My brother got mugged last night...

I didn't get much face to face contact with him till tonight (left for school early and then was doing other things), but he probably didn't want to talk about it right away with me anyway.

Anyway, he was done doing a pizza delivery, and as he was going back to his car, two hispanic guys (he said they were about 16-17 years old) stopped him, and one guy pointed a gun to his head. The other guy meanwhile searched his pockets for anything of value, and took his cell phone (a crappy one luckily) and the $90 in tips he had made that night. Then they took his car keys, but they gave it back to him, after the guy searching him cheap-shotted him with a punch to the face (probably to keep him reeling while they made their getaway).

He then went back to his workplace, and called the cops, who then arrived (and he told me like 3 other squad cars were in the vicinity where he got mugged, since this was an armed robbery), and began to get info from my brother.

While my brother was in the cop's squad car, he heard over the radio that another armed robbery took place. The description he heard was very similar to what he told the cops, except the crime took place about 10 blocks away from where he got mugged (the thugs seemed to be on foot), and there were 3 guys there (one more than who mugged my brother, unless the third guy was hiding to shoot my brother in case he resisted).

Anyway, my brother only lost the $90 and his cell phone. Luckily the thugs didn't take his car (which has a standard drive, guess they didn't want a stick-shift car), and didn't hurt him (other than the sucker punch), which would've made things worse. But man, crap like this happening is why I refused to be a delivery driver (we live close to a "ghetto" area, although the actual neighborhood we're in isn't as bad as where he got mugged).

To make some discussion, have you ever been mugged, or known someone who has? What did you do, or what did they do in their situation? I'm just curious because I've never been mugged before thankfully (but I did get beat up by like 4 older kids once in the 4th grade while waiting at my bus stop, who apparently beat me up for the fun of it. If I had my way back then, I would've just nuked the entire neighborhood, screw collateral damage. And no, I'm not joking about that either. Thankfully Jesus beat that crap out of me ). It's one thing to just hear this stuff on the news, but it's another to actually have been in that situation.

My brother claims that if the thugs didn't have a gun, he would've gotten into his car after they left, then ran them over. I don't think he would've did that, but I can relate to him, being powerless in a situation like that, and not being able to do anything (without getting hurt or killed).

I think if I ever become rich, I'm going to invest in Terminator-style robots. Then we can have them patrol the borders endlessly, and relentlessly hunt down crooks. The more I hear about crime, the more I feel that doing something like that is justified (you can bet they will have robots with lethal force programmed into them someday, cause it puts the cops at less risk, and if the robot loses an arm or leg, it's an easy fix, unlike on a human, at least till they improve on cybernetics).

Sorry for going a little weird at the end, but it does make me wonder what would drive people to do these things, which I'm trying to learn in my History of Poverty in America class. While crime has always been around, I wonder what factors drive people to do what they do. Is it power, for the sheer fun of it, or because they feel trapped in a situation in which they can't escape, and therefore vent their frustrations out at others (probably what those idiots who shot people in those schools lately went through).

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