The most incredible [attempted] Brixton hustle EVER!
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AverageJoe
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editor said:
I smacked him as well. Not very admirable now in restrospect, but he made a mistake of doing it me outside my local. One yell of '(name), tools!' and a crack around the kneecaps with a baseball bat later, I immediately felt consumed by guilt as he limped off. Still he had been really aggrssive and insistent and I *hate* being ripped off...
Never saw him again though...
AverageJoe said:
Is this story true?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
years ago i couldn't sleep so went for an early hours wander around st paul's (was a bit pished too) and stumbled through all manner of lunacy. but it was a woman who "needed money for the lekky meter" who got me - managed to run through the whole 'change up these coins' malarkey before we got to the point where i handed over a five pound note in exchange for 5 pound coins... which obviously ended up back in her hand. she invited me up to hers in a dodgy block "to get the change" 
ah well you live and learn
reuben the crackhead tried the "my kid's sick in hospital and i need to get a taxi" routine late one night outside slix. tried to get lairy and everything when i wouldn't give him anything, and nobody looked like giving assistance
in the end i dug out some coppers and threw them in the gutter and told him to piss off.
a few weeks back some guy tried the change trick on, but whilst i was prepared to help someone out, i made sure i had hold of the money throughout, and after he realised he wasn't going to win on this deal he got bored and walked off.
ah well you live and learn
reuben the crackhead tried the "my kid's sick in hospital and i need to get a taxi" routine late one night outside slix. tried to get lairy and everything when i wouldn't give him anything, and nobody looked like giving assistance
in the end i dug out some coppers and threw them in the gutter and told him to piss off.a few weeks back some guy tried the change trick on, but whilst i was prepared to help someone out, i made sure i had hold of the money throughout, and after he realised he wasn't going to win on this deal he got bored and walked off.
I know that they are sad and fucked-up on crack, heroin etc, but I HATE these people, and the more sad the sob-story they use, the more I hate them.
Because, as others have pointed out, they just make everyone else completely cynical, and you just know that one day, someone will knock on your door, or ask you for money in the street, or whatever, and you will turn them away, thinking "just another junkie" and they will have been genuine...
I had a guy come up to me with his arm held awkwardly as if hurt, he told me he had been mugged, had been to the police, and now needed to go to hospital "cos he thought his arm was broken" and needed a cab fare.
I helpfully offered to drive him to the local hospital myself, and strangely, he wasn't interested..... saw him again a few weeks later knocking on doors, and he tried it on me AGAIN, and I said "you are one unlucky f***er aren't you" - same arm hurt this time as well!
Giles..
Because, as others have pointed out, they just make everyone else completely cynical, and you just know that one day, someone will knock on your door, or ask you for money in the street, or whatever, and you will turn them away, thinking "just another junkie" and they will have been genuine...
I had a guy come up to me with his arm held awkwardly as if hurt, he told me he had been mugged, had been to the police, and now needed to go to hospital "cos he thought his arm was broken" and needed a cab fare.
I helpfully offered to drive him to the local hospital myself, and strangely, he wasn't interested..... saw him again a few weeks later knocking on doors, and he tried it on me AGAIN, and I said "you are one unlucky f***er aren't you" - same arm hurt this time as well!
Giles..
Great post Giles
The thing I especially hate about these people is their utter visciousness once they've been found out. There have been a couple of times when I've tried to say some 'helpful words' and more often than not they'll then turn the air blue and call you everything under the sun. Their drug addiction in NO WAY mitigates this.
People like this deserve less than nothing and need to be taken off the streets.
The thing I especially hate about these people is their utter visciousness once they've been found out. There have been a couple of times when I've tried to say some 'helpful words' and more often than not they'll then turn the air blue and call you everything under the sun. Their drug addiction in NO WAY mitigates this.
People like this deserve less than nothing and need to be taken off the streets.
The 'partner about to give birth/taxi fare/mobile phone' is quite an old one and widespread. First time I heard it was from a besuited middle-aged guy in the vicinity of London Bridge station several years ago. We suggested we'd flag down a police car and persuade them to do a 'mercy dash', and he scarpered, cursing.
There appears to be more than one crying lady. I've been stopped twice on Acre Lane, at a 12 month interval, by a well, if flashily (heels, cashmere coat, lots of jewellry), dressed dark haired woman claiming to have been mugged and needing the fare to Merton. Her tearfulness is reasonably convincing, but the effect is spoiled by an hugely exagerated trembling which is almost a jig.
The first time she declined to be accompanied to the Police Station to report the crime and possibly get a lift home. The second time I reminded her we'd met previously and she just said 'Oh, f**k!'
As has been said, the downside is that they reduce the chance of people who really need help, getting it.
There appears to be more than one crying lady. I've been stopped twice on Acre Lane, at a 12 month interval, by a well, if flashily (heels, cashmere coat, lots of jewellry), dressed dark haired woman claiming to have been mugged and needing the fare to Merton. Her tearfulness is reasonably convincing, but the effect is spoiled by an hugely exagerated trembling which is almost a jig.
The first time she declined to be accompanied to the Police Station to report the crime and possibly get a lift home. The second time I reminded her we'd met previously and she just said 'Oh, f**k!'
As has been said, the downside is that they reduce the chance of people who really need help, getting it.
editor said:Just like a serial mugger or a professional burglar, eh?
The problem is that these people have 'no other option' you see, none, none at all, and with this sudden influx of CYP's into the area I think you'll find that the moral high ground is firmly swung in favour of the mugger, burglar and hustler. After all, these CYP's have a very very bad attitude.
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That's the ticket! Perform a vigilante serious assault as punishment for losing £1.Onket said:
If you do perform a vigilante serious assault on this man I trust he presses charges and a judge sends you down. And that your victim's criminal injury compensation is considerably more than £1.
But you would, naturally, secure the backing of the Sun newpaper during your trial, together with its nine million right-thinking, highly intelligent, deeply sensitive readers. On your release Richard Littlejohn would greet you at the doors of Wandworth nick and pin on your chest the "Sun Newspaper 'You Couldn't Make It Up' Order of Merit (Second class).*
* The First Class medal is reserved for those shooting burglars in the back with illegally held weaponry. Perhaps build up to that one, eh?
editor said:
I don't know about 'aggression and intimidation'. Fooling someone into handing over their money for change is surely preferable to shoving some cold steel into their face and taking everything they have, I'm sure you'd agree.
No. I admire aspects of his character, and despise others.pooka said:
Just as I despise the aspect of Onket's character which wishes to perform a vigilante serious assault for losing £1. Onket is anolgous to an 18th century judge wishing to hang a man for stealing a sheep. Onket's reaction is a disgusting one, and far worse than stealing a £1.
So Onket, in this instance, is morally inferior to the man stealing a £1. The £1 man is, in this instance, a better person than Onket.
Steal £ >>>>>> perform vigilante serious assault.
Which do you consider worse? The £1 theft or the proposed serious asault? If you answer correctly you are invited to appear with David Starky on the Moral Maze.
Tell you what, do you reckon it's ok to give a thieving crackhead a good kicking over £1 before he (or his mate) 'might' get out a knife?
I honestly don't know the answer to that one...
To be honest I don't want to give anyone a kicking - I'm all talk and no trousers and would rather fuck off in the other direction without there being any pursuit on either side. But occasionally these things have to happen don't they?
I honestly don't know the answer to that one...
To be honest I don't want to give anyone a kicking - I'm all talk and no trousers and would rather fuck off in the other direction without there being any pursuit on either side. But occasionally these things have to happen don't they?
