I wouldn't even say conned or bullied. You allowed this individual to bully you. This is what they teach you in the military? How to be a pussy? You're only tough when you're with your military buddies?
Inspector Jihad
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What's wong with tea? I like tea. The English are historically some of the toughest people around - no one has defeated us on our home soil since Roman times.
Apparently it's true, and American is 'lovely country person' or 'beutiful country person', while Frenchman is 'lawful country person'.
Nice isn't it?
Originally posted by: waggy
oh well now.
ok you aren't a pussy because of being English. you are apussy for pointing out that im a dick and made a mistake!
LOL, no worries, you are forgiven
Well since you're in the military the taxpayer actually paid for the $50, so you shouldn't feel that bad.
If you were in the military, couldn't you have broken his face or something like that? You also had your platoon-mates with you...you had your own miniature fire team! I would think that a group of military guys being harassed by a bum would have probably kicked his ass, although they might get in trouble for it. Well, kudos for the restraint but raspberries for the con.
Originally posted by: effee
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
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
effee,
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Paypal me $50 now!
I bought a fake Rolex Oyster Pearl in Bangalore (December 2006) for Rs. 225 ($5.56) - and it still works.
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Wow, lots of tough guys in this thread hiding behind their keyboards. :roll:
I'm not saying what the OP did was the right way to handle the situation, but you never know how you will react to something until you are actually facing it. This was obviously just a panicked response to a stressful/threatening situation.
Maybe next time he'll just fight the guy and end up getting stabbed or killed; that would be better right? :thumbsdown:
KT
I'm not saying what the OP did was the right way to handle the situation, but you never know how you will react to something until you are actually facing it. This was obviously just a panicked response to a stressful/threatening situation.
Maybe next time he'll just fight the guy and end up getting stabbed or killed; that would be better right? :thumbsdown:
KT
For crying out loud, just walk away! How hard is it to just walk away? Boy, he sure picked the right target, didn't he? behave passive often?
Oh please. I've been accosted by strangers/bums for money plenty of times. All you have to say is "I don't have any money for you" and walk away.
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As have I ( I swear I see a dozen of these types on the way to and from work everyday), but some people are not accustomed to overly-aggresive panhandlers/bums and get freaked out as appears to be the case here.
KT
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I seem to recall a lot of people from your own country raising this question after the Iran hostage situation. Besides, I was half kidding.
Originally posted by: Atheus
The English are historically some of the toughest people around - no one has defeated us on our home soil since Roman times.
Apparently it's true, and American is 'lovely country person' or 'beutiful country person', while Frenchman is 'lawful country person'.
Nice isn't it?
Sort of true. The real reason for the country names is the phonetic similarity. ying guo is england, and they chose a ying with a good meaning. mei guo is the US, the mei chosen means beautiful. Fa guo is france, and so on and so forth. The Chinese have no love for england, don't fool yourself.
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