[davenotdead]

we do everything in America better. our muggers generally have guns.

[joe11121]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I was walking home from work this evening, and when I got near Brick Lane I saw a boy and a girl approaching this 6 ft tall guy to demand him handing over his wallet and mobile phone. This man looked down on the girl and landed her one right in the middle of the face, so the guy with her shouted at him ''We FUCKIN' TOLD YOU TO GIVE US YOUR MONEY AND MOBILE PHONE YER CUNT!!''. The guy just looked at him calmly and punched him so hard in the face he fell over and ended up bloodied right outside an Indian restaurant, where all the waiters who were standing outside laughed and laughed. What a ridiculous attempt at robbing someone, he was twice their size and looked like a tough man from every angle.

hahahahhaa, pathetic.

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by davenotdead

we do everything in America better. our muggers generally have guns.

And our muggees.

[davenotdead]

true. i know this middle-aged woman who was followed to her car... as soon as she closed her door this guy knocked on her window holding a knife and told her to throw her purse out the window... she grabbed her purse and pulled out her pistol, and the dude ran away.

 

Originally Posted by davenotdead

we do everything in America better. our muggers generally have guns.

I can see the irony in your post. Amd where a more civilised country is located too.

[the ikara cult]

Sounds like drugged up kids to me. Thats what happened when i got mugged and it was only one guy who was smaller than me, and ivve always thought i could have easily taken the guy down, but you dunno how to react when youre being threatened. He got arrested in the end though, and ive never even been spoken to since, i think its because i look a little unhinged rather than looking poor.

[cars_willkillyou]

Originally Posted by pbradley

I've never been mugged nor witnessed a mugging.

And I've lived in some seedy areas.

I must have an aura of cashlessness.

I think the cashlessness factor is the main reason i havent been mugged. Im 5'9", 155 lbs. I'm a small white dude. But if I'm walking around, I'm usually wearing the same chuck taylors ive had since 10th grade, a pair of dirty jeans that have been worn at least 2 or 3 times since they have last been washed, and a t-shirt. I don't dress to impress, I dress to avoid attention.

I have often fantasized about getting mugged though.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Lurker - Jesus, that sound horrible. At least it sounds like it wasn't wildly traumatic for you.

Yeah I wasn't wildly traumatised. But I was traumatised. It was weird, I was laughing about it that night, but gradually as days went by I started to feel it subtly and deeply, and for a long time afterwards. I was pretty lucky I wasn't seriously hurt or stabbed, just had a bad headache afterwards.

[demonrail666]

That area around Brick Lane seems to be getting worse and worse. Last time I was there I definitely felt a more threatening atmosphere than I had in the past.

[Lurker]

Yeah, I wasn't by Brick Lane but further into Mile End. Yeah that area is a shit hole.

[demonrail666]

If anything I think Mile End is even worse. I lived there about fifteen years ago and it wasn't that bad at all. It's a total dump now though. A depressing hole of a place.

shut up, you too. london is mostly a safe and friendly city.

[Lurker]

It seems that London has gotten really shit in the last ten years, not that I'm old enough to really know, or that I really know London, but I don't think it was like this until now.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

shut up, you too. london is mostly a safe and friendly city.

What areas would you recommend? West Hampstead? Richmond?

[Lurker]

Do you know why it is called Mile End? It's because at some point in time jews had to live at least one mile outside of the city, so Mile End at some point marked that area which is partly why it was once a jewish area.

The area near Mile End that leads to Canary Wharf. It's so great in so many ways I can't even describe it. It has it all, not so central, cosmopolitan, old-fashioned english, breathtakingly beautiful when you walk near the river, and i could go on and on and on.

I made it a misson to print on my music's outings that it' been recorded in east london because of it.

[Lurker]

Right, Thanks, I'll have to explore that area.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Lurker

Do you know why it is called Mile End? It's because at some point in time jews had to live at least one mile outside of the city, so Mile End at some point marked that area which is partly why it was once a jewish area.

I didn't know that was how Mile End got its name.

That part of East London has definitely declined dramatically in the last ten years. It was always a bit sleazy and depressing but there's a massive heroin problem there now which has just ruined the place IMO. A couple of my relatives are cab drivers and they won't go near parts of Mile End, Whitechapel and Stepney anymore.

which ones? commercial road is parallel to mile end road and a totally differnet world.