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Ever been threatened with a Weapon?

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  • #32
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    My housemate threatened me with a carving knife one night when we got into a drunken argument. Even in my drunken state I knew he wouldn't use it, he doesn't have it in him. It was a brash foolish statement in an attempt to win a stupid argument. He apologised the next morning and we got on with it.

    Same kinda story. Sorta. This w@nker moved into the spare room in the house I was living in and came after me with a steak knife while off his head on drugs. He followed me down to my room and slowly dragged the blade up and down the door and kept ranting and raving. None of the doors had locks on them (except the bathroom) so I had to wedge the chair under the handle and try not to **** myself. Then there was silence and the next thing I saw was him outside my window with the knife. I legged it outta the house and stayed away till midnight.

    I was the worlds worst then when I insisted he move out!:rolleyes:


  • #33
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Ciderswigger wrote: »
    Same kinda story. Sorta. This w@nker moved into the spare room in the house I was living in and came after me with a steak knife while off his head on drugs. He followed me down to my room and slowly dragged the blade up and down the door and kept ranting and raving. None of the doors had locks on them (except the bathroom) so I had to wedge the chair under the handle and try not to **** myself. Then there was silence and the next thing I saw was him outside my window with the knife. I legged it outta the house and stayed away till midnight.

    I was the worlds worst then when I insisted he move out!:rolleyes:
    Did he freeze to death in a hedge maze?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CMmwVRAtaI


  • #34
    iDann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭iDann


    Wooden spoon... dare I say more...


  • #35
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    A group of young traveler lads mugged me in my local park at knife point when I was 12. Horrible experience.


  • #36
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    I think the majority of the country had a weapon put to them in the last while.. :pac:


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  • #37
    dobman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Someone pulled a knife on me outside my house when 4 lads were looking to "get" my brother. My bro was out but a mate had told me these lads were on the way up. And just as I went out to meet them my Dad pulled up. 3 ran off and the one with the knife thought he was very brave, not so much with a 5 iron opening his knee cap :) Nobody else has come to the door for trouble since :)


  • #38
    jamaamaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭jamaamaj


    Keno 92 wrote: »
    Where the fook do you think we live?

    Ireland.
    You think grenade related stories don't happen?
    Can think of a few in Crumlin, Drimnagh, blanchardstown and city centre.


  • #39
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    dobman88 wrote: »
    Someone pulled a knife on me outside my house when 4 lads were looking to "get" my brother. My bro was out but a mate had told me these lads were on the way up. And just as I went out to meet them my Dad pulled up. 3 ran off and the one with the knife thought he was very brave, not so much with a 5 iron opening his knee cap :) Nobody else has come to the door for trouble since :)
    Why were they out to get your brother?

    Was it golf related?


  • #40
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Not yet thankfully, some scary stories in this thread. We would all like to think we would give as good as we got in such a situation but I don't think anyone knows how they would react until they are put in it.


  • #41
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Not yet thankfully, some scary stories in this thread. We would all like to think we would give as good as we got in such a situation but I don't think anyone knows how they would react until they are put in it.

    Life was never non-scary, expect the unexpected :)


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  • #42
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    Had two shots fired at me, another time someone aimed at me but didn't fire.


  • #43
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    zenno wrote: »
    Life was never non-scary, expect the unexpected :)

    Wise words my friend, wise words. :)


  • #44
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Not yet thankfully, some scary stories in this thread. We would all like to think we would give as good as we got in such a situation but I don't think anyone knows how they would react until they are put in it.

    I think Too Tough To Die would laugh at such insolence.


  • #45
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    Threatened with guns a couple of times. Knives a few times, slightly cut. Blunt instruments a bit, marked. All when I was younger.


  • #46
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    My housemate threatened me with a carving knife one night when we got into a drunken argument. Even in my drunken state I knew he wouldn't use it, he doesn't have it in him. It was a brash foolish statement in an attempt to win a stupid argument. He apologised the next morning and we got on with it.

    That's a stupid point of view, you weren't dealing with him, you were dealing with drink...you can turn your back on a person, but you should never turn your back on a drug.

    Had a scumbag pull a knife on me when I was working Oxegen 2008, Security were under the nice canopy and saw nothing, I didn't have anything to give him, so he just fcuked off.


  • #47
    rovoagho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    A guy in Mahon in Cork waved a butter knife at me when I was younger, and drove a bit too fast in his estate. It had butter on it.


  • #48
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Some guy pulled a gun on me in Prague. He and his mates were robbing the apartment block we were renting in, walked into our one while we were there, walked back out then 2 minutes later there was a knock on the door.

    At that stage I just thought he'd walked in accidentally (been given the wrong key by the letting agency), so I put the chain on the door and opened it a crack. He stuck the gun through the gap and shouted something in Czech. The only Czech I knew was how to say I don't speak it, so he repeated in English "Police, stay in the apartment."

    Wasn't going to argue with that!

    The real police arrive around an hour later but all the empty apartments had been stripped. All we had of value were our passports. Went to the crowd we booked the holiday from asking WTF (these guys had keys) and I suppose I was a bit niave and didn't demand some sort of remuneration from them.

    Nowadays I would have threatened to spread the story on the webternet.


  • #49
    JustAThought
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    Call me Al wrote: »
    I was mugged by two teenagers at knifepoint at an ATM beside my apartment. They roughed me up and held the knife in full view so that I knew what was coming down the line. What saved me was a stranger coming out of an apartment across the road who heard me screaming for help and scared them off.
    I have relived that experience over and over in my head so many times.
    It didn't happen in Ireland btw.

    Had a gun out to my head in a tourist bar in Holland. Offered the guy my wallet but when he saw how little I had in there he didn't take it. As the guy stood there the other one was frisking the tourists for wallets at the other side of the bar. Will never forget how this American guy roared & screamed about not giving his wallet while his friends screamed at him to give it & me standing there with a gun on the side oif my head thinking if this guy freaks out I'm dead. Never been as still or quiet in my life.


  • #50
    tritium
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    Had a junkie pull a knife on me when he was trying to rob the shop I was working in a few years back. Was all set to (foolishly) have a go (I was a pretty good martial artist back then) but it never came to that- the owner came out with a hammer in her hands and murder in her eyes! First time I'd ever seen a junkie sh!t themselves and leg it at the same time :)


  • #51
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Had a guy pull a knife at my 17th birthday party. He'd arrived with some friends of mine, but I knew he was a weirdo. The house was full of people including fellas who liked to talk bout how much they worked out and how tough they were and they all left little ol' me to kick a knife wielding nutter out of my gaff. I took some deep breaths, channelled my inner Irish Mammy and roared him out of it. Luckily for me he was so drunk that he reacted on autopilot to an authoritative tone and I got him to leave. He spent the night outside, staring at the house, the ****ing nutbag.


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  • #52
    Alter-Ego
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    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    Does a metal t-square count? The was our technical drawing teacher, lovely man most of the time, other times he is a crazy bastid.
    Can I ask where you went to school?

    Friend of mine used to work for a well know chain of stores in Ireland. The store he worked in was in a sh1t area of Dublin and was robbed a few times while he worked there. The last time, he had a syringe held to his throat. Head office took two weeks to call him after the incident and made him the very generous offer of a trip to the cinema for his troubles.

    They're in the process of going out of business, thank god.


  • #53
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Alter-Ego wrote: »
    Can I ask where you went to school?

    Friend of mine used to work for a well know chain of stores in Ireland. The store he worked in was in a sh1t area of Dublin and was robbed a few times while he worked there. The last time, he had a syringe held to his throat. Head office took two weeks to call him after the incident and made him the very generous offer of a trip to the cinema for his troubles.

    They're in the process of going out of business, thank god.
    Xtravision?
    No wonder they"re fuct ,handing out cinema tickets like theres no tomorrow.


  • #54
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Two 12 year old traveller childer threatened my mates and i with pair of needle nosed pliers in merrion sq. We were about 19/20 at that time and told them to go away. Always thought it was a strange choice of weapon.


  • #55
    wexfordman2
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    Got mugged in Richmond in London when I was a student. Not really a place well known for muggings, but guy crossed the road to have a chat with us, and asked us for money. Told him we had none and then he put his hand in his pocket and told us he had a knife.

    Told him if we gave him any money we had o money for tube home, so he took the money and gave us his travel card.

    Saw him again about 20 mins later comming out of a chip shop with I suppose was our chips.

    Hindsight tells me he had no knife and was no mugger, so prob not fair toasty I was threatened with a knife


  • #56
    Itwasntme.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    My dad was a guerilla fighter in a rebel faction when I was a child. One day he came home to visit and someone in the neighbourhood alerted the government soldiers that he was home so they paid us a visit. My memory is a bit hazy on the details but I can remember my dad telling us to get down and stay calm. There was a lot of shooting. We all survived. I don't know how since no one ever talks about it.

    A few years ago, a couple of friends and I were walking on a main street in the city (not Ireland) when we had a run in with a drunken security guard. He told us to stop (for no reason), we ignored him (we didn't know he was drunk yet) and then he said, 'if you take another step, I'll shoot the lot of you." He had the gun pointed at the back of my head. For some reason, instead of getting scared, I got really mad and I saw red (or maybe I was so scared I saw red?). I don't know but I acted really stupid and told him to go ahead and shoot if he wanted to and then threatened to get him fired (yes, yes, I realise now what an empty and stupid threat it was).

    Luckily, we were right in front of the president's office and the GPs who had been watching the whole thing from a distance decided to come to our aid.


  • #57
    dodderangler
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    I was out one night and left pub early and headed home and two junk balls pulled out screwdrivers saying giz ya phone and wallet and smokes
    Now the phone I had then was a piece of sh!t but my daughters pics from the day she was born were on it and they weren't getting it so being full of gargle fought back
    I took a few digs to the eye and lip and I managed to knock one on his arse and hit the other lad and ran towards home
    As I reached my house I felt a pain in me arm and realised the scumbag had actually stabbed me with the screwdriver and it was lodged in me arm. Guess the adrenaline carried me home and didn't realise it was there till I got to my door.


  • #58
    dobman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    Why were they out to get your brother?

    Was it golf related?

    Wasn't golf related. The guy who came up with the knife had threatened my brother a few days earlier with a pool cue (both were drunk). My brother got the better of him then so he thought he would come up with a knife!!! Not so smart


  • #59
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Alter-Ego wrote: »
    Can I ask where you went to school?

    Friend of mine used to work for a well know chain of stores in Ireland. The store he worked in was in a sh1t area of Dublin and was robbed a few times while he worked there. The last time, he had a syringe held to his throat. Head office took two weeks to call him after the incident and made him the very generous offer of a trip to the cinema for his troubles.

    They're in the process of going out of business, thank god.

    Had to be Xtra-Vision! Sounds about right, either the one in Fairview or the one that used to be on Prussia St (had bulletproof glass if I remember correct)

    Used to work for them and heard of such stories all too often


  • #60
    kylith
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    W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »
    Had to be Xtra-Vision! Sounds about right, either the one in Fairview or the one that used to be on Prussia St (had bulletproof glass if I remember correct)

    Used to work for them and heard of such stories all too often

    My money's on Thomas Street, that has to have been one of the most robbed places in the country.


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  • #61
    SuperGrover
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    I got robbed working in XtraVision in Killester years ago. Syringe job.

    I opened the till and he got about 40 quid (old money).


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