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Shorty
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Oh wow - I think I know this guy...
This is James from Perfect Wedding Planner, isn't it?!?! (Fox Hollow)
OMG.....I hope those fools are charged with a HATE CRIME 
Link to Newsday story
Assault victim barely escapes oncoming train
BY CARL MACGOWAN
[email protected]
July 31, 2007, 9:30 PM EDT
As though in a scene from an old silent movie, James Tramondo woke from a concussion to find himself on the tracks at the Wantagh train station as a locomotive bore down on him.
Barely conscious, Tramondo had trouble comprehending what was happening early Sunday, he recalled Tuesday. Then he heard people yelling on the train platform.
"I just remember seeing lights," Tramondo said. "I heard them screaming, 'The train is coming! The train is coming! Get off the tracks!'"
Two strangers helped him escape, and Tramondo was treated later at New Island Hospital in Bethpage for cuts and bruises. But first he helped police find two of the three men he said pushed him off the platform.
Anthony Riggio, 20, and his brother, Nicholas Riggio, 24, who live together in Bellmore, were arraigned Monday on assault charges. Both pleaded not guilty and were released from custody. When reached at their home Monday, Anthony Riggio declined to comment.
On Tuesday, Tramondo, 32, an event planner from Wantagh, still was trying to make sense of what happened.
He boarded the 1:43 a.m. train from Penn Station on Sunday after dining with friends in Astoria, he said. On the train, he chatted with two teenagers while Anthony Riggio and his girlfriend argued nearby.
When the teenagers giggled, Riggio came over and grabbed them angrily, Tramondo said.
"You're drunk," Tramondo said he told Riggio. "Sit down."
Tramondo said Riggio called someone from his cell phone and asked the person to meet him at the Wantagh station. Tramondo moved to another car, he said, and Riggio followed. "I asked the conductors to get him away from me," he said. "They said, 'Don't worry about it.'"
LIRR spokeswoman Susan McGowan said the incident is under investigation. Under LIRR policy, police should be called if a passenger is harassed and crew members cannot resolve the problem, she said.
Tramondo said two men met Riggio at the Wantagh station platform at 2:38 a.m. and began punching him.
"I curled myself in a ball and next thing I know, they were throwing me onto the train tracks," he said. "I'm not even a fighter. I play at weddings."
Witnesses called police, who arrived as Tramondo was being helped off the tracks, he said. He said he helped police scour the area and spotted the Riggio brothers leaving a bar.
Still feeling dizzy on Monday, Tramondo went back to the hospital, where doctors said he had a concussion, he said.
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.
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karacg
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Re: Oh wow - I think I know this guy...
I don't know him but that is absolutely awful!
What has happened to humanity???
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ziamaria
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what is wrong with people????
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njbound07
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Re: Oh wow - I think I know this guy...
he's the wedding planner for Chateau Briand and Fox Follow. He is also on that show Who's Wedding is it Anyway on the the style channel.
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MeeshkaMich
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omg 
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Shanti
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Re: Oh wow - I think I know this guy...
Poor guy
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Shorty
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Re: Oh wow - I think I know this guy...
He's such a small, friendly, sweetheart of a guy...I can't believe 3 MEN were beating him!
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pinky
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horrible 
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nrthshgrl
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Re: Oh wow - I think I know this guy...
Absolutely horrible.
Shorty -why do you think it's a hate crime?
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MrsR
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that is an awful story!
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Laura1
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OMG, how awful, every time I met him at fox hollow or PWP, he was so nice, people are really awful!
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Nicole728
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OMG he was my wedding planner!
Poor guy...People are horrible!
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Milerose
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I have known James since we were kids!
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Chica
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Re: Oh wow - I think I know this guy...
I know him too from the show. He is always so sweet and cheerful. I feel so badly for him.
What a$$holes. I hope those guys go to jail for almost killing him.
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Lola0703
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Yes, that is him.
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curliegirl
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Posted by karacg
What has happened to humanity???
I have been saying the SAME THING for the past few days. It is so hisheartening that someone could actually DO THAT to another human being.
Scary what people are capable of.....
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alnem
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thats truly disturbing on so many levels! 
what is the matter with people??????
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lvdolphins
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That is so sad. People are messed up!
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lucyloo
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Posted by nrthshgrl
Absolutely horrible.
Shorty -why do you think it's a hate crime?
Maybe he is gay?
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Kara
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What is WRONG with people!?!?!
They threw him on the train tracks - and it seems like a train was coming. They should be prosecuted for attempted murder.
Poor man. I'm so glad he's okay.
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msrsfeb
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that is horrible, he was so nice when i was planning my wedding!
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Tany
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omg how horrible, I see him on how's wedding is it anyways.
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FeliciaDP
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that is awful
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Milerose
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I just spoke to James and he is doing okay! I told him about the post and he appreciates everyone's concern!
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pmpkn087
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That is horrible! Thank God that is all he had was cuts and bruises. 
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