I am not catching this train
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- Corvo20
All of my life I've heard of stories like this: mysterious travellers on trains, people being hypnotised by gypsies at your home's front-door; people waking up in beaches after a night out, missing a kidney, etc. I think there's a lot of urban folklore in those.
Not saying your friend is lying, mistermik - but sometimes it's just less romantic than that. It's just the guy next to you. Common burglars taking their chances. Not necessarily the gypsies or the "eastern gangs". Some of those are certainly not church-going people and charity yard-sale organisers, but right now, in Portugal, any Ukrainian is deemed to be part of a gang, carrying guns, knives, knowing karate and being able to strip you of your life in a few seconds just to steal you 20 euros. Is that fair?
Some years ago, in Lisbon, I was assaulted by some junkies, while my girlfriend and I were peacefully enjoying an ice-cream in one of our neighbourhood's gardens. While I was trying to stand-up from the bench and measure up to them a bit (sometimes it works), one of them immediately pointed a needle to my gf's neck. After being robbed, we went to our district Police station and the officer handed me 2 big volumes of profiles (hardback, no less!) so that we could try to identify those artists. It's not exactly a poor neighbourhood, on the contrary - but would you believe me that while we were going through those pictures we recognised many of our neighbours booked for several offenses, high-school colleagues (notoriously 1 of those from my class, caught breaking into a pharmacy one day, to steal some pills) and other sort of people that I used to see around that neighbourhood?
Heart-breaking and amazing at the same time. People are really weird.
- 1st line. this=these.Corvo2
- Lord knows I love me some Ukrainian genealogy... on the broads. The ones that don't rob me ... well while I'm knocked out.********
- aaah, I knew it!
flavorful's aunt = KGB.Corvo2 - Biological weaponry on the streets is a pretty fucked up proposition.Nairn
- @ Nairn: it's so simple, isn't it? No one risks they're just bluffing.Corvo2
- I forgot to add that most of the men on those records were jacket & tie; like some motherfucking bank clerks.Corvo2
- I guess all robbers tend to dress alike.Corvo2