Florida Woman Pretends to Help Cyclist Almost Hit By Car, Then Punches and Robs Her

By Kyle Munzenrieder Mon., Feb. 13 2012 at 1:59 PM

When you're a bicyclist, especially in Florida, don't trust anyone else on the road with your safety. A female bicyclist in Gainesville found that out the hard way. After the cyclist was sideswiped by a car, another woman offered to help her. Instead, she punched her in the face and snatched her purse.

According to The Gainesville Sun, the incident occurred around 12:15 a.m on Saturday. The unidentified cyclist was walking her bike along the road after being sideswiped by a car.

April Michelle Cottman, 41, witnessed the sideswiping and approached the woman as if to offer her help. Instead she decided to figuratively kick her when she was down. Cottman took her own approach to being a bicycle thief.

Cottman punched the cyclist in her face. She then swiped the woman's purse and ran into her nearby home, police say.

Police were called and Cottman was promptly arrested.

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Glenn61

LOL,,trust no nigga....!

Gez239

stuuupid b!tch she ran into her nearby home? and f**k what really is typical is all you floridian geezers jumping the gun how do you even know the cyclist was white??? it doesn't ever state that in the article why? because it aint f*****g relevant. I'd hate to be in your shoes, about to DIE and still so bitter and miserable. enjoy hell you hateful old s**ts

michael wind

nice looking lady ,she can be all she can,i had a similar incident where 2 woman got my cash on ives dairy road after they bump my carto gheter with a tiny child inside the car they weight in at about 1000 pounds......

Debbie Abdelnour

Not cool to do, but what I find funny is the woman does this in front of her own house and then runs into her house with the ladies purse !!!!!! bahahahahahaha...........what an idiot !!!

Tsmagee1

Ohhh...yall so racist on here...yea the situation was messed up...but blacks aren't the only one to commit a crime...hope yall can hold up for those comments on judgement day in front of the Lord. Smh!!

Pervertedpagexxx

Uh Excuse me but blacks are one of the dominant populations in prisons. So sometimes their judgement by others are earned. 2nd. not everyone believes in your fairtail of a religion!

Raimi Nicte

Just because blacks are the dominant population does NOT mean they are the dominant population committing crimes. It has been proven that blacks are more harshly convicted for similar crimes across the country. Its call institutionalized racism. But this story does not speak to any specific race. Being any race or ethnicity does NOT denote any particular behavior or predilection.

This article is about one stupid woman who committed a stupid act. Not about race.

S J

That's true.. I didn't see any white bankers go to prison even tho they took USA to the brink of bankruptcy .. Instead, the politicians threw money at them! Nobody can tell me it isn't skewed like that generally..

Color?

Typical. The thief is black.

Rausky79

Typical GHETTO TRASH strikes once again!! These SCUMBAGS have no decency, or compassion for nobody! I hope she gets put away for at least 5 years,and the victim is allowed to kick her face in, in front of the judge!! I bet the victim was white! Typical RACIST, GHETTO TRASH!!

MixtMixt

EXCUSE ME BUT AREN'T YOU BEING RACIST OF MAKING SUCH A RACIST REMARK. Why does everything always have to boil down to the color of ones skin? What if it would have been the other way around, would you have said "oh the ghetto trash deserved it and the possibly white lady is a hero" ??? SMH, the crime is awful no matter if wht on blk, blk on wht, blk on blk or wht on wht! Grow UP!