On Saturday, June 12, at the eerie hour of 3:30 a.m., a 19-year-old man allegedly got the living shit beaten out of him because he couldn’t provide directions to a location when asked. According to a filed police report, the victim told police that he was “sitting by himself in an unknown location” when a male (described as 22-years-old, around six-feet-tall with an athletic build and no accent) approached the victim and asked for directions to a second unknown location, or rather another place the victim didn’t recognize. The report states that the 19-year-old told the stranger he couldn’t give him directions (he couldn’t even tell where the hell he was) and in response, the suspect “became irate and began to assault him, striking him numerous times about the head with his fists.” The victim said he fought back and was able to strike the suspect several times in self defense. Nothing was stolen from the victim during the alleged assault; apparently, the suspect was just having a reeeeally bad night and had somewhere pressing to be at 3:30 a.m.
After the alleged assault, the victim didn’t call police. Instead, he hailed a cab who drove him from his “unknown location” back home. The report doesn’t mention if the victim was drinking or not that night.
At 7:15 a.m., the report states that the victim’s roommate followed “a trail of blood droplets across the kitchen floor to find the victim lying on the living room sofa with several bags of frozen vegetables positioned on his face.” The roommate immediately called 9-1-1 and reported that his roommate had been beaten to a pulp. The report states that the victim had “numerous visible injuries about his head and hands including red and swollen cheeks, severely swollen and bleeding lower lips and gums, several small lacerations to his right eyebrow and numerous abrasions to both hands.” Officers had trouble interviewing the victim, “as his face was so swollen that he had difficulty speaking and he was still bleeding from inside the mouth.”
Note to self: Always give directions when asked – even when they’re wrong.
Could have been worse.
They could have jacked his 3G iPad …
Google Maps motherfucker.
Men are always bad like that about giving directions.
I’ve worked in Downtown SF for almost a decade, and I’ll be damned if I can name any of the streets you’re looking for in the Financial District. I could tell you how to get to a certain building if you know the name of it, and neighborhoods I’ve lived in or frequent I could draw a map of from memory, but something the FiDi… the urban canopy just makes everything seem the same at ground level.
Sorry Tourists I’m constantly leaving more confused, I know I cross the street your looking for every fucking day, we’re REAL close, but for whatever reason, I can’t tell you how to get there.
Hmmm, didn’t report the incident to police when it happened, didn’t know where he was when he was assaulted, only gave this story to the police after his roommate found him and called the police for him. I’m having a hard time buying his story.
@ 6,
Well, he could have a head injury and not be too clear himself on what happened.
I wonder what goes through a typical taxi drivers` mind when hailed by someone freshly beaten to a pulp?
Christ almighty. Where was this?
Drugs are bad, mkay?