The NYPD is seeking a subway rider who bit, scratched and shoved another female passenger for merely attempting to claim the seat beside her.
A 45-year-old woman was taken to a NYC hospital for treatment of bites and scratches she received in Friday’s assault, but her bizarre attacker remains at large.
According to the incident report, both were traveling the underground on an F train to Manhattan when the aggressor flew into a fit over a request that she move her bag.
The unidentified individual refused to comply and, when the victim undertook to sit down anyway, she was viciously attacked by the suspect, who then fled the scene via the Queensbridge, Long Island City station stop.
New York’s transit police have been cracking down in recent years on riders who deliberately take up too much space.
In fact, the obnoxious technique dubbed “manspreading” has lead to a few arrests lately, even when trains and buses the accused seat-hoggers were riding on had been more or less empty at the time of their offense.
This similar version of the weird crime, however, is probably the first time a manspreader actually turned violent.
