On Sept. 17th, a broker was charged with a misdemeanor after nearly breaking the neck of a Manhattan hedge-fund manager during a spin class, the New York Post reported.

Stuart Sugarman, 48, a fund manager at Sunrise Financial Group, went to Equinox gym on the Upper East Side on August 15th expecting a workout, but instead got served with a beat down by broker Christopher Carter, 44.

According to the Post, Sugarman, while pedaling on his stationary bike, was belting out war-whoops, groans, and shouts of all sorts (including “You go, girl!”) while Carter, disturbed by the loud noises coming from the fund manager’s mouth, repeatedly yelled “Shut the fuck up!” from three bikes over. Carter, seeing that his verbal commands were being ignored, allegedly flew off his seat and tilted Sugarman’s bike a yard off the ground before sending both rider and bike toward an adjacent wall. The bike fell on top of Sugarman, who suffered a concussion and damage to six vertebrae discs in his neck.

“The guy had a spinal-cord contusion with major surgery to his neck involving the use of cadaver tissue and multiple metal plates and screws,” said the fund manager’s lawyer.

“This wasn’t just a playground fall where Stewy fell down and went boo hoo,” Sugarman said. He was angry that Carter was charged with only a misdemeanor instead of a felony.

Carter’s attorney said his client “did not commit any criminal acts.”

On Sept. 19th, seven men were indicted on federal counts of robbery for hijacking an 18-wheeler containing $500,000 of perfume, according to Journal News. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan said that a joint investigation by the police department of Orangetown, NY­—the headquarters of the perfume distributor—and the FBI led to the arrests of the suspects. Jeff Sokolowski, security manager for the company that owns the truck, told the Journal that the culprits wore blue uniforms which made them look like cops. “They jumped into the truck and pistol-whipped the driver and his helper,” Sokolowski said. “They tied them up with duct tape and plastic flex-ties. They covered their faces with pillowcases and held them for several hours.”

The two employees were put in the truck’s sleep compartment and then dumped on the side of a New Jersey road, where they were found by a man walking his dog. According to Sokolowski, the heist was an inside job, with one of the suspects employed by the distributor. The seven defendants are currently in federal custody and will appear before U.S. District Court Judge Charles L. Brieant for their hearing this Wednesday.

Just after a man got down on one knee in Central Park and asked his sweetheart for her hand in marriage—to which she replied yes—a gunman mugged the soon-to-be husband and wife, the New York Daily News reported. Luke Jacunski, 30, proposed to his girlfriend Mami Nagase in a gazebo near Strawberry Fields around 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 22nd. Suddenly, an armed man appeared from the nearby bushes and, according to Jacunski, shouted, “Give me your money and get down on the ground! Give me your jewelry!” Jacunski furtively took the silver engagement ring off his fiancee’s finger and hid it. The robber got away with Nagase’s Rolex and $125 from Jacunski. “I’ve had a gun pulled on me before,” said Jacunski, once a denizen of Cincinnati.

To finish up their romantic evening together, the couple went down to the Central Park Precinct station house and perused mug shots for four hours, according to the Daily News. “Instead of having dinner at a nice French restaurant, we had a bag of Doritos,” said Jacunski, who added that “It makes for a pretty good story for our anniversary.”