Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, it was my understanding that crime is vastly overrated and doesn’t actually happen

What crime? Nothing was stolen. Duh.

So a white SAHM who probably moved here from Ohio or someplace got frightened when she saw a local child. She thinks her being scared of young Black men means a law was somehow broken

The sooner gentrifiers like this move the hell back out of DC, the better.

Wow - the racism in this post just astounds me. Why did you think it was a white SAHM? Can’t any person of color get scared when faced with a criminal? Why do you assume the thief was black? Can’t white boys commit crimes too?

People have a natural fight, fright, freeze (and now fawn). In the moment, there isn't a lot of cognitive processing, it is more innate reaction.

I am a fighter when faced with those types of threat. It isn't a conscious choice. I would probably happily give my phone once my brain kicks in and tells me I am being stupid to fight to keep it but my instinct is to fight.

Fight: defend
Flight: leave
Freeze: do nothing
Fawn: do what you are asked

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you fight for your phone or even wallet? A phone is nothing - you brick it and replace it from the cloud backup. The wallet is annoying, but it just takes an hour on the phone to replace everything. None of it is worth risking your life.

The weird part of this story is why anyone would bother stealing a phone in the first place. One, it’s locked! Two, it will shortly be deactivated.

Wow, you're just going to roll over? At some point the people have to stand up. This is how things improve.

Not OP, but if someone tried to take my phone and they had a gun, i would not "stand up" -- I wouldn't be armed, and like the PP said, the phone is locked and replaceable. Not really worth it to me to get shot just in the name of "not rolling over."

I always carry a dummy phone to hand muggers.

I’m glad you are okay

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you fight for your phone or even wallet? A phone is nothing - you brick it and replace it from the cloud backup. The wallet is annoying, but it just takes an hour on the phone to replace everything. None of it is worth risking your life.

Just like rape. Why would you fight? Just lie back and relax. It'll be over soon.

Look, I get where you're coming from, and you're not wrong on the individual encounter level. My concern is you scale that up and there are no social repercussions for street robberies. If that's the case, it's just going to get worse.

Did you really just compare some property being stolen to being intimately violated? Please fix yourself before you spend time around women.