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Zorikh Lequidre, who battles in full armor as part of a brutal Medieval combat sport, was attacked aboard the L train. Photo courtesy of Zorikh Lequidre
Rough Knight
Medieval swordsman slashed in subway
BY COLIN MIXSON
Some wacko slashed a modern
day knight in the face aboard
an L train in Williamsburg on
Nov. 8, after the chivalrous straphanger
prevented him from assaulting
another man.
The victim — who dons plate
armor to engage in armed duels
as part of the Society for Creative
Anachronisms and New York
City Armored Combat League
— sustained a seven-inch gash
amid the attack, and said Medieval
warfare has nothing on the
city’s transit system.
“My sport involves swords
and axes, but the only thing I’ve
gotten from that is a torn ACL
and a couple broken bones, and
here I fi nally get a scar,” said
Zorikh Lequidre.
Lequidre said that he boarded
a Brooklyn-bound L train at
Manhattan’s Union Square subway
station at around 10 pm,
when he noticed the knave repeatedly
hurling a smaller man
off the train, and yelled at him to
knock it off.
The villain then started shouting
at the victim, resulting in a
back and forth that ended when
the other man snarled “suck my
dick,” to which Lequidre quipped
“only if it comes with horseradish,”
eliciting some chuckles
from his surrounding straphangers.
The nut then attempted to
hock a loogie at the victim, but
managed to hit another man instead,
according to Lequidre,
who said the hapless bystander’s
girlfriend had to talk him down
from fi ghting the creep.
It wasn’t until the train pulled
into the Lorimer Street stop in
Williamsburg that things turned
bloody, and the lunatic slashed
Lequidre across the left cheek
before scurrying out the door.
“He took a swipe at me, and
I thought he just scratched my
cheek,” he said. “I waited until the
Teen cuffed in
anti-Semitic
egging spree
BY BEN VERDE
Police arrested an 18-yearold
man for allegedly going on
an anti-Semitic egging spree in
Kensington over the weekend.
The suspect was charged
with three counts of assault,
three counts of aggravated harassment,
three counts of harassment,
and one count of
reckless endangerment — all
as hate crimes.
In one incident, a knave
hurled an egg into the open
door of a synagogue near Dahill
and Cortelyou roads at
around 6:17 pm, striking the
wall of the house of worship
— but missing the worshipers,
cops said.
Ten minutes before that incident,
a hooligan had tossed
an egg at a woman on 38th
Street near 15th Avenue —
barely missing the unsuspecting
woman.
And on Sunday, some goons
pelted a 50-year-old woman in
the back with eggs on the same
stretch of 38th street at around
4:15 pm, according to police
— who confirmed that both
victims were Jewish, and are
treating all three incidents as
connected.
The egg attacks come amid
a significant surge of hate
crimes in New York City over
the past year, with anti-Semitic
incidents seeing the biggest
spike.
Between January and early
October, the Police Department
recorded 323 hate crimes —
marking a 33-percent increase
over the same time frame the
year before. Meanwhile, anti-
Semitic crimes have risen
63-percent, according to authorities.
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