Issac Blackman robbed. -TCD-1198

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Isaac Blackman beaten, robbed
...attack happened around noon. Cops in search of Blackman's Ford Ranger, registration TCD-1198

By Susan Mohammed susan.mohammed@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Jun 2, 2014 at 5:53 PM ECT
Story Updated: Jun 2, 2014 at 6:19 PM ECT
MUSICIAN and recording artiste Isaac Blackman was beaten and robbed by thieves who stole valuables from his home in Piparo at around midday today..

Blackman, 31, was at home with his two sons, aged two and three years old, when six men stormed the house and announced a hold-up.

Blackman is the son of the late Ras Shorty I (Garfield Blackman), a member of his family's music band The Love Circle, and is internationally known for his 2006 hit song "To the Ceiling".
The family has for many years lived in an isolated area of Piparo.
Blackman's sister, Nehilet Blackman, told the Express : "He was at home with the two children because they were too sick to go to day-care. It was around noon. We grew up in the country where we are accustomed leaving our doors open. The thieves just walked in the front door".

The Express was told that the men, all wearing masks, held cutlasses to Blackman, and they locked the children in a bedroom on the first floor.

The thieves tied Blackman's hands with plastic straps and nylon string, and demanded he tell them where his cash, music equipment and other valuables were. Most of the music and studio equipment was at another location, the Express was told.

His sister said: "He told me he could not find the keys to his van, and they hit him on his head with the cutlass. He fell down and was almost knocked out. They told him that if he was another person (who was not known) he would have been dead. "

The men stole Blackman's Ford Ranger, registration TCD-1198, valued $120,000.The stolen items, including appliances, were loaded onto the tray and covered with tarpaulin.

Blackman, who was at the Princes town Police Station up to late yesterday, was able to wriggle free. "He is very flexible so he was able to bring his hands over his head, and he got a kitchen knife and cut the straps and strings. He opened the bedroom door where the boys were and they were crying and screaming", said the sister.

[kerwinishere]

Always hated that to the ceiling song anyway hopes he gets back what he lost

[ruffneck_12]

wtf yes

is bess people stay poor

[eurotuner]

Just yesterday i chillin in Sylibia and listening this song, thinking what ever happened to him, smh ppl real stink oui. Hope he gets justice.

[tr1ad]

Ollur think they had him jumping up to the ceiling when they hold him up?

[Mr.Bollywood]

"Said make ah jumping up to the ceiling
What a wonderful feeling
God you have my back
Always defend me when I'm under attack"




guess these attacks these days real dread then hope he gets it back tho, no one deserves a car to be stolen from them

[S_2NR]

How is this different to any other average Joe getting rob?
D man sing one song

[tdavies]

How is this different to any other average Joe getting rob?
D man sing one song

Agreed

[eurotuner]

Men say d man sing one song oui :/

[sonygoup]

One song that u ever hear :/
But yea he is average but then again what does the media see as average

[gt4tified]

the ignorance in this ched is strong....

sound like some ppl jelly that when dem fren/familee get rob, they didn’t have enuff links in de media to get even a 2 liner in d papers.

Isaac is a very hard-working, HONEST and humble guy...anyone who knows him and his family will attest to that. Call it pity or call it sympathy, but someone in the media recognized him enough to bring it to the public’s attention.

I really don’t know about other average joes, but there is nothing average about the size of Isaac’s heart. Imagine that your father moved with his whole family to de middle of de bush, for a simple life, just so that the evils of men would not follow...I wonder what Shorty would have done back then, had he known that in 2014, he would be proven blissfully wrong.

[S_2NR]

the ignorance in this ched is strong....

sound like some ppl jelly that when dem fren/familee get rob, they didn’t have enuff links in de media to get even a 2 liner in d papers.

Isaac is a very hard-working, HONEST and humble guy...anyone who knows him and his family will attest to that. Call it pity or call it sympathy, but someone in the media recognized him enough to bring it to the public’s attention.

I really don’t know about other average joes, but there is nothing average about the size of Isaac’s heart. Imagine that your father moved with his whole family to de middle of de bush, for a simple life, just so that the evils of men would not follow...I wonder what Shorty would have done back then, had he known that in 2014, he would be proven blissfully wrong.

All that is well and good but..
Crime is out of control and we feel sorry when an icon or somebody popular get targeted. We are all affected by crime in one way or another. A singer, lawyer, politician getting targeted doesn't change that neither does it mean is something special or thread worthy. Nobody's life or valuables should be worth more because of that.

[equal2zero]

Yes robbery has become commonplace, but does that mean it shouldn't be reported?

Personally I wouldn't feel any less 'sorry' if this happened to someone who isn't as notable as Isaac.

[zoelikescheese]

the ignorance in this ched is strong....

sound like some ppl jelly that when dem fren/familee get rob, they didn’t have enuff links in de media to get even a 2 liner in d papers.

Isaac is a very hard-working, HONEST and humble guy...anyone who knows him and his family will attest to that. Call it pity or call it sympathy, but someone in the media recognized him enough to bring it to the public’s attention.

I really don’t know about other average joes, but there is nothing average about the size of Isaac’s heart. Imagine that your father moved with his whole family to de middle of de bush, for a simple life, just so that the evils of men would not follow...I wonder what Shorty would have done back then, had he known that in 2014, he would be proven blissfully wrong.

exactly!

People here always know it all..

[shogun]

I still can't get over anyone wanting to bring any harm to this guy and his family... he's one of the humblest, nicest people ever. Madness.

All of us are really potential targets oui.

[kaylex]

Not shocked...Imbert get rob, Shadow get it last year( take his van) , Plummer get it too...
Not biggy this round everybody will get touch..

Where we headed there is no return>>

[RIPEBREDFRUIT]

once you are on your property and youre attacked, it should not be a crime to KILL and torture the bandits...........
KABTFAST

[shogun]

^Stand your ground Trini style boi RBF?

[shake d livin wake d dead]

How is this different to any other average Joe getting rob?
D man sing one song

the man have plenty songs,just one good song

[RIPEBREDFRUIT]

Once a bandit is on your property- Honestly KILL them wipe your prints off and put his prints on the weapon- dead little cockroaches don't talk. Its your word against who? a dead parasite?

firetruck all those lil lazy good for nutthen wotless bandits.........

[DrunkenMaster16]

Blackman should have owned 1 - 3 class a dogs. NO ONE coming to steal from him with some dangerous dogs....Oh well.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

next week ah next "big man" go get rob and we would move outa this ched

[DFC]

So blackman robbing blackman now.

[AllTrac]

So blackman robbing blackman now.

lel

[shotta 20]

So blackman robbing blackman now.

lel

Stalest joke material right there !

[pioneer]

It is happening again

[Greypatch]

he sang much more than one song...

tough luck youth..

no one is safe...

[xtech]

[AllTrac]

i tort god doh sleep?

[gt4tified]

i tort god doh sleep?

Those were probably the words of a politician.