A ROUGH KNIGHT
Medieval fi ghter 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 finally 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
fighting 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
guy turned around and
left, then I put my hand on
my cheek and realized, oh
yeah, I am bleeding.”
Detectives with the 94th
Precinct are investigating
the attack, and have not
made any arrests, according
to a spokeswoman for
the Police Department.
Lequidre — who suspects
the knife-wielding
lune may be a former homeless
shelter resident, or
patient at a hospital near
Union Square — described
his attacker as around 40
years old, six foot three
inches tall, and approximately
190 pounds, while
sporting a beard and oversized
clothes.
The warrior from Williamsburg
studied jiu jitsu
and wrestling before making
his own suit of armor
and traveling to Poland
for his first Battle of Nations
in 2012, an annual
armored slugfest where he
represented Team USA battling
other combatants with
weapons including swords,
maces, battle axes, halbreds,
polearms and warhammers.
But the fighter claims
his most powerful weapons
have always been his
sharp tongue and cool wits,
and says he was happy to
put them to use for a good
cause.
“Part of the point of being
a knight is to defend people.
and that’s what I was trying
to do,” said Lequidre.
Zorikh Lequidre sustained a seven-inch gash amid an assault on the L
train in Williamsburg (above). When he’s not engaging in heroics on the
subway, Lequidre likes to battle in full armor (below) as part of a brutal
Medieval combat sport. Photos courtesy of Zorikh Lequidre
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Kensington cartoonist John Patrick Green will give a drawing demonstration at the Brooklyn Museum’s Children’s Book Fair on Nov. 23. Photo by Kevin Duggan
Kitten around
Kensington cartoonist brings his tail of kitties to book fair
TBy Kevin Duggan hey’re clawing their
way to the top!
A Kensington
author and illustrator will
show off his drawing
skills and his comic books
about adorable animals at
the Brooklyn Children’s
Book Fair, happening at
the Brooklyn Museum
on Nov. 23. John Patrick
Green will host the final
event of the book festival,
demonstrating how he draws
the characters in his book
series “Kitten Construction
Company” — a group of
kitty construction workers
who get no respect from
their human counterparts
because they are just too
cute, the author said.
“These kittens want this
job, but no one will take
them seriously because
they’re so adorable,” Green
said.
The felines’ struggle to
be taken seriously resonates
with children who struggle
to be taken seriously, as
well as with adults who
face patronizing or sexist
adversity in the workplace
— a sort of #meowtoo
moment.
“A child might feel
like ‘I’ve legitimately
accomplished a thing,’ and
the only response they’ll get
from an adult or a teacher,
is, ‘Oh you’re so adorable,
how precious,’ ” he said.
“For adults — and I was
completely conscious of
this — it’s a metaphor for
sexism in the workplace.”
The second book in
the Kitten Construction
Company series, subtitled
“A Bridge Too Fur,” debuted
in October, and features
the industrious fur balls
teaming up with a company
of canine constructors.
At the festival, which
will feature about 40 kids’
book creators, Green will
sell and sign copies of both
books in the series, as well
as an earlier book about
another animal performing
human jobs. His 2016 book
“Hippopotamister,” follows
a hippopotamus that flees
the zoo and tries to live
among humans by trying
out different jobs, including
a construction worker, a
hair stylist, and a sous chef.
Early next year, Green
plans to fur-ther expand
his empire of employed
animal books with the
comic “InvestiGators,”
about crime-fighting, vestwearing
alligators. He has
plans to create several
sequels to the InvestiGators
book, and for a follow up
to “Hippopotamister” in the
coming years.
Green, who has been
drawing comics since he
was a child, says that he
loves having the opportunity
to amuse people with his
drawings.
“I get to just sit at home
and draw comics and think
of things that make me
laugh — and if I’m lucky,
other people will laugh at
me too,” he said.
John Patrick Green at
the Brooklyn Children’s
Book Fair at the Brooklyn
Museum 200 Eastern
Pkwy. at Washington
Avenue in Prospect Heights,
(718) 638–5000, www.
brooklynmuseum.org. Nov.
23, 11:30 am–4 pm. Free.
Green has written a two-book series about kittens that run their
own construction company. John Patrick Green, color by Cat Caro
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