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Share your experiences - I used to work in a rough neighborhood but I'm a really intimidating guy at 6'7" - and as soon as I left working there, the place got hit by masked gunmen and robbed. Has anything like that happened to you? Share your story!
 
xxracerxx said:
So you are saying you were a one-man security system for your old work?
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Sort of I suppose. We had security, but it was only one person and the agency the higher-ups used for us would send us 65 year old men or women who usually were looking for a job to sit down and read through. It was a joke.

So I guess I kind of was. Not intentionally, though.
 
Only worked in cushy offices with security staff and restaurant kitchen, which are not targets for robbers, so no, not yet thankfully.
 
Years ago I had a stack of CDs at my desk and one day I noticed Nirvana - In Utero and Soundgarden - Superunknown were missing.
 
I once got nailed by the change scam in high school when I was working at a grocery store. My store was about to get new registers, so they sent me to another store that already had them to learn the system.

I probably was an easy mark, since I didn't know the store and was still learning how to work the register. I figured out that I got scammed five seconds after the guy walked out the door when I finally did the math in my head. It was too late, though, the guy got away.
 
I wasnt really robbed as I gave away 150 euro's from the cash register to some fella who seemed like a reliable guy.

I am a fucking retard.
 
Every time I look at the my check stub and see how much is taken out.

























But on topic, when i used to work at an arcade when i was younger we would always be warned but there were always multiples of people getting off at the same time from different stores so it never happened.
 
The worst that's happened to me at my concession stand job at a ballet is, well, a kid might take candy or $1 out of my tip jar if I'm not looking.

Oh, something that happened when I was a bit more inexperienced: A woman came to me once and said I didn't give her the $80 in change I owed her. So I gave her $80. She later came back, saying she didn't see the $80 in her bag, so she gave me the $80 back.
 
5 years ago, Super Bowl Sunday, when I was working at a grocery store. Witnessed a woman being mugged in the parking lot. A guy swiped her purse and me and a co-worker took off running after him. He was unarmed thankfully.


Also a drifter pulled a knife on me outside a Walmart parking lot and demanded cash. Both of us saw a cop car coming and he bolted off.
 
I used to work at a del-taco in the late 90's. A guy tried to car jack me or something after my graveyard shift. I am walking to my car and have my keys out. Guy askes me for a ride, I am like, no. He tries to grab my keys. We struggle a little, I push him to the ground and walk kinda fast to my car. He doesn't run after me right away for some reason, then he does and bangs on my window as I drive away. I was like WTF. Never saw him again.

Another guy on the graveyard shift had a gun pointed at him in the drive through. Glad that wasn't me and had that night off, heh.
 
Chick I worked with took my pizza out of the fridge. She wont admit it. But I know she did it. And she knows I know she did it. I'm biding my time. I'll pay her back. She knows I will. I know she knows I will. Soon. She's gonna think she's having yogurt for her snack and BOOM no yogurt anymore. Soon.
 
My job is located near a homeless shelter. One day, a homeless dude came through our warehouse and into a door that leads to our kitchen. He got a frozen burrito from our fridge, microwaved it and poured himself a glass of water. We asked him what he was doing and he says "is it cool if i use yo kitchen?"

We were robbed.
 
I was working nights at a Valero, and this dude walks in at 3 AM looks at me (im by myself) laughs and goes to the booze and takes out 2 cases of beer and walks out. I didn't attempt to stop him, he was carrying a gun in his pants because the way he was walking and the way he wore his pants, dead giveaway. I valued my life more then my job.
 
Hit and runs while working at both Staples and Rite Aid. At Rite Aid, it was daily. Kids trying to get liquor and tobacco.

My brother got held up at gunpoint while working the overnight shift at Del Taco, though.
 
Sunflower said:
Share your experiences - I used to work in a rough neighborhood but I'm a really intimidating guy at 6'7" - and as soon as I left working there, the place got hit by masked gunmen and robbed. Has anything like that happened to you? Share your story!
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They didn't rob it while you were there because guns are no match for the b-bomb
 
Yep pizza delivery.

Late at night got a delivery order. Drove to the location and all the lights in the house were off, should have been warning number one. Walked up to the door and noticed a grimy teenager standing and staring at me from the next yard over, should have been warning number two.

Of course there was no answer at the door so I waited a few minutes until it was obvious nobody was coming. Decided fuck it and headed back to the car. I got in the car and started it but before I could put it into drive I felt cold metal on my temple.

It was the grimy teenage dude. He demanded all of my money and this is where things take a turn. I looked at this kid, literally as old as my teenage sister and thought this kid doesn't have the balls. I replied "Fuck do you think you are, I'm not giving you shit."

He raised the gun and slapped me across the face with it. This was my opportunity. I threw the car in drive and floored it while laying down in the passenger seat. Grimy dude shot 3 bullets at my car. One went through the back window shattering it. Another caught my driver side mirror and a third lodged in the drivers side door jam.

It was a giant rush of adrenaline.
 
only thing is someone took a cherry pop from the fridge. It was mine and I left a note that said "Who did this? That was not your pop"
 
entrement said:
Only worked in cushy offices with security staff and restaurant kitchen, which are not targets for robbers, so no, not yet thankfully.
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Same. If someone (for whatever bizarre reason) wanted to rob this place they'd have to go through ground floor security, locked doors on our floor, more security, and then they'd have their pick of underpowered PCs and a supply cabinet full of crappy pens and notepads.
 
Sunflower said:
Share your experiences - I used to work in a rough neighborhood but I'm a really intimidating guy at 6'7" - and as soon as I left working there, the place got hit by masked gunmen and robbed. Has anything like that happened to you? Share your story!
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Are you also invulnerable to bullets? Do you really think you being 6'7" was keeping them from robbing your work? haha
 
Why would you do that? said:
The worst that's happened to me at my concession stand job at a ballet is, well, a kid might take candy or $1 out of my tip jar if I'm not looking.

Oh, something that happened when I was a bit more inexperienced: A woman came to me once and said I didn't give her the $80 in change I owed her. So I gave her $80. She later came back, saying she didn't see the $80 in her bag, so she gave me the $80 back.
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One time I accidently thought a customer gave me a $100 bill instead of a $20... I gave him back change for the $100... he started walking out then turned back around and let me know what happened.

I was having an off day and my faith in humanity was restored that day.
 
WhatRobEats said:
Yep pizza delivery.

Late at night got a delivery order. Drove to the location and all the lights in the house were off, should have been warning number one. Walked up to the door and noticed a grimy teenager standing and staring at me from the next yard over, should have been warning number two.

Of course there was no answer at the door so I waited a few minutes until it was obvious nobody was coming. Decided fuck it and headed back to the car. I got in the car and started it but before I could put it into drive I felt cold metal on my temple.

It was the grimy teenage dude. He demanded all of my money and this is where things take a turn. I looked at this kid, literally as old as my teenage sister and thought this kid doesn't have the balls. I replied "Fuck do you think you are, I'm not giving you shit."

He raised the gun and slapped me across the face with it. This was my opportunity. I threw the car in drive and floored it while laying down in the passenger seat. Grimy dude shot 3 bullets at my car. One went through the back window shattering it. Another caught my driver side mirror and a third lodged in the drivers side door jam.

It was a giant rush of adrenaline.
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What did your employer do?

Fisticuffs said:
Are you also invulnerable to bullets? Do you really think you being 6'7" was keeping them from robbing your work? haha
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I had a reputation out there.
 
I had some vaguely homeless woman lift a purse from another table in my section at my old job. It was on the patio and I had to take about two seconds to decide if it was worth it to give chase or not. I caught her, though, police showed up, really stupid situation and now apparently I have to appear in court next year for some reason.
 
Sunflower said:
What did your employer do?
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When I got back to the store. They called the police. The local police made me drive my car into a garage of there's where they kept it for 24 hours to dust for prints and what not.

When I got it back it was covered in that black dust they use for that.

They never caught the dude and I went on delivering there for 2 more years without incident.
 
WhatRobEats said:
When I got back to the store. They called the police. The local police made me drive my car into a garage of their where they kept it for 24 hours to dust for prints and what not.

When I got it back it was covered in that black dust they use for that.

They never caught the dude and I went on delivering there for 2 more years without incident.
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As an ex-delivery driver...you ever hear about that dude who went for a delivery, and a few people put a bomb on his collar and made him rob a bank? Had a bad ending, too.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/

From what I hear someone made a movie off of that premise. Felt it was in poor taste.
 
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my batteries go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
 
WhatRobEats said:
Yep pizza delivery.

Late at night got a delivery order. Drove to the location and all the lights in the house were off, should have been warning number one. Walked up to the door and noticed a grimy teenager standing and staring at me from the next yard over, should have been warning number two.

Of course there was no answer at the door so I waited a few minutes until it was obvious nobody was coming. Decided fuck it and headed back to the car. I got in the car and started it but before I could put it into drive I felt cold metal on my temple.

It was the grimy teenage dude. He demanded all of my money and this is where things take a turn. I looked at this kid, literally as old as my teenage sister and thought this kid doesn't have the balls. I replied "Fuck do you think you are, I'm not giving you shit."

He raised the gun and slapped me across the face with it. This was my opportunity. I threw the car in drive and floored it while laying down in the passenger seat. Grimy dude shot 3 bullets at my car. One went through the back window shattering it. Another caught my driver side mirror and a third lodged in the drivers side door jam.

It was a giant rush of adrenaline.
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In these types of scenarios, I always assume it would be just some fucker with an empty gun. Cannot believe he actually shot at you as you drove off. Fucking scumbag. Glad you made it out alive.

Did you quit your job right then and there?

EDIT: Oh you kept it for 2 more years!
 
Soka said:
In these types of scenarios, I always assume it would be just some fucker with an empty gun. Cannot believe he actually shot at you as you drove off. Fucking scumbag. Glad you made it out alive.

Did you quit your job right then and there?
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Thinking about that, we had a dude in our meat dept who was amazing at his job. We'd find syringes in the bathroom that he left but could NEVER prove they were his. Eventually he robbed a delivery driver. Dumbshit was busted about 30 mins later. He used his actual address to get the delivery.
 
Was robbed at gunpoint twice when I worked till at a liquor store, both times by the same guy. Kinda funny the second time as he shaved his head and beard to change his appearance, and the first thing he says when he pulls the pistol is "remember me".

Why yes, yes I do remember you and I'll be sure to mention that to the police dipshit.
 
WhatRobEats said:
Yep pizza delivery.

Late at night got a delivery order. Drove to the location and all the lights in the house were off, should have been warning number one. Walked up to the door and noticed a grimy teenager standing and staring at me from the next yard over, should have been warning number two.

Of course there was no answer at the door so I waited a few minutes until it was obvious nobody was coming. Decided fuck it and headed back to the car. I got in the car and started it but before I could put it into drive I felt cold metal on my temple.

It was the grimy teenage dude. He demanded all of my money and this is where things take a turn. I looked at this kid, literally as old as my teenage sister and thought this kid doesn't have the balls. I replied "Fuck do you think you are, I'm not giving you shit."

He raised the gun and slapped me across the face with it. This was my opportunity. I threw the car in drive and floored it while laying down in the passenger seat. Grimy dude shot 3 bullets at my car. One went through the back window shattering it. Another caught my driver side mirror and a third lodged in the drivers side door jam.

It was a giant rush of adrenaline.
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youre going to be denigrated for not just giving up the money but dude...

YOU GOT SOME FUCKING BALLS SON

HIGH MOTHERFUCKING FIVE
 
never been robbed, and now that i've said it it'll probably happen real soon... just watch. oh well... best to get it over with.

i walk in the dead of night 5 nights a week, i try to stay on well-lit roads but still, i think i've tried my luck enough that i'm well past due for being mugged. Must be my appearance that prevents it (not muscular, but good-sized adult male with a stern look on all the time :p)
 
Got held up twice back when I was working part time at a gas station. First time the guy had a machete. I gave him the cash. The second time it was 2 guys with a bat. They came in as I was restocking shelves. I saw the first guy out of the corner of my eye as he approached me. I swung around grabbing his bat then started hitting the shit out of him. His friend bailed and the other guy ran. Both were caught a few minutes later by the cops.
 
I was 23 working by myself at Gamestop (Funcoland back then, actually) one afternoon when a guy came in, pointed a gun at me and told me he wouldn't need to shoot me if I'd just give him the contents of the register. I told him that his line of reasoning made pretty good sense to me and pulled the money tray out of the drawer, put it on the counter and told him to enjoy his weekend. He thanked me kindly, and stuffed all the money in his pockets (which wasn't that much since it was still early in the day). A few weeks later they got him for another local robbery and I had to go finger him (hurr hurr) at the police station.
 
-COOLIO- said:
youre going to be denigrated for not just giving up the money but dude...

YOU GOT SOME FUCKING BALLS SON

HIGH MOTHERFUCKING FIVE
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Retrospect being 20/20 and all sure I should have just handed over the money. I should have let this grimy dude take the 50 bucks or whatever I had in my pocket that night. However, you can't predict how you are going to react in those sorts of situations.

I got lucky.
 
WhatRobEats said:
Retrospect being 20/20 and all sure I should have just handed over the money. I should have let this grimy dude take the 50 bucks or whatever I had in my pocket that night. However, you can't predict how you are going to react in those sorts of situations.

I got lucky.
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o ya
 
I knew a guy in college that was tied up and forced into the trunk of a car with another employee while these two guys robbed the pizza place he worked at. He finally was able to get his cell phone out and call the police.

I guess the experience messed him up pretty bad as he ended up quitting school.
 
I went to USC for college and lived three blocks to the west my senior year. I would bike to school and back, often twice in the day, and often return late at night.

One night I got to the first block and there were three huge guys standing in the middle of a four way crosswalk. I instinctually went to the far left of the street to pass by them and as I got within 20 feet of the intersection two of them started running at me full speed. One guy shoved me as I was speeding past them and I went screeching, sliding, spinning, toppling to the left. I managed to hold onto my handlebars but went down hard.

Pure adrenaline as I pick myself up (hard to do with a backpack). Got on my petals and burst away. The guys were able to kick my back tire but couldn't catch me. I got home okay. My bike had a flat tire and I had blood pouring down my leg and knee.

After that I took a well lit street and went into campus through the main gate. What a crappy part of town.
 
Parallacs said:
I went to USC for college and lived three blocks to the west my senior year. I would bike to school and back, often twice in the day, and often return late at night.

One night I got to the first block and there were three huge guys standing in the middle of a four way crosswalk. I instinctually went to the far left of the street to pass by them and as I got within 20 feet of the intersection two of them started running at me full speed. One guy shoved me as I was speeding past them and I went screeching, sliding, spinning, toppling to the left. I managed to hold onto my handlebars but went down hard.

Pure adrenaline as I pick myself up (hard to do with a backpack). Got on my petals and burst away. The guys were able to kick my back tire but couldn't catch me. I got home okay. My bike had a flat tire and I had blood pouring down my leg and knee.

After that I took a well lit street and went into campus through the main gate. What a crappy part of town.
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Damn. I'd have probably not made it back up from that. I fall like a ton of bricks.
 
I just missed being robbed with a butcher knife at Papa John's. My friend was the manager and he and I would always work days together (small enough place that two people could run the store during the day). A while after I left, the delivery guy who took my spot got robbed in the middle of the day in a pretty crowded spot.

Had a delivery to one of the campus apartments. Was pulling up and some guy waved him down. He figured it was the guy who ordered and pulled up to him. Dude pulled out a fucking butcher knife. Drivers only carry $20 bucks on them, so wasn't a big score. Apparently the guy had robbed a Jimmy John's driver the night before. I think he did it one more time to another place before getting caught a few days later. I would have shit myself.
 
Baconsammy said:
Chick I worked with took my pizza out of the fridge. She wont admit it. But I know she did it. And she knows I know she did it. I'm biding my time. I'll pay her back. She knows I will. I know she knows I will. Soon. She's gonna think she's having yogurt for her snack and BOOM no yogurt anymore. Soon.
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That's cold blooded, man.
 
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