If you’re lik
e me, you’re fed up with New Yorkers constantly referring to our fair city as the sixth borough and other equally derogatory nicknames. But next time your hipster cousin from Brooklyn knocks Philly, just show him this story. Joseph Lozito, a 40-year-old ticket taker at Lincoln Center, helped to catch a knife-wielding lunatic who had previously stabbed four people in what the Philadelphia Inquirer called, “a bizarre 28-hour spree of murder and mayhem”.
The alleged stabber, Maksim Gelman, is now in custody after he purportedly murdered three people and then stabbed innocent New Yorkers on what can only be called a 24-hour rampage. On Saturday morning, Gelman, while fleeing local authorities, boarded a train car at Penn Station. Intent on breaking into the motorman’s compartment, Gelman panicked after seeing two officers stationed at the front of the train. That’s when he went for Lozito.
Philly.com reports that, when threatened by the knife-wielding suspect, Lozito responded with his best Rambo-inspired one-liner, “You better hope that I die because I’m going to come kill you!”. Lozito, in a heroic act, sweep kicked Gelman, bringing him to ground. A tussle ensued and Lozito was stabbed multiple times before authorities apprehended the suspect. Fortunately, Lozito has recently been released from the hospital and is now probably in talks with studio executives for the movie rights to his story.
The lesson to be learned from all this mayhem? Never mess with Philadelphians. If we can take on the worst of what the craziest and biggest city in the world has to throw at us, we certainly don’t deserve to be treated as the Big Apple’s weaker and less attractive sibling.
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Philly guy fights off NYC serial-stabbing suspect”
Photo: Philly.com, The New York Daily News
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