A death threat of sorts. What would GD do?

For reference, that should have been a 999 call at the time to report an attempted robbery. It will probably be of limited value now, but who knows, it might be part of a series where you may be able to give some useful evidence.
 
Scam said:
lol don't do that. He'll probably grab it and run and bam there goes all your cards.. :confused: Getting your wallet out in front of a potential thief? Yeah... right...
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Mine's on a chain.
But then, I tend to have a bit of change loose in a pocket for just such an occasion, having had this happen numerous times even before I moved to London... I also expect that if he was the grabby type, he'd have already tried to grab Angilion's headphones and music player off him.
 
Malevolence said:
Congratulations, you've just been visited by one of Hanley's resident parasites. The police won't do anything about them when they're off their heads on spice and ******** in the street, so they there's **** all chance of them doing anything over this.

Where abouts was this? Wasn't down near Hope Street by any chance was it?
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I mentioned the Denizens of Hope Street/Brighter Futures to him.
 
Angilion said:
They asked for a tenner and I refused

Also, I had a grand total of 45p on me anyway.
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You have my respect for threatening him with the police and turning your back. Quite risky but fortunately worked in your favour. As you didn't have the cash on you, you didn't have any choice. If you did have a tenner on you, would you have still refused or given it to him?
 
With increasing phone thefts , was this a ruse to get you to expose a phone,
see too many people with head-phones on (not a connoisseur myself so don't know if they are expensive), apparently oblivious to surroundings (as Terminal Boy alludes) ,
- have to consider why they selected you ?
 
arknor said:
when someone asks for a cigarette or change you should never give it to them.

often it''s a test to see how weak you are
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:confused:

when am out around town many times i get loads of people asking me for a cigarette
specialty now with the smoking bans inside so all the smokers are all mixed outside with strangers..
 
What sort of society are we in where we just shrug that off, we are completely desensitised I'd say.

Demand better, report it because it all goes into the figures.
 
This happened to one of my friends who is a proper hard case.

Someone came up to him when he was walking home from the pub and said give me your money or am going to shiv you, as soon as the word shiv was mentioned BANG out like a light.

He picked on the wrong person, as he used to do amateur boxing. lol :p
 
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Terminal_Boy said:
In other news, do not impair one of your senses whilst walking through rough areas at night.
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Yeah it's amazing that people do this. I used to work nights in Soho and I'd see people walking to the tube with headphones on, staring at their phone without a care in the world. I once saw someone playing on an iPad! :confused:
itchy said:
He picked on the wrong person, as he used to do amateur boxing. lol
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Alternative ending: Your mate has been in prison for 8 years for killing someone with one punch :o
 
Scam said:
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Alternative ending: Your mate has been in prison for 8 years for killing someone with one punch :o
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He has been in prison funny you should say but not for killing someone.

I think the kid was ok he just hit his head on the fence when he went down. I was walking behind on my phone seen someone approach him and before I could put my phone in my pocket the kid was on the deck.

I said we need ring an ambulance but my mate just said leave the rat and we carried on walking home.
 
chaparral said:
when am out around town many times i get loads of people asking me for a cigarette
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Ah, see, that's because you are weak... whereas this guy:
itchy said:
as soon as the word shiv was mentioned BANG out like a light.
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^This guy is clearly Cobra Kai material!! :)

Scam said:
Yeah it's amazing that people do this. I used to work nights in Soho and I'd see people walking to the tube with headphones on, staring at their phone without a care in the world.
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What, it's amazing that people in this country can generally expect to walk home and arrive safely, minding their own business without having to have Jason Bourne level awareness of their surroundings 24/7?
Last I checked this is the UK, not Ciudad Juarez....

Scam said:
I once saw someone playing on an iPad! :confused:
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Well yeah, but that is just asking for a beating, though!! :D

Scam said:
Alternative ending: Your mate has been in prison for 8 years for killing someone with one punch :o
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Between being alive to argue self defence, or letting someone shiv me and dying alone in a dark part of deepest darkest Staffordshire all because I was afraid of the law and chose to live as a victim... I know which I'd choose. I also know my family would rather visit me in prison than visit my grave.
 
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