Social Bar Beating: Woman Left With Broken Eye Socket, Other Injuries After Rejecting Man's Advances

[meegbear]

A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps even sexually assaulted her, police said.

The attack occurred around 2 a.m. at Social, a three-story bar and lounge on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan where the victim, a nurse, had gone with a friend, authorities said.

The woman told police that she had rebuffed attempts by an unidentified man to dance with her, said police spokesman Paul Browne. When she went to the women's restroom on the second floor, he followed her and burst into a stall.

The man beat the victim until she was unconscious. Her friend later found in her in the stall and called 911, believing she might have fallen.

The woman was hospitalized with a broken eye socket, broken jaw and other injuries. When she regained consciousness, she told hospital workers she had been attacked.

Browne said investigators think she might also have been sexually assaulted. The Associated Press generally doesn't name potential victims of sexual assault.

Police were gathering security videotape and interviewing bar employees to try to identify the assailant. There was no immediate response to a phone message left at the bar.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/social-bar-beating-woman-_n_495144.html

[yurbud]

1. don't drink with or near strangers.

[MattBaggins]

7. Or dress like a slut

Heck if this woman had a husband and had stayed at home, this would not have happened in the first place.

It is ultimately the victims fault after all.

[Hello_Kitty]

11. Stay home and always be wearing your burqa. eom

[PVnRT]

16. No, it's stay home and cook dinner

The burqa is only for when the menfolk decide to let the little lady out of her cage.

[MattBaggins]

17. The cooking part is understood when one says stay at home isn't it?

[Vattel]

15. I take it you are trying to be funny

[roguevalley]

19. my dad got colecocked by a drunk when he was towing his car

after arrest. Getting your eye socket broken is a bitch. poor thing.

[yurbud]

24. did i say that advice is only for women? i read it in a book on persoanl safety years ago.

Every hour you're at a bar after 11 pm you're more likely to be the victim of a violent crime. that does not excuse the criminals at all, its just telling people how to steer clear of the problem.

[yurbud]

26. whose behavior can you control, other people's or your own?

Sometimes, you have to think a little beyond the bumper sticker.

Nothing excuses a guy attacking or raping a woman, but it is hardly blaming the victim to say what can be done to avoid danger.

[Shell Beau]

28. Don't go to any restaurant or bar. Or for that matter, anywhere.

She deserved it. What was she thinking?

:eyes:

[flvegan]

2. Lord, please let the security video be crystal clear.

A good, long view of this miscreant, and may he be found quickly and properly disposed of in prison for a very, very long time.

[The_Commonist]

6. And hopefully he paid for his drinks...

...with his credit/debit card.

[Adsos Letter]

10. I'm in 100% agreement; you couldn't have crystallized it any better.

[tammywammy]

13. Agreed n/t

[Taverner]

3. Jesus FUCK why would someone fucking do that?

Even if she insults you - and insults you bad - that just means you are targetting the wrong women, saying the wrong things or just plain out too drunk

Go home, burn one, please try again...

[Arkansas Granny]

4. There are some real sickos out there, and she apparently had the misfortune

to be found by one of them. I hope they find him.

[Taverner]

5. That sick fuck needs to be sent to an institution

That's psychotic behavior.

[Echo In Light]

8. Remember Looking for Mr. Goodbar?

[Taverner]

20. That movie seriously depressed me

Because I knew 'her'

And she was fun - and given the right environment, her kind can FLOURISH

[npk]

25. Something tells me this man has a history of being rejected by women

I can't imagine why :sarcasm:


This is why people say a woman has that extra sense that men don't have. They can just see a scumbag like a dog can smell dope in a suitcase.

[leftstreet]

9. FFS! When did 1,2 and 3rd degree assault become 'Social Bar Beating?'

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[tammywammy]

12. It's a bad headline, the name of the bar is Social n/t

[leftstreet]

14. Oh! LOL

That's better!

[Taverner]

18. it was a beating at a Social bar

But I get where you're coming from - kind of an ambiguous headline, no?

[Mari333]

21. some real assholes out there

wish she had had a taser on her. right to the groin, buddy.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. I hope this misogynistic asshole gets mauled by a chimp.

[Odin2005]

23. Have fun in jail, asshole!

[Liberal_in_LA]

27. agreed

[Shell Beau]

29. This person needs to be caught pronto.

She likely wasn't the first or last.