The subway chainsaw maniac pleaded guilty yesterday.
To refresh your memories, last July Tareyton Williams (pictured above) entered a the 110th Street subway station on the No. 1 line with a gorilla stuffed animal at 3 a.m. He then picked up a buzz saw lying near a construction site and randomly attacked postal worker Michael Steinberg.
The victim told the Daily News:
"There are many times I feel like I want to be a baby again because a baby is protected by its mother," said Steinberg, 64, who approved of the plea agreement. "For him to be away for 18 years is long enough for him ... to rehabilitate himself."
So, Williams, 34, gets 18 years. By the time he gets out, at least first two phases of the Second Avenue Subway should be built, as well as the No. 7 extension, as well as the new Fulton Street Transit Ceneter, and also the Long Island Rail Road will stop at Grand Central.
And, in happier, subway maniac news, an apparent suicidal homeless man tried to end it all by jumping in front of a V train in Rockefeller Center.
Here’s the Post’s account:
"He just ran from behind me and jumped in front of the moving train," said a stunned straphanger, who did not want to be identified.
"We all turned and screamed."
"[The train operator] came out of the train and said, 'I saw him but I couldn't stop.'
The man, who police believe is homeless, landed in the trough between the tracks and suffered minor injuries.
"He looked almost untouched," said a source.
"If you ever fell, God forbid, in front of a train, this would have been the best place to fall."
And on the topic, of the lifesaving subway roadbed trough, Subway Superman Wesley Autrey is back in the news – again. This time, at least, it is good news. Not like getting screwed by his attorney.
He got a new 2007 Chrysler Jeep as a reward for heroism.
-- Chuck Bennett
