What to Do When a Mugger Is Lurking (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 20-28 | Added on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 04:49 AM
Once in downtown Los Angeles, after dark I was walking on Broadway headed to the Broadway Bar. If you know the area, it's not where the meek should tread. But I was there and in deep thought when I crossed the street where a black guy was standing. The man walked up to me and asked, "Hey, how come you aren't afraid of me?" The fact was I hadn't seen him and told him so: "Jeez, I didn't see you. Maybe if I had I would be...ah, I see lots of you guys in New York." This sort of disarmed him and he told me he was a mugger. Curious person that I am, I talked with him for about 20 minutes about mugging. He told me that he wanted to do something else, that it was dangerous and that a friend of his recently had a shotgun pulled on him. I explained how minimum wage laws were making it near impossible for him to get an entry level job. I wished him luck in his job pursuit and we moved on in different directions into the remainder of the night.
