hmm
bad one - my friend's boyfriend was on the tube when a couple of kids walked over, beat the sh*t out of him and stole everything he had on him. A bit later on in the evening, they tried the same with another bloke on the same line only this time they stabbed him a few times. Bloke nearly died from blood loss, my friend's boyfriend still has the scars across his face from the assault. The kids got caught.

slightly less bad - a deaf friend was walking through town one night on his way home, when suddenly something smacked him across the face. Turned out some crazy had been waiting there for ages for someone to walk past, and had sadly got the one person who couldn't hear him coming. The one problem - the place he chose to do this was opposite the police station. Which had a load of bobbies in it, watching. Apparently, they'd been watching him for a while and figured this guy might do something like this, but they couldn't arrest for intent, so just watched, in the foyer, until he actually did something. Said 'something' involved stitches running down most of my mate's face and concussion. Still, my friend thinks they make him look 'heavy', and the scars came in handy during some hairy moments in South America.

stupid - my brother got mugged, aged 12 on the local common. About 10 blokes in their twenties. They took his trick-or-treating sweets. And his vampire mask. Marvellous.
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Thu 15 Jun 2006, 17:36, Reply)