You dont expect it to happen to you..

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Things just get better and better..

First the All Blacks lose, then Fulham lost today 2-0, to top it all off, after getting a few autographs, me and two friends decided to head off home, so we walked through the park (right next to craven cottage) to get to the bus stop. This would have been around 8-8.15.

Get into a dark area, and some tall/big black guys approach us, telling us to give them what we have in our pockets, our first impression is to say no, so we did. So they decided to grab us and try get stuff out of our pockets. Then they said to us all 'dont do anything or we'll knife you'. They grabbed us all, and i tried to get through one of them, as i saw two guys walking passed (not included with them) and i called out to them, i sort of pushed the guy and ran to the guys that walked passed, i explained what was happening and they said 'we are not fools..we dont want to get mugged' and carried on walking!

So i turned back and one of my friends had gone, he ran away with a guy chasing him, and as i came back the other guy started to run, probably thinking i had got the other guys. So me and my friend rang the police..

It took 10-15 mins before the guy bothered to send the squad cars! I couldnt believe it at this point.

A guy with a few girls stood around with us waiting for the police, and he had seen them get out of their dark clothes and get into white and run off.

Squad cars turned up, went for a 'drive around' see if we could see them, but nothing.. So we did all the descriptions etc, took our details.

My friend had his phone, ipod and money taken from him out of his pockets while they grabbed him. The other had some money taken.

All three of us are 17, just coming home from going to see football, and get mugged..great.

Ah well, they have all the details..and we're due to go back in at some point to see if we can see them on CCTV or something.

People these days, carrying weapons etc.

You hear everything happen, but you dont expect it to happen to you!

Best part of the night was the drive home. Normally its upto hour and a half, but the squad car had the sirens on, got home in about 15 mins.

Ah well..
 
Gilly said:
Could've been much worse
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Thats exactly how we look at it, in a way we did the right thing, tried to get help, didnt fight back, the fact that they were a lot bigger, older and grabbing us wasnt helping that.

Glad it was only a phone, ipod and money more than our lives.
 
Unlucky mate. You got insurance to get the stuff back on? At least the only damage was possessions :)
 
gumbald said:
Unlucky mate. You got insurance to get the stuff back on? At least the only damage was possessions :)
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Not sure, doubt it.

Thats exactly right, id rather lose a few items rather than be seriously hurt or worse.

Im more annoyed at the fact that people saw what was happening, and i even said to them - and they still walked on..i know a lot of people dont want to get involved, but they could have atleast said something, shouted or got help.
 
Your house insurance should cover it? :)

Those people probably didn't trust you or something. Being careful not to turn this into a Britain bashing thread though... :p
 
This is exactly why I never walk into allyways and secluded areas. Plus I only ever have my phone on me in a jacket pocket which is supposed to be sealed, so it looks like there couldn't be anything in it. Though it's insured anyway.
 
Energize said:
This is exactly why I never walk into allyways and secluded areas. Plus I only ever have my phone on me in a jacket pocket which is supposed to be sealed, so it looks like there couldn't be anything in it. Though it's insured anyway.
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Thats the only way out of the stadium, to where the bus stops are, but ive been to every home game, this season and a lot of last, this is the first bit of trouble ive ever seen.

Atleast we're safe i guess.
 
Hmmm. I love the internet, as you never know how truthful people are being. I was right with you until you told us the coppers gave you a lift home with blue lights flashing. This is absolutely and category against the rules and I doubt any police officer would risk his career by doing it.
 
[TW]Fox;10228666 said:
Hmmm. I love the internet, as you never know how truthful people are being. I was right with you until you told us the coppers gave you a lift home with blue lights flashing. This is absolutely and category against the rules and I doubt any police officer would risk his career by doing it.
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Was an unmarked squad car.

Believe what you want, im not going to argue - if you dont believe me then dont.

Thats why i 'love' the internet, you post something that has happened, and they dont believe you.

If thats what your going to pick up on, please **** off.
 
A similar thing happened to my brother in law when he was your age. Out with mate in broad daylight, in Crawley. They get stopped by a group of black guys, and told to hand over their valuables.

Some firemen walk by, and my bro-in-law calls them to come over, to which one of the black guys says that they called them '*******', hence why they've 'stopped' him & his mates. The firemen walked on. :rolleyes:

They did get caught the same day though, after trying it on with some other guys.

Glad you & your mates are OK though :)
 
divine` said:
Always a good response to a criticism...

'yeah ... well ... they did, so ... **** you'
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:rolleyes:

Glad to see so many care.

'Glad everythings okay'

'So they gave you a lift with lights on...blabla'.

Im not going to lie about getting mugged am i?
 
danza said:
A similar thing happened to my brother in law when he was your age. Out with mate in broad daylight, in Crawley. They get stopped by a group of black guys, and told to hand over their valuables.

Some firemen walk by, and my bro-in-law calls them to come over, to which one of the black guys says that they called them '*******', hence why they've 'stopped' him & his mates. The firemen walked on. :rolleyes:

They did get caught the same day though, after trying it on with some other guys.

Glad you & your mates are OK though :)
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Yeah, thats what annoyed me too..the fact they did nothing to help.

I understand not wanting to get involved..but surely call the police, shout..get help or something.

Im just glad that we are all okay, and didnt do anything stupid, to be honest.
 
For the criminals, cash is for taking, cars are for chasing and law is for breaking!
 
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