Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
by jhamburger on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @04:00PM
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Wait, so being threatened and robbed is more scary to you than being savagely beaten and robbed?
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An itchy trigger finger could mean a life threatening injury. I'd rather take the hit and have a bruise that would heal and not end up with a bullet in me.
Actually, a single punch can kill you. (see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392113/Aspiring-rap...)
A single punch killing you is so unusual, you had to back it up with a link. Gunshots do not share this condition.
Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
by redthrowaway on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @04:07PM
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You can fight back if they punch you. If they have a gun, and you do too, then one of you will likely wind up dead.
That said, there are worse ways to be mugged. I had a friend develop a pretty bad smelling problem, and his sponsor in NA used to mug people by sticking a dirty needle into their neck and threatening to inject them with whatever was in it. Pretty savage.