republican senators emerged without comment. A vote within the private session to even move the bill to the floor for final legislative approval was pushed to at least Tuesday as private negotiations continued between Republican Senate leader Dean Skelos and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made same-sex marriage a major initiative.
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