Samaritans vs. ‘creep’
Help nab train cam guy
Nearly a dozen good Samaritans rushed to help a woman who was being harassed by a creepy 9/11 truther on the subway Sunday, officials and witnesses said.
The woman and a male companion were riding a Seventh Avenue line train when conspiracy theorist Jeffrey Boss, 54, began snapping photos of her with his cellphone at about 3 p.m., law-enforcement sources said.
When she asked him to stop, he refused, cops said.
The woman tried grabbing the phone from him and accidentally cut her hand on the device, which didn’t have a protective cover, law enforcement sources said.
The brouhaha spilled outside, to the north entrance of the 72nd Street station at and Broadway, with the woman’s pal grabbing the cad, witnesses said.
“First, the male companion was holding the guy. He wouldn’t let him go,” one female witness said. “Then other people joined in, watching the guy so he wouldn’t run away.”
The witness said she overheard the victim’s companion telling cops, “He tried to hit her.”
About formed a circle around Boss — who claims to be running for mayor — and kept him at bay for cops, witnesses said.
“There was a circle around the guy, maybe 10 people, just holding the guy there for about 15 minutes until the officers came,” said Sonia Diaz, a 28year-old barista at nearby Le Pain Quotidien.
“We were all trying to find out what happened,” she said. “I think the guy tried to manhandle her and she got scared.”
Boss, who was charged with assault, has claimed to have “witnessed the NSA plan the 9/11 attacks.”