Timenieks fought back, and the attacker fled, later to be caught and arrested. A guy came charging at her while she had the lobby door open. The first time she was attacked, it happened at 8:30 at night in her apartment-building lobby. "I figured I could get some help tonight." "I've been assaulted two times," she says. Well worth coming to."Įlsewhere in the crowd is Benita Timenieks, an investment counselor. "It's dangerous work," admits Louise Snyder, herself almost a mugging victim not long ago. It is a white-knuckle job that takes them almost daily into public housing. All are inspectors for the Oak Park Housing Authority. Tonight she has brought three friends to see Bittenbinder.
I reached the neighbors' house and they chased him off."Ĭonnor lives somewhere else now, but the memory never goes away. I let the purse go when he grabbed at it, but then he started running after me. I was getting off the bus and had a block to walk, and I saw him coming at me. "I've been attacked before," Etta Connor says with a shudder, explaining why she is there. Nearly all seem to have had some personal brush with crime. They have come from as far away as Wisconsin to hear Bittenbinder preach. It's not how tough I am, it's how tough I look. Dozens of pens are immortalizing the words, preserving scripture on notepads, hotel stationery, the backs of envelopes. It's not how tough you are, it's how tough you look." "Steady gait and sweeping gaze are most important," he says. Once more he begins to walk, this time the right way, briskly, his eyes swinging back and forth like searchlights, the purse slung across his chest bandoleer-style, its strap held tightly with two hands. It's the sheep that look down, toward the grass." Coming to a halt, he admonishes, like a stern father, "Don't walk looking at your feet. "This is how the American woman walks," he announces deprecatingly, draping the purse strap over the shoulder of his elegant three-piece suit and striding along with his eyes pointing down.
#JJ BITTENBINDER STREET SMARTS FULL#
Taking the strap, Bittenbinder lets his body sag theatrically, as if the purse were full of rocks. Again, a woman in the front row comes to the rescue.
#JJ BITTENBINDER STREET SMARTS HOW TO#
To demonstrate how to foil a purse snatcher, he needs a purse.
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