I was mugged

I'll stick with my pistol, thank you very much.

I'm a real man, I use my palms to smack down bullets and beat would be muggers to death with my fists.

dont be staying up at late hours outside... you dont know what the hell might show up

Fpod really wanted me to get something to defend myself when I was working in Atlanta for a few weeks. I didn't keep the job long, because it was a total Bullshit job and I was tired of the people there.

The problem with pepper spray/stun guns is it's something you have to dig in your purse for, and I doubt someone who is trying to mug me is going to stand around and let me dig through my purse to get something out.

First off, *hugs*. Glad you're ok and that the asshat mugger did not take away anything of much value. *hugs again*

Oddly enough, even though I'm a woman who walks through "unsafe" parts of the city late at night, nothing has ever happened to me. I suppose I'm either extremely lucky (probable), extremely scary-looking (highly doubtful), or people who say it is unsafe are wusses (also probable), but whatever. People have stolen stuff from behind my back though, and in fact, it's happened recently, though the stolen items were returned after I threatened the thief.

Pony's suggestion about a hatpin is good. My innocuous self-defense item of choice is the cat keychain (kinda like this, but green). They used to have those in all sorts of colors, and one year I bought a bunch of these for all my girlfriends (and some of my cat-loving guy friends) for Christmas. Pepper spray isn't that good because it's too affected by wind.

Anyway, here's hoping they catch the mugger!

Just wear some steel toed shoes or something ladies.

Nothing says "Fuck YOU!" like a good steel backed kick to the groin.

So he didnt pull a Knife and you didnt punch him square on the nose?

He took the Beer too... Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan~ That adds insult to injury, Its like a slap to the face! :(

Who are they?

I mean is there a thread that says ''WERE YOU RAPED BEFORE'' or something like that? Or was it that they said it for some reason or another on a random thread?

Well there was one user I forget her name, but she said two gangster looking guys tried to mug her but someone else stepped in and helped her...

I think it was mokie... Im not sure...

They were both quite a while back but I do remember they were talking about it for a while...

I sometimes get a little nervous when I see really shady people at night but they always end up being decent people for some weird reason. Here's an example, I was walking down the street and I bumped into this burly rugged looking guy who looked like if you even looked at him the wrong way he'd kill you and to my surprise he turned around and said sorry I was thinking in my head "What the fuck? I thought you were going to kick my ass?" and I also said sorry it was my fault and went on my way but this seems to happen more often than not where I live.

Steel-toed Manolos would be so fabulous! Or Louboutins, for that matter. I'm thinking this Christian Louboutin pump, but with a steel tip instead of red.

does anyone else find this post disturbing?

That's why you need to be ready to break someone's shit without feeling guilt. If someone attacks you, regardless of their motive, you have the right to defend yourself.



Actually, it's better to go for the eyes. It doesn't take a whole lot of force to rupture one and, unlike a throat injury, it's not something that can heal.



You don't even need a knife, all you need is the will to survive. It might sound stupid, but if someone grabs you and you bite off a chunk of flesh, people are gonna think twice about fucking with you.



That's even better. It would be awesome to break a bottle over a person's head, but in a serious situation, fracturing their skull would be more satisfying.

Even if one lives in a relatively safe country, never take things for granted. Since I don't have much experience about the situation overseas, I guess it would be good to be aware of one's surroundings, which could possibly lower the chances of getting attacked.

Never been mugged but knowing me I probably wouldn't take the guy seriously and get myself killed.

I'm an easy target. Luckily I live in a farm area where this kind of stuff never really happens and if I ever go the city I always walk around with groups.

Me and a couple of friends almost got mugged once. It was pretty late, like around 2:30am - 3:00am, we got a little hungry so we went out to the nearby 7/11. When we walked out we notice two guys across the street walking towards us. They met us halfway in the crosswalk and told us to empty our pockets. We told them that we just spent what we had at the 7/11. I guess they didn't care because one of them reached for my friends pocket and my friend told him that we don't have a damn thing. So we walked towards the gas station across from the 7/11, the two guys gave up on trying to take our stuff when we got in view of the employee working there, they walked off yelling some stuff at us. Then we called the cops, they showed up 30mins later, turns out they actually searched the area while we waited for them. Then we got a ride back to my friend's house and acted like nothing happened.

Damn man I hope you find the guy and have him arrested.