That didnāt look like a mugging, that looked like weirdly furtive aggressive panhandling. A lot of āmuggingsā do happen that way, but they need a different name. This was just throwing money at scary people to make them go away.
Oh come on, thereās no way to tell at all what happened based on this video.
They made it look like at least part of this actually aired and then they just went on to the next segment without any comment??!
Itās hard to say - at one point it looked like they were trying to take the reporterās watch. You canāt really tell what happened here since most of it happens off camera. Just a lot of aggressive āgimme gimme gimme GIVE MEā.
It looked like a mugging by people who are so used to mugging people that they hardly even need to announce it. I think it would have quickly turned into the Hollywood version of a mugging that I think you expect if heād have resisted.
Scary stuff.
Have you been mugged? I was mugged in a passive aggressive way. This rough looking guy came up me (he looked dirty and rough and like he didnāt give a fuck) and said give me some money or iāll have to get violent. I ended up giving him my bus pass just to ākeep him happyā. It didnāt feel like a mugging until I had to buy another bus pass.
Itās not always violent or guns or knives.
Overt threats are not passive-aggressive, theyāre just plain aggressive. A passive-aggressive mugging happens more like: Guy sidles up to you walking down the street, starts off like a gregarious panhandler, maybe asks for a cigarette, then the conversation gets uncomfortable. āHey, thatās a nice ring, is that silver? Sterling silver? Man, thatās the good stuff! You mind if I take a look at that?ā Conversation gets distinctly less friendly. āCome on, Iāll give it back, you donāt trust me, what are you, a racist?ā Etcetera. If you just gave him the ring as soon as he asked for it, heād make some excuse about how heāll be right back, then disappear. That was a robbery, but not a mugging until it gets real ugly.
Splitting hairs? Maybe, but Iāve had guys try that and Iāve had guys come hard, and they were very different experiences, enough IMO to warrant the semantic nuance.
Agreed, thus ādidnāt look likeā instead of āwasnāt.ā
Fair enough.
No, both examples you gave are examples of muggings. Slightly different types of muggings, but still very definitely muggings.
How dare you unilaterally define my experience? How dare you, sir or madam?!
ETA: More seriously, the usefulness of the distinction is this: Thereās no bright line between voluntarily giving money to a deferential panhandler and giving it to a pushy one. There is a line at threat of force, which is when the donation stops being strictly voluntary.
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