It's enough that the mailman has to deal with icy sidewalks and driveways in the winter, but then pile on top of that three "ice-cold punks" who "pummel him senseless" under an ice storm of fisticuffs and snowballs (allegedly).Cops in the Big Apple say that was the recent fate of mailman Russell Bumpurs at the snowball-chucking hands of three teenagers (one pictured immediately above; link to full story at bottom).
The mailman was just going about his usual business in the middle of the afternoon when he says "the kids started zinging him with the snowballs as he delivered the mail." Although he yelled at the "three stooges" to "cease fire," they only upped their glacial and facial attack (allegedly) by "pounding him with lefts and rights to the body and head."
Witnesses who saw the meltdown called 911, which resulted in the cops reportedly catching these alleged cold-hearted hoodlums right in the middle of their little cold war on the mailman.
They've been charged with criminal possession of a weapon – the said snowballs – as well as with assault, harassment and menacing. "Maybe these punks will be getting their mail in jail," one of the cops actually spouted to the New York Post!
In addition to the "ice-ball weapon rap," a judge has slapped a restraining order on the alleged ringleader of this frigid threesome. So if the icy little punk gets within so much as a snowball's throw of mailman Bumpurs, he'll be riding a one-way avalanche straight to the ice house.
But since this wintry whippersnapper is apparently an arctic menace to postmen everywhere, I'm curious why the TRO doesn't apply to any and all mailmen – if you get my drift?
Indeed, postal veterans now seem worried that this incident might put a real cold sore on the postal delivery business. "That's terrible," said one three-decade postal vet of the snowy incident.
Reading between the snowballs, it seems to me that they're afraid of copycat ice clowns now that a chilly precedent has been set: "I've been with the postal service for 26 years, and I've never heard of such a snowball attack," said the same vet.
As for mailman Bumpurs, he was treated by EMS for bruises and swelling and has since been able to return to his mail route. No word yet whether body armor and a ballistic shield are now accompanying him on his sub-zero route.
http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/snow_kids_in_arms_yFb9z7e5iz4lMfS3uN5DIK
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