I was just mugged!

[Al B. Sure!]

About forty minutes ago, i was walking on germantown and about johnson when this one guy about my age asked me if i had weed and i said i didn't and i continued walking and he followed me a couple steps behind and then ran to me and grabbed me and pushed me against a lap-post and another boy ran over and started beating my face demanding weed... and he was big too and beat me bad. i gave them my wallet that had 50 dollar bill in it, four or five twenties and a couple fives and ones and they stole my cd player and ran off to some car and drove off.

a couple blocks away, i saw two policemen who drove me to where these other males were being arrested and asked me if they were them but they weren't... then the cops took me home...

god damn! i'm mad as ****! i lost over one hundred dollars and my cd player! thank god my check card was outside my wallet! all cause of some ****ing weed!

god damn this my ****ing neighbourhood! thats it i'm ****ing buying a gun with my next paycheck

[Imran Siddiqui]

Damn!

You should walk with your friends and stuff. Strength in numbers, ya know?

[Al B. Sure!]

god damn i'm mad as ****

[Al B. Sure!]

i was coming home from my late shift at mcdonalds... the bus don't really run this late so i had to walk...

but this my ****ing neighbourhood... i probably had first grade with those two boys

[David Floyd]

Move to a safer area.

Or buy a gun - that would definitely be good.

Can you afford to enroll in self defense courses? I can recommend several street-effective styles.

[CorpusScorpius]

just be glad you are still breathing. I realize U worked Hard for your money but do like I do, I never carry more than 35$ in my pocket.

[chequita guevara]

Did you file a report?

[Al B. Sure!]

but the thing with the gun was that the guy snuck up behind me and grabbed me keeping my arms to the side and then the other boy came... a gun wouldn't have done much of anything but i think i'm still going to buy a gun... whats a low price gun i can get and what kind of store can i get it where i know it's legit? do k-marts and wal-marts still sell guns?

[Al B. Sure!]

oh i guess they wouldn't sell handguns... i need a small, cheap handgun

[Al B. Sure!]

yeah chegitz i talked to the two cops and they wrote it up... won't do nothing though... it was 12:50 am or so and it was dark, i didnt have my glasses on, and its hard to get a good description in a situation like that... two black males, one with a scraggly beard... thats all i could tell.

[chequita guevara]

You could have shot them as they were running away, but then you'd go to jail.

[Alexander's Horse]

Oh good - buy a gun so next time they can shoot you as well

[Al B. Sure!]

damn my one side of my face is ****ing burning... that boy kept beating my **** up... telling me to give him my ****ing weed... god damn ****ing drugs i ****ing hate that ****ing ****

[David Floyd]

Next time, put your thumb in his eye, and push in as hard as you can. Use your fingernails, if you can.

Seriously.

[mrmitchell]

File a report. Putting it on file can't hurt.

Start walking through a different part of town if you can.

Maybe you looked like you were a regular druggie--make sure to dress so that people DON'T think you're high all the time.

Put on some buff. People would be more likely to attack Bill Gates than Vin Deisel.

Walk with friends. Strength in numbers--hell, you learned that lesson from him! He got his friend out on you instead of doing a one-man job! Cheap muggers, can't even take down a guy by themselves.

My local Wal-Mart sells a bunch of hunting guns. I don't know really exactly everything, but they probably don't have these huge aisles of self-defense guns or something.

Does Philly have hidden weapon permits though? You could get in just as big **** if they found out you had a gun and you weren't supposed to.