A couple of years ago, I was coming home from work at about midnight. I just parked my car and was walking home (about 3 blocks. Yeah, I know that blows in and of itself.) Anyways, when I get to the church, these 2 "yo's" walk up to me and say something. I couldn't really hear them because I had my iPod on. MISTAKE #1: I stop and say, "What?" Because I thought they were asking me a question. So now one guy comes up and grabs me and tells me he has a gun. Now, I've had guns pulled on me before and generally, if someone DOES indeed have a gun, they show it to you. It really expedites what they're trying to accomplish. But this guy has what I suspect is his finger in his coat pocket. Mistake # 2 :In the history of the dumbest sh!t I've ever said, I say, "You'd better fvcking kill me because I'm gonna find you."
From the way he was grabbing me, I could have easily have grabbed his arm by the wrist and snapped it at the elbow, Bas Rutten style. "Bing bang Bong!" LMAO But the fact is, I didn't know what he had or didn't. So fvck it, I upped my sh!t because all of it could've been replaced and wasn't worth getting shot.
So while this is going on the other guy keeps trying to get behind me and so I was moving around trying to keep both of them in front of me and I'm getting more and more pissed w/each passing second. Finally the other guy says "Just shoot him, Jeff." Mistake #3: I take my eyes off the guy in front of me and look at the big mouth and shout "Shut the fvck up!" Well, all of a sudden, I feel a shock and a flash. I didn't know what the hell just happened. Just that I felt a shock and I didn't know if I was shot or what. For like 3 seconds, we were just standing there looking at eachother and I realized my nose was bleeding. I looked at the first guys hand and guess what I saw...brass knuckles! Guys, I can tell you that you could LITERALLY hear the tables turning and all of my fear and (some would argue) comon sense VANISHED! I made my mind up at that point that I wasn't gonna be the first guy in the 21st century to be mugged w/BRASS KNUCKLES! I say "FvCK YOU!" and the chase was on! I chased the guy that hit me for like a block and a half tackle him and I guess he hit his head becasue money was asleep. Like snoring. The other douche had vanished so I loked around and saw that nobody was around and I dragged him by his ankles into this prtoected woodland area (odd for the Bronx to have protected woodlands, but it is what it is.) I pulled him deep out of view of the street, put him in a full mount w/his arms at his side and slapped him in the face a couple of times to wake him up. He was all like "yo! what is this?" and I said some old corny crap like, "Your judgment day." HAHAHAHAHA! Then proceeded to pound him back into unconsciousness.
When I was done, I got all of my stuff back, cleaned myself off w/the snow and started back out to the street. But then I remembered that I had like a half oz of the sticky-ick on me so I went back and put it into his pocket. So I get back to the street and see an umarked police car at the red light and flagged them down. I have to say, they were AWESOME and completely changed my view of them. Anyways, the asked me if they were black(!!!) and I told them that they were either latin or caucasian. I was like, one of em is sleeping back there in the woods and they drew their guns down on me. I don't hold it against them, it was for everyone's safety.
Then he was like, "What happened to him?" and I was like, "I chased him, then he fell." After a pregnant pause, they all started laughing their asses off. When I told them he hit me with brass knuckles, the main cop was like "Who mugged you, Fonzie?" They all seemed to think that was hilarious.
So, they cuffed him and called an ambulance and when he came to, he gave up his buddy. Needless to say, his face will forever be changed because of me. Oh and when I had to go to court to testify before the grand jury, one of the charges was "possession of a leafy green substance that was, in the officer's opinion, a controlled substance pending testing!" HAHAHAHA!