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Started by DGuller, June 29, 2009, 07:47:15 PM

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jimmy olsen

#75
June 30, 2009, 10:17:33 PM
Quote from: Kleves on June 30, 2009, 10:10:30 PM

Every law enforcement official will tell you the same thing: the most heroic act you can take in a bank robbery is noticing any details about the robber. You should not try to stop the robbery by force. Keep in mind that an increasing number of bank robbers are using powerful drugs (cocaine and methampheta
mine) during the time of the robbery. You don't want to take chances with an intoxicated person in a desperate situation.
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MadImmortalMan

#76
June 30, 2009, 10:20:45 PM
I always wondered what the mugger would do if the victim just suddenly and unexpectedly went completely apeshit, fists and knees flying so fast there's no time to react.  :P

Pre-emptive mugging defense.
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Strix

#77
June 30, 2009, 10:26:49 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2009, 10:20:45 PM
I always wondered what the mugger would do if the victim just suddenly and unexpectedly went completely apeshit, fists and knees flying so fast there's no time to react.  :P

Pre-emptive mugging defense.

It happens a lot in Rochester. Muggers will have guns and people just start wrestling with them and/or run away. It's just life on the streets to those that live in high crime areas.
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Strix

#78
June 30, 2009, 10:29:11 PM
Oh, and sorry to hear that happened to you DG!  :hug:
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

DGuller

#79
June 30, 2009, 10:31:12 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2009, 10:20:45 PM
I always wondered what the mugger would do if the victim just suddenly and unexpectedly went completely apeshit, fists and knees flying so fast there's no time to react.  :P

Pre-emptive mugging defense.
He would probably run away the huge majority of the time, because he's looking for easy targets.  However, he may be high, and thus be unpredictable in his reaction.

Palisadoes

#80
June 30, 2009, 10:41:43 PM
Sorry to hear about that.

sbr

#81
June 30, 2009, 11:39:16 PM
Shitty.

AFAIK I have never come close to being mugged, robbed or held-up.  I am 99% sure i would have reacted the same as you did; don't let these Internet Tough Guys make you feel any worse. :)

Caliga

#82
July 01, 2009, 06:54:52 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 30, 2009, 10:17:33 PM
Unpossible! I'm an internet badass who knowz ten kinds of kung fu!
If you ever get mugged, you just need to do that gross thing with your leg and the robber will either throw up or run away. :)
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Razgovory

#83
July 01, 2009, 08:38:27 AM
Now if Dguller was packing this could have ended very differently.  The robber could have stolen the gun as well!
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Queequeg

#84
July 01, 2009, 08:43:51 AM
A group of about 10 "urban" 3rd graders came up to me once and said that if I didn't give them my money they'd beat me up.  I'm a big guy, so I just kept walking.  Then they said that they'd get their older brothers, and I realized how bad it would look if I got in a fight with 3rd graders, no matter the root cause of said fight, would be bad, and that there was probably a couple of mean older brothers or even fathers in there.  Fuckers walked away with $40.

So don't feel bad DG; at least your robber was postpubescent.
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Warspite

#85
July 01, 2009, 08:58:46 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on July 01, 2009, 08:43:51 AM
A group of about 10 "urban" 3rd graders came up to me once and said that if I didn't give them my money they'd beat me up.  I'm a big guy, so I just kept walking.  Then they said that they'd get their older brothers, and I realized how bad it would look if I got in a fight with 3rd graders, no matter the root cause of said fight, would be bad, and that there was probably a couple of mean older brothers or even fathers in there.  Fuckers walked away with $40.

So don't feel bad DG; at least your robber was postpubescent.

Could you have tried to outrun them?
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Caliga

#86
July 01, 2009, 09:26:07 AM
I hope to one day be rubbed by a bitch  :)
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Razgovory

#87
July 01, 2009, 12:02:21 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2009, 10:20:45 PM
I always wondered what the mugger would do if the victim just suddenly and unexpectedly went completely apeshit, fists and knees flying so fast there's no time to react.  :P

Pre-emptive mugging defense.

Attacking them is a poor idea, but going apeshit crazy and screaming at them and coming across threatening can work.  Doing something completely unexpected will confuse the person and give him second thoughts.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Malthus

#88
July 01, 2009, 12:05:51 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 01, 2009, 12:02:21 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2009, 10:20:45 PM
I always wondered what the mugger would do if the victim just suddenly and unexpectedly went completely apeshit, fists and knees flying so fast there's no time to react.  :P

Pre-emptive mugging defense.

Attacking them is a poor idea, but going apeshit crazy and screaming at them and coming across threatening can work.  Doing something completely unexpected will confuse the person and give him second thoughts.

Hey, it works in business meetings.  :D
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jimmy olsen

#89
July 01, 2009, 12:11:43 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 01, 2009, 12:05:51 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 01, 2009, 12:02:21 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 30, 2009, 10:20:45 PM
I always wondered what the mugger would do if the victim just suddenly and unexpectedly went completely apeshit, fists and knees flying so fast there's no time to react.  :P

Pre-emptive mugging defense.

Attacking them is a poor idea, but going apeshit crazy and screaming at them and coming across threatening can work.  Doing something completely unexpected will confuse the person and give him second thoughts.

Hey, it works in business meetings.  :D
Might be an urban legend, but I remember reading about this guy who was backpacking/hitchhiking across the US and decided to keep going through Mexico all the way down to Alcapulco or Cancun. He'd managed to scrape enough money to ride a bus and was being eyed by some suspicious looking young men, so he decided to have an enthusiastic conversation with his guitar. It worked and nobody bothered him while he was in Mexico.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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