Latvian Folk Music ...
Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranth... on the iPod: just another thing, like my PDA and my phone and my notebook and my good lipstick, that some little bastard deprived me of by mugging me at the DLR station last night (right next to the CCTV camera, though this will not bring back the contents of my handbag or indeed the long-sought handbag itself).
It could have been much worse. I'm unhurt, and it wasn't nearly as frightening as last time. But it did shake me up badly, and I'm not sure my insurance covers any of it ... and, most importantly, I am so sick of having to be nervous. If this can happen at 6pm in a well-lit station as people are coming home from work, then nowhere around here is safe.
Am so thankful for my friends, though:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladymoonray and asynje came over to keep me company, and swisstone left the pub early to come down and escort asynje back to her hotel. And then there was the Good Samaritan who called the police for me, waited with me and gave me £20. Good to remember that some people are, well, good.
Beginning to feel like Arthur Dent, though: whatever the universe thinks it is doing to me, I would like it please to stop. I am fed up with having to deal with emergencies. I want boredom. And new locks.
It could have been much worse. I'm unhurt, and it wasn't nearly as frightening as last time. But it did shake me up badly, and I'm not sure my insurance covers any of it ... and, most importantly, I am so sick of having to be nervous. If this can happen at 6pm in a well-lit station as people are coming home from work, then nowhere around here is safe.
Am so thankful for my friends, though:
ladymoonray and asynje came over to keep me company, and swisstone left the pub early to come down and escort asynje back to her hotel. And then there was the Good Samaritan who called the police for me, waited with me and gave me £20. Good to remember that some people are, well, good.Beginning to feel like Arthur Dent, though: whatever the universe thinks it is doing to me, I would like it please to stop. I am fed up with having to deal with emergencies. I want boredom. And new locks.
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 02:35 am (UTC)I'm not far away if you want company, remember.
And I shall be avoiding the DLR station, I think...
[hugs]
Bloody hell.
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 02:36 am (UTC)In your case I'd seriously be thinking of moving to a different area, although I realise that may be difficult.
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 02:44 am (UTC)*hugs* :(
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:00 am (UTC)Anything I can do?
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Date: Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 09:41 am (UTC)I'll find something. Somehow.
Maybe a 12" one and a course in how to insert it into vital parts of itinerant housing-estate scum?
I know you don't like to be phoned, so I haven't, but if you want to talk, a shoulder to cry on, anything, call me. Please.
"anger is an energy"
Date: Thursday, January 1st, 2004 04:26 am (UTC)I suggest an unserrated 4.5-inch ceramic zirconium oxide blade like a Kyocera FK50... slips into almost any spare space in a boot or a leg-wrap and once the handle is modified it isn't detected on metal detectors -- as Liam mentioned... I personally suggest the space between the 3rd and 4th rib, centre right hand cage. The assailant bleeds to death before anyone can open them up and repair the puncture wound. I also suggest a very serious course in how to use one of these brutes. There is nothing more embarrassing than seeing someone wield a life-taker without knowing how to keep hold of it.
Its not impressive as a deterrent (in the same way that a machete or a samurai blade is impressive) its a weapon for dispatching attackers quickly with the caveat that you know how to use it. Self defence training is I think a very important thing for you to consider before burying blades into people. Believe you me, its not good to feel that you have no other option to use it but if you need to then thats what you need to do...
Sorry for the singular lack of open expression of sympathy expressed in this message, you do have it from me, but while you have plenty of sympathy expressed elsewhere, I wanted to concentrate on giving you some facts for a course of action you might regret -- but which might also save you in future...
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Date: Thursday, January 1st, 2004 08:44 am (UTC)And the defense plea against this is...? That's an illegal concealed weapon, surely?
I don't actually think it's a bad idea, but the question is, is the cure worse than the disease?
Re: "anger is an energy"
Date: Friday, January 2nd, 2004 02:03 am (UTC)>I don't actually think it's a bad idea, but the question is, is the cure worse than the disease?
I leave people to decide for themselves if they want to be protected or simply picked-off in this matter. A weapon's purpose is to shift the balance of power in an unarmed-assailant scenario. At the time we don't know if the loss will be collateral or if a life will be harmed (beyond the harm already done). Learning how and when to wield a weapon (and where it should be hidden) when someone asks to be supplied with oneis one way of ensuring you don't shift the balance from mere collateral loss to death.
Bearing in mind the law sees no difference between our blades when pulled on an assailant. What would your defence plea be?
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Date: Friday, January 2nd, 2004 08:35 am (UTC)Re: "anger is an energy"
Date: Friday, January 2nd, 2004 10:03 am (UTC)Ahhh... when I read "Maybe a 12" one and a course in how to insert it into vital parts of itinerant housing-estate scum?" I mistook you for being serious... If i'd have realised you were bullshitting I'd not have invested any energy in writing a reply...
Re: "anger is an energy"
Date: Friday, January 2nd, 2004 10:26 am (UTC)It was neither 100% one nor the other. I think T manifestly needs some kind of self-defence, but OTOH, I don't think a spell in Holloway prison would do her any good, either.
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:01 am (UTC)Glad it was less frightening than before but devastated that it has happened to you again. Usual offer of assistance from here, although I can't quite see how we can help at all. Just squeak if we can.
We went and inspected Plymouth yesterday, moving the boat over to ShoreStore for the winter. Wish you been with us instead of where you were.
Hugs from us both
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:17 am (UTC)Hugs and much sympathy.
Were there any witnesses beyond the camera?
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:25 am (UTC)don't know what else to say :(
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:35 am (UTC)Oh, darling, that is awful. I hope the thief comes down with an incurable case of nose warts.
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 03:51 am (UTC)And I wonder if you're right that nowhere is safe. I know that it's a feature of getting older, that we see more of what goes on, and worry more, until we're little old ladies who bar our door to the meter reader. But still. They've closed my station building at night because they couldn't guarantee the safety of the rail staff; so now if I come home after 9pm I'm worried sick as I walk out through the side gate with my bag containing phone, PDA, camera, iPod. And of course, my brand new purse, bristling with shiny new credit cards after the previous one was picked out of my bag in Leyton Mills ASDA two weeks before Christmas. Serves me right for shopping in a bloody pikey shop, and for keeping my eyes on my children rather than my bag.
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 06:38 am (UTC)This is the main reason I left London. I hate feeling scared. Ack.
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 06:27 am (UTC)And at 6pm? Jeez, that's utterly horrendous. That's what comes of cutting rail security back to the bone, in areas where it's needed - whilst Lewisham isn't as rough as it once was, it still ain't Pleasantville.
Virtual hugs, which I will translate into real hugs on NY Eve.
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 09:47 am (UTC)I have a spare working mobile if you want to borrow it - it's a Pay As You Go and there's even some credit on it! I've also got a spare, ancient Palm (still working I think) if you are desperate, just say the word and I'll ferry it/them over to you. Can probably help with lipstick too, but not the Latvian folk music...
If there's anything else I can help with (extra aggression, concealed weapons, heavy doses of overdue karma etc) please don't hesitate to shout. This is Not Fair.
Moz
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Date: Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 04:53 am (UTC)B-movie?
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 02:55 pm (UTC)I am so sorry to hear this. I am also so bloody angry to hear this, although that won't help you any. If there's anything we can do to help, let us know.
MC
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Date: Tuesday, December 30th, 2003 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 03:13 am (UTC)I'll be driving to BMovie tonight from
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Date: Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 04:55 am (UTC)See you later! Beer, of course, always helps ...