Pursesnatch v. mugging

January 3, 2006 - sonofabitch - no comments

No podcast. Just a question: if a guy grabs your purse and smacks you with it, hard, as you try to grab it back, so that blood spurts from your hand all over your brand new 826 Seattle t-shirt, if your iPod, digital camera, wallet, keys (car and house) are in the purse, if you run down the street bleeding, somewhat spectacularly, from what is actually a mere flesh wound, shouting futile epithets as the guy ducks into a car that drives off, is that a purse-snatching, or have you been mugged?

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