Have you ever been mugged, robbed or burgled?

been mugged more times than i care to recall when i was in my teens around the estate i live and and was held up in an armed robbery never been broken into tho phew thank **** for that aye :rolleyes:

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:

Get a small tank. Fill it with diesel, heating oil, cooking oil, and water for good measure. Stir it every so often. See if they take anything from it, and laugh when they do. Imagine how many of their machines that will stop working :cool:

was in barcelona during the festival. Woke up in my hostel after a hard night on the beer and went to empty my fluids. I left the door to the room open behind me. On the way back I saw a guy I didnt recognise coming out of the room. We were sharing with some italian lads. I saw my clothes were moved. Checked pockets. Money gone. About €15. I spent the next ten minutes running around like a lunatic. Then found him on the stair well. Got about 30 back off him and absolutely kicked the living poo out of him, I thought he was knocked ot. Then went to get friends to help me carry him down to reception to get him arrested. But when I came back he was gone. Piece of crap. If I ever see him again, Ill do the job properly

Emberly Massive Grenade wrote: »

Syringe put up to my neck

Jesus, I shuddered.

I've two pretty good stories

When I was around 11 years old I was with my mum in Phoenix Park and was kicking a football around. Suddenly, these two scumbags, both about 18/19, walked up to me and kept asking me to pass the ball. I didn't do it at first, but they kept asking and asking, so I passed it to one of them. He did a few kick-ups, and before I knew it, he put my brand-new football under his arm and the two of them legged it. I didn't know what to do, it was just me and my mom, so I ran after them, close to tears, 'cause I knew I'd never catch them. A few people were chilling on the green near-by and they watched me chase the scumbags, but they were fast and left me behind a few meters with every second.
I was about to give up, when I heard footsteps behind me and saw the figure of a man in his early 20s sprinting past me. He must have been a runner, 'cause he was gaining on them fast and they panicked as they turned around and saw him (he was much bigger than them). They kept running for about another minute, I already stopped at that stage, but soon enough the guy was back, carrying my football, gave it to me, smiled and went back to lie down on the grass beside his girlfriend. What a show of class.

tl;dr - Scumbags robbed my brand-new football in Phoenix Park when I was a kid. A random Superman guy chased after them and eventually got the ball back for me.

Another one happened to my parents. They are avid hikers and went to the Wicklow Mountains one weekend to walk around and take some pictures. They usually drive in, leave the car somewhere locked after taking all valuables and go hiking, come back in a few hours and drive home. They stopped to take a picture of something, I don't know what. They were on some hilly road and left the car unlocked, and walked literally about 10 meters away from it to take pictures of the landscape. It was foggy and out of the blue a cyclist bombed down the hill, swerved to a stop beside my parents' car and managed to snatch my mom's purse with her phone, wallet, credit cards and house keys, before my dad was able to get to the car. The man had full cycling gear and all! It was a very ****ty way to spoil their weekend and my dad felt really helpless, because if he had locked the door nothing would have happened, even though he was only a few meters away from the car.

tl;dr - Parents went for a hike in Wicklow. They stepped a few meters away from the car to take pictures when a fully uniformed cyclist appeared out of nowhere, took my mum's purse out of the car and rode off.

14 attempted muggings.

One of these days I'll be successful.

I was robbed in work when I stupidly left my wallet in my bag in the staff room. Someone took 50 quid out of my wallet but left everything else. I'm quite glad I don't work there anymore but I wouldn't exactly find it traumatic...

biko wrote: »

Myself I've been lucky so far.
A friend got her handbag nicked in Barcelona when we were out drinking. Amazing thieves, one guy distracted her for a second while the other reached around her and got the bag. I was sitting next to her and didn't cop until a few mins later that it was gone. Fortunately it didn't have much stuff in it.
Morale: don't trust anyone in Barcelona

Barcelona is terrible like that.

I was coming back from a club over there and a guy was handing out flyers (should have wondered at 5am)

He handed me one, was nowhere near me and for some reason I checked and wallet gone. I shouted at him and he just said "You got me" and handed it back

Still get shudders about that


Also twice mugged with syringes in Dublin CC... Horrible experience

Attempted mugging on Mary St when I was about 13/14. 3 of us walking down the road, two guys come up behind us, tell us to keep walking down to the laneway. One mate decides no fncking way, tells the "muggers" that he's going into the next shop. So the mugger panics, tells us to sit down on a windowsill in front of a shop. Again, same mate, "No, fnck off, I'm going in here". Mugger panics again, punches my mate in the face and the two of them ran off.

They didn't sound like scumbags, and one mugger did all the talking while his mate stood there petrified, so we reckon they were probably D4 types trying their luck with getting a bit of extra cash. They weren't much taller than us, so probably no older than 17.

I love how all of the internet nerds are like ****ing rambo when somebody tries to rob them. Either these posters are exaggerating or are very lucky. If you were to try some of the heroics outlined in this thread you'd most likely get a knife in the throat.....