{"id":1215,"date":"2006-06-26T07:47:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T15:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/hey_buddy_--_leave_the_heavy_lifting_to_spiderman_superman_or_even_that_character_in_the_ben_affleck_vehicle.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T15:59:56","slug":"hey_buddy_leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/hey_buddy_leave.html","title":{"rendered":"Hey Buddy — Leave The Heavy Lifting To Spiderman, Superman Or Even That Character In The Ben Affleck Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I reading this<\/a> correctly? The second time in a week this guy plays good samaritan and this time he creams the thief with his car? Too weird:<\/p>\n

A serial purse-snatcher was critically injured last night when he was struck by a passing car moments after he stole a woman’s pocketbook on a Chelsea street, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The thief, who was not identified, was riding a bike when he was struck at 17th Street and 11th Avenue after he had dashed off with the woman’s handbag.<\/p>\n

The driver, Peter Welsh, said he heard a woman scream, “He’s got my purse! Someone help!”<\/p>\n

That’s when Welsh barreled into the thief as he tried to get off his bike.<\/p>\n

“I tried to get in front of him and intercept him,” Welsh said. “I didn’t mean to hit him.”<\/p>\n

The thief, wanted for a string of purse-snatchings in Manhattan, was taken to St. Vincents Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n

The incident comes a week after Welsh said he chased down a carjacker who crashed into four cars and hit a pedestrian June 14 near a Brooklyn movie set where Welsh was working.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It turns out that this is for real<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He goes by Peter Parker but says he’s no hero.<\/p>\n

The good Samaritan movie-set worker who ran down a purse snatcher in Chelsea said he just likes to help.<\/p>\n

“I don’t feel like a hero, but I felt like ‘I’ve got to help out,'” said Peter “Parker” Welsh, 33, who carries the moniker of the web-slinging “Spider-Man” character. The real-life Peter used his van to knock the thief off his bike late Friday.<\/p>\n

And it’s not the first time this month alone that Welsh has done a good deed. On June 14, he chased down a fleeing carjacker who ran off after crashing into four vehicles at a Brooklyn movie set where Welsh was working. He brought the vehicular villain down and into the arms of law enforcement.<\/p>\n

He’s known as Peter Parker because he co-runs Location Parking Security Services, which handles parking for movie shoots around town. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get it? “Parker” . . . as in parking . . . cars . . . get it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I reading this correctly? The second time in a week this guy plays good samaritan and this time he creams the thief with his car? Too weird: A serial purse-snatcher was critically injured last night when he was struck by a passing car moments after he stole a woman’s pocketbook on a Chelsea street, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}