12-08-2010, 08:36 PM
i would LOVE to be the arresting officer. it would be terrible if he fell down and hurt himself on his way to jail.
BM...black male in his 40s. still gone with her car a week later.
NEWS4/JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fern Gorin, 74, was badly beaten by a man who robbed her while she was sitting in her car at an Arby's drive-through, leaving her face and upper body swollen and black and blue.
"He hit me upside the head and said, 'Stay down. Don't make a noise,'" Gorin said. "And I guess I blacked out then because the next thing I know, he was beating me on the head and back and telling me to get out."
A week and a half later, Gorin is still in pain but moving around much better.
She said her attacker made off with about $73.
Her terrifying experience happened on Black Friday. Gorin said she was taking a break from Christmas shopping when she pulled into an Arby's on Beach Boulevard near University Boulevard.
Gorin said she was rolling down her window to make her order when a man popped up and demanded money.
"He put both hands on the door like that and said, 'Get over! Get over quick! Get the F over!' And I was just startled," Gorin said. "I tried to put the car into drive and drive off and leave him, and that's when he got me by the throat here."
Gorin thinks she blacked out because the next thing she knew, she was getting shoved out of her car. It was only a lucky coincidence that the robber and carjacker chose to dump her in the parking lot of her church, which is only a few blocks from her house.
Gorin managed to stumble to a neighbor's home for help.
"Oh yeah, I'm blessed to be alive. Absolutely," she said. "That's why I say I praise the Lord every day that I'm alive and able to talk about it."
BM...black male in his 40s. still gone with her car a week later.
NEWS4/JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fern Gorin, 74, was badly beaten by a man who robbed her while she was sitting in her car at an Arby's drive-through, leaving her face and upper body swollen and black and blue.
"He hit me upside the head and said, 'Stay down. Don't make a noise,'" Gorin said. "And I guess I blacked out then because the next thing I know, he was beating me on the head and back and telling me to get out."
A week and a half later, Gorin is still in pain but moving around much better.
She said her attacker made off with about $73.
Her terrifying experience happened on Black Friday. Gorin said she was taking a break from Christmas shopping when she pulled into an Arby's on Beach Boulevard near University Boulevard.
Gorin said she was rolling down her window to make her order when a man popped up and demanded money.
"He put both hands on the door like that and said, 'Get over! Get over quick! Get the F over!' And I was just startled," Gorin said. "I tried to put the car into drive and drive off and leave him, and that's when he got me by the throat here."
Gorin thinks she blacked out because the next thing she knew, she was getting shoved out of her car. It was only a lucky coincidence that the robber and carjacker chose to dump her in the parking lot of her church, which is only a few blocks from her house.
Gorin managed to stumble to a neighbor's home for help.
"Oh yeah, I'm blessed to be alive. Absolutely," she said. "That's why I say I praise the Lord every day that I'm alive and able to talk about it."