Have you ever been mugged?

2005, at my front door, 3x 15 year olds, 2 mixed race, 1 white, and one ****-off big knife.

They got my insured phone (fail), brand new GBA (grrrr!) and my work shoes! None of which was worth risking my life, the kid holding the knife was clearly very nervous, and I wasn't going to risk it.

They let me keep my oystercard and house keys though, wtf?

I helped ID one of them by means of video line-up, as the group did 3 other muggings in the same area that night.

Little **** got 20 hours community service.
 
Someone tried to rob me once, two someones in fact, just outside the Europa bus station in Belfast. I was carrying a laptop bag slung around my shoulder which they tried to take but I managed to hold onto it and landed a good hard kick on his genitals. I'm not ashamed to admit I was also shouting at the top of my lungs "Get Off Now" simply because I figured drawing attention to myself and my plight was a good idea. Several people saw what was going on and rushed to my aid but sadly the two scumbags managed to get away. I was left shaken but still had my laptop.

I now refuse to carry a standard laptop bag and always use a rucksack version instead.
 
Yes
over 10 years ago.
Mill lane, Leicester about 2pm
dodgy bloke asked if I had any spare change, 'sorry mate, I've only got a quid for me lunch today, can't help.' (I was a student at the time)
'Giz yer monay or I'll smach yer face in' accompanied by grabbing/pushing me etc
he and his gf (I assume) got a few coins dropped on the floor so they'd leave me alone.
Damn smackheads.

Were something like that to happen to me now, in such a public place, they'd be told to sod off, loudly and clearly for everyone to hear.

These days I don't respond to anyone in the street who asks me for the time/spare change etc (unless it's some old dear who's obviously not a threat). Bit harsh to those who may be genuine, but you never really know.
 
Once I was walking through a park and these college lads came up to me demanding £1 lol. I said sorry and one of the guy headbutted me but luckily it wasn't a strong one:p.
I got angry aswell and shouted loudly' you are welcome to fight if you want'. They all ganged up on me and one guy seemed to pull a knife but he didn't have it. Eventually another one took the group away from me.

However one idiot kept on coming up to me still and his breath stank of alcohol. He kept on threatening me and saying how he will kill me next time lol:mad::p though he wasn't very convincing. If I didn't have fear of getting arrested I would have given him a very good beating.


All these wanna be gangsters, criminals etc need to be sent to iraq and afghanistan. They won't last 5 minutes there. Try robbing local afghans in afghanistan and you will have an AK-47 in your face.
 
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Had a couple of lads pull a large screwdriver on me once, they demanded my phone and wallet but I panicked and instinctively grabbed the screwdriver only for it to come out of the lads hand, and me then wildly swing it at the pair of them, catching one of the lads on the head. They both legged it leaving me standing there shouting blue at them as they ran. :)
 
Yes, on a train going through Tottenham. Two guys sit down next to me and then rip my iPod from my hand as I change track. Try to get it back off them and then realise that another 10 of their mates are also on the train. They threaten to stab me, etc. and then run off at the next station.

Apparently this gang did it to about 20 other people in the Seven Sisters area. They got caught and put in prison eventually.
 
Dj_Jestar said:
Had a couple of lads pull a large screwdriver on me once, they demanded my phone and wallet but I panicked and instinctively grabbed the screwdriver only for it to come out of the lads hand, and me then wildly swing it at the pair of them, catching one of the lads on the head. They both legged it leaving me standing there shouting blue at them as they ran. :)
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Haha nice one. Most of them seem to be cowards when the situation yields to it's opposite. Ofcourse when such idiots see you with 5 or 6 of your mates, then they won't dare. Seems they only like picking on one individual most of the time.
 
My word some of you must frequent some horrible places, where I live I am unaware of any crime. Thats not to say their is no crime just that I know no one who has been a victim of crime in the 3 years I lived here.
 
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My word some of you must frequent some horrible places, where I live I am unaware of any crime. Thats not to say their is no crime just that I know no one who has been a victim of crime in the 3 years I lived here.
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On Jan 2nd, at about 2am - 10-15 teenagers outside my front door were firing a pump action shotgun at random things in the road.

I've never seen so many police in one location before, but to my knowledge they didn't make any arrests.

The first I heard of it (well, I say heard, I felt it as I had my headphones on) was a large bang to which I thought something had fallen over in the other room, so I went to look then heard another bang outside, so looked out and saw the group with one lad raising the shotgun, aiming down the street and firing again. It looked like a Remington from what I saw of it in the street light.
 
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I've never been mugged myself.

Aside from when I was about 13 and quite sadly I smoked at the time. Was with a friend in Harrow where we had gone to use the Skate Park, we were getting something to eat in McDonalds when a large group of black lads sat down next to us and asked if we had any cigarettes. They were quite threatening and wouldn't leave us alone, so we gave one to each of them that wanted one. One guy wanted two, at which point I had none left. They then pretty much made me buy another pack when we left and took a couple more from the pack.

They didn't threaten us with a weapon or anything, but it was one of those weird things where you are worried about what is going to happen, as they wouldn't leave us alone. It's one of those things I've always looked back at and thought there is no way I'd let that kind of thing happen now I'm older.

A housemate of mine was mugged at Uni.
He wasn't a big guy and he'd had a few drinks which probably didn't help and made him more of a target. They punched him around, then forced him to withdraw all his cash from a cash machine. Then they kicked him on the floor a few times before they left. He was very shaken up and wouldn't even leave the house for a few weeks. It didn't help that his bank didn't see it as robbery as he had made the withdrawal, so he couldn't get the money back. He didn't get some money from Victim Support, but I don't really know how that works.

Another friend of mine got pickpocketed in Barcelona, in broad daylight in the middle of a square by the guy who was talking to him... but that kind of thing goes on all the time there.


I live in Finsbury Park by the way.
It's no different to any other areas of London though really... you've got ghetto mixed in with normal and nice places to live.
 
Did have a fiend try and con me out of £18 last week in Newcastle city centre . He tried to convince me that it'd cost £11.90 on the bus plus £6.90 on the train to get back to Gateshead, by quickly showing me a receipt for a week's bus pass and a random train ticket. Being that I'm still new to the area, he must have assumed I didn't know that Gateshead was literally a mile or two away. He then tried the old "Give me you phone number/I'll give you my phone number and I'll pay you back" line that I've seen people here have had attempted on them in the past. I told him to jog on quite publicly in front of Central Station with loads of passers-by, Police about etc.

In reflection I should have walked over to an officer and reported it, but at the time I was merely concerned with putting as much distance between myself and him as possible. That's the scary thing about connoisseur's of fine injectables, they're so desperate for a hit that they'll do just about anything to get it, including pulling a needle/knife etc.
 
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I once passed out in a doorway in Paris, only to wake up to a group of guys putting me up against the wall and patting me down. I was so sloshed I thought they were Gendarme (they kept asking if I had hash and were looking through my passport), then I sortof realised they were thieves when I came to with no money or phone. Luckily I only had £20 and a phone I was going to bin anyway, and they kindly left my wallet (and its contents -cash) and passport. Rather sophisticated mugging if you ask me.
 
one of my friends got mugged once but knew where the mugger lived, the guy didnt realise he had mugged the younger brother of a local hard nut.

my stepson got mugged recently and knew the guy from primary school again the mugger didnt relaise he was mugging someone he knew....

knew of a guy who used to snatch hand bags from old women that once snatched the hand bag of one of his mums friends without realising which ended up with him serving i think it was 3 actual years in prison.

a lot of the time these scum bags do get caught mostly because they are stupid and do it in there own area
 
Nope, can't say I have ever been personally even threatened in the street, not even in the past 3 and a bit years of stumbling around Manchester drunk! (I should say, there have been moments I have been sober too, honestly).

I think the two closest incidents that could compare to a violent encounter where both cases involving someone slightly psychotic who wasn't after me or my things personally.

First was while out for a friends birthday around Essex somewhere (can't remember the exact details.. i just hopped in a car and went where I was told..), we were on our way home from whatever pub/club we had been too and a guy with a police style baton crossed the road towards us threatening to bash the heads of the two girls that were with us in saying they were "scum, all of em", this was followed by two of us turning round and telling him to leave* (*might not be the exact words) at which point he slumped down against the nearest brick wall and started crying. We went home...

The second was in Stafford when I was a student, we were on our way home after a night in the student union, the walk involved going along a long straight, nearly always deserted, a-road, with hedges all along its edge. So there we were, bout 3 in the morning, all quite drunk and suddenly this French bloke (very clearly drunk) pops out of a hedge (!), I'm not kidding he just kind of glided out like a Jedi or something. Anyway he stood in front of us and quite calmly stated "I think I should go with those ladies, you can't be trusted" then he tried to put his arm around em (our group was 5 guys and 2 girls).

So er.. yeah, the girls didn't take too kindly and ya know.. started hitting him, at which point he slinked back a bit and we asked him what he thought he was doing, so he said (and I very nearly quote) "I need to take these girls away from you, you're going to rape them or something". At this point we all just laughed and walked on, pushing past him, gave it a few seconds then looked back to see if he was following, but no, he had disappeared back into the hedge! Odd fellow.

Anyway, those are the two "confrontations" I have ever had in my life that stick out. Maybe I've just been lucky, or maybe I subconsciously avoid going to places I think will be bad for my health?
 
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