A scooter-riding goon robbed and pushed down a 97-year-old Harlem woman, who told The Post on Tuesday that she wants the “lowlife” arrested and imprisoned.
“He should go to jail for 20 years,” Thelma Mason raged. “Then he’ll learn to be more respectful to humans. You don’t do this to anyone.
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“I can’t stand nobody getting close to me now when I’m traveling, especially these motorbikes,” she said. “I am always jumping. I don’t know if someone will attack me again.”
Mason was walking home from the store at West 127th Street and Eighth Avenue shortly before 5:30 p.m. on May 24 when she noticed the two-wheeled creep looking at her.
“I was on the next block on my way home, minding my own business, and I saw this guy on a motorbike, or whatever you call it, at the bus stop,” said the elderly man.
I glanced at him, and he reciprocated the gaze. I was simply minding my own business when he cranked that thing up, approached me, and grabbed the chain off my neck.
“I was walking slowly, as usual,” she explained. “I didn’t have any idea he would attack me.”
Mason suffered a terrible scrape on her arm and a banged-up hip.
“You’ve got to be a lowlife to do something like that to an elderly woman,” eyewitness Carlos Santiago said Tuesday. “He was targeting her. He knew the direction in which he was walking.
“He came right up to the bus stop, right on the sidewalk, and he was waiting patiently, patiently,” Santiago, 47, recalled. “When he saw her, he just sped off on his scooter, rushed up to her, grabbed the chain, and kept going. She fell and got harmed.”
Meanwhile, the thief and the 18-karat gold necklace with a Gemini twins pendant, a present from her daughter, are still missing, according to authorities.
Mason has lived in Harlem since 1951, and he previously worked cleaning office buildings.
“It’s a different world now,” she told the Post. “I used to drink at night and come home around two or three a.m., and no one troubled me. I didn’t get attacked or anything. Currently, it’s impossible to leave during the day without encountering theft.
