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Old 03-31-13, 06:06 AM   #5
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Once...?

Three times. Street assaults on travels to get my money (twice) or the team eqipment I was carrying (once). No police involved, that is pretty useless in these countries (Algeria and Egypt), and we wanted to move on. I "solved" the issues myself, which was both unexpected and painful to the other side. Well, I was young, and probably stupid. Wouldn't fight these days if it would happen again, but just hand over the money: Im older and fatter . Also, I don't travel anymore.

The appartment of my parents was once broken in.

Some years ago, a junkie on trip tried to stab me, for no reason, on open street, only old reflexes and training helped to to deflect his knife. Left a scar on my hip. After I took him out, I almost got sued for use of excessive violence. It was withdrawn in the very last second. Scum.

And if terror counts as crime, the La Belle bombing in Berlin, 5th April 1986. Three weeks after my 19th birthday, three months after I finished school. I was passing the club in the early morning on bicycle with a friend while we returned from a party, and the club was close to where we lived (our street crossed the main streets vis-a-vis to the club), and when we had turned into the other street we suddenly found ourselves on the concrete, maybe 30 meters away from the club. - whether it was from the blast or from the shock and noise, we cannot say. No pleasant memories, and strangely I have crystal clear and terrible visual images in my head, but it all is totally silent, no sirens, no screams, no voices, no nothing. Scary. Tells me that I have kept some kind of trauma from that night, until today. - Some days ago I read that now (not before now!) they have erected a little plate on that house, saying that there was a bombing attack to which people fell victim - they even had not the courage to mention who ordered the attack and who carried it out, and that it was Libya and Gaddafi. I got very angry some days ago when reading that. Cowardly Berlin azzholes. The city is a prime example of being anti-social and red to the bone. Lives competely on tick, sucking other state's subsidies in by the billions.

They say America is a dangerous place. You should try to live over here.
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