Have you ever been mugged, robbed or burgled?

MLH1 · 20-09-2011 11:00PM #1

Thankfully none of the above, pays living in the country at least for the first two. Would definitely find the experience a 1000 times more traumatic than the financial loss.

Saila · 20-09-2011 11:01PM

Im not jinxing that

Shanotheslayer · 20-09-2011 11:03PM

Whats the difference between the three ?

Mr Benevolent · 20-09-2011 11:04PM

Mugged twice. Both identified themselves as Boards.ie mods.

MistyCheese · 20-09-2011 11:04PM

Yes, why? Did you catch the guys who did it?

nitromaster · 20-09-2011 11:04PM

Almost got mugged in Paris :mad:

Three guys came up to me (was like 8am) and asked me for the time or something....Then noticed my accent, started trying to strike up a conversation. Were all like "oh we know someone from ireland" or some crap like that, one of them went to shake my hand, i instinctively put it firm in my pocket and then noticed one of the others had gone to put his in mine. And would have done if i had shook that guys hand.

Then they just kinda laughed and left.....Nice guys really, they could have easily mugged me. (three of them against me = not looking too good for my side!)

Seachmall · 20-09-2011 11:05PM

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Whats the difference between the three ?

Mugged = Physical confrontation on the street (or wherever) where they take stuff.
Robbed = Something taken without your knowledge.
Burgled = Someone breaking into your house and taking stuff.

I'm guessing anyway.

And no to all 3.

Storminateacup · 20-09-2011 11:06PM

Yeah I've been mugged before, some junkie stole my handbag.
Stuff has been stolen on me but its never been a lot.

El Guapo! · 20-09-2011 11:07PM

On holidays years ago and came back from a night out to find the hotel room was robbed. The door was burst off the safe and everything was gone. It was our last night though so it wasnt too bad but there was 7 or 8 other rooms done on the same night and some of those families were on their 1st night so lost everything. It was sickening.

kkdela6 · 20-09-2011 11:08PM

Certain members of an 'ethnic' community are continuously attempting to steal our heating oil, have had many late nights running around my yard frantically waving a hurley yet they still keep coming back. we only ever fill it less than half way because of them :mad:

Simon Adebisi · 20-09-2011 11:09PM

Yup, in Waterford in 99. Me and one of the housemates walked back from Club La to Woodlawn Grove and we got mugged by 3 cnuts with steak knifes across from the IT. It was a thursday night so our wallets were empty. They told us to look at the ground but the chap i was with kept staring at them. Headbutt and a kick in the bollix later and he was on the ground. Then they legged it.

Filth. One of them was arrested a few years later in Tramore and the guards found a bloke tied up in the booth of the stolen car they were driving.

Simon Adebisi · 20-09-2011 11:10PM

kkdela6 wrote: »

Certain members of an 'ethnic' community are continuously attempting to steal our heating oil, have had many late nights running around my yard frantically waving a hurley yet they still keep coming back. we only ever fill it less than half way because of them :mad:

But its their culture.....

Pighead · 20-09-2011 11:11PM

Pighead's too streetwise to have been mugged, robbed or burgled.

Have been ransacked, pillaged and swindled alright but definitely never mugged, robbed or burgled.

Saila · 20-09-2011 11:12PM

yeah Im not fallin for that one, while Im on here answering you knick my....

stop!...... thief! :mad:

Savage Tyrant · 20-09-2011 11:13PM

Yeah. In May of last year.

I was parking in Dublin, near the Grand Canal docks and outside a Eurospar. I was at the parking machine fishing my pockets for change when I was confronted by a strung out rattling junkie and his dog ugly toothless girlfriend. He pulled a knife on me and demanded my wallet. I had a few quid on me that day and he looked pretty out of it (otherwise I'd have probably saved the hassle and just gave him the wallet). But I thought F*ck that and I grabbed his wrist with the knife in it and with my other hand grabbed his throat and ran him backwards into the wall. His head smacked the wall and he was out like a light and then as he was slumping down the wall I drove my knee into his nose. There was blood everywhere from his nose...all over my jeans and boots.
His GF tried to run off but a few people from the Eurospar had witnessed the whole thing and stopped her.
The Guards were there fairly rapid and arrested them both and I had to go make a statement. Nothing ever came of it on my end, but the Guard did warn me there was a chance the scumbag would try an do me for assault.

Seachmall · 20-09-2011 11:14PM

kkdela6 wrote: »

Certain members of an 'ethnic' community are continuously attempting to steal our heating oil, have had many late nights running around my yard frantically waving a hurley yet they still keep coming back. we only ever fill it less than half way because of them :mad:

Shaggin' Cherokees keep calling around here too!

Shifty bunch the lot of 'em.

Saila · 20-09-2011 11:14PM

kkdela6 wrote: »

Certain members of an 'ethnic' community are continuously attempting to steal our heating oil, have had many late nights running around my yard frantically waving a hurley yet they still keep coming back. we only ever fill it less than half way because of them :mad:

the stealers?

CamperMan · 20-09-2011 11:18PM

in the UK, I have been mugged, robbed and burgled.. terrible place to live..

now.. Ireland, a decade living here and not a bother..

Saila · 20-09-2011 11:20PM

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

Nothing ever came of it on my end, but the Guard did warn me there was a chance the scumbag would try an do me for assault.

so why did he assualt you then?

I was trying to mug him!

hmmmmm, dismissed *bangs hammer*, take him down and throw away the key feed him to the homeless..

LH Pathe · 20-09-2011 11:21PM

I think most ppl with laneway access to the rear know the drill by now.. constant vigil. only purpose I serve at home is effectively a guard dog

kkdela6 · 20-09-2011 11:21PM

Saila wrote: »

the stealers?

you could say that!

Pighead · 20-09-2011 11:29PM

CamperMan wrote: »

in the UK, I have been mugged, robbed and burgled.. terrible place to live..

now.. Ireland, a decade living here and not a bother..

Ah c'mon CamperMan, the UK isn't that bad. Are you sure you're comparing like with like? Please tell Pighead you're not comparing big old nasty London to lovely Leitrim?

LH Pathe · 20-09-2011 11:35PM

muggings only happened by local older bullies known to me, who were addled by drug habit n ended up dead or banged up. Pity because now I'm their size I'd turn the act on them - storm of questions about why they even are, softening em up for the big fleece. relentless ridicule and fury having been dishonoured - never allow yourself to be dishonoured. a way of life for most that one should never tolerate, that's when the Devil is awakened like in the Frenchman

Solnskaya · 20-09-2011 11:38PM

errr, no. Some poor saps broke down our front door with a sledge when I was young and living in a rough part of London. Daddy dearest chased them for at least 2 miles before they tired enough that he could re-arrange their features sufficently, and I have inherited his endearing personality. Bless.

JerryHandbag · 20-09-2011 11:46PM

Car broken into last year, ipod and stereo taken which pissed me off. But here's the nice bit - got a letter in the post a few days later from a stranger, with my drivers licence inside and a note saying that he had found it on the street. I hadnt even noticed it was missing, obviously the knackers had thrown it out of the car when they ransacked it. See, there are some nice folks left

CorkMan · 20-09-2011 11:52PM

Simon Adebisi wrote: »

But its their culture.....

Ya, exactly. You can't put down their tradition.

hmmm · 20-09-2011 11:54PM

kkdela6 wrote: »

Certain members of an 'ethnic' community are continuously attempting to steal our heating oil, have had many late nights running around my yard frantically waving a hurley yet they still keep coming back. we only ever fill it less than half way because of them :mad:

A Sky News producer at Dale Farm was all confused on Twitter because someone had stolen the fuel for their generators.

Bless the innocence.

"Just discovered someone stolen the jerrycan of petrol for our generator overnight. Luckily we have a spare. Travellers or activists?
by skynewsdalefarm via twitter 9:35 AM yesterday"

kkdela6 · 21-09-2011 12:00AM

hmmm wrote: »

A Sky News producer at Dale Farm was all confused on Twitter because someone had stolen the fuel for their generators.

Bless the innocence.

"Just discovered someone stolen the jerrycan of petrol for our generator overnight. Luckily we have a spare. Travellers or activists?
by skynewsdalefarm via twitter 9:35 AM yesterday"

i thought you were only joking, but i checked it out, thats actually hilarious!

Temptamperu · 21-09-2011 12:01AM

just got burgled yesterday, scummers got a laptop a tv and 400 euro.

fúcking scum :mad:

RikkFlair · 21-09-2011 12:04AM

kkdela6 wrote: »

Certain members of an 'ethnic' community are continuously attempting to steal our heating oil, have had many late nights running around my yard frantically waving a hurley yet they still keep coming back. we only ever fill it less than half way because of them :mad:

Its not a hurley you should be waving. Do a Padraig Nally on it.

x_Ellie_x · 21-09-2011 12:05AM

I was 15 the only time I got mugged. I was walking back to school after lunch break and I was running a little late. A junkie mugged me. He punched me in the face and chipped my tooth because I only had £2 on me. My school called the Garda but they didn't catch him.

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