What are the chances of getting mugged in New York?
Today's my first day going and I'm terrified that I'm going to get mugged. I'm going to stay for two days so what are the chances of me getting mugged? My hotel is near broadway and I'm going to be walking back at night later. Also, how do I stay safe there?
Where did Cher in Clueless get the dress she was mugged in?
ROBBER:Hand it over.Give me the phone.OK. Bag, too. C'mon! Alright, now, uh, get down on the ground. Face down. C'mon! CHER:Oh, no. You don't understand, this is an Alaia. ROBBER:An a-what-a? CHER:It's like a totally important designer.
How accurate is the 'find my iPhone' app?
Okay, so I got mugged on a night out last Friday, unfortunately the police haven't been the best of help (so far...) I registered my iPhone4 with 'find my iPhone' and I was able to locate it on iCloud, yet I'm not quite sure how accurate it is. My logic is that it's basically pin point, otherwise it would of been pointless Apple making the app in the first place, if it wasn't.
Is it illegal to steal money from drug dealers? The dealers cannot call the police or file a report for being robbed because they are criminals. What happens when dealers get robbed of money or drugs? Does it happen?
True story. Many years ago, a friend of mine who had a bad coke habit paid a large sum of cash to his drug dealer, in expectation of receiving coke. This was a person he considered a “friend” with whom he had made many similar deals in the past. Well, the dealer was experiencing cash flow problems so spent my friend’s money and did not deliver any coke. He promised that when some other deals went through he would have more cash and would make good. My friend, being an addict, did not like the idea of waiting for his drugs so he broke into the dealer’s apartment and took his high-end stereo, and let him know he could have his stereo back when he got his coke. He assumed as many might that of course a drug dealer is not going to involve the police in such a dispute. But he assumed wrong — the dealer promptly called the cops who got a warrant and searched my friend’s apartment and found the stereo. They then went to my friend’s work location and took him out in cuffs. My friend told his story but of course the drug dealer denied being a drug dealer and the cops did not even bother searching his place for drugs, which in any case they probably wouldn’t have found since he was not an idiot. My friend ended up with a burglary conviction on his record, which cost him the high-paying financial service job that funded his coke addiction, along with any chance of similar future employment. He later committed suicide in despair. Moral of the story: drug addiction is bad and makes people do very stupid things, and drug dealers are probably not people who should be relied upon to act honorably, so it is best to avoid drugs and drug dealers altogether. But in any case, theft is theft in the eyes of the law and the fact that the “victim” is a scumbag drug dealer or that the stolen property was ill-gotten are not legal excuses if you are caught.