I just got conned/bullied

effee

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So i decided to go to top up petrol for my bike, went to a pretty notorious area for its crime rates, mainly because of the cheaper petrol there. I was with 3 other platoon mates, we had the weekend off from the army base we are attached to.

I'm done topping up petrol and just hanging around waiting for the rest of my friends, suddenly this ragged guy comes up to me and acts all scared, looking over his shoulder, he sidles up to me and takes out a rolex, presses it into my hand, and tell me 200 bucks.

I'm like huh? Is this really happening to me. He tell me he stole it from his boss and is on the run. I tell him no, I don't want it, and I don't have the cash for it.

He then becomes desperate, and I mean really pressuring me into getting that obviously fake rolex. So it goes back and forth for about 5 mins, with me telling him that I don't have the cash for it and him getting even MORE desperate.

By this time there are people watching, as the guy is drawing the attention of the other people at the kiosk. My friends are telling me to just leave the damn watch.. but the guy is just so persistent and pressurising me. I don't know what came over me but at that moment it felt like I couldn't just leave the guy, even though I wanted to just get the hell out of there.

So I made the mistake of taking out my wallet and shoving 50 bucks to him, just to get him to leave me alone. I didn't want the fake rolex and tried giving him the watch back together with the 50.

He grabbed the 50 and put it in his pocket, I swear the 50 bucks disappeared so fast I didn't know it was out of my hand :D

Anyway, he wante more than just 50 bucks, and i just wanted to get the hell out of there. I though the guy could have had a knife or some other weapon on him, and I didn't want to stay to find out.

Lucky I was with my friends, they came over and stood behind me, and asked what the guy wanted. The sight of 4 of us against 1 of him I guess was enough to scare him off and he left with my 50 :(
Well, at least I have the fake rolex and another lesson learned :p

 

AZGamer

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You should not be allowed to carry cash in denominations higher than $1 bills in your wallet anymore. Then you can think about how stupid what you're doing is as you're doing it.
 
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Uh, WTF? Whatever you do, don't get off a train/bus in a Third World country or the more aggressive panhandlers will walk away with your clothes and later tell you the material makes their skin itch.

Seriously, wtf? You should have shoved him and given him a swift boot to the ass.

Edit: For future reference, 'getting conned' would be a guy in a business suit selling you a $2000 pair of Kirsch/Paradyme speakers out of a White Van for only $200, claiming they fell off the truck or some ridiculous story about how the warehouse ordered 10 but they received 20 by accident.
 

effee

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Yea I guess I got bullied. Oh well I would like to think that the 50 bucks is going to feed him for a week or so. Makes me feel better. Like donating to charity. :D
 

bignateyk

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Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
You should resign from the Army immediately. Pussy.

He's English. He has an excuse.

Fvck you. Die. Come over here and I'll cut your ***** face off you arrogant beautiful being.



whoa.. touchy subject. [slowly backs out of thread]
 

BAMAVOO

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Originally posted by: Atheus
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
You should resign from the Army immediately. Pussy.

He's English. He has an excuse.

Fvck you. Die. Come over here and I'll cut your ***** face off you arrogant beautiful being.

Come over here and you can go to jail for that comment.
 

Atheus

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Sorry... instinctive reaction... I don't like being called a pussy. I like it even less when Americans refer to the English in general as pussies, I mean, where do you get the idea from? No other country would ever classify us that way. Do you know how the Chinese for Englishman translates - "Hero country person".
 

Regs

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I would of been like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. Just get crazy on him.

Two can play this game!
 

paulxcook

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Your $50 will likely last him a few days worth of booze.

I usually just refuse panhandlers when I"m downtown, but if I'm feeling extra guilty/generous I will buy them food. I don't give out money. I'm surprised that, with 4 of your armed-forces friends there, you still gave him $50.
 

Accipiter22

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YOU'RE IN THE MILITARY?!?!??! No offense, but why are you letting someone like that make you feel uncomfortable?? I'm baffled.
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: Atheus
Sorry... instinctive reaction... I don't like being called a pussy. I like it even less when Americans refer to the English in general as pussies, I mean, where do you get the idea from? No other country would ever classify us that way. Do you know how the Chinese for Englishman translates - "Hero country person".

ok. you are not a pussy because you are English. you are a pussy because you can't stand up for yourself.
 

Atheus

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Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: Atheus
Sorry... instinctive reaction... I don't like being called a pussy. I like it even less when Americans refer to the English in general as pussies, I mean, where do you get the idea from? No other country would ever classify us that way. Do you know how the Chinese for Englishman translates - "Hero country person".

ok. you are not a pussy because you are English. you are a pussy because you can't stand up for yourself.

I'm not the OP.