Got Mugged Tuesday Night!

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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited September 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I'm feeling a lot better this today. My lips and the gash are almost back to normal and my jaw doesn't hurt anywhere near like it did. I can close my mouth now (I know there lot's here who are glad of that LOL!) and move my jaw and can eat now with just a little pain. Funny thing though, my ear is still hurting pretty bad.

    The great news is I haven't felt the need to take any pain meds today, not even Tylenol, so far!

    Thanks to everyone for their concern and well wishes. . .

    . . . and to think people say CP isn't like family! LOL!

    BTW; lots of undercover police activity around this area yesterday and today. I guess when a gun is involved they definitely don't mess around.

    I tried rereading this entire thread and I don't see ANY mention of having had any X-rays of your head and jaw? Did you look into that? You may have cracked something?

    Good to hear that you're feeling better in any case. And what are you doing policing the WAWA in your state?

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited September 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I was taking a 9:00 PM food shopping run Tuesday night and as usual was making trips to several stores to get the best deals I can on food.

    I pull up into a shopping center parking lot which is poorly lit.

    When I made the turn into the parking spot, the cell phone slide off the passenger seat and wedged between the door and the seat so, still strapped in, I'm leaning over the passenger seat trying to dig out the phone when I heard my driver's side door swing open. I sat up and WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, three blows to the left side of my mouth and jaw with a metal object which turned out to be a gun. Stunned but keeping a level head, I leaned back over the passenger seat to protect my head and reach for my equalizer but was still strapped in. Took two more blows to my ribs, one to my kidney and one to my pancreas.

    At this point I hear two guys screaming, "gimme your money!" I scream I don't have any money, guy hits me again, I say, "f$ck you **** fu5ker" and grab the equalizer. At this point I can peak over my shoulder and see two silhouettes of two black guys and the only thing I could make out were their teeth as they were yelling at me trying to get through the driver's door. I start kicking and poking with my equalizer when the guys screams, "shut up da f4ck up and don't move" at which time I felt the metal barrel end of a handgun against my head and heard, "click" so I froze.

    The bums rifled through my pockets and got all my money (a considerable amount) as I keep it in the lower left bag of my cargo shorts. They wanted my wallet two but because of how I was laying, they couldn't get to it.

    Then as fast as it occurred they split that fast.

    I sat up and had a mouth full of blood and the jaw joint on the opposite side they struck me hurt.

    I started the car and roared off after them to see if I could get a bead on where they were going.

    I went home, and checked the damage. My upper left lip was swollen like a hemorrhoid, my lower lip inside was split and swollen, my upper left front tooth and lower left front four teeth were bleeding and sore, my right jaw was starting to swell. My wife being an RN caught my trying to clean up in the bathroom because I didn't want to upset her and saw all the blood in the sink and floor.

    She looked me over and said that she thought I should go to the hospital but I declined cause the ER charges a lot of money even with Medicare. She wanted to call the cops and I tried to dissuade here from it but she had 911 dialed before I could do anything more. The cops came took a report and offered to take me to the hospital. I told them I was fine and nothing a little ice and pain relief medication couldn't take care of. Both the cops and my wife were really concerned about the split and my jaw was swelling.

    Since a gun was involved they wanted me to go to the police station with them and I told them all I wanted to do was take some Tylenol and Advil and go to bed. They agreed but told me to get there first thing in the morning.

    I didn't sleep well during the night because my jaw was killing me. When I finally got up Wednesday morning my right jaw looked like I had the mumps. So I iced and kept taking the pain cocktail which did nothing. So I went to the small medical building close by where they have a mini ER and they checked me out. Took xrays of my jaw. They said the contrast of the xray wasn't good enough to see anything. They wrote me a script for 10 pills of a really strong med and told me if the symptoms worsened I should go to the main ER at the hospital to get a CAT scan done. In either case they recommended that I get to my neurologist ASAP.
    I went to the police station and gave them the report and the best description I could of those two swine.

    Well I woke up this morning and my fat lips and split inside my mouth were a lot better and my jaw, although it hurts like all hell and is even causing my ear to swell a little and hurts like hell are better and the swelling is almost gone.

    If I didn't have **** for luck I would have no luck at all. I'm not as upset about the physical injuries as I've had a lot worse during my years what's really killing me is they got all my cash!!!!:mad:

    Cowardly pieces of **** didn't give me a chance to get out of the car! Although if they did I would probably be dead right now as I had my equalizer and would have started swinging so . . . the moral of this story is, the seat belts saved my life again.
    cnh wrote: »
    I tried rereading this entire thread and I don't see ANY mention of having had any X-rays of your head and jaw? Did you look into that? You may have cracked something?

    Good to hear that you're feeling better in any case. And what are you doing policing the WAWA in your state?

    cnh

    First post in thread! I neglected to mention, they did xray my head though.

    I was in WAWA and had a hunch that it was all starting there because they have four ATMs where you don't have to pay for your money and all four are usually busy.
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  • TrashyTrucker
    TrashyTrucker Posts: 225
    edited September 2010
    Get well Joe!

    So sorry to hear this happened to you! :mad:

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited September 2010
    TrashyTrucker wrote: »
    Get well Joe!

    So sorry to hear this happened to you! :mad:

    regards,
    Matt

    Thanks Matt, I'm getting there.:)
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  • munk
    munk Posts: 258
    edited September 2010
    hearingimpared;

    as for the tough old rooster showing the punks, you and I both know unfortunately these two eventually will kill.

    I hate scum. Barbarians at the gates hell- they're in the guest room at taxpayer expense. We've raised a huge crop and are getting ready for a bumper.

    I'm glad you're OK.
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  • thejck
    thejck Posts: 849
    edited September 2010
    Man just read this.
    **** thats a bad deal. hope you are better now.
    take care of yourself. that is dangerous.
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  • Loud & Clear
    Loud & Clear Posts: 1,538
    edited October 2010
    Please let these pieces of filth find their way into the nearest prison cell, asap.

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,475
    edited October 2010
    That's quite a story.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited October 2010
    Still nothing yet for the Police. Yeah Jess if it didn't happen to me (of course it could only happen to me with the last bit of money I had to my name) I would have just thought it another news story!!!

    EDIT; just an update. My jaw is almost completely healed; every so often it let's me know it's still healing when I'm chewing or talk too much (usual state of affairs LOL!). The gash on the inside of my lower lip down is now just a lump and doesn't hurt.

    I'm still not mad about it except for the loss of moola as I need to pay utility bills but I can tell you this, I want 1 1/2 minutes with those cowards and my equalizer and make them pay that way rather than the legal system.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited October 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I have a lot of experience with firearms, that "click" was the hammer being cocked. Besides these young "gangsters" around here are really just punks and wanabees. You hear a lot about crimes with guns around here but I can't remember one time in the past five years I've been living here where some wannabe actually killed someone with a gun.

    Fear makes people irrational

    Havent read the whole thread of reponces to the op but....F88K Joe!!!! lol why didnt you just give up the cash straight away instead of making them hunt for it .......I bet you were just thinking of what kinda speaker cables you could buy next if they never got it from you

    When your wife wanted to take you to the ER you probably though I could put that money towards another amplifier:D
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  • munk
    munk Posts: 258
    edited October 2010
    He said he was down to his last money. No one would want to give it up to slime.

    He's got utilities to pay and the punks wanted a gram to shoot up.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2010
    I don't believe a word in this story.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited October 2010
    dorokusai wrote: »
    I don't believe a word in this story.

    I will admit this thought has crossed my mind.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited October 2010
    dorokusai wrote: »
    I don't believe a word in this story.
    Ricardo wrote: »
    I will admit this thought has crossed my mind.

    Who cares what you think!
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited October 2010
    dorokusai wrote: »
    I don't believe a word in this story.

    What would be his reasoning for lying about it?

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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,411
    edited October 2010
    F1nut wrote: »
    That's quite a story.

    Wonder what he is implying

    dorokusai wrote: »
    I don't believe a word in this story.
    No Doubt what he is saying
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2010
    From what I've gathered online and the private messages sent to me here, I just got tired of not saying anything. It's just my opinion based on some very close reading.
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited October 2010
    just trolling...
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited October 2010
    jvc wrote: »
    just trolling...

    Very interesting information indeed...
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited October 2010
    F1nut wrote: »
    That's quite a story.

    indeed.

    RT1
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited October 2010
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Because he's a self-proclaimed nut. From what I've gathered online and the private messages sent to me here, I just got tired of not saying anything. It's just my opinion based on some very close reading.

    Not sure what the PM's said, but I did not see anything in the police reports released on the site you put up. It would have been Tuesday Sept. 21st. Now, either that means they did not release a report about it, or it is a false story. Joe said he talked to the police about it, but that does not mean they would release a report about it, especially if it's still an open investigation. I hope that is the case.

    Greg
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2010
    They released a report about someone getting pepper sprayed yet a violent pistol whipping, armed strong arm robbery by multiple individuals that could be viewed as racially motivated isn't as important? It just doesn't add up, nor does the explanation of how and the actions, or lack thereof afterwards.

    Half the reports from the city of Newark's site are open investigations.
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,663
    edited October 2010
    Dang, why do threads get slammed with people going off topic then personal attacks follow? Is this forum of stalkers? This is not right and worries me.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2010
    I wish Joe the best and hope everything is ok, so that's all I'll say for now. I just question the issue and feel that I have the right to do so since it's a publically posted thread.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited October 2010
    Everyone who knows Joe wishes him nothing but the best!
    Take care, Ken
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited October 2010
    jinjuku wrote: »
    Working for Time Warner Cable back in the mid 90's I would have to work in Youngstown Ohio.

    First thing they told me: Lock your car doors. Second always keep a throw wallet with $20-30 in it. If you get mugged just give them the throw wallet. They only need their next fix.

    Fortunately never had to use it.

    That is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. A THROW wallet? So, what are you supposed to do with your 'real' wallet? Carry two? Keep the other one in a safe in your trunk? Do you keep fake credit cards and drivers liscence in there?

    Oy vey.

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited October 2010
    Yeah, Castanza style, full of receipts and coupons. One that will barely close.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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