soda drink money

My friend Natalia got mugged last weekend. She was leaving the gym and was almost home when she felt the knife up against her side. She gave up her wallet, her book bag, her house keys, her cell, and when that wasn't enough he started to fool around with her belt. That was more than she was willing to surrender and she started screaming for help. Apparently this was all in plain sight (and hearing) of several bystanders and a pig cop, but did they do anything? No. The guy decided not to push it, I guess, and took of running down the street with what he had already taken.

Then Natalia realized that in her backpack were the 500 pages that she and her friends had spent the whole week translating, about $6000 (dollars) worth of work. She goes racing after the guy. He looks over his shoulder and sees her gaining on him and he throws her a look like, are you confused lady, haven't you ever been robbed before? now go home and cry like you're supposed to. But that's not what she did. She caught up with that bastard and started punching him in the head until he let go of the bag then she grabbed it booked the hell out of there.

Okay, street thugs aren't the sharpest crayons in the box, but who robs someone coming out of a gym?! When people leave the gym they usually aren't tired, they're fucking pumped up. If you want to rob someone who's not going to put up a fight, you wait outside a hospital or an all-you-can-eat buffet or a buddhist center, but a gym? You might as well rob people coming out of a shooting range.. or a hockey game.

Despite being a fucktard moron he still managed to escape with the rest, including her house keys and ID with her home address on it. For some reason the jerks who own her building haven't changed the locks yet so she's been staying with me. You gotta wonder if a guy like that's gonna come back. Her place is already kind of a mess, so maybe he'll think she's already been robbed and go away.

I hear that everyone gets mugged here sooner or later. Gaby's little brother got mugged last year by a couple of guys with nail clippers or something. He beat them up too. Another girl basically got taken hostage on a public bus while he emptied everyone's pockets. That guy had a gun.. I admit I've never seen anything like this at all and I only remember a few times when I even felt in danger of something like that happening. None of the white dudes I know have been robbed except by the police (here they call that soda drink money).

Yeah, I guess I've been lucky.