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have you ever got mugged ?

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 366 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Zap the feckers with this

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3179454/how_to_make_a_stungun/


  • #33
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Zap the feckers with this

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3179454/how_to_make_a_stungun/

    or this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YQ8JCbs8ng


  • #34
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of-57Ivfwz8


  • #35
    Cú Giobach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Cú Giobach


    Was staggering down the Falls Road in Belfast in the wee small hours a few years ago and this fella approached me asked me for a pound, as I went to fish a coin out of my pocket he grabbed me and very aggressively demanded all my money.
    Because I was very drunk and had no intention of handing anything over I refused and told him "where he could go", he stared at me for a while and said "Oh sorry mucker, I didn't realise you were from Cork, I thought you were one of them tourists" he then pulled a can of beer out of his pocket and offered it to me.
    We ended up sitting on a wall supping for a short while, until an RUC patrol drove passed and he disappeared off into the night. :D


  • #36
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    It's been tried on me twice.

    First time was a group of 3 guys kinda circled me while i was waiting for a lift. Grabbed 1 of'em and knocked their arm off a wall... then they ran...

    Second time, got a thump to the side of the head from a guy... just pushed him away from me and walked off... a couple of witnesses got the attention of the Gardaí and i had him charged with assualt.

    I don't walk around with the fear of getting muged at any one time, becasue I know it can, regardless of where I am.

    Some locals in Chicago thought I was nuts going around some of the rough places over there by myself late at night trying to find a pub to drink in...


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  • #37
    Jefferson Teeny Widow
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Jefferson Teeny Widow


    An ex then bf, was attacked one evening when we were walking home. Completely random, wasnt looking for money, guy had even walked past us about 2 mins previously then ran back and started punching him.
    Me trying to stand in the middle and tell him to go away didnt work too well, then he starts yelling at ex "what did you say" so I started with the "he was talking to me not you, it's ok, nobody is insulting you" :rolleyes: Fear of my life when he actually looked at me!! He must have punched poor ex about 6 times in total

    but then I at least got us away and stopped poor ex trying to look for his glasses. We went back a bit later to the area with some friends to get them, then went home again and called the guards
    In fairness to them, they were up at the house in about 10 mins and took descriptions and everything. Nothing came of it but I wouldnt expect it to

    Was completely... not "calm" but sort of adrenalin calm at the time, shock and fear didnt kick in til afterwards
    :(
    Absolutely and utterly paranoid about walking around on my own in the dark now, though I think if someone tried stealing my wallet/handbag with a knife I'd lose the plot :o


  • #38
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    Been mugged a few times. not always turned out the best.

    First time when I was about 16 and had just finished work at a local chinese for my measly 4 quid an hour and had my money taken off me. Was really annoyed but just threw the money on the ground and the guy took it and ran. Two seconds later my dad drives around the corner in the patrol car. was sickened.

    Happened twice while in college, once walking home and this guy popped out of a laneway and said something and before I knew it, I threw him against the wall coz I saw something in his hand. Sh*t a brick then in case he had friends nearby and ran home.

    Last time was when I was 20, 6ft 4, and 16 stone and a 13yr old, a fupping KID tried to mug me with a stanley knife. Warned him he'd get a hiding so he legged it.

    2 out of 3 ain't bad :D


  • #39
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    A fortnight ago an "individual of African nationality" on the bus was playing his laptop & oversized headphones ridiculously loud on a packed bus for 30 mins. At 9am, in the middle of the city centre before I was going to disembark, I walked over and told him to turn the music down and have some fookin manners.

    He looked like a college student, with a laptop.
    He took offence to this and when I was queueing on the stairs he comes over and started smacking the head off me down the stairs and kicked me in the face. A big Irish lad blocked the bottom of the stairs and said he was going nowhere, the guards came and took his details.

    It was all caught on CC TV and he's being charged with assault.
    If I get any compensation, I think a donation to Stormfront.org is in order.


  • #40
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Some guy tried to grap hold of me in rome one night, not sure if he was trying to mug or what but he wasn't too friendly looking! Bit of a scuffle broke out untill i got loose after a few seconds and caught him square in the kisser with an almighty box and then i took off down the street like hussein bolt on steroids! Not sure if i really hurt him or not, but considering my hand was sore for about a week i'd say he remembers our time together as vividly as i do!
    I'm a big enough guy and i'd consider myself well able to look after myself but i have to admit i was quite shaken by it.
    Still OP, at least you held on to your chips. If your wallet is anything like mine, the chips will have been worth a lot more!:D


  • #41
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Once, by a gang of feral 10-year olds off their heads on something. I chased them for a bit until they surrounded me holding rocks and I thought 'fuсk it, nothing to be gained here.' Kind of depressing to see such abject misery.


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  • #42
    Cheeky_gal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    My dad pulled into the side of the road to take a phone call once and he had his window half down. Some knacker cycled upto the window, punched my dad in the face whilst managing to knick his phone, cycled across the road onto a green. My dad having none of this turned on the engine and drove right up his ar*e on the green (i'm sure he damaged his suspension in the process), knacker got away though. Still, I think my dad's a hero for standing up for himself. Admirable man my dad :)

    He went around with a black and blue eye for a week :(


  • #43
    ronan45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭ronan45


    Halloween about 6 years ago me and my mate walking through a park in a fairly well to do dublin suburb. Were both over 6 foot. this gang of about 16 5 foot 7 squirts around 14/16 years old. started to follow us. mate wanted to run i off course said no feck that not running from a bunch of kids "as if they would dare come near us". Next minute literally all of them surround us arms and legs kicking. You cant fight back with any sort of effectiveness against such numbers. Had to gradually beat them off and run . mate had his phone taken. I lost my bravado :o


  • #44
    eefums
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭eefums


    happened to me and two of my friends (all female)
    we were walkng home after being out for a few drinks in twickenham quite a well to do area of london, these two coloured dudes were walking towards us with hoods. we were not the slightest bit wary but we were all thinkin about how u hear about these 'hoodies' in the uk and the thuggery they get up to.
    Anyway as we were passing each other they bumped into us, i turned around and one of them had a crow bar the other had a lump hamemr that they had jsut whipped out of nowhere, there was two of them adn three of us so the girl who wasnt being picked on legged, i threw a burger at the guy who was at me and then threw my wallet at him cso i didnt want a lump hammer in me head, my other mate was pushed onto the road and the guy withthe crow bar was ont op of her and broek the strap o fher bag pullin it off her shoulder, the other girl who god love her ddint kno what to do, was between two minds abotu runnin back for us and running away for herself, which thank god she did as we were staying with her and she had the keys to ehr house and some money then for the rest of the weekend.
    Luckily a guy who we had fallen in step wiht walking back formt he chipper heard our screams and came leggin it back out of his house and up the street after the scumbags and he spooked them from running after our free freind,
    He was such a hero, he could have been killed and would nt listen to us tellin him not to run after the guys cos they had weapons but he ran aournd the orner after them.
    they hopped into a waiting van and then he flaggeda caba nd followed them around the city for ages before he lost them.
    he deserved a medal butthe cops owuldnt let us talk to him or give us his address!
    was so freaked out for ages afterwards and am always on edge onmy own late at ngiht
    but hey we all lived to tell the tale thankfully!

    By the way mate, sorry to hear abotu ur incident it really kncocks ur confidence, but the way i dealt with it is unforrtunatly its like the lottery it could be you no matter where or when!
    hope your doin ok!


  • #45
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    I remember watching a doc (panorama or dispatches or something) where this Irish guy was walking around London at night with a laptop, waiting to get mugged - that was the point of the programme, he was rigged with hidden cameras and microphones. Anyway, he was a big fella (forget his name) and after a few hours, sure enough, a man approaches him and after a while takes out a knife and demands the laptop. The reporter hands it over and the mugger runs off.
    The next shot was of the reporter talking to the camera about what just happened and he broke down in tears - even though he had expected to be robbed.
    The point I'm labouring is that being mugged is a naturally traumatic experience, no matter how tough you are or even if there is minimum violence involved.
    Treat yourself to a relaxing weekend at home in Newport, take a walk on the shoreline, skip a few stones accross the still waters of the sparkling bay (lets be honest, theres **** all else to do)


  • #46
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Sorry to hear what happened OP.

    And yup, I was mugged once. Don't remember it too well but I was beaten up, knocked out and woke up the next morning in a stairwell covered in blood and with a swollen face, with my phone, wallet and keys gone. The lesson learned from all this; don't find yourself on Shandon St. (one of Cork's scummiest streets, despite that nice belltower) at 3am in the morning.

    Fun times!


  • #47
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    Unpossible wrote: »
    Not much you could have done. I teach martial arts and my advice is always run if you can, if you can't then just give them what they want. You could have ended up with a screwdriver in your head like that polish lad two years ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcbe3Ao0ThU


  • #48
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    A fortnight ago an "individual of African nationality" on the bus was playing his laptop & oversized headphones ridiculously loud on a packed bus for 30 mins. At 9am, in the middle of the city centre before I was going to disembark, I walked over and told him to turn the music down and have some fookin manners.

    He looked like a college student, with a laptop.
    He took offence to this and when I was queueing on the stairs he comes over and started smacking the head off me down the stairs and kicked me in the face. A big Irish lad blocked the bottom of the stairs and said he was going nowhere, the guards came and took his details.

    It was all caught on CC TV and he's being charged with assault.
    If I get any compensation, I think a donation to Stormfront.org is in order.
    don't know if troll


  • #49
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I've never been mugged so far.

    I put it down to
    1) Never answering a phone in public (or other distracting activity eg reading map, looking in bag etc)
    2) Never just standing around in public
    3) Never being drunk in public.
    4) Being a larger than average person.
    5) Looking like a bum who appears like they'd have nothing of worth on them anyway.


  • #50
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    In tenerife back in 2000 on my LC holiday. About 30 odd lads but ended up wandering off by myself basically ended up getting kick down into like a basement shopping area and two african guys proceeded to say they want my watch and wallet or they'll kill me, away you go lads had about 1000 pesetas and a lucky watch on me, once i sobered up i realised i was pretty lucky as a guy had been stabbed to death a week before in a botched robbery.


  • #51
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Carry a decoy wallet around stuffed with fake money and a few little bags filled with salt.

    Watch junky eyes light up.

    Escape.

    Laugh.


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  • #52
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Yes, and while I'd normally look behind me, I stupidly believed it was a jogger (plenty of them used be around, quiet residential area).

    There are thousands of joggers who have been on receiving end of filthy looks since then.


  • #53
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    stovelid wrote: »
    Carry a decoy wallet around stuffed with fake money and a few little bags filled with salt.

    Watch junky eyes light up.

    Escape.

    Laugh.
    Was getting ready for a night of knacker drinking in Dublin a few years ago when a bunch of scumbags saw that we had bags full of drink and decided they wanted it. Accused us of stealing their drink, and then started on us. We legged it, being 14/15 we weren't going to let go of our booze. But the bags were slowing us down so we tossed a couple aside, and the scumbags stopped and surrounded them like it was Christmas. Each bag contained one small box of Special K we had gotten for free that day, no drink. Had a great laugh at them while we got pissed.


  • #54
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    Happened once when I was 15 about 1999/2000 in the Square when the area around the cinema was pretty much a lawless wilderness...

    Didn't get much - 45p and a watch which the six or seven lads didn't realise wasn't working before they ran off. :pac:

    Being 6'4 and "well built", I'm not even approached now, not even on Talbot St or Aston Quay or the Boardwalk. I saw the ringleader who did it a couple of years later in Fettercairn, I expect he's dead by now.


  • #55
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    dfx- wrote: »
    I saw the ringleader who did it a couple of years later in Fettercairn, I expect he's dead by now.

    Did you give him the death stare or what?:D


  • #56
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,646 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Did you give him the death stare or what?:D

    Ah yes the lesser known japanese death stare! LETHAL!


  • #57
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I remember when I moved up to Dublin I used to carry a dummy wallet with a few quid in it and had a dummy empty box of fags :o

    I understand how upsetting it is but it could have been worse. People may talk big but just hand over, it's only money not worth getting injured for.


  • #58
    MitchKoobski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    Been mugged twice, both times were nearly identical in circumstance, and posted both of em before. I'll re-post the one that affected me more (from the Most Frightened You've Ever Been thread). http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055906008&page=4&postcount=154
    Down the back of my estate was a small little creek with a bridge going across it, went out along a main road and towards a SuperQuinn then. Delaney's chemists was right next to it.
    When I was about 12 my mam sent me down to get some sort of medicine for my younger brother, so i begrudgingly wandered down the back to the chemists. Got as far as the bridge and there were 4 older lads there and they all had bikes. Biggest guy and some skull on him and blocked me from crossing the bridge. Said its "fiver to pass" and I immediatly got scared, but the only money I had was for the medicine and I wanted to be a good kid.
    So I kinda slided my way past him and all his friends started laughin at him. I muttered "****ing wanker" under my breath and went walking off but just before I got out of earshot I hear one of them go "he called you a ****ing wanker".
    Made it almost to Superquinn when i turn around and see all 4 of them coming towards me on the bikes. Trying to play it off i stand up on the rasied grassy mound next to the footpath to let them pass. Big guy comes up and gets in my face and shoving me going "what did you say about me you little prick?". I denied feckin everything like a smart ass, up until the point he picked my up and slammed me face first into the concrete. Turns me over, kneels as hard as he can on my face sqaushing my head against the ground as two other guys hold my arms and legs while another searches my pockets.
    While this is happening there are cars going past, people going into superquinn and a bus stop full of people across the road. Not a single person helped me.
    By some miracle they find nothing, hop on the bikes after punching me in the face one last time for good measure. I start hobbling to Delaney's while holding back the tears in shock. Actually managed to get the medicine and was about to walk out the door when I see the 4 of them hovering around the car park. I froze with fear and didnt know what to do. Girl behind the counter had to snap me out of it.Used the change I had to use a payphone and ring mam who came down to collect me just as the 4 of em headed off again. Guards couldn't be bothered their arse looking for them because "it could be any lad with a bike".


  • #59
    jimcoolding
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭jimcoolding


    I fought a bunch of thieves to the death once.

    Deadly stuuf


  • #60
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Did you give him the death stare or what?:D

    Here, you can't prove a thi :eek:

    Not at all, the way of the world for lads like him in Tallaght..


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  • #61
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,031 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    You think getting mugged is mad, try having a gun put too your head in Mexico. Least I did not **** my pance which is good if it happens again.;)

    EVENFLOW



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