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This is something that happened to me yesturday (7/15/04) and i just hope it doesn't happen to anyone else.
To start off, i'm 16 years old ( soon to be 17 ), i live in Los Angeles, CA, i'm school and basically a person that doesn't like to get into trouble. Yesturday i woke up late to go to school and i got lazy so i decided not to go. I stayed sleeping untill about 11:00am. I was fine at home, i was not planning to go out, however about 3:00pm i got a call from a friend asking if i could go visit them. I was not doing anything so i decided to go out thinking nothing wrong was gaing to happen. Well it was the beginning of one bad day.
I went to visit my friend, everything was fine, in my mind it was like a normal day. I usually travel by bus ( public transportation ) and so far there has never been any problems. It was getting late so i told my friends i had to leave because i wanted to get home before dark ( usually it gets dark around 8:30pm ). I had all the time in the world so without noticing i got on a bus that doesn't go all the way to my designated bus stop. To me it was not a big deal.. all i had to do was to get off the bus and wait for the next one, right? Unfortunally, it didn't turned out that way.
It was bright daylight, people were walking around, some where waiting for the bus too. The sun was hitting the bench straight on so i dicided to move away to the sidewalk to wait for the bus. First you have to understand that where i was is not a good area of Los Angeles. In fact, is one of the worse but i had traveled through there (never had stoppped there ) and nothing had happened. In that area a lot of homeless, poor people live around there and is basically composed of mainly african americans. Now that you know the type of place it is.. what happened next would make sense. I was waiting for the bus when a person started walking towards me ( black male , around 19 years of age, a little taller than me ) when he pulled a gun from his back and showed it to me. I didn't have time to react cause in no time he was behind me pointing the gun to my back. At that point i was so scare because anything could happen. He asked me to give him everything i had on me. He took my cellphone, my wallet with everything in it, he took my buspass ( used to travel free on the bus ) , and he even took my house keys. I was not ganna argue with him of course cause he had a gun behind my back. I was nerveous , honestly cause he was getting desperate. You have to take in mind.. there were people around watching the whole thing but they could not do anything about it because he threaten them to harm me if they got close to me or tried to help me. People just walked away while he took all of my possesions. The whole incident lasted for less than a minute but to me it was an eternity. After he was satisfy, he walked away from me to an alley to jump a wall and run away. I was there left alone , thankfully unharm and breathing. It was then when the panic hit in. I was shaking so bad, i could barely walk. I mean that guy could have done anything to me. He could have shot me, he could have hit me... i don't know, and just thinking about it makes me feel how lucky i was because he didn't do anything to me.
After it happened, of course he took my money, and i was about 15 minute away from home. I felt two quaters in my back pocket so i walked to a payphone some 5 blocks away from where i was. I called my mother and she came to pick me up. I still could not believe what had happened to me. I was feeling so bad, so scared , it made it difficult to control myself. My mother soon got there and we went home, she was very worried.
I have never felt so scare in my life. My life could have ended there, i don't know. I just wish nobody has to go through it, you have no idea what maniac decides to robe you and end up harming you. Thank God i'm ok, nothing happened to me. I dont care about the material stuff cause they can be replacable, but thank God i'm ok physically.
People... be careful out there and please, if it happens to you, the worse thing one can do is to try to fight or argue with the robber. Just give them what they ask for, life is more important.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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I was so scare........
By: M on Sat, 17 July 2004 02:28 |
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Re: I was so scare........
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thank you....
By: M on Sat, 17 July 2004 07:47 |
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OMG! Glad you're okay buddy...
By: lenny on Sat, 17 July 2004 08:08 |
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Re: OMG! Glad you're okay buddy...
By: M on Sat, 17 July 2004 08:16 |
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Re: I was so scare........
By: timmy on Sat, 17 July 2004 08:21 |
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Re: I was so scare........
By: timmy on Sat, 17 July 2004 08:22 |
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Re: I was so scare........
By: M on Sat, 17 July 2004 08:35 |
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It's easy to find out the address of someone if...
By: lenny on Sat, 17 July 2004 17:22 |
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Re: I was so scare........
By: joesdog on Sat, 17 July 2004 10:17 |
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Please be careful
By: e on Sat, 17 July 2004 16:26 |
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Re: Please be careful
By: M on Sat, 17 July 2004 19:01 |
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Not a good area
By: e on Sat, 17 July 2004 19:23 |
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You did the right thing.....
By: marc on Mon, 19 July 2004 11:45 |
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