Weaponized hot sauce
Two food cart vendors were assaulted and robbed in separate incidents on Wed., Nov. 4 in Lower Manhattan, according to police.
A man who claimed to be an employee got into a verbal dispute with a food vendor in front of 17 Battery Place in the Financial District at noon. The argument over money escalated to the point where the purported employee squirted hot sauce into the vendor’s eyes and then snatched $200 from the cash drawer, according to the police report. The alleged attacker was arrested.
In the second incident, four men approached a food cart at the corner of West and Liberty Sts. in Battery Park City at 6:10 p.m. and demanded money from the 48-year-old man selling shish kebabs. One of the four suspects stuck the vendor with a knife and said, “If you do not move from here, I will kill you,” according to police. The group took off with an unspecified amount of money.
Bier Brouhaha
A disorderly man who was kicked out of the Bavaria Bier House, fled without paying for his meal, and then punched the manager in the lip when she tried to get him to pay up.
The man ordered his food at 3:20 p.m. on Fri., Nov. 6 at the Financial District restaurant at 47 Stone St., but he was making other patrons feel uncomfortable and was asked to leave, according to the police report.
The surly customer then left in a huff without paying for his coffee, fries, grilled steak, and salad. When the manager went after him for the $50, he punched her and fled to the J subway station at Broad St.
Soda scuffle
A woman was walking through the intersection of W. Broadway and Canal St. when the man walking in front of her, turned around and threw a can of soda in her face, police say.
The soda scuffle took place on Tues., Nov. 3 at 12:15 p.m. on the border between Tribeca and Soho, according to cops. The 37-year-old victim told police the attacker fled northbound on Sixth Ave. and that the soda made her face swell up. No word on whether it was Coke or Pepsi.
Laptop snatch
An employee for the high-end French clothing boutique Cremieux told police that the store’s new $1,300 MacBook Air laptop stolen on his way to the store at 65 Mercer St.
The man had left the Apple Store in Soho on Sat., Nov. 7 and was walking north on Greene St. at 12:15 p.m. when a man approached him from behind, grabbed the computer and fled, according to the report.
