Got mugged once
(loosely linked to the topic)

Sort of my own fault. I was coming back from a shift at the bar, early hours on a Friday night/Saturday morning. Rather than stand with the mob outside the pub I walked up to the next bus stop, which was the start of the line and was a deserted bus park next to a closed petrol station, just a little off the main road. I sat under a light and read my book in peace.

Until 4 hoodies approached and asked for a cigarette. I knew what that meant. I was asked for my phone and refused. After a thump to the head I was asked again and refused once more. Got kicked about a bit and they made off with my phone. I'd struggled enough that they didn't go for anything else, kept my wallet and the contents of my bag - a bottle of wine I'd liberated from work and my camera (this was before phones were cameras).

I picked myself up and wandered around the corner, tried to get someone to call the police in a kebab shop, but a patrol car was passing anyway and it was flagged down.

I pointed down the road where the buggers had scarpered and we drove down looking for them. A gang of about 10 hoodies were walking down the road and the police officers asked if I recognised any of them as my attackers. They slowed the car so I could get a good look - but I couldn't tell if it was them or not. The buggers clarified their guilt by suddenly dispersing in all directions and the police officers jumped out the car and gave chase.

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I was left in the back of the car for a very long time, the car itself right in the middle of the road. I really enjoyed it from that point on - I took some pictures of me in the car posing with my cut and bruised face, I opened up the bottle (screw cap) and read my book, constantly being updated on the situation with my assailants via the car radio.

My favourite bit was when they said some of the guys had jumped into residential gardens and asked for advice, whoever answered flippantly said "oh, just set the dogs on them" and soon after came the sounds of intense barking.

They didn't get my phone back, but I didn't mind so much, one of the guys was busted for drug possession, but that was about it really. I've probably still got the pictures somewhere.
(MrTeapot hasn't played with himself since, Thu 16 May 2013, 23:38, 1 reply)

They didn't mug you.
They liberated your possessions.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 17 May 2013, 21:47, closed)