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Mugged near Vanguard
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| cassa.de.x |
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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| HotDogWater |
| that's terrible man... sorry to hear it :( |
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| bas |
| Wow that is ED up man :( I'm so sorry to hear that. I got mugged coming out of a 7-11 in Santa Ana one time, the guy had a knife. Luckily all he got was some cash and my friends sunglasses (lol OWNED) but it was still scary. |
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| psychochick |
| That's horrible .. but glad to hear you're okay. |
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| Miss Julia |
| WOW, that's terrible. :( Glad you're ok. I would've been so pissed that I probably would've done something stupid in that situation. |
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| mmeyn1 |
| ...as long as youre safe, thats the important thing... |
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| mattW |
Wow, sorry to hear your story. like this happens way too often. Glad you weren't harmed and hope you can get something positive out of this, especially since it could have been a lot worse.
Good advice from the police...too bad it's necessary. |
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| Victor Dinaire |
wow, im sorry to hear that.
never been mugged before. im not sure how i would have reacted to that. |
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| Rukes |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Julia
WOW, that's terrible. :( Glad you're ok. I would've been so pissed that I probably would've done something stupid in that situation. |
Like move to Canada? :) |
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| lex400sc |
| dude that sucks, but next time give him your atm pin backwards. your bank should have their machines programmed to recognize that as a distress code and at best he gets arrested on the spot. at worst you get his mug and license plate on bank surveillance. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by lex400sc
dude that sucks, but next time give him your atm pin backwards. your bank should have their machines programmed to recognize that as a distress code and at best he gets arrested on the spot. at worst you get his mug and license plate on bank surveillance. |
No ? I'll have to remember that. |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by lex400sc
dude that sucks, but next time give him your atm pin backwards. your bank should have their machines programmed to recognize that as a distress code and at best he gets arrested on the spot. at worst you get his mug and license plate on bank surveillance. |
For reals? Thats interesting. |
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