A Fox News weatherman, Adam Klotz, was assaulted by a group of teenagers on Sunday morning after he intervened to stop them from harassing an older man on a New York City subway train. The incident occurred as Klotz, 37, was returning home from a bar.
After telling the teenagers to stop harassing an older gentleman there at the scene, the group reportedly turned their attention to Klotz instead.
The 37-year-old Fox News meteorologist was then reportedly punched in the face and kicked in the chest until he suffered a black eye and a number of bruised ribs.
“Coming home last night from watching the Giants game at a bar, on the subway, this older gentleman was being hassled by this group of seven or eight teens,” Klotz said in a video posted to Instagram shortly after the attack.
“I was like, ‘Yo, guys, cut that out.’ And they decided: ‘Alright, he’s not gonna get it, then you’re going to get it,’ and boy did they give it to me,” he continued. “They had me on the ground, my ribs are all kinds of bruised up too. They got their hits in.”
“I got X-rays. I’m OK. This is all going to heal. So, it’s all good,” Klotz revealed. “You should see the other guy.”
“My side is so much worse than my face, and the thing is the other guy is not really a guy. It’s children. Five or six children,” Klotz joked “New York City! The Big Apple!”
According to Daily Mail, the incident took place at approximately 1:15 AM near the 18th Street station by the 1 train.
Klotz had been returning home from watching the New York Giants face off against the Philadelphia Eagles Saturday night shortly before the attack occurred, and the NYPD has since confirmed three of teenagers were caught by police shortly after.
“Juvenile reports were prepared, and their parents were called to pick them up,” a representative for the NYPD told the New York Post on Sunday.
Of the three teenagers caught by the NYPD, two were reportedly 15 years old and one was 17 years old.
so glad you helped the older person, so sad you got hurt, doing it.. I wish you could have beat them half to death. I believe the Punks need to be charged as adults and charge their parents, also.
Coming home from the bar…..Fox News weather reporter….bunch of teenagers?
Any witnesses? Are you sure you did not tried to pick up a guy and the angry guy beat you up and now you are blaming a bunch of teenagers?
Spoken like the True Bone head you are.
You missed your calling as a Legal Aid Defense Atty …
make up s#!te and run with it.
Just because it’s a Fox associate, you have to get disgusting?
Again – you’re showing your True Colors.
Yeah. That’s a Geronimo way of thinking
Yet they let these thugs go keep voting for these idiots and you will keep getting the same garbage wake up people
The modern democrat party is behaving EXACTLY like the German National Socialist Party of the 1930′ and 20’s. For those unaware of history, the acronym for that German political party was “NAZI”!
What would be the description for these thugs? Tall, short, skinny, fat, black, white, hispanic, or what?
Does it matter?
S#!te is s#!te – comes in all colors.
Too bad Paul Kersey wasn’t the guy who told them to leave the old guy alone. Kersey was a fictional character played by Charles Bronson who did away with useless thugs. Death Wish movies!
Interfering with ”Dreamers” living their dreams. How dare you.
Thank Goodness these little monsters didn’t pull a Nyheem Wright on him.
That poor 17 YO kid helped a girl being harassed, in broad daylight at 3:20 in the afternoon, and wound up dead. And no one knows who they are.
And then bitch about crime in their neighborhoods.
I used to be proud to come from Brooklyn … still am, in a way.
From what I read the attackers were not either white or right wing—usually that is included in the LEAD as in GUN being used is a LEAD in any story–part of the agenda’s formula.