Almost Stabbed In Mistaken Attack

[Enraged]

2009 to early 2010 has been an absolute nightmare for me. I haven't done a single bit of proper modding in any sense or form during this period, but it will end in about a months time as my exams are coming to an end. (I would like to point out the exams are not the main cause of disturbance, but I don't want to talk about that more.) Yesterday was my first exam as a retake of my Critical Thinking. (At my school you have to take it at As.) As I was leaving, literally less then a few metre's from my school's front gate, I was stopped and had a knife pulled on me.

In my area, there is a very, very large religous secondary/As school. A lot of the people there are regularly attacked by other schools, just because of their religion. I was mistaken for being a part of the school by this asshole.

Although I wasn't lying when I tried explaining to the idiot I wasn't one of them, I did lie about which religion I was. Entertainingly for me, the idiot bought it, but this didn't stop him from attempting to mug me.

Now, I had just come out of an exam. I did not have anything of value on me. No mobile, no games consoles, nothing. I was expecting to get stabbed here. At this point, he, not suprisingly, didn't believe me, and threatened to take me round a corner to open my pockets and check my claim. (No seriously, this is not a gay joke.) I managed to get him to let me very slowly open each pocket to show the fact they were empty. Finally he walked off.

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Although that's bad enough, here are the bits that make it worse.
1. This WAS a racially motivated, if mistaken, attack.
2. This was done in broad daylight at about 11 AM. Lots of traffic although no people on the pavement passed us.
3. On the opposite side of the street a CCTV camera was facing me directly. Either he was extremelly stupid or these muggers have just stopped caring, and who can blame them? CCTV is proving itself absolutely useless at preventing crime.
4. When he initially approached me, his hood was down. It was only once he pulled out the knife that he covered himself.
5. This guy, was at the oldest, 17. This means he's either a drop out or an illegal immigrant and niether of those would suprise me.

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So are these criminals getting dumber or just more arrogant? Also, I wanted to try and get the footage from the CCTV camera, and others, allowing me to trace him back to his home so there might be chance I could get him arrested. After looking into it, I realised this was more trouble then it's worth due to a whole load of Data Protection and privacy problems, which I respect, but is this the reason that the police can't really use CCTV?

Thanks for reading.

[Major Banter]

I assume you're British?

That's the shithole our country is.

[Unstoppable Florence]

Sheesh, sucks that you had to deal with this. You have reported this to the police right?

[MáØ]

You guys think you have it bad...

Over here the cops deal weed ;p

[Enraged]

Reporting it to the police was the reason I was gonna' do the CCTV myself, and yes, this is the reality of Britain. When they're good at their job, they're exceptional, but this happens rarely. When they're doing the 95%-99% of the rest of their job, they are absolutely fucking useless.

[Major Banter]

And that's usually filling in forms or dealing with petty shit.

In my opinion, we need to simply bomb Essex.

[SotaPoika]

Well, you better carry some firepower with you these days. Or at least knife, hidden so if someone checks you it can't be found. Or start working out, those pricks don't come alone to threaten guy who got some more muscle than they do.

[pk_hunter]

Bampots will be bampots wherever you are in the world.

I've had a knife pulled on me before. It's a horrendous experience that you will no doubt repeat time and time again in your head wondering if you should have done anything differently.
At least you never lost anything.

you better carry some firepower with you these days. Or at least knife

That is terrible advice, and I urge you not to follow it.

start working out

Good advice.

[MayheM]

It really saddens me that things like this happen. That kid is going to do that to the wrong person and will end up the dumbass who brought a knife to a gun fight. I am not saying he should be shot, but it is bound to happen.

I really do think to a certain degree many people are growing up thinking they are entitled to everything they want without having to work for it.

All that aside, I'm glad you made it out unharmed.

[ad_hominem]

you better carry some firepower with you these days. Or at least knife

That is terrible advice, and I urge you not to follow it.

QFT

[Major Banter]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jul/27/ukguns.news

Exactly why Ad and PK are right.

[source-maps]

I go nowhere without my mac 10 and rocket launcher nowadays

[MáØ]

you better carry some firepower with you these days. Or at least knife

That is terrible advice, and I urge you not to follow it.

Not always, I mean, I've kept pepper spray with me at all times since I was 15

Better safe with a non-lethal method of self defense then shot and left for dead in an ally I think.

[pk_hunter]

Better safe with a non-lethal method of self defense

I somehow doubt SotaPoika was thinking of pepper spray when he said firepower.


If Enraged had pulled a knife in response to the bampot threatening him, I can guarantee the situation would not have reached an end without violence.
Sure you can argue that the bampots are young and stupid and are just acting the hard man, but that's not going to stop them panicking and lashing out if they see a threat.

[Gary]

Aren't guns banned in Britain anyways?

Though, having a knife with you doesn't sound like a horrible idea, cause if he was really about to stab you, you would at least have a chance. And of course if it was legal to carry a gun and you had one, then when someone tries to mug you with a knife, they will loose. But I would not try pulling a knife while someone has you at gun point, as your just get shot.

This really does suck though, it's sad that there are people in the world that will do that.