An 87 -year -old New Yorker said he had managed to fight two suspects who had tried to steal his Rolex watch and steal his wife on the street.
Lawrence Schwartz said that he and his wife, Joanna Cuccia, entered a senior center off the East 23rd Street in Manhattan around 11 a.m. Wednesday when one of the suspects stopped and asked for instructions.
“He said,” I want to go to a Walmart. “I said there was no Walmart in Manhattan,” said Cuccia.
Cuccia said the man asked him to speak with his wife, who was sitting nearby in a jeep, and the woman started to show cuccia jewelry before trying to grasp the own cuccia jewelry.
“She would not let go. She scratched me,” said Cuccia.
Boxing and self -defense training has triggered
Schwartz said he had immediately gone to his wife’s rescue. But the jeep woman tried to remove her $ 48,000 watch from her wrist and change her with counterfeit, he said.
“He is a president of Rolex. It is gold and you can see him at a pâté of houses,” he said. “She got her hands here and that’s where the clasp was.”
While the struggle ensued, Schwartz said that his boxing and self -defense training had come into play. He said he caught the woman’s hand and twisted her arm.
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“She shouted her brains,” he said. “Bing, Bang, Boom … It happened in milliseconds.”
He said it was the first time that someone has been trying to steal it, but not his first fight.
“Have I had different entries with people, whether wise drunkards or guys? Yeah,” he said.
Schwartz said his first Rolex had been stolen and that he was not going to abandon him without fighting.
“I mean, I’m stronger than most people,” he said.
The suspects fell
Schwartz and Cuccia suffered scratches and bruises on his hands during the meeting, but he kept herself on the clock and that the police said that the two suspects had fled the premises.
“They did not expect two gray heads as such a [fight]”Said Cuccia.
“We look old enough to enjoy, I suppose,” said Schwartz.
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The couple said they should pay for their pocket to have the watch repaired.
“I would like the police to incarcerate them,” said Schwartz, while the couple hopes justice.
