arconaut wrote on Tue, 17 August 2010 11:38 |
Sure. I've been mugged more times than I can count (seriously, I stopped counting) and I would never do what this guy did. Still, it makes for a nice story. |
arconaut wrote on Tue, 17 August 2010 09:38 |
Sure. I've been mugged more times than I can count (seriously, I stopped counting) and I would never do what this guy did. Still, it makes for a nice story. |
arconaut wrote on Tue, 17 August 2010 08:24 |
He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife... |
MDM, wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 02:28 |
absolutely the wrong thing to do IMO. a criminal might hate you or consider you an idiot if you treat him nicely.. he might think you are simply a wimp and want to teach you a lesson. if anything these people should be physically hurt to the point of agony, in order to induce some kind of inhibition.. not pitied IMO. |
Hallams wrote on Tue, 17 August 2010 18:29 |
I figured "we" (of anglo european ancestry) stole their land and caused the residual cultural pain they still endure to this day so i was happy for them to have my gear. |
arconaut wrote on Tue, 17 August 2010 12:34 |
The last time I was mugged, I ignored my intuition which was telling me to cross the street. I told myself I was being racist. Moments later, I was on the wrong end of a handgun. |
arconaut wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 07:56 |
This is a tough room! |
bblackwood wrote on Tue, 17 August 2010 19:17 | ||
Wow. |
JGauthier wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 00:30 |
Thats the stupidest thing I have ever read. Seriously. Thats not a nice story... Thats a pathetic moron. Even Disney would call that some dumbass shit. |
arconaut wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 06:56 |
This is a tough room! |
YZ wrote on Thu, 19 August 2010 04:26 |
I find it interesting that some people take a "small story" and start making political, ethnic, ideological and etc generalizations based on a one-time occurrence. A guy tries to mug me at knife point? I give him my wallet and leave pi**ed off but thankful not to be hurt; a group of people rob my stuff that I left outside and stay there defiantly? I minimize my losses by leaving in silence, and don't waste any of my time trying to find a justification for their act. Now, in the first case, if I were a skilled social worker with knowledge of the area and the people in it and sensed that there was 'something' in the eyes of my underage mugger I _might_ decide to act differently; in the second case, if I were Chuck Norris I would have shown the thieves that they shouldn't have messed with my stuff. |
Daniel Farris wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 19:45 |
The only time I was ever mugged, it was with a gun, brandished but never actually pointed at me. What I saw was a deadly weapon in the hands of someone who didn't have the balls to use it. Turns out I was wrong. I refused to hand over my wallet (but only because I was carrying a ridiculous amount of cash at the time... it would have destroyed me to lose it,) and the guy appeared ready to kill me for it. His two buddies saved my life by dragging him off, insisting I wasn't worth becoming a murderer over. DF |
danickstr wrote on Fri, 20 August 2010 10:22 |
it sounds like liberal wishy washy gobbledygook, but some people have never been treated nicely by a stranger, and it will literally change their life. |
bblackwood wrote on Tue, 17 August 2010 13:32 | ||
Never bring a knife to a gun fight. |
Daniel Farris wrote on Wed, 18 August 2010 20:45 |
I refused to hand over my wallet (but only because I was carrying a ridiculous amount of cash at the time... |