March 18

After a brutal attack on a NYC street, 60 year old Indrajit Laghari had to be taken to Bellevue Hospital by ambulance, where he was treated for cuts, bruises, several broken ribs, and a broken jaw. Police on the scene had been forced to use significant force to pull Laghari's attacker, 19 year old ameteur wrestler Jesse Barberra, off of his victim. On the drive to Manhattan's First Precinct, Barberra informed the officers that Laghari, a street vendor, had sold him a DVD of the most recent Wrestlemania extravaganza. Upon trying to watch it with a group of his wrestling buddies, he'd discovered the DVD was a shaky mess, clearly filmed using a cellphone. The poor-quality bootleg had ruined everything, and Barberra's friends had given him a hard time about having been ripped off by a "dothead." In the heat of anger, he'd gone out to find Laghari packing up his wares, and attacked him in full view of several passers-by, who called the police. At this point in his confession, Barberra began to cry, saying he didn't want to go to prison, and that his mother would be heartbroken, as he'd never gotten into any kind of trouble, before. Taking pity on the young man, Officer Mike Mulraney assured him that nothing discussed in the squad car was "on the record" and that, seeing as how Langhari had been selling bootleg merchandise, and didn't seem to have a vendor's license, anyhow, it was highly unlikely that a kid with a clean record would spend any more than a few hours in jail.