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[-] ddplf@szmer.info 75 points 1 week ago

Is this an american day to day occurance?

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 106 points 1 week ago

Eating cookies? No, that's the dream.

[-] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 week ago

unprovoked violent threat; victim so calloused to violence they still communicate simply and honestly; assailant sparing the innocent and guiding them to a safer area

Is this an american day to day occurance?

It's pretty much every encounter I've ever had with a gang member.

[-] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

I feel like I've been in multiple shitty situations where I was saved by being dumb or weird and the would-be attacker being either confused or amused enough to let me be.

Not the most exciting, but I once answered a skeezy call at 2:00am. It was a holiday, so I was one of maybe 6 people in the dormitory. It was very much a horror story setup. The caller said something unpleasant and it was 2:00am so I didn't really get what he said. "I'm sorry, could you call back tomorrow? Be happy to talk about it then, but right now I'm super tired."

Probably wouldn't have even remembered it if the young woman across the hall hadn't gotten a call the same night. She told me about it the next day. He somehow managed to briefly convince her that he was her highschool boyfriend. They talked for a few minutes before she realized it wasn't him.

As for me? Dirty bastard never called me back.

(Probably necessary context: College, early nineties, there was a campus phone book that literally gave your name, dorm, room, and phone extension. Finding a woman alone during the holiday was as easy as looking at rooms with lights on and checking the book.)

[-] ericatty@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

OMG you triggered a memory. 1990 college girls dorm, same setup with the phone numbers. Guy would call and ask us about our fingernails. Eventually we started talking about it and older ones would warn the new ones moving in...

[-] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Girl code at its best. That de-escalates getting that call from a horror movie situation into, "Oh - this is the fingernail creeper they've told us about. Bye."

I never heard about a repeat performance from our caller. Now I'm curious if he graduated or what.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago

No. Most of us don’t have 7-11.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Good point. This is probably in Japan.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

7-11 exists in Japan, and are quite popular.

[-] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

We have so many 7-11s in my area; do other states not have them‽ I’ve traveled quite a bit but it’s honestly not something I kept a tally of

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

They disappeared in a lot of places. They were replaced by Casey's, Kwik Stop, and Kum n Go (that’s a real fucking name btw)

[-] mark3748@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kum & Go is no more. Maverik bought them and rebranded them.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Damn, I'm going to miss driving by the Ejaculate & Evacuate as I drive through.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Bruh they out here ruining our fun

[-] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Damn I'm going to miss the full body lattes

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Huh. I drive by two on my way anywhere, and a half dozen Mavericks. My parents live near a corner with two 7-11 convenience stores, one of which also has 7-11 gas.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I'm 53 and I've never seen an armed robbery, even lived in Chicago and worked on the South Side. Also, I can hardly think of a time I saw in gun in public that wasn't on a cop.

I've been robbed at knife point, but that was on me. Not going to tell that story!

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

Lol at I've never SEEN one.....but I have BEEN in one.

[-] ddplf@szmer.info 15 points 1 week ago

I've been robbed at knife point, but that was on me. Not going to tell that story!

You can't just say stuff like that and refuse to elaborate!

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago
[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I saw someone pointing a gun at someone else in Hollywood in the late 90s. Didn't stick around to find out what was going on, but there was no gunshot, so I assume it didn't end too badly.

A few years back, I was carrying groceries back to my car when a guy approached me pointing at me with something obscured by his jacket pocket and said he had a gun and wanted me to take him somewhere. I paused and decided that even though he probably didn't have one I wasn't willing to risk it, and besides, I had time to give him a lift. Once he was in the car he said he didn't have a gun and thought I was just going to tell him to fuck off. I said I wasn't a risk taker. He talked about being on the run from the police and started talking about how he was in his 30s and needed to stop doing things like this. I never saw any police, so he might have just been paranoid, but who knows. He had me drop him off behind a building not too far away. A strange experience - he should have tried asking nicely instead.

[-] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I live in a more southern area and I've seen so many people with guns

Queue dude with a hand cannon strapped to his belt in the produce section of Walmart.

[-] odium@programming.dev 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pulling a knife seems more London. US would have a gun pulled.

[-] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

Knife murders are also higher stateside: there were 4.96 homicides “due to knives or cutting instruments” in the US for every million of population in 2016.

In Britain there were 3.26 homicides involving a sharp instrument per million people in the year from April 2016 to March 2017.

Euronews

Nah, guns are expensive, knives are useful outside of stabbing people. I'd absolutely expect a knife for a simple holdup here.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago

Guns for show, knives for a pro!

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

No. It's not uncommon in rough parts of town in major cities, but it's also not something that most people will encounter, especially if they're not in the really bad parts of town.

Yup, I'm kinda old and never seen anything like this. The closest I've seen is a dude open carrying a gun shopping at a grocery store just talking with his wife.

Nothing ever happens to the average person...

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've had knives pulled on me a couple times, and a gun one time. I also had a crazy Nazi tweaker threaten me with a homemade hatchet. But I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, and continued associating with a lot of the wrong people into young adulthood. The first half of my life was very far from average. What's interesting is that those experiences never really leave you. I live in an extremely safe area now, but I'm still hyper aware of my environment when I'm out, and I spot potential threats long before my friends are aware of anything sketchy.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Usually it is a gun. Must of been on a sunday.

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

What no, is this an honest question? I've never seen or been a part of an armed robber nor has anyone close to me

Closest was my dad getting pickpocketed in Rome. He loves to travel and only had that one negative experience.

Nobody in my family has had anything like this happen in the US. Sometimes in Brazil or something, but that's it.

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah. At the very least, it happens with enough regularity in the decently populated cities.

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