Mugged by 7th Ave Q stop
This last friday night (saturday am) I was mugged around 50yards after exitiing the 7th Ave Q stop and walking towards Vanderbilt on Park Place----just about in front of the big apartment building on the park side under the big trees.
I set myself up. I was very very intoxicated. I had just vomited on the street a few seconds earlier and was stumbling home. Here's how it went down. 3:30 am. Totally unaware of my surroundings. Someone puts me in a sleeper hold from behind and I see someone running towards me in a grey hoodie from the front. Just as the person in front gets close I try to kick----I have no idea whether I was succesful because the sleeper hold put me to sleep. Next thing I'm waking up on the ground with the faint sound of someone sprinting away. Wallet + cellphone gone. Thank god they left my keys. I had less than five dollars in my wallet and a supercheap cellphone. Anyway, I end up jogging home---still very drunk and fuzzy---I try cancelling my ATM/Credit card online, but all they have are 1800 numbers and I have no phone. My roomate is out of town. Thankful to be home I fall asleep. I've reported this, but have no hope of catching anyone. I have no clue what they looked like. I couldn't even tell you if they were black/white short/tall---it was incredibly fast.
Moral of the story: Don't be an F'ing tard/get wasted and walk home alone at 3am. Watch your back. I would have robbed me too....if that's how I made money. I was completely defenseless.
Note: I just moved from underhill to between classon and grand and am incredibly happy to have been mugged closer to the slope and not near the new apt.
I set myself up. I was very very intoxicated. I had just vomited on the street a few seconds earlier and was stumbling home. Here's how it went down. 3:30 am. Totally unaware of my surroundings. Someone puts me in a sleeper hold from behind and I see someone running towards me in a grey hoodie from the front. Just as the person in front gets close I try to kick----I have no idea whether I was succesful because the sleeper hold put me to sleep. Next thing I'm waking up on the ground with the faint sound of someone sprinting away. Wallet + cellphone gone. Thank god they left my keys. I had less than five dollars in my wallet and a supercheap cellphone. Anyway, I end up jogging home---still very drunk and fuzzy---I try cancelling my ATM/Credit card online, but all they have are 1800 numbers and I have no phone. My roomate is out of town. Thankful to be home I fall asleep. I've reported this, but have no hope of catching anyone. I have no clue what they looked like. I couldn't even tell you if they were black/white short/tall---it was incredibly fast.
Moral of the story: Don't be an F'ing tard/get wasted and walk home alone at 3am. Watch your back. I would have robbed me too....if that's how I made money. I was completely defenseless.
Note: I just moved from underhill to between classon and grand and am incredibly happy to have been mugged closer to the slope and not near the new apt.
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that sucks being mug
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i guess you learn something. -
Sorry to hear about your mugging and I'm also sorry for laughing my ass off reading your story. You should send this to The Onion. Front page stuff. :twisted:
P.s Next time you come home drunk, hold off on puking and when your attackers jump on you, Hurl away. Self made mace works like a charm.
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god: why did you let mrsunshine get mugged? :-s
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because god is a calvinist
you knew that -
Karl the Druid wrote: because god is a calvinist
Then how come his son was Jewish? And his wife was Canaanite? Complicated family.
you knew that -
Hahaha... that does suck but it's a funny story. Next time try to puke on your attackers. It that doesn't work shit your pants.
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Karl the Druid wrote: because god is a calvinist
I'm an atheist. I've got an inferiority complex. My parents where abusive.
you knew that
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GOD wrote:
And I wound up with split personality disorder.
I'm an atheist. I've got an inferiority complex. My parents where abusive. -
Subject: Mugged On 7th Ave
Well thats just awful what happened to you. Please be careful in the future. try and cab it home at those hours. -
Subject: Re: Mugged On 7th Ave
madamefoo55 wrote: Well thats just awful what happened to you. Please be careful in the future. try and cab it home at those hours.
somehow I think that would have lead to him puking in the back of the cab, but that's just an assumption on my part. he might have held off til he reached a welcoming toilet ... -
I have heard time and time again that that particular block is the place to be mugged at night! I am guessing that it's because of the train there. A friend of mine was mugged on the block w/her 2 year old in tow and 8 months prego! I think it's fair to say that if you are coming home late and have to exit the subway at that stop 1)try and take a cab instead 2)walk up Flatbush a block and then over!
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Subject: Re: Mugged On 7th Ave
alafairnadia wrote: [quote=madamefoo55]Well thats just awful what happened to you. Please be careful in the future. try and cab it home at those hours.
somehow I think that would have lead to him puking in the back of the cab, but that's just an assumption on my part. he might have held off til he reached a welcoming toilet ...
Nothing brings on puking faster than riding in the back seat of a car. -
last week i saw a purse snatching in the same area as this mugging
-on flatbush and park place -
the stop on the PH side is at a funny angle and weirds me out. I always exit on the PS side.
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There are alot of lessons from this for me. Number one: be aware and ready to defend yourself. I beleive my muggers were unarmed. I am an athletic 6' 2' 180lbs. I feel that if I was walking briskly, upright and aware I would have a)not been attacked or b)able to defend myself/run like the wind. Also, 3:45 am is cabtime for sure. And I actuallly got in a cab with my friends-----that cabby started yelling about how he didn't wan't to take so many stops (we we're requestiing three stops in brooklyn)....so I figured I'd make things easy, save some bucks and take the subway. Whoops.
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I often find myself in various degrees of inebriation in the wee hours (I bartend so a drinking night or not, I'm going home late). A brisk walk and acting like I've got somewhere to be and the hustle to get there has kept me out of trouble so far. Even if I'm stumbling home at least people see me and say, "Wow, that guy is weaving there with a purpose."
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Last night I got mugged on Bergen between Carlton and Vanderbilt, around 11.30 or so. It's hard to tell exactly when because (like the OP) I was drunk, and also because they hit me from behind and I was out cold on the street for at least 20 minutes. They took my wallet (20 bucks), my cell phone and my keys. My keys! Far and away the worst part of it.
I have two lumps on my head, sore ribs, a fat lip, and a swollen elbow, but otherwise am fine. I went to report it at the precinct but was basically shrugged off/laughed at. One cop described me as "24 years old" (I'm 36 and look it, especially after a beating) who was "new to the neighborhood" (I've lived her for 6 years and had just finished telling her that).
I definitely was asking for it, being drunk on the street, it just sucks that it happened on a walk I make probably a hundred times in a week.
I have no description to post since I was hit from behind, and out before I could see the person(s). Not sure if it's related to the other incidents but it looks like we're becoming a little too easy as targets (by "we" I mean those of us who drink and walk home) so I guess use me as an example and don't do it. It's still New York out there. -
but wtf are you supposed to do? I have a few drinks at soda, I'm definitely walking home. don't necessarily want to get knocked on the back of the head though.
and damn, your keys? did you have to replace your lock AGAIN??? -
LOL!
No, although oddly enough though I have to get the keys from my ex since she has the only spare set. The locks don't need to be changed since there was nothing on me that indicates my address. My driver's license is from PA.
Fortunately the refurb guys downstairs had a ladder tall enough to reach my window, so I pulled a MacGyver.
Classes start Monday and I can't get in to my freaking office. -
replace your lock, cause they might know where you live. if you lived and walk in the hood long enough people know. and you didnt' see them. so they might know where you live thats why they took your keys!! change them locks.
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The landlord (who is THEE coolest man in the world) did so earlier today.
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Pen, I just read this. That really sucks, I'm so sorry to hear about it. Let me know if you need anything.
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Thanks yarn. I'm okay, down to about 15 hit points but my +2 elbows of breaking fall seemed to help.
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Thats just wrong.
I'm sorry that happened to you. What cowards to hit you from behind. -
damn. sorry to hear it Pen.
and the precinct station is RIGHT there. sshait... -
Sorry to hear, Pens, but... well, I know who did it...
I was sworn to secrecy... I can only tell you that the wallet and keys were a distraction... and he wasn't aiming for your head... you were scratching your head with your dominant airhockey hand...
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Oooooooh, you're in trouble.
I think he knows (gulp). . . .
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Seems like there are a lot of stories out there about being hit in the head from behind. Last March we had a friend who was hit from behind and mugged on the corner of Park Place and Underhill. It started on Washington when he walked through a group of teens on PP/washington. They threw beer bottles at him, slinked between cars, got ahead of him, cornered him and someone bashed the back of his head. The police pretty much laughed. They said that he should not have walked through the group. Is this the norm for mugging, or is there a pattern here?
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When in doubt run like hell.
You're lucky that you were not seriously hurt and have all of your teeth. Next time you're that wasted take a cab. Forget getting mugged, you could fall down the subway stairs. -
kick rocks!!!! wrote: The police pretty much laughed.
Yet another example of how much they care. i wonder if they laugh at women who wear short skirts and get raped? No wonder there is such a crime problem in Brooklyn. The cops think that crime is funny.
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