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| william |
 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject: Were you ever a victim? |
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Were you ever a victim of a crime? If you don't mind, please share....
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| MacGyver1968 |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've been robbed at gun-point 3 times in my life. Once, standing at a bus stop, once working as a manager of a pizza restaurant, and once walking from one bar to another.
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| sunshinewarrior |
| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: |
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Yes. It was all very drunk and, in hindsight, hilarious.
About 15 years ago now I lived in Brixton. Lovely place in general, seriously - nice restaurants, good shopping, and legendary music. Still, you had to put up with kids chasing each other with knives whern they got drunk late at night, and suchlike phenomena.
I should have known better, but when you've been drinking the world seems a safer place: so on my way home after the night out I had the minicab drop me off at the 7-11, so I could get some Pringles. 
I got out and paid him and then a woman came up to me and asked me for the time (!) while I still stupidly was waving my wallet around. As I tried to address her query a wiry bloke with rather wild eyes snatched at my wallet. The woman kept trying to talk to me as he twisted it out of my grip and ran.
In slow motion (did I mention I'd been drinking), I started bellowing "Stop, thief!", and then proceeded to do about the silliest thing I've ever done: I ran after him. I quickly gave up as it became apparent that: I was running less effectively than a pregnant hippo and was out of both breath and energy; I had irretrievably lost him; I had got myself into the dark and lonely place under the rail station where it was odds on I would get knifed if I didn't get out immediately.
So, about £150 poorer I went home without the Pringles.
I strolled down to the Police Station the next day and reported it and they were awfully attentive and sympathetic. As an upshot, I received two letters from Victim Support Groups with offers of counselling and group therapy. These I found really, really, funny as, at no time during the entire incident had I ever felt the least bit scared, and whilst I was angry with myself at my stupidity, I hadn't let it turn into self-loathing or anything. I thought the whole incident, bar the loss of the money, a great joke, but there you go.
Also, a week later, I was called and asked if I could attend a line-up because they thought they'd caught/identified the bloke involved. They called me a day before to say they're had to cancel, but would reschedule. They never got in touch afterwards, and once my salary came in for the next month and I was off the lentils and rice I considered it a fair price to pay, overall, for the experience. Could have been worse. Or could never have happened and then where would I be when people like you ask for anecdotes like these?
cheer
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| sunshinewarrio wrote: |
Yes. It was all very drunk and, in hindsight, hilarious.
About 15 years ago now I lived in Brixton. Lovely place in general, seriously - nice restaurants, good shopping, and legendary music. Still, you had to put up with kids chasing each other with knives whern they got drunk late at night, and suchlike phenomena.
I should have known better, but when you've been drinking the world seems a safer place: so on my way home after the night out I had the minicab drop me off at the 7-11, so I could get some Pringles.
I got out and paid him and then a woman came up to me and asked me for the time (!) while I still stupidly was waving my wallet around. As I tried to address her query a wiry bloke with rather wild eyes snatched at my wallet. The woman kept trying to talk to me as he twisted it out of my grip and ran.
In slow motion (did I mention I'd been drinking), I started bellowing "Stop, thief!", and then proceeded to do about the silliest thing I've ever done: I ran after him. I quickly gave up as it became apparent that: I was running less effectively than a pregnant hippo and was out of both breath and energy; I had irretrievably lost him; I had got myself into the dark and lonely place under the rail station where it was odds on I would get knifed if I didn't get out immediately.
So, about £150 poorer I went home without the Pringles.
I strolled down to the Police Station the next day and reported it and they were awfully attentive and sympathetic. As an upshot, I received two letters from Victim Support Groups with offers of counselling and group therapy. These I found really, really, funny as, at no time during the entire incident had I ever felt the least bit scared, and whilst I was angry with myself at my stupidity, I hadn't let it turn into self-loathing or anything. I thought the whole incident, bar the loss of the money, a great joke, but there you go.
Also, a week later, I was called and asked if I could attend a line-up because they thought they'd caught/identified the bloke involved. They called me a day before to say they're had to cancel, but would reschedule. They never got in touch afterwards, and once my salary came in for the next month and I was off the lentils and rice I considered it a fair price to pay, overall, for the experience. Could have been worse. Or could never have happened and then where would I be when people like you ask for anecdotes like these?
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| marnixR |
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| svwillmer wrote: |
| Everything happens for a reason . |
yep - goes to show that pringles are bad for your health + they're bloody expensive !
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| sunshinewarrior |
| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| marnixR wrote: |
| svwillmer wrote: |
| Everything happens for a reason . |
yep - goes to show that pringles are bad for your health + they're bloody expensive ! |
That was certainly my take on it.  |
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| william |
| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: |
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About ten years ago, my sister's apartment was robbed. My Grandpa was in the hospital at the time and my sister was staying with my Grandma. I guess the thieves knew that the apartment was empty during the nights. She was going to show me the apartment for the first time... and when we walked in, she said "Where's my TV?! Where's my ____?!, etc."
She was pretty disturbed by it and has been, ever since, vigilant.
Many items were stolen, including women's clothes and makeup. My sister took that as evidence that a female did the burglary. I was skeptical. I thought the female items were taken possibly as a smokescreen. Typically, females aren't as brazen as males....
Her place was entered through a window that was pryed open.
The police dusted for fingerprints, but that was about it. The thieves were never caught.
Lessons to be learned from this (as a minimum) were:
Try to avoid first-floor apartments, and put cut-to-length pieces of wood in the windows so that they cannot be opened.
Cheers
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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| william wrote: |
| ...brazen... |
Don't you mean clever? 
Joke joke .
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| Guest |
| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| The closest I've been to being victim of a crime was when terrorists bombed something very very close to our home, although we didn't suffered any damage beyond the trill. Also it sucked to see the blast damage for days until they cleaned and repaired it... |
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| MacGyver1968 wrote: |
| I've been robbed at gun-point 3 times in my life. Once, standing at a bus stop, once working as a manager of a pizza restaurant, and once walking from one bar to another. |
If you'd just paid the girl like any decent punter......... |
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| +SCIENCEgirl+ |
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4 years there was a burgling in our house, in the middle of on the day!
I was pretty scared about it, i was very young and the idea that were there strangers in our own house was scary.
later I heard that 2 weeks before this there was a burglary in the house of our neigbours. My parents never told me that, I was glad they didn't, because I would probably haven't slept all night.
A lot of things were gone. After the police , the CSI's came. that was pretty cool how they came with their silver case and their cool tools ^^.
I think that is the only time a was a victim of a " big" crime. besides little thingies like a bike (It's very normal for your bike to get stolen if your dutch   ) or a wallet (with not much in it).
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