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[Kalamain]

Someone tried to mug me a few years ago. All I did was turn to him and pushed (Ok...Shoved) him away... He fell on his arse and then when I started to walk toward him he got up and ran.

Lucky me I guess. But sometimes just showing that you won't take shit can work. YMMV

 

[Devilius]

The last time that it happened to me the mugger got one of the most thorough beatings (I know, a broad assumption on my part) of his life and I got a new cheap knife that was useless for anything other than as a paperweight.



Muggers are generally not made of sterner stuff.

You're a Marine, aren't you?

actually it's a very poor alternative to squats

I dunno. I felt a good improvement after combining all those exercise.

I may be wrong.

Someone tried to mug me a few years ago. All I did was turn to him and pushed (Ok...Shoved) him away... He fell on his arse and then when I started to walk toward him he got up and ran.

Lucky me I guess. But sometimes just showing that you won't take shit can work. YMMV

I'm glad you're safe.

We're walking a thin line. Each have their own ways of facing the situation.

In theory, it might sound good if someone says, "Yeah, I can beat the shit out of any bloody mugger." Most of them freeze when faced with the real situation.

That was the first experience of me being mugged.

 

[toubab]

I have never had anyone try to mug me, but I've often wondered what I would actually do if it ever happened. Especially if the mugger had a gun, or I believed he had a gun. I think it never has happened because of my size and appearance. There are easier targets everywhere, and I think potential muggers take that into account. But it could happen, and I wonder what I will do if it does.

 

[Kalamain]

We're walking a thin line. Each have their own ways of facing the situation.

In theory, it might sound good if someone says, "Yeah, I can beat the shit out of any bloody mugger." Most of them freeze when faced with the real situation.

That was the first experience of me being mugged.

Nobody knows how they will react until they are in that situation...
Luckily mine went my way. If he'd have gotten up and turned on me I don't know how it would have gone.

Oh...And don't do what people suggest and punch them with your keys. If you are not holding them right in your hand it fucking hurts...
Not that I ever did that to someone.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You're a Marine, aren't you?

...

Yes.

Among other things. I met and trained with Remy during the time that one of his students was teaching escrima and arnis at our school in the inner city.

 

[Riles]

At lest you died with a smile on your face.

Indeed. I lol'd even on a second reading.

Good for the thigh and butt muscles. Although, squats are more concentrated.

Same thing - dead meat either way.

Oh, see I thought you were referring to something one could do without being in the gym. All our exercies are based on cross fit, which of course are designed to do ...well...anywhere.

lol-ing AGAIN.

I think I'm overtired.

 

[doowdniw]

Seriously fuck up one of their feet.

If I'm close enough to screw up a foot, then I would be aiming for something considerably higher at the same time. Anything that will put them down for the count.

Having said that, a lot depends on the circumstances: location, time of day, whether a weapon is brandished, if so, what type of weapon, how close is the mugger, whether there are any weapons available to me besides arms and legs. Can I escape without injury? A flexible reaction dependent upon the circumstances.

Under some circumstance, I might go ahead and give him the car key, then knock him into next week as he tries to figure out where the key goes, the heavy clutch and shift pattern. Or if he's pointing a gun at me with the hammer cocked and it's out of reach, I might let him drive off with the car. That's why I have insurance.

 

[subdued_passion]

....What would you do if someone tried to mug you in a deserted place?

I'd throw my purse far away from me and run in the opposite direction when the mugger is distracted.

I'm surprised to see how many badazzes there are here who'd rather fight. Heh.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'd throw my purse far away from me and run in the opposite direction when the mugger is distracted.

I'm surprised to see how many badazzes there are here who'd rather fight. Heh.

Personally, I can only tell you what actually happened because it is all reflex.

You seem to be speaking from theory, but let me tell you, it happens quickly.

One second there is a friendly, smiling, hey bra! got a light? and the nest instance a knife comes out and is brandished along with a threat. The idiot never even completed his sentence before I had the fucking knife and he was being slammed onto the sidewalk.

I have similar stories from when I was a bouncer.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Always, always try to leave or talk the situation down. All the while being prepared for the moment you cant.

Exactly, sometimes it works talking to them, sometimes they are just out to harm you.

 

[parodyluvr75]

I'd throw my purse far away from me and run in the opposite direction when the mugger is distracted.

I'm surprised to see how many badazzes there are here who'd rather fight. Heh.

If you carried a ladder no one would mess with you.

 

[domroger]

Never been in that situation .Perhaps because of my size and that I look more like a mugger .

 

[CandiCame]

Never been in that situation .Perhaps because of my size and that I look more like a mugger .

IDK, I've never been in that situation either, but I'm tiny and cute and poor looking. And kinda seedy. I think people know their own. I have been told by people that I "look crazy" which... what the fucking fuck? What does that even mean?

I did used to get in fights a lot tho. Not because I was getting mugged, just because I was a stupid teenager with no brains and a short temper who liked the high. I think a lot of people do that but you grow out of it. It's not something that you keep as an adult.

 

[Sammael Bard]

Yes.

Among other things. I met and trained with Remy during the time that one of his students was teaching escrima and arnis at our school in the inner city.

I thought you were vetteman's alt.

 

[Sammael Bard]

Indeed. I lol'd even on a second reading.



Oh, see I thought you were referring to something one could do without being in the gym. All our exercies are based on cross fit, which of course are designed to do ...well...anywhere.

lol-ing AGAIN.

I think I'm overtired.

Oh...that's a good thing. Then squats are probably the best thing I know of.

 

[Devilius]

I'd throw my purse far away from me and run in the opposite direction when the mugger is distracted.

I'm surprised to see how many badazzes there are here who'd rather fight. Heh.

And if he starts chasing you?

 

[doowdniw]

I'd throw my purse far away from me and run in the opposite direction when the mugger is distracted.

I'm surprised to see how many badazzes there are here who'd rather fight. Heh.

Given a choice, I would much rather not fight. Having a sense of one's own self preservation is not necessarily a "badazz". In any situation where that is not an option, I'm going to try to do as much damage as possible as quickly as possible in order to try to eliminate the threat. After all, we are talking about a mugger, not Mother Theresa.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I thought you were vetteman's alt.

Vette doesn't fight with bamboo sticks.

 

[subdued_passion]

Personally, I can only tell you what actually happened because it is all reflex.

You seem to be speaking from theory, but let me tell you, it happens quickly.

You mentioned on several occasions that you teach martial arts, so I can believe why you would've chosen to fought, but the OP's response felt a bit unlikely.

I was speaking theoretically but I was almost abducted on two occasions and in both scenarios, against the odds, I chose to run.

If you carried a ladder no one would mess with you.

Considering I lack Jackie's skillz I'd probably end up making it easier to be mugged by having my hands full.

And if he starts chasing you?

Your OP scenario specified it was a mugger. Why would a mugger chase you if they got what they wanted???

Given a choice, I would much rather not fight. Having a sense of one's own self preservation is not necessarily a "badazz". In any situation where that is not an option, I'm going to try to do as much damage as possible as quickly as possible in order to try to eliminate the threat. After all, we are talking about a mugger, not Mother Theresa.

The safest option is always one which avoids direct confrontation.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You don't "choose" it.

You probably will not choose to run, or throw your purse. Most people just freeze.



You do what you practice and train to do. I started early because I was a minority.

 

[subdued_passion]

You don't "choose" it.

You probably will not choose to run, or throw your purse. Most people just freeze.



You do what you practice and train to do. I started early because I was a minority.

I'm one of those people who walk around looking seemingly lost (which I am most times) but I am very alert to any kind of danger. It's weird how anytime I'm in a new place or area I start scoping it for danger zones and safe zones and what I could use as a weapon if needed.

Considering I live in India, I could probably even get out of the situation by threatening the mugger- it sure works for a lot of other unpleasant things. But, I just don't see myself taking a chance on making things worse for me by fighting (unless it's not a mugging but someone trying to kill me).

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You haven't been mugged yet, have you?



It's really easy to imagine what you think you would do...

Start practicing to yell 'fire.'

Yelling help will be met with indifference, it's just one person in trouble, but yelling fire causes people to come running because it is a greater calamity and not personal.

 

[subdued_passion]

You haven't been mugged yet, have you?



It's really easy to imagine what you think you would do...

Start practicing to yell 'fire.'

Yelling help will be met with indifference, it's just one person in trouble, but yelling fire causes people to come running because it is a greater calamity and not personal.

No, I haven't been mugged. I have heard about the yelling 'Fire' tip before. Unfortunately it wouldn't work here. Our people would just walk on by unless it was someone's property. People do respond to loud shouts of "chor" (thief) though- I know this because I've used it in other threatening scenarios.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*

Thief might have the same effect here.

People would rush in to beat the crap out of a politician...

 

[Aphro]

Years ago, a guy tried to snatch my purse.

I had just come up from the subway. It was winter, and the previous week I had slipped and fallen on the ice and twisted my ankle badly. I had a cane to help me walk, and was moving at a painfully slow pace. I had my bag over the shoulder of the arm that I had the cane it. It was a proper granny cane my friend lent me, with a hooked handle.

Well there was this scruffy, homeless looking sort of dude at the top of the escalator as I came up from the underground, and as I limped away, he must have thought I was an easy target, being with the cane and all. So, he comes up and grabs at my bag, which slides down from my shoulder and hangs on my forearm.

I think he must have been high, or drunk, or something, but, he bends over at the waist a bit, and tries to disentangle the strap of the bag from my arm...the arm with the cane in it. Now, I never really planned this, and in fact, if anyone had asked me before, I would have said I'd just give a mugger my purse to avoid injury, but, reflexively as he was bending over a bit trying to pull the purse off, in that split second, I slid my hand a bit down the cane, and pulled it straight up...HARD...and the curved handle end made a pretty strong connection with the guy's nose/face. He immediately let go, and his hands flew to his face. I screamed at the top of my lungs, and he ran away down the street holding his nose, which in the few seconds I saw him before he ran, appeared to be bleeding.

My heart was racing, I felt absolutely ill, and managed to make it the block to my apartment on such wobbly legs I have no idea how I didn't fall and twist the other ankle. After I was in, behind my locked door, I sat down and grinned because I felt like fucking She-Ra or something.

I wouldn't recommend it, though, as if the guy had a knife I probably would have had a much worse outcome.