An elderly blind man was taken for an unwanted joyride in Long Island City when a crook jumped into his son’s idling car and drove off with him — leaving him unaware he was being carjacked, cops and kin said.
The 72-year-old man’s son had parked the Subaru and left his father inside the idling car while the 34-year-old ran inside a Target near the intersection of 44 Drive and 23 Street in Queens round 7:15 p.m. Saturday, cops and law-enforcement sources said.
A criminal then jumped into the vehicle and sped off, taking the old man along with him, cops said.
“He was in the car, but he’s blind — he didn’t know what was happening,” said the elderly victim’s wife, who asked not to be named, to The Post. “He didn’t complain because he’s not really aware.”
The wife said the car thief didn’t speak a word to her husband when the pair roared off, which left him confused.
“He’s calling my son, but nobody answered,” she said.
When the woman’s son left Target and got back to where he’d parked the car, he was immediately “worried” to see that his father and car missing, and he called the police, she said.
“He left his dad in the car, and once he came back, it’s gone,” the wife said. “The car was gone, and my husband was gone, too. [The crook] took it away.”
The stolen car and its geriatric passenger were later found dumped nearly three miles away, at the intersection of 53 Avenue and 44 Street, in an industrial part of Maspeth, cops said. The elderly man was unhurt.
“They must go to jail. What they did was not right,” the man’s wife said of the thief, who is still in the wind.
