The day's robberies and C's ultraviolence

texture · 24 Dec YDPAH, late AM through evening

• When: across 24 Dec YDPAH, before the Chinatown run
• What: The crew commits two street robberies whose brutality is C-altitude but which yrstruly narrates and abets. First (late AM) Poor Tony lures an old "Patty citizen" acquaintance with a fake blow-job "On The House"; they rob him in his car off Mem Dr; C wants to kill him ("elemonade the Patty's map for keeps"), and when Poor Tony refuses, C breaks the man's jaw and cuts off one ear (thrown in a dumpster), leaving him alive in his vehicle. Second (evening) Poor Tony lures a shattered, drunk older non-student from the Bow&Arrow to a dumpster alley off Sherman St, where yrstruly and C "crew on the individual and roll him" for $400-plus, a fur-collar coat, a watch, and his shoes; C wants to torch him but they don't. In between, on the Orange Line, yrstruly and C "almost end up raping a older type nurse" but don't. Both robbery victims are left maimed; neither death is stated. (The Bow&Arrow victim is identified by the critic Carlisle as Ennet House's Burt F. Smith, who lost hands and feet to a Christmas-Eve mugging — an inference recorded in Dating notes, not asserted here.)