Mugged :(

[fluffymark]

Got attacked on the Cambridge-London train on my way home from a lovely day out in Cambridge. I'm home now, but horribly shaken and really won't be sleeping very well I fear. *shakes* My fingers are still trembling as I write this.

10-12 idiots boarded the train, and roamed up and down threatening people (about a dozen people in my carriage) obviously looking for a target, asking people what was in their bags, and being overfriendly with the single female passengers - train approached a station and they picked on me, attempted to grab my bag (which I was holding very tightly by this stage) and pulled it away from me. I kept hold of it, but they managed to open it and my things went everywhere. They quickly fled and jumped off the train. Witnesses helped me up and I gathered my belongings, minus my mobile, which they must have taken. Nice woman offered me a lift back to my place from the station, refusing to let me travel any further on my own.

Disbelief that they struck so openly in front of so many witnesses, on a route I use often. Relief that it's now over, and they didn't get anything else, nor am I hurt physically (although I'm sure hurt in other ways). Mobile is replaceable, may cost money I'm short of right now. Argh.

PLEASE SEND ME YOUR PHONENUMBERS!!! Stupid me had not copied most of them from my mobile, so assume I don't know your number now. Also (obviously) don't try and phone me on my number (I'm trying to immobilize the phone) and if you get do get phoned from my old number (or have already had a call from my number in the last 2 hours) it was not me.

Comments

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! :( :( :(

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Oh, baby!!

*huggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggs*

*cuddles you and strokes your hair and sends you pretty people to cheer you up*

I'll e-mail you our numbers again.

Thank heavens for the nice woman and the good witnesses.

Thinking of you,

Elly

Re: meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! :( :( :(

[fluffymark]

Thankyou elly for the hugs! I think i need them seriously right now - i'm still shaken and numb. Thinks will get back to normal soon, I'm sure. And thanks for your phone numbers! :) You're very kind. :)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Poor you!

HUGS

Gina

[fluffymark]

Thanks for the hugs - and it was good to see you yesterday! :) :)

[erming.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that it is terrible :(

I got attacked once and it put me off travelling for a while. Hope you are still ok with the trains.

take care,

[fluffymark]

Eeeep. Sorry to hear about your attack too - it can't have been nice - where/when was that? *hugs* I think i'm going to be more wary on trains, but i can't stop using them - i've no other easy means of travelling around the country. I may htink twice about exactly when I travel in future when i'm on my own.

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Sympathy and hugs.

Like you, I'm amazed they'd do that - I've always assumed trains were fairly safe.

Thinking of you.

[fluffymark]

Thanks for the thought - you're very kind! :) I'd always thought trains were relatively safe too - i've felt scared on platforms in the dark at various times in the past, but once on a well lit moving train, i've never considered the dangers. Now I know how trapped I can be in a train. Eeep.

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

What a horrid thing to happen, am very sorry to hear it :( Sending you a *hug* and hope you recover soon and get a new mobile sorted..

[fluffymark]

Thanks for the hug! :) It was horrible, but these things happen, don't they? May even be getting a new mobile today, which should certainly help to reassure me things are returning to normal again.

[zeke-hubris.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely horrible. I hope you feel better soon.

[fluffymark]

I'm feeling shaken and numb still, but better than last night. It could have been a lot worse, thats what i keep telling myself. Eeep.

[ex-blackvelv826.livejournal.com]

that's really horrible. i hope you get your phone sorted out - maybe the police should be involved, with it being stolen.

i hate trains at the best of times for the reason you've just described. its groups of bored kids with nothing better to do that cause the majority of prolems. i'm surprised no-one else on the train helped you a bit more. perhaps they were scared too.

bring back train warden people, thats what I say...

*hug*

[fluffymark]

I phoned the police as soon as I got home - the BT transport police will phone me back on monday to take a statement, and then i'll immobilize the stolen handset so it isn't worth anything to the robbers.
I'd always thought trains were safe - until yesterday. I now realsie what a sitting target a lone traveller is in one - nowhere for me to escape to, and at a station they can jump off and escape quickly. In future i'm going to be very wary about travelling alone in the evenings on slow trains that stop at the small local stations. I get the impression other people would have helped if they thought it would make a difference, but there were so many robbers it was inevitable they had the upper hand. The other passangers were immense help afterwards, helping me pull myself back together, and especially Rachel (the friendly stranger who helped me home and gave me her number as a witness).
There didn't even appear to be a guard on the train - nobody checked tickets, there must have been only the driver.
Thanks for the support and advice and hugs. :)

Re: That is ::so:: sucky

[fluffymark]

Thanks for the sympathy hugs. :)
Hoping they get caught too - but realistically i think they may get away with it - BT transport police don't want to take a statement until monday, which means they're not exactly in any hurry to catch anyone.
I'd seriously considered phoning 999 because the situation was getting out of hand on the train, but the last thing i wanted to do was get my mobile out of my bag and reveal that I had something of value for them to take - but in the end they got it anyway. Nor could i get to the train alarm, as they were blocking me in. You'e right maybe i should seriously consider a rape alarm or somesuch - i'd never thought they'd pick me - just before they attacked i was more worried about the woman opposite me that was looking very scared at their unwelcome advances.
Still, am feeling a bit better today. :)

[mostlyacat.livejournal.com]

Meep, poor you

I was beaten up on the way to school once - that was not fun at all. I was shaken up for ages afterwards and took a different route after that.

[fluffymark]

Eeep, sorry to hear that - it can't have been fun for you. Nasyp people beating you up. Grrrr. It's a mixture of disbelef that anyone could sink that low and do that to me, and anger at myself (oddly) that i managed to let them do this to me, and general numbness that i'm feeling today. Still shaken, but i'm coming to my senses and looking on the bright side - i mean, the only think missing is my mobile and that needed replacing anyway.

[yvesilena.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD BABY! *hugshugshugshugshugshugshugshugshugshugshugs* You are getting so much bad luck at the moment. Unfair! I know it's unfair to expect life to be fair.. but still... ow.) I'm getting really angry in a really stupid way, like: YOU GOT MUGGED? AND I WAS NOT THERE? I know I can't be everywhere at once to protect every lovely princess in the world but I would really have liked to try a few ninja moves on those guys ://///////

Will send you my number. Ow. I'm so sorry this happened to you.

[fluffymark]

Awww. You're so kind for giving me that level of support! :) Ninja Yves takes on the robbers and wins. Huzzah! :)
Thanks for your number and the hugs and everything! :)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Erk, bastards.

[fluffymark]

Exactly. At least I know i'm better than that sort of lowlife.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

MEEP :(
That mings lotsly -- not much comfort, I know, but I've never heard of that kind of robbery happening before and I'd guess that's because people doing that kind of thing are likely to get caught very quickly (lots of witnesses, police often being at stations, etc.).

*hughughughughughughughughughughug* Hope you have a patch of good luck soon to make up for the bad patch.

Will mail you with numbers.

[fluffymark]

Thankyou for the hugs. I'm a bit better today. I'd not suspected that kind of Robbery was at all common either, and while I hope they get caught, the police don't appear to be in any rush to get them. They said they'd phone me back on monday to get me to make a Statement - by then the trail may be cold. Still, stations have CCTV and i can give them the exact time and location it happened.
Hoping I get good luck soon. :)

I'm so sorry!

[coven.livejournal.com]

Must have been an awful experience! *Lots of hugs* I hope you'll be able to forget it soon!

Weirdness: Once I was asleep on a train back to London in the middle of the day. The train pulled up at a station and a gang of teenagers emptied a bottle of water over me through the open window of the carriage, then ran away...

Re: I'm so sorry!

[fluffymark]

It was extremely unpleasant, you're right - but i'm glad its over and i'm safe and well and very little damage was done in the end. Still, it shook me up a bit, but i think im even vercoming that.

Your water experience on the train sounds very weird - i've never heard of anything like that ever happen before. Very odd!

[secret-vampire.livejournal.com]

I only j ust read this - i hope your doin ok, some guy tried to mug me on the way home once a couple of years ago, really shook me up. Luckily he never took anything but i dont like walking anywhere in the dark on my own now unless i have to.

Hope you feel better, those ppl should be hung strung n quartered!

Lis
xx

[fluffymark]

Eeeep. Very sorry to hear yoy've been attacked too - thats awful :(. It shook me up lots, you're right, but i think i'm already mainly recovered from the shock- i'll be more carful in future but i'm not sure theres much i coudl do if i was faced with that sort of aggression again. I still love the dark - i'd hate to be afraid of going anywhere at night.
You're right, these bastards deserve something really evil to happen to them. :)

[nipple-salad.livejournal.com]

That's so HORRIBLE! +pets you+

Unbelievable that thay dared strike so openly. I hope your soul isn't scarred for good.. :(

[fluffymark]

You're very kind! :) :) Thankyou for the support. :)
It was scary how they stuck like they - i'd never have expected them to be so brazen about attacking in public - but it happened. I'm coping remarkably well in fact, and i think by tomorrow will be perfectly back to normal. :)

Eep

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Loads of hugs
That sucks. Glad that you are okay physically though, and I hope that you aren't too scared by the trainsnow
More hugs

Re: Eep

[fluffymark]

I'm OK, and thanks for the hugs. I don't think i'll be put off trains, in fact i had to travel home again alone late at night this evening on a train, and survived. Maybe a bit reckless of me, but i've faced the fear and overcome it now.

eeek!

[sliding-loopz.livejournal.com]

sorry to hear that, hope you're ok. :( and it's a good thing you had helpful people around you at the time, because if this group of people are persistant little buggers, then maybe something can be done when you go and report them.
glad you're home safe!

Re: eeek!

[fluffymark]

I'm pulling myself together now and am much less shaken. Things are getting back to normal, and i'm feeling safe again. Thankyou for the support. The robbers did look like they had it all planned and had done this sort of attack before - it wasn't oppertunistic by any means - they boared the train with the intention of causing mayham. If they've stuck before, they are likely to stike again, and i hope the police get their act together, and usee CCTV cameras and catch this mob before they upset anyone else with their antics.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

You poor love - glad to hear you were taken care of and are now feeling a bit better.

Nilite te bastardes carbondorum - don't let the bastards grind you down.

*hugs*

[fluffymark]

Thankyou for the hugs and support. Yes, i'm glad the other passengers were symathetic and helpful - i would have really lost faith in human nature if they'd ignored the attack, but they came to my rescue, and really really looked after me and made sure I was OK.
Tha bastards really aren't worth any effort thinking about, are they? I'm far above them and they can't beat me like that. :)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Poor baby. Fucking wolves. I refuse to call anything that would behave like that human.

[fluffymark]

They were scavengers. Brainless bastards. It makes me feel better just thinking about how much better than them i am. I do get despair about how low these people have sunk - i sickens me to think how they ended up that way. And after all their efforts, all they end up with in my old broken mobile, soon to be totally immobilized and worthless to them. Ha! :)

[silveraj.livejournal.com]

oh god, i understand only too well. i got attacked recently as well, in a station, and again a few weeks ago, which luckily was a near miss due to the police being there. i totally know how you feel . i'm a friend of molochai's by the way, just thought i'd say hey and stuff.
as an aside, as part of a small study i am doing, i bet there was at least one of each of the following:
white baseball cap
burberry baseball cap
adidas trousers
denim jacket
reebok classics
gold earing
blue jeans (tight cut)

let me know if i'm right ;)

bastards.

[fluffymark]

Yay for the police (i read your journal about that) - it's such a relief when the can stop these idiots getting at people! Thanks very much for the support and things.

Baseball caps [tick]
Denim Jackets [tick]
Blue Jeans [tick]
Gold Earrings [tick]
Reeboks - i'd not be able identify them, but they were certainly wearing trainers so very likely some reeboks amongst them [tick]
Adidas trousers - again, i've no idea what these look like - but it's very probable given the horrible trousers they had on [very probable tick]

Well done - i think you've sucessfully described townie bastards! :)

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

:( *hugs* *hugs* *hugs*
i hope you will be okay

will email you my number (and i don't think it's stupid at all to not have them copied down - or if it is, i'm just as stupid..)

[fluffymark]

I'm surviving well in fact. - i think i've gotten over my fear now and am returning to normal again. The shock has gone, and i'm feeling more together and recovered. Thanks for the sympathy and hugs - i really need them! :)

Oh honey!

[(Anonymous)]

I've only just seen this. You poor thing. I don't know how it feels for you but I know when Joe and I have been attacked it's made us both feel very wobbly and upset. The scared feeling does pass though, and now that I've been there and done that I'm much more clued up about how to handle these situations another time. Yours does sound particularly threatening.

There are some important things to remember...
These sad individuals have penises only 2 inches long when erect (fact, I've done a study I have and no Joe wasn't in the sample)
They know nothing about fluffyness, astrohpysics and being generally lovely so whilst they may have your phone they are still not as well off as you are.
There are still far more nice people in the world than nasty (like the woman who took you home)and if sometimes they don't come to your rescue it is probably because they are ordinary and scared like you
If you ever see these people again when I am with you I will kick their asses and then I will get Joe to kick their asses too (it is very hard to feel afraid if you hold in your head the image of an angry Joe hitting someone with his unicycle - try it)

Maybe, the other lesson we should learn from this is how important it is to stand up to people. I used to be very courageous about confronting people when they were doing bad stuff (I even stopped a fight outside a pub once) but I've become gradually more fraidy. Most of the time though if one person has the guts to stand up for someone there is a domino effect and others will join in. It's too easy to just sit there feeling grateful it isn't happening to you, which is missing the point, because it's only luck that you aren't the one being picked on.

If you need cake or hugs or vodka or money just say. And I'll e-mail you both our numbers.

Lots of love

Penny

Re: Oh honey!

[fluffymark]

Thankyou lots and lots and lots penny *huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs*. You're lovely and kind and wonderful. I'm fully aware of the size of these idiots penises, and why i don't want to have anything to do with them. Feel free to kick them to shreds if you ever see them.
Standing up to people can be hard - however i'm certain if they had tried anything on *anyone* else in the carridge, i'd have been at them like a fury - i was ready for that, and even expecting it, given how they'd been treting the female passengers- i just wasn't ready for them picking on me alone.

I'm not going to say no to cake or vodka or hugs! :) I'd feel guilty taking any money, despite how broke i am right now. Hope to see you sometime soon, after your exams have finished. :)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Eeek. What a horrible thing to happen. I always feel my anxiety levels rising when a group of people like that get on board a train I'm riding on; whilst I've never actually been attacked on a train, I've been assaulted a couple of times (back when I was living in Holloway a man once tried to rape me on my own doorstep), and the worst thing about such situations is the terrible feeling of helplessness. It can stay with you for a long time afterwards; thanks to the attacks and the break-in, two years on I still have to have a light on at night - even if only a small nightlight.

Thank goodness you weren't physically hurt, and they were satisfied with just trying to snatch your bag.

*hugs*

[fluffymark]

Erkle! I've never been physically assaulted (in as much as being hurt), although i've been scared to hell dozens of times when walking home - often if i'm wearing 'dubious clothing' some locals seem to think i'm a prostitute and keep demanding sex and are not very good at taking no for an answer. When these idiots boared the train however, i was more concerned about the female passengers who they were being all touchy-feeley with, and who kept telling the idiots to leave them alone (to little avail) and was very prepared to leap in defence of any of them should anything happen - although in the end it appeared i was the target myself. I felt helpless, it's right, i did my best - i tried my hardest, and still the idiots got what they wanted off me.
Sorry to hear about the attacks on yourself - thats not right - you're too good a person for those to happen to you. It's a pity such idoicy has made you afriad of the dark - you poor thing *hugs*.
I'll survive and get over this. It'll just shake me up a bit.

Eeep

[alektoeumenides.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I've only just read this and it's so horrid! Puts my fear of the Russian trains to nothing - I mean, bad stuff can happen anywhere, eep.

Do you need my numbers? Let me know and I'll email them later.

Moop

*huuuuuuuugs* and cirok from Russia...

Re: Eeep

[fluffymark]

Thankyou dearie - you're very kind and i need as many hugs as i can get - i'm still a bit shook up. I've been wanting to phone you so badly since the mugging, but i lost all your numbers :( :( :(. Please can you send me them soon. Although you may then get me phoning you up with my sob-stories, be warned.
Cirok sound like a very good idea - in fact i think i've a couple left in the fridge - not for much longer!!! *headsforfridge*

[andiblue.livejournal.com]

Hi I am silveraj's partner. I am so glad to hear you were not physically hurt a malicious punch can do untold damage and more than likely the fuktards wont be caught. I am also glad to hear that somone offered to take you home - England is full of people who turn a blind eye particularily in london... it is nice to see people caring.

I offer you my support and I hope the feelings of abuse and invasion pass quickly. Me and aj have been down this road many times and every time it seems just as bad if not worse that our society has created a yob culture that believes it can do whatever it likes...

I used to be a bit hippy/lefty about this and think of re-educating offenders and that it was faults in their past that led to their behaviour but to be honest they actually generally know right from wrong but they choose to ignore their morality so I dont give them any vote of confidence anymore. I dont believe in the death penalty but I do believe in life long torture the sort that would make them wish for death - the fucking retards.

Sorry am getting angry again. take care, later

[fluffymark]

Thanks for all the support! It's both comforting and alarming to find that other people have been in similar sitations - the sympathy is good, but then i fear how common this kind of attack actually is.
I think these yobs either don't care or don't realise how much hurt and misery they're inficting on thir targets - it sickens me that people can be so unfeeling. They act for the thrill of the power they have over the victim, and any financial benifit they get from stealing things, without regard for the human suffering. I'm of the opinion its a result of boredness and peer pressure - they'd never do it if they had better things to do, or if they were on their own and not encouraged by their mates.
I'm feeling less shaken today, but won't be comfortable travelling alone for a while, i fear.