Have you ever had a gun or knife pulled on you?
Gun: Twice
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Knife: Boscombe, near ‘Sunny’ Bournemouth.
I’ve had an interesting life, lol.
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Knifes- a few times, and been cut a few, never proper stabbed though. And I've never carried one.
Guns- Not me but - My mate (best mate) got shot at near my house and his mate who was with him got hit, not to bad though, was from a distance with a shotty, but dude was still fucked up.
Luckily, on all counts, no munitions were discharged and no weapons were deployed. Just a lot of pointing and shouting in my case.
shareThat's how it goes most times. 9/10.
It's also how you react to certain situations, I was having a party about a year ago, and one of my old mates who supposedly hated me for no reason (well his crackhead reasons, dude was legit nuts) rocked up at mine, came through the back gate weilding a machete, waving it around. My best friend was drunk as ( and fearless and a boss fighter) and just snatches the machete from his hand mid-swing, he saved me.
Plus I live in Australia, the "gun free" country. But they are easy to get, but not every man and his dog has one anymore. Gives you a faulse sense of security, till you got one in ya face, and you don't have yours.
But you get caught carrying one over here, most likely going to jail for a couple months, just for having one.
Gun once, knife twice
1. Had my Frejus 10-speed bicycle stolen at knifepoint in Central Park NYC when I was 14 years old (1975). A gang surrounded my and my pal who had stopped to throw a baseball back and forth. It happened so fast I didn't have time to be scared.
2. Around 1980 (21 years old) a pal and I took a shortcut through a field while vacationing in Vermont. It was at night, we were walking down a dirt road and a car pulls up, stops, and the driver points a gun at us. We ran like hell. We were near a college and this person (I'm guessing) was sick of college students using his property as a shortcut.
3. This one is recent, no more than a year ago. I'm walking back home from having lunch (i.e. it's broad daylight) and as I approach a convenience store I see a guy with arm extended (not at me) and something in his hand, which I think is a gun. It feels like my heart has stopped and has traveled to my mouth. I walk across the street and he sees me and shouts "You afraid of me?" and starts to cross the street after me. He's in his 20s and maybe on drugs. I see that it is a knife--a homemade looking one, with a long thin blade. I ask him to leave me alone because I can't run (which is true, I have arthritis in my big toes) and this triggers something in him and he walks away down an alley. Of the three times this was by far the scariest. I don't carry a cell phone and don't know if the store owner was aware of him, so he apparently got away with it. I never saw him again.
No laughing matter.
shareGun once - Work place robbery. No shots fired. This is Canada so I can't even say 100% it was a real gun, but not going to take the chance.
Knife Twice - Once was a robbery at work, no one hurt. The other was outside a club that ended in a stabbing death.
Both.. The odd thing is that despite being outnumbered, this only made me angrier, and I got even more aggressive with my mouth. I don't understand it.
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i have not. my brother who was a teacher in some rough northern canadian towns and reserves has seen plenty of knives.
shareA friend of mine pulled a knife on me once. He put the knife to my throat and seriously threatened to kill me.
It's a complicated story.