Toasted Postie (Steve Dunleavy Mugged While Passed Out on NYC Bench)

NY Daily News ^ | May 30, 2003 | Suzanne Rozdeba and Ben Widdicombe

[Mister Magoo]

Toasted Postie

Is this anyway for a 65-year-old "journalist" to act?

Steve Dunleavy - the grizzled New York Post columnist notorious for his alcohol-fueled escapades (on at least one occasion, he's been found unconscious by a co-worker and presumed dead) - suffered a new indignity early yesterday.

Two men mugged him at 3:15 a.m. while he was passed out on a bench on the corner of W. 47th St. and Sixth Ave. - near his favorite bar, Langan's.

Why was he sleeping there? "First of all, I was drunk," he told The News' Richard Weir. "Second paragraph, I was comatose."

According to a newsroom spy, after returning to the Post, Dunleavy vomited near the metropolitan editor's desk.

The perps relieved him of $70 in cash, his UN press card, his American Express card and his Post ID, cops said.

Dunleavy said he kicked one of the thieves "just below the behind." Alerted by a witness, cops collared Christophe Nalls, 33, of Brooklyn, and Carnell Malone, 43, of Manhattan, a few blocks away. They were charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property.

But Dunleavy, who was locked up in Des Moines three years ago for public intoxication, said he sympathized with the muggers.

"I don't want them to go to jail," asserted the pompadoured Prince of Darkness, in Langan's 12 hours later. "I want them to go to John Jay College and tell the cops how they do it."

[duckbutt]

Oh man! I have an upper respitory infection and shouldn't be laughing, but when I read ...."on at least one occasion, he's been found unconscious by a co-worker and presumed dead".... my lungs went into spasmodic overdrive.....

Poor guy should get help - - can't be "presumed dead" all the time - -

[presidio9]

I'm not a big fan of Dunlevy, but this is nothing more than an ugly hit piece from that ugly liberal rag the Daily News.

[SevenofNine]

OHHH that type of Boozer okay Dead

I see

Well it is known fact that majority of NY Post is Brits or Aussie so I not suprise that they have some bar fly working for the paper

[Sonny M]

I've actually met Steve Dunleavy and had a few drinks with him. He's pretty much like the conservative version of Jimmy Breslin, or the right of center version of him. I can't think of a better way to describe him.

[Plutarch]

He sounds like that drunk reporter in "Bonfire of the Vanities".

[livius]

If you press your finger into Dunleavy's cheek, his eyes fill with scotch.

Wow! Thanks for one of the funniest lines I have ever read! (One of the most graphic, too...)

[Geezerette]

I don't know if he's buddies with O'Reilly. Since I don't have cable, I only see Bill O'Reilly on the Network Fox "Pulse" news magazine.

I haven't seen Steve Dunleavy on TV for years. I'm glad he still does such a good job writing his column!

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[dead]

This is absolutely not an ugly hit piece. Dunleavy himself wrote an article today confirming that he was drunk as a skunk and passed out on a bench at three thirty in the morning when he was mugged.

The only difference is that Dunleavy said he (the passed out victim) should have been convicted for assault, and the muggers should have been let go.

Dunleavy's sad spin was that his drunken attempt to kick one of his muggers in the ass was so successful that his muggers were the real victims in the incident!

Seriously, that's pathetic.

Oh, and Dunleavy left out the part about him puking all over the offices of the Post.

If he doesn't demand a retraction tomorrow, you can bet that some poor cleaning lady had to clean up his chunks.