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I was attacked
8 years ago
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Ok, so I can't hold onto this anymore. I need to vent.
Two weeks ago (19th october) when I was walking home from town I was attacked by two guys, probably not more than 19 years of age.
They tackled me to the ground and then strangled me, also delivering a punch onto my face, just to steal my phone.
I was flown into rage, instead of fear and held onto the phone as long as I could but they managed get it and to start running.
I tried to stop them as they released their grip on me, but when I managed to stop one them the other one once more took another stranglehold on me.
When I managed to free myself they ran like hell. All whilst people in their cars on the opposite side of the road looked confused at me.
Noone stopping to help or anything.
At that moment, I felt abandoned by society.
But in a way I was lucky, neither one of them pulled a knife on me... So this could have gotten way worse than I could ever have imagined.
You may hear these kind of attacks constantly in the news, and in a way I was always expecting this would happen in my neighborhood sooner or later.
But these kind of attacks are very real. They wont care if you have a 'dumbphone' or smartphone, they will attempt to take whatever is visible.
Although, this happaned maybe 400-500 meters from my home... So I am rather chilled.
So my message is: Don't go alone in parks alone, go to more populated areas so incase you get attacked- then you may have witnesses compared to my case.
But at the same time, noone should be driven insane by paranoia.
Two weeks ago (19th october) when I was walking home from town I was attacked by two guys, probably not more than 19 years of age.
They tackled me to the ground and then strangled me, also delivering a punch onto my face, just to steal my phone.
I was flown into rage, instead of fear and held onto the phone as long as I could but they managed get it and to start running.
I tried to stop them as they released their grip on me, but when I managed to stop one them the other one once more took another stranglehold on me.
When I managed to free myself they ran like hell. All whilst people in their cars on the opposite side of the road looked confused at me.
Noone stopping to help or anything.
At that moment, I felt abandoned by society.
But in a way I was lucky, neither one of them pulled a knife on me... So this could have gotten way worse than I could ever have imagined.
You may hear these kind of attacks constantly in the news, and in a way I was always expecting this would happen in my neighborhood sooner or later.
But these kind of attacks are very real. They wont care if you have a 'dumbphone' or smartphone, they will attempt to take whatever is visible.
Although, this happaned maybe 400-500 meters from my home... So I am rather chilled.
So my message is: Don't go alone in parks alone, go to more populated areas so incase you get attacked- then you may have witnesses compared to my case.
But at the same time, noone should be driven insane by paranoia.
It's good advise to keep your valuables out of sight and don't go walking around with expensive (or otherwise) phones.
I can imagine that you ARE a bit chilled. If they had a knife things could have been much worse. *hugs* I'm happy you were not harmed.
While working with backing up a trailer I managed to drop my phone (thought it would for sure be safe in that pocket), cracking the screen in the process.
Also the microphone was rather damaged as well, combined with its age of maybe two years... Yeah, it is not gotta be worth a whole lot.
But yeah, like you said. I will try to hide stuff as good as I can for the future.