have you ever been hold-up?

hi bubbly apple, yes during my college days...my class is 7am and its 630am i was approached along bambang station going to school had gotten my watch and wallet....but the funny thing is i succeeded to negotiate the holdapper to left me some pocket money for transportation...hehe ^_^

Oh my gosh, I am so sorry to hear that. You must have been so frightened! And yes you were wise to give them what you did, at least your life wasn't touched. Did the police do anything about this matter? Fortunately this kind of thing has never happened to me but.. I admit I think about it a lot and the idea of it scares me! Have you gotten counseling after this, I would imagine after experiencing something so scary like this could cause PTSD or something. Well I am glad you are okay!

That is really scary.. where did this happen? this was different from the time you lost your celphone in makati right? I am glad nothing bad happened. you should have ran away fast when you gave your purse with about a hundred pesos in it... cause i think some holdapers will come back at their victims if they feel they were fooled by what they got. Be always be careful.. we can never be too safe. that is why i am always on guard. i am scared of such things happening to me... i am glad it has not happened... i might just die in that moment if it was me.

that's terrible! i haven't had that kind of experience but i would like to drive in and say 'take care' to you. please do be more careful later on and do not go to dangerous areas and when you see strange people coming closing just leave at soon as possible. and by the way, have you call the police when those guys left? i think they should be purnished and given a lesson.

No. I haven't been held up eversice. But that is really scary. Besides, I am not sure if I'm going to resist any holdapper I they want to take away my celphone or wallet because, first my phone is now outdated and it would be an embarrasment if they still insist on getting it, and second, my wallet has really nothing left (at least for Philippine peso currency) to date. It surely is a scary thing to even think about. Being in that kind of experience makes me wonder that anything could happen. They can pull the trigger because of anger, or fear as well. Holdappers are in a kind of psywar too. They pour you in a lot of fear, so that they can overcome their when they see you trembling. But what if you don't get to manifest fear, and instead resist. The way for them to control the situation is to pull the trigger or have their pointed instrument pierce your body. And that would be tragic. So I guess, it's not funny being held up. It puts life in an unecessary compromise. Take care though. Pass though roads and alleys which have many people passing by as well. It pays to be a little extra sensitive to your surroundings. We never know who among the people within our parameters are gonna strike as holdappers. So we could only be careful, and pray it does not happen, or ever happen to us again.

Haven't experience being rob and hopefully not. But my brother was and from his story, I was the one who's too afraid for him... what if those villains did something bad to him, what will happen to him? what will happen to my cute pamangkins... waah! Also, my cuz was victimized last december I think...

I once worked 18 days straight, out of those eighteen days only one day was a day time shift. All the rest were night shifts. I worked in a convenience store, alone, at night. The ONE night that I did not work, and instead worked a day shift my co worker got held up at knife point. She was not hurt. I am very lucky that it was not me.

I am sorry to hear that.Such scary things never happened to me, but my best friend had been beat up and robbed. It was a cloudy day, a man in her back suddenlly beat her head with a brike and grabed her purse,there were many people in the street at that time, so she catched up with the chief and took her things back. Take care when you are out, you had better walk on the main road.