I'm generally pretty confident walking the streets by myself and in hindsight it was a stupid thing to be doing in this area, after midnight. But I was only 2 blocks from our hotel and figured that nothing too bad could happen in such a short distance.
2 reasonably big guys, lets say roughly the size of Elvis in his later days, tackled me to the ground (pretty rude seeing as I said 'good evening' to them). They held me there while another 3 guys, roughly the size of Dustin Hoffman, completely ramsacked me for everything that I had, tearing my necklace off my person. Even my scarf wasn't spared!
Here is an artist's impression of the desperate scene.
They even removed my shoes to make sure I didn't have any more cash in there, so don't believe that ol' trick fellow backpackers. The scene came to an abrupt halt when one of the Dustin Hoffman's tried to steal my wedding ring and I gave him a very nice elbow to the nose, which immediatley started bleeding (in hindsight, I think this may be the only limb I've ever thrown in anger). For whatever reason, the attack stopped at this point (I'm quite sure it had very little to do with my magic elbow, these guys could have easily killed me if they wanted to), I put my shoes on and continued my walk home.
All in all I got off very lightly, there was no intention of serious harm and I walked away with only a few bruises and scratches. I would like to thank my attackers for not being too over the top, it may seem as though I consider the whole thing a joke but I actually did learn my lesson (ok mum).
Adam despite the 3 open options to judge your mugging story, of which I could have selected all three, i would like to admit to you that I found the story more interesting than it was funny and I would guess that you could say that the situation seems like it was less cool than funny. So after much deliberation I selected "interesting" and felt urged to find a better hiding place on my person for money.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got away alive mate.
I understand, I believe the reaction boxes may be a little too closely related. They really need to be polar opposites I guess, Like good, bad, funny, come over to my place, I want a puppy etc.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading J-STEP, whoever you are.