Woman Arrested For CTA Punchings

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Sep 21, 2009 6:40PM

If it's not horse-punchers or amped up firefighters, it's something else. A 39-year-old woman was arrested after turning the Belmont Red Line platform into her personal Thunderdome. What happened? She said something nasty to two men who weren't too pleased and when they showed their displeasure, she bopped them both. But the Sun-Times describes the incident so much more... clinically.

The incident occurred at 6:50 p.m. at the CTA’s Belmont Red Line L station when [Nicole] Patrick allegedly called two men who were standing together on the platform “c----,’’ according to police.

Police said one of the men “took exception” to the statement and she punched him in the chest and scratched his neck. The other man came to his aid and she allegedly punched him in the nose, giving him a bloody nose, police said.

In the "no kidding" category for the story, police said Patrick was intoxicated at the time of the incident.