Stranger stabs 8 year old boy repeatedly in restaurant (boy recovering)

[Liberal_in_LA]

New York (CNN) -- An 8-year-old boy, who was repeatedly stabbed at a Long Island, New York, restaurant, was recovering from a punctured lung and other wounds Saturday, police said.

The boy was spending time with his family at the Dave & Buster's in Westbury when he was attacked by a 23-year-old man who approached him from behind, police said. The man placed his left hand on the victim's shoulder and stabbed the boy five times with a three-and-half-inch folding knife, police Lt. Kevin Smith told reporters.

The boy had been playing a video game with his parents nearby, Smith said.

Police arrived shortly after the boy's father and a witness captured the attacker, identified as Evan Sachs, outside the men's room, authorities said. The incident was random;

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/09/new.york.boy.stabbed/?hpt=T2

[bluestateguy]

1. What kind of a sick fuck?

The perpetrator should be curb stomped.

[TK421]

11. Curb-stomping would be a nicer way to deal with this fucking asswipe n/t

[blondeatlast]

2. Words simply fail.

What have we become?

[Turbineguy]

3. Fox watcher

brain turned to pus.

[toddwv]

4. He'll probably get 10 years

then get out in under 2 because they need to make room for someone who got caught with more than an 1oz of weed.

Seriously though, if I caught the man who had just randomly decided to try to kill my son, there wouldn't be anything left of him by the time the police got there.

[virgogal]

6. + 1

[Bitwit1234]

9. Remember how the police arrived in the nick of time to save

the night stalker. I do believe that some criminals do not deserve any compassion and the death sentence.

[JVS]

5. Was the boy misbehaving or crying?

:sarcasm:

[CBGLuthier]

7. Bad parenting

If some random asswipe stabs my kid, there will never ever be a fucking trial for said asswipe. I can't believe this kid's father did not pop the head off his assailant. I would have stood on his god damned neck until it crunched and done the world a favor.

[bigmonkey]

12. Maybe he was caring for his injured son?

Just guessing.

[coyote]

8. My guess....mental illness or drugs. N/T

[felix_numinous]

10. Do we have a mental epidemic in this country?

:wtf:

[political_Dem]

13. Crap like this makes a person agoraphobic.

What in the hell is wrong with people that they just go out and stab people without any reason? This is terribly depraved. :(

My heart goes out to that little boy and his family. There should be at least a little expectation of safety when going out, shouldn't there?

[The Straight Story]

14. if knives were not readily available and we made them illegal this would not have happend

:evilgrin: