Same Old Story...But Still--Mugging on Eastern Parkway

yeah but heck im 6'8 and no one ever bothers me
but yet I ALWAYS look over my shoulder when I'm walking by myself and anyone even just one person is walking behind me on a street ...
it is ALWAYS better to be safe than sorry

bkhoosierfan wrote: yeah but heck im 6'8 and no one ever bothers me
but yet I ALWAYS look over my shoulder when I'm walking by myself and anyone even just one person is walking behind me on a street ...
it is ALWAYS better to be safe than sorry

Looking over your shoulder won't always keep you safe.

I try to walk with my head twisted around half the time, but every once in a while I get distracted. This type of thing can happen to anyone.

raw wrote: [quote=bkhoosierfan]yeah but heck im 6'8 and no one ever bothers me
but yet I ALWAYS look over my shoulder when I'm walking by myself and anyone even just one person is walking behind me on a street ...
it is ALWAYS better to be safe than sorry

Looking over your shoulder won't always keep you safe.

I try to walk with my head twisted around half the time, but every once in a while I get distracted. This type of thing can happen to anyone.

thanks for being a smart ass
there is nothing that can keep you totally safe.. not even a gun
but some things can certainly help!

the real point i was trying to make was - that I even I always make sure to look over my shoulder.. no one is safe

OP, I'm sorry to hear that this happened to you. I'm glad you weren't hurt.

It's great that these perps are stupid enough to use your phone after stealing it. What a couple of brainiacs they must be. I really, really hope the phone tracking gets them caught and that you get a chance to ID them.

Please do update us if anything happens!

Unless theres was a Homicide involved with this phone theft, I highly doubt the NYPD is monitoring the text messages. More than likely someone bought the phone for a fraction of its cost and is just using it til the service gets cancelled.

Subject: Over your shoulder

As a naive New Yorker some years ago I got tackled by two guys on the way home from the 7th Avenue subway. I saw them coming, and the guys didn't do anything until they had gotten into position right behind me.

When I first saw them, I was behind them. I passed them at the beginning of a quiet townhouse block and they sped up a little, walking directly behind me.

But then I crossed the street, leaving the muggers on the sidewalk. I wasn't trying to be smart, I was just distracted.

After a moment they followed me.

But halfway across, I turned and started walking down the middle of the street. I thought I was some kind of poet back then, and I was studying the trees over the street.

They crossed to the other side of the street and started walking slowly down the far sidewalk. Finally they were like fifty feet away and if I’d trusted my instinct that the guys were dangerous I would have been safe. That’s when I crossed over to their side of the street, walked quickly past them, and they jumped me.

Kind of an embarrassing, Max Smart-style story. The point of it is to be aware of the space just over your shoulder. They spent a lot of time trying to get into that spot.

what else would you expect from poor depressed uneducated black males?

How about getting a job with the Transit Authority they seem to hire losers,
How do you know if they are poor or depressed and if they are does it make it ok to assault any one.

Subject: mugging

It's NEVER right to assault anyone.
EVER!

Sorry to hear about your mugging. Please, folks, be careful with the cell phones. They're a distraction and by displaying them you show potential muggers that you have something worth stealing. I'm NOT blaming the OP for this, just trying to look back and learn from the experience.

BTW, since this crime happened east of Washington Avenue, shouldn't it be posted on the Crown Heights board?

I'm not harping on anyone for exhorting people to be aware of their surroundings, as that's always a good idea, but...

cellphones aren't the problem. Homeless guys in shelters have a cell phone. They're basically free when you open an account. Talking on your cell phone at 6:30 am or pm is not asking for it or being inattentive.

The problem is this major upswing in assholes running around mugging people. The takes have been so small (in the cases reported here) that I don't think it's even about the money or whatever's being grabbed. These assholes are just enjoying themselves. Or testing each other and their fucked up ideas of what constitutes manhood.

If these were serious attempts to "get paid" they'd be targeting older residents around payday - or even younger native residents who are far more likely to have most of their money on them in cash - rather than the hipsters and newcomers who leave their money in the bank.

Just venting, but this shit is getting old. And I also fear that it just takes one of these assholes to panic or take it too far and someone's gonna get seriously hurt or killed.

if i cant wear the watch my mother gave me for my birthday in my neighborhood, where can i wear it? should i put it on and take it off as i enter and leave the neighborhood? i am very cautious in that i am always checking my back and across the street. if that isnt enough, so be it.

Eh. Be that as it may. I am not blaming the victim. But I still think that it is ill advised to wander these streets at this time listening to your iPod wearing something expensive publicly without paying attention to your surroundings. I offer this not as an indictment of the victims, but rather as advice to potential victims on how to avoid becoming one. I have been paced for a mugging in the area, and successfully avoided it by being aware (details in another thread.)

You can take this advice in the spirit it is offered, or you can leave it. You can accuse me of blaming the victim, whatever. Jimmy crack corn and I don't care. Heed these precautions, or don't. Open up an ostrich farm while you are at it.

Innocent X wrote: I've never used the white headphones from Apple. To much of a tell.

not to mention they sound like crap.

I have to wear nice clothes to my job. Should I go to work in sweatpants and a ripped denim jacket and change into my nice clothes there, then change back before I leave. I mean its really my fault if I send out a signal that I have a nice job by wearing appropriate clothes, right? I am practically advertising to these rapscallions that I am mugging material for daring to wear nice clothes.

I am so sick of hearing about what people "should not" have on them. Thje only people who "should not" be doing something is the muggers. The should not mug innocent people. Its about time we stop coddling these predators and blaming ourselves for "tempting" them but using things that belong to us and we work hard for.