{"id":1595,"date":"2013-09-25T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T12:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2013-09-25T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T12:17:42","slug":"someone-tried-to-mug-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/09\/someone-tried-to-mug-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Tried to Mug Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a pretty pathetic attempt.<\/p>\n

This young man was drugged up to his eyeballs and when I told him to go away, he was too high to even aim a punch properly.<\/p>\n

He was riding a bike too small for him, with no brakes. I rode it to a superstore close by, and in following me he left his bag behind – he may have forgotten that he even had one, because when I went back half an hour later the bag was still there.<\/p>\n

The result of his attempt was to lose his bike and his bag.<\/p>\n

Despite this I feel bad. I imagine he was homeless. Now he has even less to call his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a pretty pathetic attempt. This young man was drugged up to his eyeballs and when I told him to go away, he was too high to even aim a punch properly. 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