
Acquitted subway vigilante Daniel Penny said he had not choice but to subdue a deranged Jordan Neely after the vagrant threatened to kill straphangers aboard a Manhattan subway train last year. The 26-year-old Marine vet, who was found not guilty of negligent homicide charges in Neely’s death this week, told Fox “The Five” host Jeanine Pirro that he took the threats seriously enough to jump into action. “The guilt I would’ve felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself,” Penny said during the exclusive interview due to air in its entirety Wednesday. “I’ll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed,” he said. Penny also said he felt “vulnerable” and felt he was also in danger when he grabbed Neely and put him in a chokehold aboard a crowded Manhattan F train on May 1, 2023. “He’s just threatening to kill people, he’s threatening to go to jail forever, go to jail for the rest of his life,” he told Pirro. “And now I’m on the ground with him, I’m on my back in a very vulnerable position. “If I let him go I’m on my back now. He can just turn around and doing what he said to me. Killing, hurting. “I’m not a confrontational person,” he added. “I really don’t extend myself. This type of thing is very uncomfortable. All this attention and lime light is very uncomfortable. I would prefer without it. I didn’t want any type of attention or praise, and I still don’t.” A teaser clip from the Fox interview aired Tuesday, one day after Penny was acquitted in the polarizing case after Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg charged him with manslaughter last year. On Friday, with the jury deadlocked, prosecutors asked the judge to toss the manslaughter charge and have the panel continue deliberation on the lesser homicide charged — which led to Mondays acquittal. Bragg has come under fire since the verdict from critics who claim Penny is a hero, not a villain, who protected subway riders from a violent and potentially dangerous vagrant. Without singling anyone out by name, Penny complained to Pirro about “self-serving” officials who have used his fatal encounter with Neely as part of “a political game.” “These are their policies,” he said. “And I don’t mean to get political, I really don’t’ want to make any enemies, really — although I guess I have already. “But these are their policies that have clearly not worked, that the people, the general population, are not in support,” Penny added. “Yet, their goes are too big to agree that they’re wrong.”
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One person explained their “petty” decision to take back a gift they’d given a relative. In a shared in the popular “Petty Revenge” forum, one social media user said that they canceled the “gifted vacation” they got a relative without telling anyone. According to the original poster, [OP], this family member is “s***ty” and they’ve had some “differences” in the past. However, the pair “supposedly made up” before the holidays. “So this year for Christmas I gifted them a vacation they did really want to make. I printed out the booking reservation and gave it as a gift,” they wrote. However, the relative didn’t offer a gift back, since they allegedly had “too much stuff” to do and they “totally forgot” about the Reddit poster. The relative also continued to make “passive-aggressive remarks” about their family member’s “home and the food,” since the social media user hosted the Christmas party. As a result, the Redditor said that they ultimately took back the gift, without telling their relative. “So petty me canceled their vacation without telling them after I knew they were on their way to the destination. Yes, there are fees but I don’t care,” they wrote. “I know they will be to[o] stingy to book anything else and will instead return all the way back home fuming and annoyed.” The post has quickly gone viral, with more than 8,000 upvotes. In the comments, the Reddit user responded to some people who critcized them for gifting such an expensive present to a family member they weren’t close to. They poster went on to claim that they were “trapped in” the feeling of needing to help their family and feeling “guilty” about not being there for them. “So I try to give back or help out with otherwise hard to achieve dreams on Christmas - but yes, definitely am not appreciated and felt also deceived by the whole thing where we ‘made up,’” they added. In another comment, they claimed that they were expecting their relative to talk badly about them to their brothers. So, they plan to make up reasons for why they canceled the trip, like: “You told [my brother] you found it stupid/cheap/whatever and did not like the gift, so I thought it would be better to cancel.” Multiple readers continue to criticize the Reddit user for buying the vacation as a gift in the first place. “I have to ask, if you didn’t really care for this person, why did you give them an entire vacation? Who gives a vacation to people really ever let alone a person they don’t even really like much??” one wrote. “There are members of my family I somewhat tolerate but if they gave me a vacation I’d sure as hell pretend to like them and be super friendly. That’s just shooting yourself in the foot for no reason,” another responded. However, others applauded their decision to cancel the trip without telling their relative. “I love this, not only is this petty but 100% AWESOME! Next year be sure to ask them in front of everybody how was their trip,” one wrote, while another added: “The reason was petty, but the revenge was ruthless.” “That is petty and cruel. You’re my hero,” a third quipped.