Quote: DaButt @ November 4 2011, 8:04 PM GMTPerhaps it was because the assailants knew that you weren't carrying a weapon? It's different here -- everyone is potentially armed.
People still get attacked and/or mugged over there, it's not like it doesn't happen!
Aw, that's nice. What part of Texas are you from/in, just out of interest?
In Russian, the very common name Sergei, apart from being pronounced Sir Gay (in a broad British accent), also sounds very similar to the word for earrings, so people get the piss ripped as soon as the class learns English
EDIT: that people in US point out something isn't homophobic, not that people get mugged
Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 4 2011, 8:44 PM GMTPeople still get attacked and/or mugged over there, it's not like it doesn't happen!
Far less frequently. The same goes for burglaries of occupied dwellings. Bad guys don't like to get shot either.
Quote: AJGO @ November 4 2011, 8:45 PM GMTAw, that's nice. What part of Texas are you from/in, just out of interest?
I live in San Antonio; I've spent most of my life in Florida and California.
Quote: DaButt @ November 4 2011, 8:46 PM GMTFar less frequently.
If you say so. And come to think of it, outside of somewhere like London, the numbers will drop sharply. I certainly didn't hear about it much growing up in Cumbria.
Quote: AJGO @ November 4 2011, 6:36 PM GMTIt is very tempting, especially when someone's thieved your essentials, made you paranoid to ever go out, and repeatedly head-butted you in the face so hard the police called an ambulance... but then if I had a gun, they definitely would, and I wouldn't be here feeling bad for hoping someone else shoots the f**kers.
I feel I should mention that this didn't happen in Hackney!
And they had a knife, which I'm glad wasn't a gun
Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 4 2011, 8:49 PM GMTIf you say so. And come to think of it, outside of somewhere like London, the numbers will drop sharply. I certainly didn't hear about it much growing up in Cumbria.
I don't think I know anyone who has been mugged (outside of London friends). One time some boys asked for all of my friend's money and we essentially just said no politely and walked away. That was about 12 years ago.
Ooh my sister did have her phone taken out of her hand by an oik on a bike when she was about 13.
I can't think of anyone I know who's been mugged.
I don't think it's as common as people reckon.
Or maybe I'm just naive. Or coddled.
I have a mugging story with a happy ending. A friend of mine who is quite a big lad was walking with his girlfriend over one of the bridges in Newport. He was approached by a guy with a knife and they were told to give him all their stuff. So Llewellyn just punched him out. Picked up his knife and threw it in the river and then emnptied all his pockets and took his money!
Some say that's wrong. I say. Bloody good!
Hee. Hard to disagree with that.
Oh, I completely forgot to say! A random woman found my bag and some non-valuable but personal stuff and managed to get in touch so I got my lovely handbag and some bits&bobs back. Lovely people exist too 
Quote: roscoff @ November 5 2011, 2:32 PM GMTI have a mugging story with a happy ending. A friend of mine who is quite a big lad was walking with his girlfriend over one of the bridges in Newport. He was approached by a guy with a knife and they were told to give him all their stuff. So Llewellyn just punched him out. Picked up his knife and threw it in the river and then emnptied all his pockets and took his money!
Some say that's wrong. I say. Bloody good!
I'm in the 'bloody good' camp,too.
Reminds me of someone I knew years ago who got sick of some local arse speeding around on the pavements on his bike (generally terrorising people and occasionally bashing into people). That's until one very fine day when he wasn't going too fast and the bloke I knew pushed him sideways off his bike into a pond. Still makes me smile at the thought.
Someone tried to cut my friend's bag handle with a knife as he went past on his bike. How ridiculously dangerous. I hope it was him who got shoved in a pond
The girls are screaming outside, no fireworks lit yet!
Trying to forget that I have been robbed.
Quote: dellas @ November 5 2011, 4:44 PM GMTTrying to forget that I have been robbed.
From your house?