Not to worry, a NYC 311 social worker team was dispatched to the scene

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Defund the police!

Video shows wild neighborhood street takeover as violent mob pummels couple, burns truck

Violent confrontation erupted in New York City neighborhood as drivers performed donuts on residential lawns

A violent mob was caught on camera reportedly beating a New York City couple and setting a car on fire after several local residents tried to stop a rowdy street takeover in their neighborhood over the weekend. 

The attack began around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, after a group of drivers were seen speeding across residential lawns and doing donuts on the corner of South Drive and 141st Street in Malba, a neighborhood located in Queens, the New York Post reported. 

A private security guard first attempted to defuse the situation, but was subsequently assaulted by the mob and had his vehicle set on fire, according to City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, who represents the neighborhood.

Larry Rusch, who owns a security company, reportedly heard the drivers performing stunts in the street. When he rushed outside to see what was causing the commotion, he was met by about 40 cars in the street, The Post reported.

Rusch reportedly attempted to park a company car in the intersection to try to block the drivers from causing more damage. 

"As soon as I did that, everyone started leaving," Rusch told The Post. "Then two individuals go up to the car. Somehow they threw some kind of firework or something and lit the car up. Then melee started again."

Another local resident was also assaulted, according to the report.

"When I came out, I said, ‘Bro, you gotta get the f--- off my property,’" victim Blake Ferrer told The Post. "And that’s when it all started." 

The incident quickly devolved into chaos, with video showing the group allegedly attacking Ferrer and his wife, reportedly leaving the Queens man with a broken nose and ribs. Additional footage shows a vehicle on fire as another car circles it. 

Paladino took to social media to express her concern regarding the incident, adding that Ferrer was "lucky he wasn’t killed."

Related: Boston STREET TAKEOVER SUSPECTS TORCHED POLICE CRUISER IN 'HELL-BENT' ATTACK ON COPS: UNION CHIEF

Paladino also blasted local law enforcement’s response to the melee, revealing that residents who called 911 to report the incident were told that a "quality of life team and 311 should handle the situation." 

"Unacceptable. In fact, these violent street takeovers should be met with maximum force by the police department," Paladino added.

However, the NYPD said in a statement to Fox News Digital that while the initial responding officer was rerouted to a more serious call, once authorities received word that the incident had been upgraded to a higher priority call, an officer was quickly dispatched to the scene. 

"The [precinct] covers a large geographical area, and this was a busy Saturday night," a spokesperson for the NYPD said in a statement. "At the time of the incident in question, other units from the [precinct] were handling multiple priority jobs, including an arrest for an individual who was driving while intoxicated, transporting someone to the hospital, an assault, and a vehicle collision with injuries."

A third resident also reportedly had objects thrown into his car when he attempted to stop the drivers from continuing the chaos, according to The Post. 

Additionally, Paladino blasted the lack of accountability within the city regarding similar instances of street takeovers, adding, "These incidents are happening citywide, and they're happening because there are no longer any real consequences to this kind of criminality."

This is the future:

The councilwoman then pointed to several armed residents "who exercised extreme restraint," adding that the "level of restraint is not guaranteed. If the city refuses to do what's necessary, the people might."

So don't listen; what do I care?

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After two years on the market, 267 Riversville Road has contract. It has been priced at $2.999 million since November 13, 2023, the date that I posted this:

In this market, if a house has sat unsold for 248 days, I might adopt a more aggressive approach to its pricing

267 Riversville Road, a 1962 ranch on a back lot, hit the market in March for $3.2 million, and as of today after a previous modest price drop, has cut that price to $2.999 million. It looks like a perfectly decent, albeit dated house, but the market’s silence is deafening; if the owners can hear it, there’s a message being sent.

Just don't try this in any restaurant I'm dining in, or you'll end up with bowlful of hot linguine wrapped around your head

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The leftists’ violence continues and is increasing: Vacation Land’s silver-spooned, SS Death Camp tattooed, oysterman of the people calls for harassment of any of the state’s politicians who dare oppose his communist policies, and the disruption of his would-be constituents’ evenings out.

'Follow Them Around:' Graham Platner Believes Political Intimidation Will Help Pass Medicare for All

WINDHAM, Maine—Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) urged his supporters to publicly harass members of Maine’s congressional delegation who oppose Medicare for All.

“In the future, when we’re trying to vote on something like Medicare for All, if there are other members of the Maine delegation that don’t want to come along, we need to be able to impose costs,” he said during a Saturday town hall in the southern Maine town of Windham. “We need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at. Because that’s power. That’s real power.”

This is not going to get better.

Pending sale up on Lake Avenue

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583 Lake Avenue, to be precise, listed at $5.495 million and located, the listing says, in the not just coveted, but in the highly coveted ''Golden Triangle''. I’d thought that the Brazilian fashion cut had reduced the appeal of golden triangles, but apparently not: this house went pending after just fourteen days. I suppose some people still want to make sure they’re getting a true blonde.

Compassion for Whom?

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U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros said the woman was "minding her own business and reading her phone" while seated in the middle of the train car, when Reed approached her from the back of the car, doused her head and body with gasoline, and attempted to ignite the liquid.

The woman ran to the back of the car, as he ignited the rest of the liquid in the bottle and then used it to light her on fire, according to the complaint.

Footage allegedly showed Reed watching the woman, engulfed in flames, as she tried to put out the fire by rolling on the floor.

  • David Strom:

The man who committed this horrific act wasn't just some rando who had a psychotic break. As horrific as it is, no government, no matter how vigilant, could prevent every tragedy. People have psychotic breaks, and you can't always predict who or when. 

But no, this was a career criminal whom the State's Attorney begged the judge to detain because he was a dangerous man bound to commit horrific crimes, but in Brandon Johnson's city, horrific crimes happen on every day ending in "y," and he—and Governor Pritzker—are just fine with that. 

That's not the accusation of some right-wing commentator hoping to score political points off a tragedy. It's just a fact. Brandon Johnson and the entire criminal justice system have created a city where crime isn't just a fact of life, but the result of public policies that have defined criminals as victims who should be coddled and set free to terrorize the community. 

It's not just that the criminals who make Chicago the murder capital of America are "known wolves," although they are. The police have an awful time knowing what to do with people who look ready to pop but who have yet to commit the crimes they are determined to. Precrime is not a thing in America, and we have no systematic way to force people into isolation in mental health facilities. 

But in Blue cities, and especially Chicago, the vast majority of the people terrorizing the citizens are actual criminals who have been arrested time and again, and the system lets them go. There is no need to keep a watch on people with the potential to commit crimes here; they have been caught and released, despite the obvious danger they present. 

The criminals are responsible for each individual act they commit, but the judges and politicians are responsible for intentionally creating a system that points them at innocents and invites them to do their worst. 

How does this happen? It's the public employees' unions for the most part, and Brandon Johnson is the perfect candidate for them. His career has been about pillaging the city for the benefit of the Marxist teachers' union, and public employees' unions are the largest and most reliable voting bloc in any major city. 

We often blame the entire population for the election of radical leftists in Blue cities, and I admit that there is some justice to the accusation. If all working-class people rose up as one, they would, collectively, outmass the voting blocs that back Democrats. But that almost never happens, because a huge fraction of people don't vote for any number of reasons, while the Democrat blocs who live off the taxpayers are reliable, and heavily concentrated in urban areas. 

Throw in the cultural elite, the propaganda mills of the media, and the left is almost unstoppable. That's how you get the Brandon Johnsons in power. 

Ordinary citizens are left with a choice: leave, or put up with it. And leaving is incredibly expensive and can tear apart lives that have been embedded in places for decades or even generations. 

The pendulum will swing back, but just a bit, I am afraid. Look at Detroit, which, while inching back after half a century of decline, is miles from recovering from horrific leftist rule. It will never recover. 

Neither, I am afraid, will Chicago. 

I know which approach I'm voting for

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Swalwell AND HIS LOVER/CCP SPY FANG FANG HAVE A PROPOSAL THAT WILL RESTORE THEIR CONFIDENCE IN OUR ELECTION RESULTS

Now that his fellow Democrats have gerrymandered the state’s Republicans (40% of the population) out of the voting booth, this grifter wants to make sure they stay out:

California governor candidate Eric Swalwell wants people to be able to 'vote by phone'

Why do they want to go through the charade at all, when they can just announce the winner the night before the election and begin the celebrations?

Until then, here’s another way to approach the issue:

All small things come to those who wait (Updated)

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And who are willing to lower their expectations.

Currently listed at $7.395 million, 230 Taconic Road has been reported pending. Began at $11.475 million back in September 2022.

UPDATE:

Reader Mikki writes to ask, “It's got a gourmet kitchen AND it is "built by a coveted team. Why is the "team" coveted? Big, brawny handsome guys?”.

I asked Chatbot to look into it, Mikki and yes, that’s exactly what it means. Glad to help — it’s what we’re here for.

Give up? But where else will we find the $trillions to power our graft industry?

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Very Much Related:

Step aside, CBS News, because meteorologist Chris Martz has shared a New York Times article informing us that Florida's east coast beaches disappeared five years ago:

Late last year I wrote about five of my favorite climate change alarmism fails from mostly Democrats and their media stenographers. If we could only harness the power produced by all those goalpost shifting efforts the world's energy problems might be solved. 

One of the doozies included was a now 43-year-old CBS News story featuring Dan Rather and Al Gore (that's as self-refuting a duo as you'll find) claiming that, among other horrors, the burning of fossil fuels was close to putting 25 percent of Florida under water: 

Ah, yes, such fond memories; Greenwich children of today will never have the pleasure of frolicking on what was once Tod’s Point beach. Gone now, of course, but back in the day, it was quite beautiful. Here it was, back in 1962. So sad,