I just got robbed

**a completely inoffensive name** · 01-13-2011, 02:38

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Quoted for truthiness.

That video I posted? A small-average sized woman confronted and told off a man larger than her.

Even if you don't go and knee him in the face, confront him. Other people have phones.

CR

Dude was surrounded by who knows how many other people, trapped on the subway. It wasn't one on one.

It's not like your pride or honor is at stake here guys, there is nothing wrong with running when you have no self defense except your fist (which do not trump possible infected needle). If you have a taser or a gun, good you have the option of using it or you can still run as well. Stop telling people to grow some balls and accommodate for their nature which may be naturally non-aggressive.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 01-13-2011, 02:46

Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name

Dude was surrounded by who knows how many other people, trapped on the subway. It wasn't one on one.

It's not like your pride or honor is at stake here guys, there is nothing wrong with running when you have no self defense except your fist (which do not trump possible infected needle). If you have a taser or a gun, good you have the option of using it or you can still run as well. Stop telling people to grow some balls and accommodate for their nature which may be naturally non-aggressive.

I got the impression this punk thief wasn't with anyone, there was just a crowd on a subway. I don't think it'd be one on one; it'd be the subway car against the thief if Husar told people to call the police. What would the guy do? Take some needle out and threaten everyone?

CR

**The Stranger** · 01-13-2011, 02:55

a phone just isnt worth it imo... ignore the rabbit.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 01-13-2011, 03:10

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

I got the impression this punk thief wasn't with anyone, there was just a crowd on a subway. I don't think it'd be one on one; it'd be the subway car against the thief if Husar told people to call the police. What would the guy do? Take some needle out and threaten everyone?

CR

I was talking about the pervert in your video. That guy showing off his junk was surrounded by at least 15 other people while the woman was screaming at him about turning him in. In Husar's case if I gather correctly, he was off the subway and was walking down the block by himself when the guy came out to ask for his phone.

EDIT: I was basically saying that there is a bit of difference between the situation where the woman stood strong and where Husar apparently "didn't have any balls".

**Husar** · 01-13-2011, 03:26

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Take some needle out and threaten everyone?

Yes, do you think a guy with HIV has a lot to lose? Or alternatively some people would worry and panic.
Besides, people have been raped in the middle of the city before, trusting on the public to help you is not something I'd consider lightly, the more people are around the more likely they all think the others should act.

And another besides, if I'm shaking no rational argument will stop it, it simply isn't rational, call me a wuss but there is not much I can do to stop it. Growing balls is not something you do within a few seconds, it's grow, not spawn or summon. It's not the guy who scares me, it is what he supposedly has on a needle and inside him that does, you cannot explain HIV away by being tough, it's one sting that changes your life and makes it considerably shorter as well. No way I'm going to get close to this guy again. Some guy who never saw him assuring me that it was a bluff is hardly something I'd make my life depend on, how stupid would that be?

Oh and then police might have to let him go anyway as I have no witnesses, then what did I gain? I made him really angry perhaps...

**Crazed Rabbit** · 01-13-2011, 03:40

I see I should clarify. Husar, I don't think you should have attacked the guy after he pulled a needle.

I don't think you should have attacked him on the subway.

I do think there were other ways to handle it than getting off the subway at the first opportunity.

But don't just live in anxiety about what your actions will cause him to do. He tried not to get seen by you on the subway, right?

Because he's afraid, man. He doesn't want to get caught and go to prison.

CR

**Husar** · 01-13-2011, 04:03

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

But don't just live in anxiety about what your actions will cause him to do. He tried not to get seen by you on the subway, right?

Because he's afraid, man. He doesn't want to get caught and go to prison.

CR

Yes, I get that, on a rational level, but my lizard brain makes me all shambly trambly run away as soon as I see him because it imagines looking at a giant AIDS virus.

I'm positive this will go away after a while, it just takes time until the rationale overrides the instincts.

**Centurion1** · 01-13-2011, 04:06

my grandmother got mugged she was shocked and said no and just walked away. he got arrested where he will likely be raped and beaten for trying to mug an old lady. everyone has a grandmother.

on a more serious note. dont do favors for trash. i remember some obviously drug crazed guy at a checkers asking for some money for a snadwich. i obviously said no..... my friend gave him a couple bucks. he followed my friend to his car and tried to mug him my friend whupped his ass (football player vs. drug crazed maniac) and had to fill out a lot of annoying forms and go to court.

lesson? dont help people like that they dont want to be your friend. and if you do be firm and if you really do beat some ass. carry some mace. i would i dont care if thats what women do...... and watch the loser try to stab you with a likely uninfected needle blind. mwahahaha

**Megas Methuselah** · 01-13-2011, 06:13

Be a man, Husar. My God.

**Fragony** · 01-13-2011, 07:16

Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name

Dude was surrounded by who knows how many other people, trapped on the subway. It wasn't one on one.

It's not like your pride or honor is at stake here guys, there is nothing wrong with running when you have no self defense except your fist (which do not trump possible infected needle). If you have a taser or a gun, good you have the option of using it or you can still run as well. Stop telling people to grow some balls and accommodate for their nature which may be naturally non-aggressive.

Wise words. No shame in being scared. Situations like this take you by surprise anyway. Give up the phone and call insurance, and secretly hope he overdoses. Only pick the fights that are worth the trouble.