Comments on: Dude, This Dude Was Crazy!

By: Chris Loos

Chris Loos — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:28:33 +0000

Good work Nicholas…way to fight back!

By: rcr

rcr — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:45:12 +0000

Jamie-

In some sense I agree, I walk everywhere smart and feel safe. As for the enemy? There is one. Fear. I will not be made to feel afraid in my own home. I will fight back. Is it worth it? yes. I don’t have a wife or kids. I just have pride and principle.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:39:14 +0000

lucky very lucky, if they were brazen enough to come up on his porch im suprised they did not beat him to death or close to it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:35:17 +0000

I think they might think twice if as punishment, they got thier nuts whacked off!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:55:47 +0000

I think Expat is on to something about raising the “price” of doing a robbery. But the way to raise the price is NOT by having the victim fight back. It’s by getting the police to actually catch the criminals and attaching real consequences to such crimes.

As it is now, the “price” of doing a robbery is almost nil because the chances of getting caught are near zero and EVEN IF CAUGHT there are virtually no consequences. Crime does pay in DC!

By: nate

nate — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:48:30 +0000

I wonder what is the description of the muggers?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:30:21 +0000

I wold like to suggest when this punks get caught – and their lifestyle will eventually catch up to them, they be sterialized. It seems like these punks are good at doing three things – littering, crime, and procreating. Make it no different from the pound, they are afterall animals!

By: Herb

Herb — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:23:44 +0000

I think he did the right thing although I wonder what his mother’s opinion is?.

By: reuben

reuben — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:54:16 +0000

I understand his frustration with these a——s, but there is one seriously mean-spirited element raising hell on DC streets. Hell, they might kill you even if you give them what they want.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:46:03 +0000

To those who think fighting is the right answer, ask yourself how much is your life worth. Did you guys forget about Brian Beutler already? He was shot twice over his iPhone not two weeks ago.

If even one out of 100 muggers has a gun, then you’ve decided you’ll bet the contents of you pockets against your life at 100 to 1 odds. I don’t know about you, but my life is worth a HELL of lot more than that. And in reality, probably 1 in 5, or more, muggers is carrying a gun or other weapon.

This is not about “taking the streets back.” Most of us don’t live in fear, there is no revolution, no dictator that needs to be overthrown. In 18 years in DC I’ve been mugged once. I walk everywhere in Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan, U Street. I don’t feel unsafe.

Yes, muggings are common overall, but this is a big city. For any individual, they are rare events. There is no benefit to fighting back, and your own stupid action isn’t going to change anyone’s mind about whether or not to go and jack someone tonight. There’s no enemy to defeat, any more than we can defeat the “enemy” in Iraq or win the war on terror. Just give it up, and live.