A Long Island woman spent her 75th birthday in the hospital with broken bones and a punctured lung after a mob of illegal street vendors trampled her and her Vietnam vet husband while fleeing police in lower Manhattan.
Rosalyn Landsman and her husband, Martin, 79, were on their way to the Staten Island Ferry, hoping to visit the borough’s lighthouse museum, when the callous vendors plowed through them on Canal St. near Lafayette St. around 2 p.m. Wednesday.
“We were literally trampled. It was like a herd of bulls just running over us. Once we got knocked down, I mean, they literally ran on us,” Martin Landsman told the Daily News.
Disturbing video shows the vendors quickly pack up their merchandise and rush down the sidewalk on Canal, never stopping, nor seeming to care, the Landsmans were walking along the same sidewalk.
“I have four broken ribs. And my lung was punctured, and I have a broken clavicle. And I had a cut on my forehead, five stitches,” said Rosalyn, a retired speech and language therapist for the city school system.