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Mugging gone wrong!

  • 20-09-2013 01:23PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭dees99


    Ha so I was on the way home in the early hours last night, after the few pints through Dublin 1 and was approached by two junkie types, late twenties who looked like they needed a fix badly. They started walking with me, one beside me and one in front of me. I was on the inside of the pavement.

    Next thing the guy in front says he has to take a pi$$ and run about 10 feet to a doorway but just stands there watching us approach. The guy beside me started squeezing me in tighter to the inside and I realised in about 5 feet I would suddenly find myself right between the two of them. I stopped and sidestepped behind your man and onto the road and as I did he turned and punched me full force into the left cheekbone.

    Now I'm not one for fighting and have hardly ever been in a fight in my lifebut as it happens I took up boxing a year and a half ago. So when he hit me, on reflex and to my own astonishment I immediately punched him back and then gave him two more, splitting him open and knocking him to the floor! The other fella seemed to bottle it straight away when he saw me hit his associate so I turned and got the he'll out of there wit your man still trying to get himself up off the ground.

    I woke up this morning with a lump on my face, but I'm feeling dam good about myself! ��


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Hero.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Thanks whore.

    No, seriously, well done you. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Ara leave er out!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Wear that lump on your face with pride OP :)

    I hope he woke up this morning looking like my avatar!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Piriz


    thats brilliant...fair play... can you tell us more specifically where this happened and at what time so we can be more vigilant ?

    cheers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I'd like to put this in the context of all of the "Young man assaulted, died later in hospital from head injuries" news stories we've seen over the last few years.

    Good on ya lad :) Makes a nice story but it could have ended so much worse if you didn't react the way you did.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    Fair play to you sir, side note
    never..ever stay on the inside,
    always stay by the road. That way
    you have if needed, to move away
    from trouble. Glad you are Ok :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    Mugging gone right...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Zillah wrote: »
    I'd like to put this in the context of all of the "Young man assaulted, died later in hospital from head injuries".

    Hopefully, he'd be no loss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Solid work, congrats.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    dees99 wrote: »
    I woke up this morning with a lump on my face, but I'm feeling dam good about myself! ��


    Punching yourself in the face in your dreams?

    That's not good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,478 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Congrats were they in full uniform aka tracksuits & hoodies?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭eimerom


    Fair play to you, hopefully that might put them off attacking someone else too :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭ElizaT33


    Well done ..... did you wash your hands?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,955 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    eimerom wrote: »
    Fair play to you, hopefully that might put them off attacking someone else too :)
    or they will have a syringe or knife the next time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    deco nate wrote: »
    Fair play to you sir, side note
    never..ever stay on the inside,
    always stay by the road. That way
    you have if needed, to move away
    from trouble. Glad you are Ok :-)

    Yep. Fair play OP, but you should have had a bit more situational awareness in the first place


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Wear that lump on your face with pride OP :)

    I hope he woke up this morning looking like my avatar!

    Trapped in a 32-bit game?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I hope you immediately washed/disinfected your 'righteous fists of fury' after splitting him open.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Good man yourself, hope you didn't catch anything!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    Well done! Should have given him a good kick in the bollix for his buddy as well.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    keith16 wrote: »
    Trapped in a 32-bit game?

    8-bit?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭19543261


    This gave me a major dose of Aw **** YEA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I wonder just how brutal the revenge attack will be


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭neckedit


    Well done that man!! My OH moved into D1 3 weeks ago just on Wolftone St.....all was good getting into the city vibe. On tuesday evening at 6:15 we nipped out to Argos to pick up some stuff we had reserved......at 18:31 walking back into the apartment......there we find a Junkie Bitch trying to get out my balcony door wiith my ipod and lap top...I caught her and held her, as she made pathetic excuse after excuse, until the Gards arrived abd took her off for some TLC.....she smashed the window and was trying to jump off the balcony....as we kinda struggled she grabbed a piece of glass and came at me.....I kinda slapped her away.....she grabbed more and started trying to slice her own throat!! unreal stuff!! any hoo we now looking for a new place to live!! as my OH says.... They are like Rats.....ya never see them but they are never too far away!!


  • Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Augustus Wooden Cilantro


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Yep. Fair play OP, but you should have had a bit more situational awareness in the first place

    This is a joke....right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    This is a joke....right?

    Nope. I wouldn't let two junkies get this close to me and I certainly wouldn't be blindsided by a man who was walking beside me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    There was another incident last night, on Portobello Bridge. Lead mugger (non-Irish) came off the worst in the physical exchanges but his associates (possibly gypsy or maybe further east) extracted some money from the victim's wallet in the course of the action. Keep yer eyes open around that canal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,487 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Nope. I wouldn't let two junkies get this close to me and I certainly wouldn't be blindsided by a man who was walking beside me

    Not everyone is as streetwise/sober. OP says it was the early hours and he'd had a few pints. Stuff like this could happen to anybody (obviously 6'6 bodybuilders are probably not going to be mugged).

    I grew up in what would be called one of the "rougher" parts of Dublin and have worked in city centre for 17 years so would like to think I'm fairly aware of my surroundings or can spot trouble. Yet a few months ago some little sh*t on a bike snatched phone from my hand as I got off bus three minutes walk from my own apartment.

    Don't blame the victim


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭splashthecash


    Fair play OP - revel in the good feeling that you have! :D

    I often daydream about being in that kind of situation and what I'd do. It normally ends with me magically achieving very slick karate\boxing skills and easily grounding my would-be assailants, and then walking off laughing, while they struggle to get up off the floor


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭pundy


    Well done OP! a lot of the time they are weak from the years of drug abuse, and just presume that people are soft and wont hit back. you did the right thing, knock them all out when you have the chance. absolute scum.


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