My roommate got mugged last night. Our neighborhood isn’t particularly sketchy, unless you think blacks are boogiemen who will shove a gun in your face should you walk a block from your home.
My roommate got mugged last night. We live in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which is a relatively cheap, Puerto Rican and black neighborhood. It’s like Williamsburg ten years ago, or the East Village ten years before that for how us white, recently graduated Midwesterners are moving here so we can cover rent even though we’re pursuing careers in bankrupt creative industries. Point is, our neighborhood is sketchy instead of scary, because sketchy means the locals are so gruff you only imagine a select few of them shoving guns in your face should you leave your apartment. Scary means that shit just happened, to your roommate, who looks exactly like you. Whoops. Our neighborhood has officially become scary as of now:
[Indiscernible cursing in the next room]
Street Carnage: Whoa, Matt! What happened?
Matt: Dude, I just got fucking mugged a block from here! I was walking to the Chauncey stop to see my girlfriend. I was on Moffat Street between Broadway and Bushwick when this dude and a chick came out! The guy had a fucking gun and he told me to give him all my stuff. He said he would shoot me if I moved!
Oh, man.
FUCK!
What did he look like?
Black. He was skinny, a little over six-foot-one. Black clothes, big puffy jacket. Without his gun, he wasn’t intimidating. The girl was about five-foot and had on a black jacket, tight jeans, and a shirt that had different NBA logos all over it.
How did the mugging happen?
I was just walking along. You know that school-looking building with the construction? It was right there along the wooden fence. I heard the guy coming, like he was going to just run right past me but then I saw he was slowing down. I was like, fuck. He pulled up and said, “Hey, how’s it going?” and then he said, “Give me everything on you or I’ll fucking kill you,” and he pulled out a gun. He was telling me not to move while he was slamming me against the fence. He made me give him everything — my iPod, my wallet, and my fucking backpack with all my books in it — and he made me take off my shoes. The girl frisked me and then she pulled her hand into my pants and was playing with my balls.
As if she was checking if you had something there, like, drugs?
Dude, it wasn’t even like that. While the guy was going through my stuff she just kind of held me like that, not even squeezing hard or anything. She just had her hands on my balls.
Weird. Did you think about running?
You know, I always wondered what I would do if I was mugged. Would I give them everything and hope they will let me go without hurting me, or would I struggle and run? As soon as I saw his gun I knew I was fucked — he has so much power. I didn’t want to risk getting shot in the back. Fuck, dude. Oh, hold on. The cops are here.
[leaves apartment; next day]
How’ve you been, buddy?
Hey man. I’m all right. I got the day off from work. They gave me a cash advance so I could get another cell phone.
Last night you went with the cops to look for the muggers?
Yeah. I actually don’t know if that was the best idea, to be honest with you. We circled the blocks where it happened and rode slow up and down Broadway. When we pulled right in front of the Dunkin’ Donuts, the cop told me to peer in. Everyone in there was looking back at me, a little punk white kid who’s talking to the cops. People were seriously mean-mugging me.
I guess you’re a snitch, huh? I still think you did the right thing.
Yeah, I guess so. I had put holds on all my cards, which was a good thing because they tried to run up thousands of charges on my credit card. One charge at BestBuy.com was for $1500 and it actually had gone through. All these attempts happened seriously five minutes after the mugging.
You don’t think they live right on that block, do you?
I have no idea. It seems pretty stupid, though, to mug people right in front of your place.
True. Do you think differently about the neighborhood now?
I was thinking about that. I’m really doing what I can to not let this affect things. I like Bushwick, and I want to keep living in the neighborhood. I guess I’m pissed that I have to think about this stuff every time I walk to the train at night. I think what I’m going to do is take the L to Broadway Junction and transfer to the JMZ from there.
Do you think this is what we get for living in the ghetto?
No. Where else are we supposed to live?
I was talking to Julio and he said that part of Broadway — and especially that block of Moffat — is Blood turf. He said also, though, that a lot of kids are going into other neighborhoods and mugging people, that it’s a Brooklyn-wide thing. He said also that this year’s Halloween is going to be especially bad because the Bloods are initiating again and this year the newbies have to slash 170 girls. Last year was only 40.
That’s fucked.
It really is a shame when white people move into a black neighborhood and the crime rates go up. Asking a black person not to mug a white person is like trying to stop mother nature.
shit’s bound to happen when midwesterners move into the hood, easy prey.
at least he got something for it (balls felt)
holy fuck- are you kids for real? get serious- what fuckin’ pussies you all are!
ps- you even look like an asshole.
pps- you all look like each other.
The blood slashing is a rumor. I think they’re aiming to kill, but that also sounds fake or so the Bronx DA’s office lies.
You guys should invest in some blades, it’s more common than you think.
Fuck you doing on Chauncey? Seriously? You’re from the midwest, don’t go past Myrtle on Broadway. Ha.
Or at least just TRY to look hard.
You walk around all rosy-cheeked and shit.
They won’t fuck with you if you looka-lika man.
My friend got mugged outside of my house. It was at the Graham stop around the corner from Daddy’s. I was sitting around waiting for him and getting drunk all alone when I heard some yelling down on the street. I poked my head out the window to see him getting choked out by three dudes. He was flat on his back and his legs looked so pathetic all squirmy and sprawled out in the gutter. They grabbed his wallet and took off. Surprisingly he just sprang up and chased the guys towards the BQE. I ran downstairs barefoot in the dead of winter looking for blood. I grabbed a giant stick out of the trash and ran after everyone. By the time I caught up with my friend he had his wallet and was calmly smoking a cigarette. He told me how the one guy with his wallet just threw it at him and took off. New York’s alright if you like saxophones…
Do you guys bother reading this shit before you post it on your site??
“It’s like Williamsburg ten years ago, or the East Village ten years before that for how us white, recently graduated Midwesterners are moving here so we can cover rent even though we’re pursuing careers in bankrupt creative industries.”
More specifically “…before that for how us white…” And the over all fucking train wreck of a run-on sentence.
I’ll bet vice pays the extra few bucks for someone to copy edit…
Fuck niggers. Fuck broke spics. Time to buy guns and show the animals just how scary white folks can be again. We used to be able to string them up and take pictures next to it. Let’s start with their kids. They’ve got too many of them anyway. Nits make lice.
Kidding!
Oh Terry! You’re sucha kidder.
I give you guys a lot of credit. You’re like brave pioneers of gentrification. Keep up the good work. Hmmmm…Maybe I should buy some real estate in Bushwick.
technically your roomate was also molested
why did I even bother to point that out?
Within the first few weeks that I lived in Bushwick I got KO’d because I mouthed off to some guys in front of my apartment who were making fun of me for being white. Broken nose and broken eye socket are not fun. I’m a lot quieter now.
just start start talking to yourself and ripping your hair out, piss on yourself for all I care. nobody fucks with “that crazy white guy who pees himself”
you should never feel too safe anywhere ever and you should always be thinking about it, before it happens especially.
ugh, i f’reals live in the ghetto and i’m all upset about this now
I was just thinking this morning about how much I’d like to move out of Bushwick.
At least the mugger presumably had pubes. The only kids that stick you up on my block are 15 and under, and when they get caught the guns are almost always loaded. If nothing else, your roommate has that striking jawline going for him.
Here’s an idea, instead of being a scared little white pussy who hides out in his all-white building between catching trains to the LES, how about you get out and engage with the community you’re invading. Make some neighborhood friends, real locals. Then next time someone fucks with you, your new friends go and fuck those dumb motherfuckers up.
My friend was in Albany this weekend buying a Centipede arcade game, and he said it was as if all of a sudden everyone stopped caring — no upkeep on things breaking on houses or cars, and if a bridge went out, the city just put a sign up saying Don’t go down this street anymore. He said it was good for artists because now they can rent studio or rehearsal space for $50 a month. I said well it’s not good if they get mugged and gang-raped to death. He said it didn’t have a violent vibe, just a sad vibe. It seems like all over the country, the line between unprotected, uncared for and protected neighborhoods is becoming a chasm.
I really don’t feel bad for you, or your roomate. Welcome to the big, bad, spooky city. Duh, if your doing a late night, short stop up the block all you bring with you is your keys and a small bill…like a five and or a ten. Kids are always trying to get over, it’s just common sense.
Chauncey? Really? –there’s apts for under a grand this side of Myrtle.
Getting jumped is shitty feeling.
Start a white power gang and start busting heads indiscriminately.
I have to second on the making of neighborhood friends. The biker club next to my house has my back. And they give me free booze and pool games whenever I stop by the clubhouse.
molested by female mugger = win
‘It’s New York, you get took.’
Also – what turd town said. Make friends/eye contact with people.
thats the smallest blunt ive ever seen.
Don’t get all Forensic Files on that bleezy, you might not like what you discover.
the only remarkable thing about this post is that somebody’s writing a post about getting mugged in new york. it just shows how much new york has changed in the last two decades. it sucks to get mugged but in 1983 your roommate would have probably gotten a screwdriver in his eye just for that stupid little mustache.
^^^^^ RIGHT ON… Look at the bowery in the eighties.
Yeah, that mustache sucks.
it’s a manicured mustache, but it’s a real mustache. Sam’s was a mustache that sucked. Have you been reading SC longer than a week?
if you don’t have the balls to make friends with big scary black people, i suggest you learn how to become invisible…is it reverse racism if i think you’re a little pussy?
I hear ya with that little mustache! I got arrested and spent a few days in the brooklyn detention center waiting to get seen by a judge. At the time i had a stupid mustache and i wanted to rip it off of my fucking lip in there.
never again, at least not until im 40+.
once this black guy tried to mug my sisters friends boyfriend: the guy point the gun @ the boyfriend n asked for all his money, boyfriend said ok, but my wallets in the car, boyfriend opens car door, mugger leans in for it, boyfriend slams car door on muggers head and kicks him down, mugger tries to pull out gun but boyfreind pulls HIS gun out first, then says to this lady walking past ” call the cops”. n winks. ok, made the winking part up, but still, total bad ass.
hey awesome. you know what happens to people who carry knives? THEY GET SHOT!
^ thats why im reppin for guns.
my brother and i were skateboarding in los angeles and we got jumped by two carloads of locs. hate to keep saying “black guys” but that’s what they were. just screeched up next to us, poured out of the hoopties and beat us within an inch of our lives for pure fun. didn’t take anything, just wilding. this was a long time ago but it still gives me the shivers thinking about it. the weird thing is that afterward for a year or two i was all shook about urban violence and i swear, i got in so much drama just from thinking about it. guns in my face, beatdowns and bumrushes, many times. then at some point i just said fuck it and decided to stop worrying about it, and i haven’t had any violence in my life since then other than normal one-on-ones. bad people can smell fear. if you walk around scared you’re asking for it. you can’t do shit if somebody’s going to fuck you up, so why worry about it? live your life, you’ll probably be fine. we all walk around like a bunch of castrated bunnies, scared all the time. security is an illusion. deal.
Williamsburg was never “sketchy.” Unless you consider the Mafia to be a sketchy influence. In other words, it was only sketchy for blacks and Puerto Ricans.
They got that hand down the panties trick from Cuba. When they rob you they check your balls.
^ That’s exactly what I was thinking. A4awesome has seen too many movies, and had too little life experience.
look, ill say something ppl havent explicitly stated yet.
its not because you are white. its because you prolly look like a fish. theres a thing some white folks do in the city that totally outs them. the fish thing just means that you walk around with your eyes as wide open as a fish. for girls its holding on to that purse at the sight of anything non-white.
meanwhile you have white girls and gals that are able to move through the city because they “Get it” they know when to be scared and when not to be scared.
here, stop listening to indie for a month and only listen to gutter rap. stay away from the skinny white girls (or guys) for a while, date a puerto rican for a month, you view will change.
You make dating a Puerto Rican sound so easy. It’s not.
“Black. He was skinny, a little over six-foot-one. Black clothes, big puffy jacket. Without his gun, he wasn’t intimidating. The girl was about five-foot and had on a black jacket, tight jeans, and a shirt that had different NBA logos all over it.”
Hahahahahahahahahahhaha!!!!
i would like to see a4average pull a knife on some gangster that was mugging her with a pistol.
just buy a piece and wet up the next blognigger that steps to you.
Stop snitching
I love it when pussy hipsters wannabe artists get mugged. Your liberal cherry just got popped. Don’t fool yourself, they hate you for the sole reason you are white.
Get a real job. Move to a white neighborhood. Join the NRA. Vote Republican. It’s your duty as a white man.
blurpshlubshlurpblashooooooshoopsshlurp….
And people talk about missing the old new york, you wouldn’t survive in those streets.
This has to be a joke its way to funny and stereotypical.
like that other guy said. act crazy.
one time when i lived on broadway and flushing this scary peurto rican man started following me down broadway. I quickened my pace and so did he. He started shouting “ay” at me as i was speedwalking away and he started to chase me. He was giving me the ‘i’m drunk and want to rape you in the arsehole’ vibe. I turned around, threw a bottle of coke at him, started screaming in short yaps, stamping my feet and howling at the moon.
He stopped, turned on his heel and disappeared into the night.
i’m black btw so its not just the whiteys that get shit round those ways.
What Keshy refers to is what we white folks raised in the ‘hood call “taking advantage of the white male serial killer myth,” i.e. exploiting the belief held by ALL brown people that EVERY white penis has a Dahmer in him that’s dying to come out and pickle some brown penises. Use their racism to keep you safe. On the other hand, white women are fucked because all they think of you is that you’re dying to, well, get brutally fucked by a brown penis. You’re on your own…bitches.
ahahahahahaha that’s what you get for moving to “east williamsburg”. If you ask me, you deserve a beating for that mustache alone.
damn keshy – i was juss gonna ask you for a light, dog.
date a puerto rican = solution to all of lifes problems ?
i also think it’s funny some burly black dude is walking around with your ipod saying “modest mouse? THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?”
Seriously. That mustache is fucking terrible.
well yes, dating a puerto rican is like dating a black person but with the extra oppression from ALSO being spanish…….and some are short so you got that going on as well.
but really……..you can tell when folks are scared. here is a smaller fact that nobody knows…..a lot of the times the kids out there robbin’ niggaz are scared too. they just happen to be a little less scared of you. take a hood kid to the suburbs……they are more than ready to piss pants.
but yanno, a lot of folks cant tell the difference between “niggaz that will rob you” and “my niggas that i get drunk with”
To reiterate,
New York’s alright if you like saxophones…
^ Best comment of the last month. Kudos, John.
“without his gun he wasn’t intimidating”
Ahahahhaha….BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLshit.
LOL YOU CALLED THE COPS AFTER YOU GOT MUGGED!!???LOLOLOL WHAT DID YOU THINK THEY WOULD DO PUT OUT AN APB FOR A BLACK GUY WITH A GUN IN NEW YORK??!!!
ps. get a cheap mp3 player and cellphone until you can afford your own transportaion.
This post was scientifically designed to make me want to stick a hot needle in my eye. That’s why I believe it to be a hoax.
Is it a coincidence that EVERY single country in Africa is a third world shithole?
Not a single ounce of civilization. Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia. If there’s not a genocide going on, the place is run by a warlord. Now compare that to our ghettos in America.
Black people never had to cooperate to get through winter back in prehistoric times, they could just pick a banana off the tree. So blacks never evolved a social conscience. They are less civilized than whites.
Black people like to blame their poor environmental conditions for their situation but I think it’s genetics.
What about Obama, black president of the free world?
Here’s a picture of Obama and his mother:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ann_Dunham_with_father_and_children.jpg
And you called the cops? Why would you say that? So what you got robbed. For your information, your balls were grabbed so you wouldn’t Rambo the situation and put a kink in an otherwise reliable stick-up. I’m not going to call you a snitch but don’t go on and write about how you called the cops after. Makes you sound like a first class mark.
@smells like fish
my friend,
what goes around comes around.
as above, so below.
what you call black, i call white.
hiroshima? nagasaki? that’s civilization?
please, brother, please
If it wasn’t for Pearl Harbor, there would have been no Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Fo’ real.
Care to explain why Africa didn’t develop nukes? I think we all know the answer, and it has nothing to do with being innately peace-loving.
Jews developed the atomic bomb. Don’t blame that one on whitey.
ok bro, have it like you want it. all us blacks are dumb-ass niggers, fo’ sho’. happy now?
shit, as i remember, we were minding our own biz living peacefully until well, certain people came over and ruined our lives. Havent you ever seen roots?
As you remember? Were you alive then? You seriously want to base your entire sense of history on a fucking TV movie?
“Roots” was almost completely fabricated:
http://www.aim.org/publications/briefings/2002/11feb2002.html
Your “living peacefully” consisted of eternal tribal warfare where black chiefs sold captured black enemy tribesmen into slavery. Those are the facts.
sounds like you need to move to Bel-Air
Gettin’ mugged in a morrissey shirt and a lame little mustache. me = glad
Some little asshole tried to mug me once, i bottled the fucker then later the cops trun up at my house saying i attacked this poor kid! Cheeky bastard! Fucked him up good and proper tho – booya!
That wuss in the photo didn’t get “mugged” Two twelve year olds rode up to him on their bikes and spit gum at him and he was “terrorized”.
@Ya Blew It:
How can you be glad someone got mugged for wearing a t-shirt that only a die-hard Morrissey fan could recognize in a shittily-lit photo from a shittity-viewed angle? I think you just outed yourself as a highly self-loathing individual. I understand you’re distraught Morrissey collapsed on stage but the doctors checked him about and everything looks fine so feel better guy.
Agreed with … Africa wasnt a utopia before whitey showed up. Blacks and the Arabs were making slaves out of some. Granted, whitey came and fucked it up even more.
wow, i just realized the best thing i’ve gotten from this post is that i’m so fucking happy i don’t live with roommates anymore. i can almost smell the 3-day-old macaroni and cheese plate this fucker left in the sink. if i had to look at that dickless mustache and hear his nasal hipster whine every day i would eventually sneak into his smelly room at night and pour boiling water on his face.
^^^You would not.
In high school, two black dudes tried to jump my brother and take his wallet. He karate kicked one in the chest and they ran off. My brother doesn’t even know karate, he just watches a lot of Bruce Lee movies and mimics his moves. My grandma describes it as the day my brother “got them niggas.”
you’re right, i wouldn’t. he’s probably a nice guy.
This post rules, you niggers. How can we get the comments past 100? Well, kikes, I’ll tell you, you bunch of chinks. I’ll just slur everyone, including the spics, so that they feel the need to comment. Does that make sense, you piece-of-shit-honkeys?
Hey homeless,
maybe those people are suppose to get shot for not getting down with the quickness
and I would never get mugged I’m black. People automatically don’t mess with us. If anything –> it’s more likely a crazy white dude would attempt to rape/take out his peepee at me on the E train.
^^^Are you fucking kidding?
^^^Are you fucking kidding?
Black people don’t get mugged?
He wasn’t molested, he was sexually harassed.
That sounds like an oxymoron.
Black people don’t get mugged because they’re the muggers.
i rob white men and fuck white women. i call it “reparations”.
I think Barack Obama is the perfect synthesis of Black cool soul and white intellect.
He got the good parts of both races.
Curious, no stirring speeches on the need to revitalize America’s industrial sector.
@floating monk.
no kidding. i guess the industrial heartland will spontaneously arise like a phoenix from the ashes on hope, hope, and a little dash of ‘change’.
100th!
oh. my. god. a4average has done it again! you’re right! there’s no black on black crime!
do you even know any black people?
there sure are a whole lot of internet tough guys on here. that’s too be expected though. what’s also to be expected is the whole “he’s a hipster and deserves it” thing, and the closely related “he’s a gentrifyer and deserves it”. LAME! obviously the posters who keep saying “get a gun” have never lived in new york, because it’s FUCKING ILLEGAL and carries a heavy jail sentence there. moreover, these are artist and partier types we’re talking about here. they are much for fun, cool and make much greater contributions to culture than gun-toting tough guys. this shit happens everywhere, not just in new york. you think you’re safe in kansas city or wherever you new york hipster-loathers are from? you’re not. it happens, it sucks. shitty, uppity darkies rob and shit. they rob other darkies too, not just white people. as bocephus said “if the south woulda won we’d have it made”. gotta hand it to hank jr, he knows whats up.
“that’s too be expected” was a typo. i know it’s “to”.
This dude in Hackney was at the bus stop alone with me. We were both playing alpha male. He got right up behind me and I didn’t flinch. I was just waiting for him to try something, cause I WANTED him to. Nothing like an asswhooping to get you going. If you actually WANT to die, there’s nothing they can do. I’m not “London Psycho” for nothing.
kill whitey
P.S. If you dudes would round these muggers up and get them to go hit up outside Citibank, Chase, Wallstreet, midtown. You could do each other a favor. Shit you white hipsters can be look out. Then you’d be getting at the people really fucking you both.
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retard its not like you have to live in bushwick, im from ny and i dont really go there, ur just there cuz all ur hipster friends moved there theres plently of places to live in bk or queens that are not as bad for same price. your annoying and y r u worrying about costs when your parents pay for everything. I have gotten robbed before too but not in ny in places where i went to places i shouldnt have been cuz i didnt know any better. i swear if i have to hear one more person talk about how they live in bushwick and how its so filled with artistic types and theres a ungentrified vibe that no longer exists in manhattan and how its the new williamsburg which was the new l.e.s. ima kill myself. your all pretentious pricks who have never worked a day in your life and this whole poor shit is just an experiment until you eventually sell out and go to grad school.
P.S. I apologize for my lack of grammer.
BUSHWICK MUGGINGS will eventually be compiled into a huge book which will feature hundreds of pages of Muggings as well as contributions from Chloe Sevigny, Debbie Harry, Fred Armisen, Tim & Eric and many more.
This is a good piont of living in Korea. You can’t get weed or a decent pizza, but the most frightening person on the street is a 27 year old virgin who wants to “English” with you.
I live in North West London.
Around this time of year, a white van drops of squads of 9 year old kids wearing Scream Masks. They hit every pub asking for money.
It’s disgusting.
Modern day Oliver Twist.
What is the world coming to?
I ask you.
When I was younger I was robbed by a couple of chicks with a knife. When they were done, one ran off and the other one stayed behind and gave me half a blowjob. She said she felt bad about ripping me off. All they took was my driver’s license?!!
I still think about it sometimes when I rub one out.
FUCKING FOMO!
Thank you for dressing like a D-Bag and taking the attention off people like myself (white/working class). Yeah, I live in Bushwick – out of financial necesity and a cheap open bedroom at a friends aptartment. No, I don’t particularly want to live in the hood because shit can and will happen. I’m from North Jersey not the mid-west. I’ve had friends get jumped and killed, and I have friends that do the jackings. It is what it is I guess …
Fact: Bushwick was between 70% and 90% white in 1960. Food for thought regarding the gentrification comments. Go read it for yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick
Guys i am from london reading all the stuff u guys put on here it sounds bad over there real bad we got our bad parts in the uk but not like that why would you mug some one because they are white what’s up with the cops if they don’t find these guys then there just free to do it again and again there is no all black areas in london its mixed and we all live happy along side each other a white person could need help car broke down or any kind of help and a black person would help no questions asked i a white person was getting mug a black person would help if the could and it’s the same with white people over here the black people in the usa are hardcore gun’s mug all the white people what’s up with that it needs to stop
slashing girls as gang initiation? you guys are so fucking white. next time you say “you ain’t getting shit from homeboy.”
I miss peter madsen
I’ve read some of the comments on this page and I find the responses generally repulsive.
It’s as if a lot of you are proud that this guy was mugged. Why? Do you honestly think the ‘locals’ like this shit also? Do you honestly think that random muggings, robberies and murders make a part of the city authentic?
Any jackass that pulls a knife or gun on someone without the premise of self defense ought to be weeded out from the neighborhood, regardless of race or ethnicity, or the state of the neighborhood.
I’m sick of this “tough-guy” street mentality. If it means weeding out undesirable troublemakers, so fucking be it.