"Beware" Tourist dies after failed mugging for Rolex in Naples

[HKtoter]

Originally Posted by Newportkrieger

If you are not able and willing to calmly hand over your watch to a mugger then you are WEARING A WATCH YOU CAN NOT AFFORD. The watch clearly means too much too you...beyond what a watch you can afford should mean to you in a life threatening situation.

I beg to differ.
I'll be calling to police and telling them the coroner should show up too.

[Numismatist]

Originally Posted by Newportkrieger

If you are not able and willing to calmly hand over your watch to a mugger then you are WEARING A WATCH YOU CAN NOT AFFORD. The watch clearly means too much too you...beyond what a watch you can afford should mean to you in a life threatening situation.

Originally Posted by HKtoter

I beg to differ.
I'll be calling to police and telling them the coroner should show up too.

At some point society has to push back...

[Numismatist]

Originally Posted by Numismatist

At some point society has to push back...

X2 - oh wait, that was me wasn't it?

[roleyrolz]

Originally Posted by Numismatist

At some point society has to push back...

Your absolutey right if were getting finacially mugged by bankers and doing nothing, the least we can do is is fight back when we get phyiscally mugged by thieves

Just remember this quote " Better to Die on your feet then Live on your Knees."

[Trev]

Originally Posted by HKtoter

I beg to differ.
I'll be calling to police and telling them the coroner should show up too.

Unfortunately in some countries, defending yourself (regardless of the tool) means you've committed a greater crime than your attacker/thief.

[sherwin]

Originally Posted by Trev

Unfortunately in some countries, defending yourself (regardless of the tool) means you've committed a greater crime than your attacker/thief.

esp true here down under! but ill leave that for another thread at another time.

its all about looking at the situation, and how to deal with it. as my uncle once said, thieves value your life less than the watch. so if they are gonna have to knock you for it, they will. often in cases like this, the thugs will whack first, ask later. these are not civilised people.

[akiruno]

Originally Posted by Trev

Unfortunately in some countries, defending yourself (regardless of the tool) means you've committed a greater crime than your attacker/thief.

100% true in Japan…found out the hard way

[Z06]

Originally Posted by HKtoter

I beg to differ.
I'll be calling to police and telling them the coroner should show up too.

Yup, me too...if they want my watch, they can meet my 45...and say good bye