# Ever been Mugged?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-mugged/422830>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 15, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-mugged/422830 "2007-10-15T20:35:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-mugged/422830/41 "2008-01-12T21:55:45Z")

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Not exactly a mugging, but more ‘aggressive panhandling’. I was walking down a back street in East Lansing (of all places, not known for muggings) and a shady homeless fella comes up to me and says “I want all of your money.”

Me being the invincible young nerd that I am (read: stupid) said “Oh, the old ‘your GP or your HP’ concept, eh? Well man, it is rough all over and it is going to get a lot rougher if you don’t back the fuck off.” I think this confused him, as he just kind of wandered away. About 20 minutes later, it hit me how incredibly stupid that was.

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