Inevitably, one day, he met his mugger, who grunted the usual non-negotiable demand for his wallet.
Mr. Smith has a long-term contract to continue writing his "Mugger" column, which is long on invective against figures like former President Bill Clinton and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
In a scene eerily reminiscent of Charles Bronson in the Hollywood hit "Death Wish" four punks threatened and attempted to rob their victim, but enclosed within that graffiti encrusted rail car the "hare turned around and bit the hound" he fired his Smith and Wesson 5 shot 38-caliber revolver into his would-be muggers.
NEW YORK CITY'S body count had been rising steadily when Brian Watkins, a tourist from Utah, was stabbed in the heart while defending his family from muggers in 1990.
Mr. Abrahams said the extra contingent of armed policemen roaming through the train cars helped him overcome his fear of muggers there.
The Australian then pulls out a massive machete to make his point informing the muggers: "Now this is a knife", and the-would be robbers flee in terror.
His father, who had retired as a reporter for The New York Times, died in January 2006 after he was assaulted by two muggers near his Washington home.
Winner mentioned to the actor Charles Bronson the idea of a man "justified" by the rape and murder of his womenfolk to shoot muggers, which led to Winner directing Death Wish (1974), and two sequels.
My mother is 96, and she drove until she had two accidents in one month, and we said, 'Mom, no more driving; it's time to sell the Buick.' " If the enemy was his own frailty, not muggers, Mr. Fordyce said, he would not be surprised.
The man complied, but as the muggers were taking his valuables, including a mobile phone, one of them pulled a handgun and shot at him.
