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Mugged near Vanguard
I left Vanguard (Ben Watt) last night at 3am. As I'm heading south on Gower towards my car, I see a black SUV (something bigger than a 4Runner...maybe a Denali, Escalade) out of my right side drive down Gower and turn left into Carlton Way (side street between H'wood and Sunset), then it pulls over to the side of Carlton. An African-American guy, 5'11"ish, 170-190 lbs., 28-32, clean-shaven (he looked as if he could've been coming out of a club himself) horizontally-striped polo t-shirt, whitish baseball cap, jeans, light sneakers, gets out of the car and starts walking towards me, about 10 feet away. I'm a little suspicious, so I decide to cross to the west side of the street, but he crosses, too, and intercepts me, asking me what time it is. Then he asks if I have any money and brandishes a chrome handgun underneath his polo shirt. All very low-key; he was just like, "Come on man, come on, give me your cash." Long story short, he got my phone, some cash, some cards, then headed back to that waiting SUV. I headed to my car, drove south, found a cop car five minutes later and reported it.
Tips from the police: travel in pairs, park in the club lot, try to notice features (jewelery, scar tissue, something on the face, gold teeth, rims on the car). The perp kept saying "Don't look at me, don't look at me." Also, this perp was asking me to go to the ATM with him to extract more cash, but I repeatedly said "Look, I don't have any money." He asked for my pin. I just said "I don't have any money" again, which could've gotten me beaten (or worse) if he was more aggressive. He walked away; he didn't force me to come with him...I was lucky.
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Last edited by cassa.de.x on Jul-23-2007 at 23:02
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