Comments | bizza: i almost got robbed.

bizza

i almost got robbed.

Mar 09, 2006 13:05

This morning, I was upstairs on the train to Bankstown, and a guy - Tongan maybe or maybe a very dark Lebanese, and about 20-25 years old, wearing a Bulldogs cap - started looking at me from down the stairs. He said something to me. I had headphones on and didn't hear, and took them off ( Read more... )

Comments 32

all_summer_long March 9 2006, 02:26:01 UTC

i'm so glad you're okay.
good thing you didn't tell him about your new girlfriend in your backpack.

bizza March 9 2006, 02:56:59 UTC

hahaha...ah, my new girlfriend. she's so awesome. well, at least she plays me songs!

tim.

all_summer_long March 9 2006, 03:01:34 UTC

i'm sure there i things i can do that she can't.
but FINE!

satans_muse March 9 2006, 02:46:52 UTC

sounds like when i lived in fairfield.
it's always an adventure when you're on the train in areas like that.
... or waiting for a bus, or grocery shopping, or breathing.

glad he didn't try anything and you got away unharmed. i think the thing that frightened me the most about living around there was that those type of people were always so unpredictable and hard to read.

bizza March 9 2006, 03:01:50 UTC

it's weird, i grew up in fairfield and went through the train station there every day, went past cabramatta station every day in the 1990s when it was at it's worst, and i've been going to bankstown to go to uni for 2 years now, and it's the first time anything like this has happened to me.

but yeah, this guy just wasn't all there. i was just trying to be as polite as i could and not excite him into getting a hot head.

tim.

buckylea March 9 2006, 02:47:02 UTC

oooh creepy. why are the scary people always on trains?? i feel like it's only a matter of time before something bad happens to me on public transport! :(

bizza March 9 2006, 03:02:27 UTC

i think they're often on trains because they're not together enough to actually have a car or a driver's license.

tim.

agirlnamedlucky March 9 2006, 03:17:52 UTC

They're also on buses and on the street too.

That sounds like a pretty scary experience, Tim. Personally, I would have been completely shaken. Actually, I probably would have left the train station and hid somewhere.

agirlnamedlucky March 9 2006, 03:20:11 UTC

Note: When I say "on the street", I don't mean "living on the street", so much as I mean that I encounter them when I'm walking down the street. Someone once threatened to kill me on a bus. Like I said, it totally freaks me out.

redheap March 9 2006, 03:17:25 UTC

Mate, I imagine yuor anxiety on the inside was rocketing upwards during all of this?

bizza March 9 2006, 03:57:21 UTC

um, i wasn't actually scared until he made a grab for my wallet, and then i had the "oh fuck" moment. but it was then that he went away. i'm more anxious about it now, though, now that i've had time to think about it!

tim.

astrovisionary March 9 2006, 03:20:58 UTC

NASTY! god, i'm glad you're ok.

i loathe the bankstown line so much..
what i loathe more is the nightrides. my train line is usually freak-free, but once it turns into nightride buses .. well, it passes through bankstown, lakemba etc before it hits my suburb.

fun fun fun.

bizza March 9 2006, 03:59:27 UTC

thanks meesh :)

most times the train is freak-free, i think it's just the odd occasion.

tim.