If you didn’t know already, South Vancouver is in the middle of a vicious crime wave!
Link here.
Now, I don’t mean to be insensitive, but I think there is a crucial – almost vital – part of these muggings, that ties them all together:
“Vancouver police are warning residents in south Vancouver about a spate of violent muggings of people walking home alone late at night.”
Really? You were mugged walking alone late at night? As far as I know, that seems to be the most popular place that muggings happen – it’s almost cliché. I mean if you don’t want to get mugged – and I would assume that most don’t – wouldn’t you try to avoid walking home alone late at night?
I’m sure there are plenty of people who do this on a common basis without any regard to their safety. I’m sure their reasons are good ones, like going to work a night shift or going to hook up with your fuck-buddy. Seriously though, it seems like there is some common sense lacking in this equation.
Here’s a simple tip to avoid – most, not all – muggings. Don’t walk home alone at night.
Problem solved.
well i guess i can see your point, although of course in an ideal world, we would be able to go where we want, when we want…of course, we all know that unfortunately isn’t the case..however, as one of the victims of this “rash of muggings”, my experience was a little different. i can’t speak for any of the other people assaulted, but i for one, was NOT walking alone. i was walking home with 3 other people, 2 male, 1 other female. we weren’t robbed, although myself and the other female both had accessible purses, and i know that some of the other victims weren’t robbed either. i believe the street parlance for what happened is that we were “jumped”. what that comes down to is getting punched, kicked, and thrown against walls, doors, and down to the concrete repeatedly. so maybe some of the victims were mugged, but we were just plain shit kicked. so i’m not really sure how we could have avoided pre-meditated, cold blooded and random assault. maybe you have some ideas?