Has someone ever attempted to mug you?

masti123 · 10-06-2014 02:01PM #1

Basically I was walking home late at night from a friends house and I was walking through an apartment block near Clondalkin village called Thornfield Square when I got threatened with a knife because I wouldn't give some little scumbag the time..
Eventually I did give him the time and then he tried to rob my phone while still threatening me with the knife in his hands.
What made it worse was that he was only about 15.

I'm wondering has anything like this ever happened to you?

A Greedy Algorithm · 10-06-2014 02:02PM

Why wouldn't you give him the time?

Also yes i have been mugged plenty of times, all happened whilst i was living in London. I got mugged as i came out of the chipper, the mugger asked for all my money which amounted to about 3 pounds but i asked him for 50p back so i could get a can of coke at the local garage to go with my chips and he was pleasant enough to allow this.

rubberdiddies · 10-06-2014 02:06PM

It's just a ploy to get the phone out so he can rob it

fleet_admiral · 10-06-2014 02:09PM

masti123 wrote: »

Basically I was walking home late at night from a friends house and I was walking through an apartment block near Clondalkin village called Thornfield Square when I got threatened with a knife because I wouldn't give some little scumbag the time..
Eventually I did give him the time and then he tried to rob my phone while still threatening me with the knife in his hands.
What made it worse was that he was only about 15.

I'm wondering has anything like this ever happened to you?

I wouldnt care what age or sex they were, if a little scrote produced a knife at me I would follow it up with a swift kick to the balls/mary

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-06-2014 02:09PM

How big was the knife?

Augmerson · 10-06-2014 02:11PM

The government rob me all the time Joe it's a scandal.

Immy · 10-06-2014 02:13PM

When I was about 16 I was going to the ATM. I noticed 2 girls sitting across from ATM that got up and approach ATM as I started my transaction. One of the girls came and stood very close to me. I just checked my balance and when I went to walk away the other girl was right behind me.

I had intended to withdraw my wages, which was about £60.

On an opposite note my mother lost her purse last week with €400 in it. The guy who found it dropped it into her house the next day, not a penny gone.

Standard Toaster · 10-06-2014 02:14PM

What time was it?

Nib · 10-06-2014 02:15PM

No. I don't live in Dublin.

Lenin Skynard · 10-06-2014 02:16PM

Was walking in between two clothes lines at a block of flats one time. Five lads came out from behind the clothes, one after another. I elbowed the first while roundhouse kicking the second, jumping split-kicked the other two and straight punched the last one as I landed. I then wall walked 360 degrees to get turned around to look at the other five of them but they scarpered.

Buzz Killington the third · 10-06-2014 02:16PM

I see you've played knifey spoony before!

cloud493 · 10-06-2014 02:17PM

Nib wrote: »

No. I don't live in Dublin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8BXTGGatcc

pojfexcsc · 10-06-2014 02:18PM

Mugged by a junkie when I was 12 on new years day, he gave me 2 quid back no lies.

Got my head kicked in by 2 fellas in Galway and they nicked my passport of all things.

10-06-2014 02:19PM

Yup, and succeeded. This is one of the reasons I hate Paris

Aglomerado · 10-06-2014 02:19PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

How big was the knife?

That's not a knife. THIS is a knife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWl8EbNN8NM

generic2012 · 10-06-2014 02:19PM

Yes. Clonskeagh of all places. 3 of us, two scumbags. Threatened three Cavan students, got a tenner and return ticket to Cavan. They were wired of their nut, was actually funny enough, we probably could have took them or run but our house was so close they would have seen use go in, so for €3.34 each it wasn't gonna be worth it.

jamesbere · 10-06-2014 02:22PM

You should of told him time is relative

old hippy · 10-06-2014 02:23PM

Over the last 30 years I've lost count. Usually with knives. You learn to keep calm and hand it over. Apart from one time, this smartly dressed dude greeted me like I was a long lost pal, slipped his arm around me ( I was slightly the worse for wear) and that took money and my zippo lighter from my pocket. I bellowed out and chased him down the road. Not sure what I would have done if I'd actually caught him, mind.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 10-06-2014 02:23PM

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

Why wouldn't you give him the time?

I never give muggers the time of day.

Matt_Trakker · 10-06-2014 02:28PM

Once, between St Patricks Cathedral and Christchuch, down one of those side street. Lad in an army jacket came at me with a cement brick. I was lucky though, I turned around when I heard him running towards me and I ducked. Kinda did a spear tackle on him as he did this.

Give him one swift kick in the ribs when I got up faster than him and ran like f"ck outta there. Was in an awful mess when I got home, shaking and sweating. Full on shock I suppose.

Penny Tration · 10-06-2014 02:32PM

On Talbot Street, about 4 years ago.

It was about 6am (I was walking from the bus stop to my job), held up with a needle. Handed my purse to him and told him to take everything from it. There was only about 20 euro in it. I was lucky, because I was going to take about 400 euro out of an atm before work, because I was going away for the weekend after work, but had decided to wait til my lunch break to take it out.

masti123 · 10-06-2014 02:37PM

It was about 2am and it looked like a 10inch blade

Buzz Killington the third · 10-06-2014 02:39PM

masti123 wrote: »

It was about 2am and it looked like a 10inch blade

In the interest of accuracy for your story, are you male or female?

The Backwards Man · 10-06-2014 02:39PM

I was walking down fifth avenue one night and this old lady was shuffling the other way. As she came closer, those fearful words that fill a longer traveler with dread she uttered. "Sir? Excuse me sir? Would you happen to have the time? " Weighing up my options, I knew there was only one way I was getting out of this alive.

I began with a short burst of crab like dance moves over and back the sidewalk, then reached my left hand into her face and said. 'Stop! Hammer time!' and walked by her before she had a chance to react.

Meathlass · 10-06-2014 02:40PM

I was asleep in a hostel in Buenos Aires in a dorm with 3 men (didn't know any of them). We'd left the door open on to the corridor as it was so hot.

I slept with my wallet beside me on the bed and woke in the early morning to find a scumbag grabbing it out of my hand. He'd also taken my watch, and cameras, mp3s from the other guys' bags in the room.

By the time I shouted and woke everyone up he was half way down the stairs and out the front door. Security in the place was lax to say the least!

10-06-2014 02:41PM

Twice, most recently in London at about 7 pm but during winter so it was dark. Two absolutely huge guys demanded my purse and my phone, one of them showed me his knife. I handed both over and shook with relief when I realised they were going away and weren't going to hurt me. Shook for days actually.

They refused the phone, it was an ancient cheap nokia.:)

spongebob89 · 10-06-2014 02:42PM

No

jimgoose · 10-06-2014 02:43PM

Back in 1997 I was coming out of a pub on Capel Street when this wiry-looking article of about 35 decided to have a go - wallet, phone, whatever I had. I put him on his arse bawling for mama with his right arm broken in two places. Called the Sweeney Todd and waited there until they arrived and started seeing to him.

anncoates · 10-06-2014 02:48PM

Got my wallet snatched in a shop in Dublin before and chased the lad. Caught the little cnut and knocked him over but he took out a syringe so I just left him to it. Hardly any money in the wallet anyway and it was found and handed into my college a few days later with the cards in it.

Also held up with a gun (turned out it was a replica as he got caught later that night but i didn't know at the time) in a petrol station I worked in during college.

anncoates · 10-06-2014 02:57PM

Candie wrote: »

They refused the phone, it was an ancient cheap nokia.:)

Actually a decent idea to carry around a spare sh_t phone as a mugger decoy

10-06-2014 03:00PM

anncoates wrote: »

Got my wallet snatched in a shop in Dublin before and chased the lad. Caught the little cnut and knocked him over but he took out a syringe so I just left him to it. Hardly any money in the wallet anyway and it was found and handed into my college a few days later with the cards in it.

Also held up with a gun (turned out it was a replica as he got caught later that night but i didn't know at the time) in a petrol station I worked in during college.

I probably would have fainted.

Scary stuff.

Has someone ever attempted to mug you?

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