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[alejob]

Once when I was a kid(maybe 11) I was in a hotel, I left my bag with most of my money inside my luggage in the hotel room. When I got back, my bag was gone, someone when trough my luggage and took it. Obviously it was one of the hotels cleaning ladys. They took about $200 bucks. Then the next they I found the bag in my luggage again but it was empty.

I manage to stay out of trouble. Thats the worst thing thats happened to me I think.

But the real story is this one:

My brother was coming back from his university one day when two guys aproached him and asked him for a coin. My brother ignored them and kept walking but then they took a knife out. They took his watch, his MP3 player, baseball cap and his wallet with about $5 in it. He actually had a little more money but he asked for some of it back so he could "take the bus home", he actually like 3 blocks away from home, hehe! They did give some back. They wanted to take his shoes also but my bro said no and they didn't. Then they ran away.

Oh! he also asked for the credit card, ID card and Drivers License back and they did give them back. The toughest thing to loose was the MP3 player, I-river, 128MB. They are really expensive if you can find them down there.



Got any stories?

 

[Incognito]

i've had my truck stolen.

 

[RedDwarf]

I used live in a pretty shitty part of town and was held up at gunpoint twice. I also had a crackhead pull a gun on me while walking my roomates pitbull. He kept threatening to kill the dog for no apparent reason. That was no fun.

 

[human5892]

He actually had a little more money but he asked for some of it back so he could "take the bus home", he actually like 3 blocks away from home, hehe! They did give some back. They wanted to take his shoes also but my bro said no and they didn't. Then they ran away.

Oh! he also asked for the credit card, ID card and Drivers License back and they did give them back.

Your brother is lucky he was mugged by such polite young men!

 

[carpal]

I was once approached by some hooligans on my way home who thought it would be fun times to provide me with a few sucker punches to the jaw. Thankfully they neglected to notice the bass guitar and laptop computer I was carrying, so when they split before I could get my bearings I had to consider myself relatively fortunate. Closest I've been, I think.

 

[distantmantra]

Back in June I was going to head back over to my grad school apartment for finals so I had put all my stuff in the trunk of my car on Sunday night. Next morning when I’m getting ready to take my girlfriend to work and then drive back to school, I notice the passenger doors are unlocked. Somehow they popped the locks. Everything in my trunk was taken, including a 3 month old Dell laptop, my book bag with my textbooks and such (homework had all been turned in already), and a CD booklet holding 73 CDs. It ended up being about $4000 dollars worth of stuff, and our insurance company finally cut me a check for $1150 after their deductable and devaluation bullshit. Oh well, at least I got some money to get a new laptop.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Nope.

I stay w/ something that'll hurt whoever tries.

 

[mrmyth]

Your brother is lucky he was mugged by such polite young men!

Assuming the mugger isn't on drugs, its just business. I got jacked out of a coat at gunpoint when I was in high school, and I made them wait until I emptied the pockets. Then I walked to my grandmother's and got my black sheep older brother who drove me around until we found them. We took back my coat, took their coats, and the gun (they never had any bullets) they robbed me with.

 

[Hooker]

Nope, most people are afraid of me, probably because I'm a tall black dude

 

[dem]

Assuming the mugger isn't on drugs, its just business. I got jacked out of a coat at gunpoint when I was in high school, and I made them wait until I emptied the pockets. Then I walked to my grandmother's and got my black sheep older brother who drove me around until we found them. We took back my coat, took their coats, and the gun (they never had any bullets) they robbed me with.

:lol
0wn3d

 

[bonesquad]

A few years ago, my brother (about 10 then) was riding his bike around the neighbor hood with some friends. At which point a group of older teenagers came up and threw him off his bike, and took off with it. My brother ran home all upset of course. My dad and my older brother jumped in their car. Using "racial profiling" (fuck the PCers!) they guessed where they were headed, and sure enough... about 12 blocks away they found the bike. The kids ran off when they saw them coming. Smart move...


On a personal level, when I was walking down a busy street as a kid, I was asked for the time by some kid. Didn't think anything of it until I tried to walk away and he said 'where the hell do you think you're going?' At which point I noticed the knife. Damn, I always liked that Chuck E. Cheese watch too...

 

[mrmyth]

:lol
0wn3d

Yeah, but contrast that with the druggie who came up on the side of me, smashed me in the ear with a brick and tried to pull my jacket off me as I fell.


That gun was shitty old .22 anyway. I sold it to a kid at school for $25 bucks and he reported that it always jammed on the second shot.

 

[White Man]

I used live in a pretty shitty part of town and was held up at gunpoint twice. I also had a crackhead pull a gun on me while walking my roomates pitbull. He kept threatening to kill the dog for no apparent reason. That was no fun.

Where do you live, man?

How does it feel to have a gun pointed at you for a second time? My dad was a bank manager who was robbed three times during his career. I'd always pester him with questions about what it was like? It's not a feeling you could artificially reproduce. Kind of fascinates me.

 

[mrmyth]

Where do you live, man?

How does it feel to have a gun pointed at you for a second time? My dad was a bank manager who was robbed three times during his career. I'd always pester him with questions about what it was like? It's not a feeling you could artificially reproduce. Kind of fascinates me.

I've had a gun pulled on me three times, and then once I noticed the guy casually holding it behind his leg as he beckoned me. Strangely enough, you kinda know when you're in danger. The only time I felt scared was the guy hiding the gun. Then it was kinda like my legs and spine froze. Coldwise, not stopped moving. I couldm't get my lower half warm for a few hours after that, and all that happened was the guy called out to me, I noticed him hiding the gun, and I crossed the street and tried to dissapear down an alley.

 

[Dan]

I was robbed at gunpoint last summer while I was studying abroad in London. I went out for some food around 10 o clock, and pretty much the only thing open in my area was a Burger King at Euston station. So I eat, and as I'm leaving a short black man starts asking me for change and I just say I don't have any and continue on. He follows and starts calling me a racist and a liar, and as we reach the relatively open grass area in front, I turn around and he's pointing a gun at me from under a jacket. I was so pissed off. Not even scared or nervous or anything. Just annoyed. He asks me to sit on a bench with him, and I just say that I'd "rather not." I was really tempted to just try and punch him in the face and make off, but well, I'm not stupid. Luckily I was only carrying about 20 pounds, so I didn't really lose much at all. But I just gave him the money, and as he's still asking for me to sit down with him I just turn and walk. I take it he didn't follow.

It was an odd encounter.

 

[Brian Fellows]

No

 

[MIMIC]

Thankfully, no...but one of my friends was. It was the middle of winter and they took EVERYTHING!...his shirt, his shoes, his pants....

Made him walk home in his boxers.

I think he was in a gang, though.

 

[RedDwarf]

Where do you live, man?

Boston. When I moved into "the city", I lived in a really shitty neighborhood. Boston itself is so small that a lot of surrounding cities are labelled "Boston". This was one of them.

How does it feel to have a gun pointed at you for a second time?

The first time I was a bit freaked out. The second time I actually got more annoyed than scared. It was a weird feeling to know you were being held up yet you're in a "yeah, hurry this shit up and take my fucking money asshole" train of thought. The third time with the dog was the worst because she was really protective of me and wouldn't stop barking, which just made the crackhead more crazy. At least with robbery, there's a motive and usually a non-violent end.

 

[Dan]

The second time I actually got more annoyed than scared. It was a weird feeling to know you were being held up yet you're in a "yeah, hurry this shit up and take my fucking money asshole" train of thought.

That's exactly how I felt my first (and only) time. I felt more inconvenienced than anything else.

I should add that I've been far more nervous and scared during a variety of police encounters I've had. I'd say that speaks a lot about the US and how we're raised. I'm more afraid of my local cops than I am of a man pointing a gun at me.

 

[Alex Anderson]

Time to walk to the pizza parlor. I hope I don't get mugged, stabbed, shot at, raped, beaten, or eaten.

 

[Deg]

I was robbed at gunpoint last summer while I was studying abroad in London. I went out for some food around 10 o clock, and pretty much the only thing open in my area was a Burger King at Euston station. So I eat, and as I'm leaving a short black man starts asking me for change and I just say I don't have any and continue on. He follows and starts calling me a racist and a liar, and as we reach the relatively open grass area in front, I turn around and he's pointing a gun at me from under a jacket. I was so pissed off. Not even scared or nervous or anything. Just annoyed. He asks me to sit on a bench with him, and I just say that I'd "rather not." I was really tempted to just try and punch him in the face and make off, but well, I'm not stupid. Luckily I was only carrying about 20 pounds, so I didn't really lose much at all. But I just gave him the money, and as he's still asking for me to sit down with him I just turn and walk. I take it he didn't follow.

It was an odd encounter.

That is just...

I hope none of this happens to me. Apparently in the UK loads of students get robbed or mugged about 40% i think!

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I once got so very drunk during Uni days and I stumbled home from town, I turned up covered in mud minus shoes and my wallet.

I'm pretty sure that I got a mugging. It wasn't so bad.

 

[HAOHMARU]

Yeah, I've robbed and mugged people...its horrible.

 

[Alex Anderson]

I made it back in one piece, w00t.

 

[Nester]

I haven't, but my wife was pretty bad a couple years ago.

She was walking to church and was in front of the house next door to the church around 8 at night. Summer, so it wasn't dark out or anything. All of a sudden some guy comes and tackles her over this little ledge in front of the house. She sees he has a knife and puts her hand to her throat to catch the knife that he was about to put to her neck. Amazingly didn't cut her hand.

So he starts yelling at her to "Where's your money? Gimme your money bitch" and that kind of stuff. She's looking right at him to get a good look and he starts punching the shit out of her left eye.

She's feeling around for her money, as it, her keys and her glasses fell off when he knocked her over. All 3 landed on the ledge behind him, and neither of them could see it. The only other thing was her backpack.

So he's continuing his yelling and she's telling him she can't find it, so he stabs her in the side of her torso near her lungs and in the inside of her right leg.

She tells him not to take her backpack, so of course he gets up, grabs the backpack and takes off. She starts to get up and sees him turn around, put the knife above his head and say "You're gonna die, bitch."

She gets up and runs the hell out of there, screaming. Normally, she would have had to run all the way around the side of the church to the back door and ring the doorbell, but at that moment a guy was coming out to his car to get a CD he had forgotten. They get her inside, and she goes to the hosppital for surgery. Makes it out ok. Just nicked her lung, which they fixed up.

Couple side stories. All that she had in her backpack was her bible, some bubbles for her kids group to play with and a magnifying glass for some project the kids were going to do. Moron didn't even get the cash sitting on the ledge. I'm hoping he went back to his friends to show off his steal, and they kicked his ass for being such a pussy.

The cops discouraged letting the media know, because that particular area was considered the "rich" area, 2 blocks away from the Governers house.

When my wife got pregnant and had our daughter, she was having some serious pains after the birth. Turns out the guy just nicked her diaphram too, which they didn't notice at the time of the stabbing. Since it's always stretching, it never quite healed. During the pregnancy, half her stomach got pushed up into her diaphram, choking it off. They had to do emergency surgery a couple days after birth to fix it, and they had to staple off half her stomach that the diaphram had killed off.


But she's doing really nice now, most of the scars have healed up.

 

[AniHawk]

I haven't, but my wife was pretty bad a couple years ago.

She was walking to church and was in front of the house next door to the church around 8 at night. Summer, so it wasn't dark out or anything. All of a sudden some guy comes and tackles her over this little ledge in front of the house. She sees he has a knife and puts her hand to her throat to catch the knife that he was about to put to her neck. Amazingly didn't cut her hand.

So he starts yelling at her to "Where's your money? Gimme your money bitch" and that kind of stuff. She's looking right at him to get a good look and he starts punching the shit out of her left eye.

She's feeling around for her money, as it, her keys and her glasses fell off when he knocked her over. All 3 landed on the ledge behind him, and neither of them could see it. The only other thing was her backpack.

So he's continuing his yelling and she's telling him she can't find it, so he stabs her in the side of her torso near her lungs and in the inside of her right leg.

She tells him not to take her backpack, so of course he gets up, grabs the backpack and takes off. She starts to get up and sees him turn around, put the knife above his head and say "You're gonna die, bitch."

She gets up and runs the hell out of there, screaming. Normally, she would have had to run all the way around the side of the church to the back door and ring the doorbell, but at that moment a guy was coming out to his car to get a CD he had forgotten. They get her inside, and she goes to the hosppital for surgery. Makes it out ok. Just nicked her lung, which they fixed up.

Couple side stories. All that she had in her backpack was her bible, some bubbles for her kids group to play with and a magnifying glass for some project the kids were going to do. Moron didn't even get the cash sitting on the ledge. I'm hoping he went back to his friends to show off his steal, and they kicked his ass for being such a pussy.

The cops discouraged letting the media know, because that particular area was considered the "rich" area, 2 blocks away from the Governers house.

When my wife got pregnant and had our daughter, she was having some serious pains after the birth. Turns out the guy just nicked her diaphram too, which they didn't notice at the time of the stabbing. Since it's always stretching, it never quite healed. During the pregnancy, half her stomach got pushed up into her diaphram, choking it off. They had to do emergency surgery a couple days after birth to fix it, and they had to staple off half her stomach that the diaphram had killed off.


But she's doing really nice now, most of the scars have healed up.

That's terrible.

 

[cvxfreak]

Someone stole some Pokemon cards from me, and some gym shoes.

It's too bad I keep my feet real clean, otherwise I'd turn back time and have the theif suffer with athlete's foot before I punch him.

 

[speedpop]

Haven't been robbed or mugged, but there have been drunk wankers I've met walking on my way back home from work (late shift bartender) fake hit me or headbutt me to prove they're tough or just for shits and giggles. Most of the time I couldn't care less but there was one idiot I smacked the shit out of because I just wanted to get home and go to sleep.

I have had my car broken into in a security patrolled parking lot (HAH), not a thing was stolen. Not even the countless of original CDs which I should really burn to blanks to play on the CD player but cbf. They did take the house keys though which I had in the little "coin change box" and in disgust obviously threw them down the balcony where the car was situated. I had loads of shit in the trunk as well which could be opened in the car.. fucking moron.

A friend of mine at work is a big black guy and there was an idiot following him and his girlfriend home from a casino once.. he got pretty fired up cause this guy was hassling his chick for money constantly till he basically went off the deep end. All I heard was that my friend punched him once in the face - guy goes to hospital with a broken nose, broken jaw, fractured cheek bone and countless teeth missing. Needless to say, whenever there's a dickhead at work.. I always enjoy it when my friend is on at the same time

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Nope, most people are afraid of me, probably because I'm a tall black dude

Same, they just know its a bad move.

 

[Jesiatha]

I flew to Chicago for a Pumpkisn concert, and managed to fall asleep on the El on the way back to O'Hare (it was a long day). Someone cut my jeans and took my wallet. Fortunately, it was pre-9/11, so the guy at the airport let me through security without my ID.

Just a couple months back someone broke into the glovebox in my car and stole my wallet.

Each time I had less than $50, but I wish the thieves would leave my wallet and just take the money / cards...each time I lost the first picture my wife gave me. Got it back the first time (Chicago PD found the wallet a week or two later), but I don't think there's any hope this time.

 

[mashoutposse]

I was playing handball with a couple of acquaintances back in junior high (cut class that day so the park was 100% empty), and eventually some real thug looking older guys came through and called next. That was no problem, except two of them were searching our bags when they thought we were getting into our game. One of us asked what they were doing and the guys played innocent and stopped. I knew what was coming so I 'lost' my game, stood right over my bag (full of EGMs and Gamefan mags w/ a couple of games), picked it up, and nonchalantly started to leave. Ten paces, the mugging starts. Damn. I kept walking, then I heard the "hold up a sec." Actually, they almost let me go (they were really after the asian dudes I was with and their pagers) but one of them pushed for my Jansport bag with the suede bottom (early 90's NYC "cool" HS attire). Was talking a good game until the knife came out. Shit. That's what I get for being a truant, I guess.

 

[pixelated]

It sucks when you're living with relatives for a few months with a crack head uncle and then that uncle steals 30 or so freaken Nintendo 64 games who then probably pawned them. Grr my Golden ZOOT is gone forever.

 

[NLB2]

It sucks when you're living with relatives for a few months with a crack head uncle and then that uncle steals 30 or so freaken Nintendo 64 games who then probably pawned them. Grr my Golden ZOOT is gone forever.

Fucking crackheads. Did you stab him at least?

 

[DaCocoBrova]

That happen in Queens mashout...?

Funny how I've been in more 'stuff' downtown in the low 20's (Manhattan) than I've been in Harlem...

I used to write (grafitti), and with that came a bunch of sh!t.

 

[evil ways]

I was mugged when I was a kid as well, around 14. A friend and I lost track of time at the mall hanging with some other friends and we decided to walk home at around 10pm since we lived around 20 minutes from it.

They took a silver chain necklace I had and $8, plus my friend's watch and his baseball cap. Funny thing is that after it happened the muggers were like "Ok, you can go now, keep walking" instead of them just running with the loot.