Robbery, up close and personal

[Caliga]

Who the hell is stupid enough to mug you for $60?

Dammit - the stupidity of criminals never ceases to amaze me.

Nobody ever accused muggers of being particularly bright individuals.

[DGuller]

Did you consider yelling help?

The thought never entered my mind, to be honest.  To say that I wasn't thinking clearly at the time would be an understatement.

[Savonarola]

Did you consider yelling help?

I've read that you're supposed to yell "Fire" since people are more likely to pay attention to that than "Help."

[Cerr]

Did you consider yelling help?

Not sure if it's bull or not but I've heard from some people that yelling fire! is more effective than yelling help.

Edit - Sav beat me to it.

[Barrister]

Did you consider yelling help?

I've read that you're supposed to yell "Fire" since people are more likely to pay attention to that than "Help."

We were playing softball last night.  My wife was on third base when she hears some kid running through the trees yelling "emergency!".  My wife stops play to run over and ask the kid what was the matter.

The kid yells back "my dad needs a beer".

[Josquius]

  I got mugged a few months ago here in Phila. by a couple of young teenagers, but it's hard to argue with a gun.     On the bright side, my wallet was mailed back to me by a good Samaritan a couple of weeks ago, sans cash.  

Yeah thats pretty bad. With regular muggers you can just run like hell, they tend to be lazy. With a gun involved though probally not worth risking it.

[Berkut]

I would use the British method of refusal from A Bridge Too Far.

"What? You wish to give me money? No thanks, good chap, I have quite enough already! Cheerio!"

[Capetan Mihali]

In a similar situation I had pretty good success with the "run into the middle of the street" strategy (on the correct assumption that the would-be beaters weren't willing to do their beating in the middle of the road with cars wizzing by).

I successfully dodged another robbery in Atlantic City by darting into the nearest store, which was, inevitably, a porn video booth emporium, on the correct assumption that they would be deterred from robbing me while I watched deafeningly loud pornographic movies in a tiny cubicle.  Though the video booths come with their own set of risks...

[DisturbedPervert]

Though the video booths come with their own set of risks...

And rewards!

[DisturbedPervert]

With regular muggers you can just run like hell, they tend to be lazy.

Have people tried to mug you a lot?

[Josquius]

With regular muggers you can just run like hell, they tend to be lazy.

Have people tried to mug you a lot?

Thrice.
Or maybe four. There was one time when a kid demanded 20p or he'd beat me up, I found it so funny I just gave in and gave him the money.

[Admiral Yi]

The closest I came to being mugged was one time in Montego Bay.  We were taking a cab back to the hotel, I suggested we grab some jerk chicken and smoke some nice ganja on the beach.  Cabbie took us to this gas station with a jerk stand set up in the lot.  It was late at night and about 8 dudes were just hanging out.  One guy approached and told me his name was Dr. Black and it was dangerous in that part of town so it might be a good idea to pay him for protection.  Dr. Black looked like he had a degree in body building.  I said no thanks.  I felt confident because my bud has a black belt in karate. 

Then as we were leaving this one very crack head looking dude starts babbling in patois, the only words I could make out were 'money, money, money!" The cabbie yells at us to give him some money, so my bud grabs some random Jamaican dollar bills (worth about a quarter) and shoved them out the window.  And we drove off.  And ate some jerk chicken and smoked some nice ganja on the beach.

[DisturbedPervert]

I've never been close to being mugged.  An aggressive panhandler in SF after coming out of a strip club was the closest, gave him a couple bucks to leave me alone and stop following me telling where to find pussy at 3am. 

[Iormlund]

I've never been mugged. It was close once, though. I was walking through the park and a bunch of gypsies where hanging out between me and the exit. One of them started the routine but the rest couldn't be bothered (they were probably too wasted) and they left me alone.

[Habbaku]

I've never been mugged, nor even come into a situation that I thought I was being targeted for a mugging.

I suspect, in DG's position, I might've tried to run away rather than provoke anything further.