I was just on the receiving end of a botched mugging! Two guys followed me in to the parking lot of the local shopping district and then told me to hand over my laptop, seemingly unaware that it was the middle of the day and that the lot was full of cars and people. And also apparently unaware that they had no actual weapons with which to actually threaten me. And also apparently unaware that in my un-muscular state I was about as big as they were. I flagged down a car in about three seconds (the driver thought I was actually trying to hijack it at first) and the pair penguin-ran away. Yes, penguin-ran. Because when you want to look inconspicuous, you run like a couple of penguins.

I nominate this mugging as the best mugging ever. Appletini's all around.

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the kid's getting old, the kid's getting old

Maybe they wanted to see how awesomely cool your laptop was and wanted to look at it and congrulate you on owning such a fine piece of hardware.

It was on double-sale.

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the kid's getting old, the kid's getting old

now, report it to mall security, they may have it on video.

can you pick that penguin out of a line up? (suddenly inspired to make a comic.) at a minimum, how about a contest to make comics announcing the crime, the (trivially small?) reward, location, etc. if only we had a crime fighting comic character with superpowers.. oh wait.

 

 

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woof