Man angry over charges in work-out lawsuit

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A New York hedge-fund manager's head is spinning after learning prosecutors won't be seeking a felony charge in an attack during an exercising class.

Stuart Sugarman, 48, a fund manager and investment banker at Sunrise Financial Group, admits he was noisy during the Aug. 15 spin workout, replete with grunts, groans, whoops and cheers, the New York Post reported Tuesday. But he says that's no excuse for broker Christopher Carter, working out three bikes away, to repeatedly yell, "Shut the f- - - up!" then leap off his bike and charge him.

Sugarman is accusing the broker of tilting Sugarman's stationary bike's front wheel up from the floor, then flipping the bike and Sugarman into a wall. He says he sustained a concussion and damage to six discs in the vertebrae of his neck.

"This wasn't just a playground fall where Stewy fell down and went boo hoo," Sugarman told the Post when told his alleged attacker was charged with a misdemeanor. "My life has been altered, possibly permanently. This is not a misdemeanor."