6 Teens beat, rob mail carrier

I can only hope that these idiots get caught. They apparently are very very dumb, seeing how stupid they where jumping a US Postal worker, automatic felony just for doing anything to hold up mail delivery. This is just getting to be intolerable in Columbus and all over Ohio. Please go to the link below, where there is News Coverage of the Story.

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2008/05/09/letter_carrier.html?sid=102

The Columbus Dispatch : 6 teens beat, rob mail carrier: "6 teens beat, rob mail carrier
Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:57 AM
By THEODORE DECKER
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The attack on the mailman was prefaced with a request to bum a cigarette.

Carrier Greg Nelson later decided that the question thrown at him by a group of boys as he delivered mail Thursday on the East Side likely was an attempt to size him up.

Within minutes, the youths chased, assaulted and robbed Nelson in what the U.S. Postal Service said is only the third such attack on a mail carrier in Columbus in the past 30 years.

“They didn't see me as a mailman, they saw me as an opportunity,” said Nelson, 45, who has delivered mail for 15 years and for four years in the neighborhood where he was attacked.

The trouble began about 1:30 p.m. as Nelson made his rounds in the 5300 block of Ivyhurst Drive, in a neighborhood of homes and apartments southwest of E. Livingston Avenue and Noe-Bixby Road.

Nelson said he told the six suspects, who were between 14 and 19 years old, that he didn't have any cigarettes, and kept going.

One boy rushed up from behind and punched him repeatedly in the head. He ran for a nearby vacant house, where the group caught him.

“Someone hit me hard enough to"