Here's one for the weird file:
A part-time Newsday sports reporter, David Abramowicz, told police he was hit with a wrench, punched and kicked last night in what appears to be a planned attack by two teenagers at John J. Burns Town Park in Massapequa.Abramowicz, who had covered the Massapequa boys' high school soccer season and the state tournament, was planning to meet an anonymous caller at the park at 8 p.m., said his editor, Eve Sarris.
Sarris said Abramowicz got a call about a week ago from the tipster, who said he was a soccer player with information for a story. The caller refused to identify himself and missed a planned meeting with Abramowicz earlier this week before making the appointment to meet last night, she said.
Abramowicz "called me around 8:15 and said, 'I've been beaten up by two guys,'" Sarris said. "He was disoriented."
Earlier this year, Newsday was out in front of the story of how members of the same high school's baseball team visited a strip club during a Spring trip. Newsday said Abramowicz was not involved in the reporting of that story.
