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    [R] Attempted Mugging in Cairo

    avatarBy vinja30/04/2014No Comments2 Mins Read
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    “The one time I left the country to travel I was mugged for my wallet in broad daylight on the streets of Berlin. I’m a big guy with martial arts training so this was surprising as the guys who mugged me were much smaller than me, yet I froze. I heard from an associate of yours that some thugs tried (unsuccessfully) to rob you in Cairo. Can you share some insight into what happened?”

    -User 01030
    Rochester, USA

    RESPONSE ///

    As a part of an OP, I had to get intentionally mugged on the streets for weeks. I had a support team in the shadows so I was relatively safe.

    But it wasn’t years later after I retired that an “unauthorized” mugging was attempted on me. It was also in broad daylight, in front of a very public ATM adjacent to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.

    2 locals, in their early 20’s with thin but tall builds.

    I was well aware of their presence from the ATM camera reflection. Judging from their joined and suspicious behavior, I knew I was about to be robbed.

    But as a foreigner in a foreign land, I had to be sure before making an aggressive first move.

    So instead of discreetly putting the cash in my pocket, I instead turned around to face them with the money spread out in my hand, so that I can gauge their reactions or entice them to prematurely respond to make the first move in a way I can counter.

    One of them does exactly what I expect; simply tries to swipe the money out of my hands.

    While holding on to the cash, I use the same hand to grab a couple of the guy’s fingers as he reaches.

    I dislocate his fingers as I pull him towards me with them so that I can strike him with my carbon fiber lapel dagger with my right hand.

    The dagger point does its work as it impacts his forearm. The exploded carbon fiber splinters causes a messy blood splatter that’s visually a lot less damaging than it actually is – by design.

    The mugger and his associate run away.

    I walk away, take the next right, then 2 more rights.

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