Robbed at knife point

[Evee]

I've never been in this forum before but am serious when I say some of you were in extreme situations and it gave me chills to think about.
A friend of mine was going into a theatre tonight and didn't lock his car door. As he stood there he heard a stereo blast,his car flew by him. People today are nuts aren't they???

Yes people are really out for what they can get.
They may need their drugs or just don't like working.
There is so much drugs in this area it is scary.
Gosh here it is at 3 am and not slept a wink.
I will pay tomorrow.

 

[Stephanida]

People are nuts! When my house was robbed, the police think it was for drug money.

There are so many drug users in my city it is scary. For example, my best friend had to turn her mom and step-father into the police for using drugs. She was only 12.

 

[Illuminite]

That's nuts!!! ^ Everyday we have 911 reports of violence. I don't know about your area but Kitsap County in Washington is going downhill.

 

[Stephanida]

Well I live in lower New Brunswick and yeah it is going down hill. I had to turn my parents in for abuse. Worse....the social workers didn't do anything about it.

 

[goldenviolet]

allieisme

my hubby and i were robbed at knife point outside of a bakery. my hubby was beaten alittle and stabbed. they didn't lay a hand on me because i was very pregnant. it all happened within about five minutes. i still feel the feelings i felt then. i have panic attacks when kids group together and hang out (we were rolled by a group of teens). i have never let my teens hang out. some things are just imprinted on us.
i'm so glad that God gives us safety.

 

[jenelis]

Hi everyone, particluarly Allie and Kathleen.

I am a kindred soul too.

I've written on CF before of my ordeal. I definately have PTSD and the more I actively try to "gewt over it" the more it surfaces. In fact writing this email will have negative consequences for me (probably a few nightmares).

I don't have the answers, but I blame society in general for the decline in moral values that allows people to get away with crimes, virtually unpunished.

My situation (in brief): This sexual perv sought me out probably because I was an obvious single mom. He watched me through the windows until one night I made it too easy for him by falling asleep with the door unsecure. I woke up to him masterbating a foot or so from me and my four-year-old. I jumped up and was relatively sucessful in fighting him off of me. Then, when he was ready (I think about 10-13 minutes) he left.

Not a day that I don't live in fear. I fear his prison release-- that he'll hunt me down. Any night alone is a night of restless sleep and anxiety.

 

[jenelis]

Hi everyone. Well I'm back... about 15 hours later or so and its the middle of the night (2:57 am) and I'm suffering the consequences of having written about my attack earlier today. I'm up for the fourth time tonight. The internal shaking has started and the paranoia set in when the outside sprinklers kicked on. I'm sitting in my study, crying as softly as I can for fear of waking up my daughter or boyfriend (who sleeps permanently on the couch because I insist daughter sleeps with me since I can't handle having her more than an arms-reach away as we sleep).

It's times like these that I do wonder why God lets this happen to me. I try to rationalize-- it could have been worse... I could have been raped. We could have been killed. I try to "Put on the full armour of God" but its times like these I feel stripped of my ability to think or act rationally.

As of today, it's been three years, 10 months exactly.

 

[Wolverine502]

Some interesting experiences in this thread. The members who read this thread let this be a lesson to you. The only person responsible for your safety is you. Each person must take responsibility for their own safety. Each member on this board should own a firearm, learn how to use it, and have the will to use it. If the wolf comes knocking on the door you will prepared for him.

 

[thistle1963]

i hope everyone who was robbed at knife point is well today, and is living strong. my prayers go to u!

 

[thistle1963]

i hope everyone who was robbed at knife point is well today, and is living strong. my prayers go to u!

 

[elm0]

Hmmm, this is the first time I've ever noticed that this part of the forums exists.

Just over 2 years ago, while I was working as a cleaner at a small school, someone came up behind me and put a knife at my throat, telling me he'd stab me and his friend would shoot me if I didn't take them to the safe. I don't believe there was another person there, I think he made it up. After I told him I didn't know where the safe was because I'm just the cleaner, he marched me through the offices making me open all the cupboards. Not finding anything, he took my keys and locked me in the principal's offices. The same as other people have said, I wasn't sure if he'd left or not, so I waited 5 minutes before calling the police, then let myself out of the office when they arrived (the office door can be unlocked from inside without a key).

This all happened less than 2 weeks before my wedding! So it made the lead-up to the wedding rather more stressful than is normal. I was given 2 weeks paid leave and sent to see a psychiatrist for an evaluation. After our honeymoon, I went back to work as a school cleaner at a different school, where everything was fine for about 5 months. Then a few things happened at work which caused me to have flashbacks, and eventually a breakdown, and I have been off work on compensation ever since.

I've been diagnosed with PTSD, and have seen a psychologist and then a psychiatrist for treatment. When I had my breakdown, I was almost never able to leave the house, and was constantly checking that all the doors and windows were locked. I can now go out by myself most days, and am even been able to walk around at the school where the attempted robbery happened. I know that many people have been praying for me through this whole experience, and I thank God daily for them.

To those who have been through similar experiences, I would strongly recommend getting professional counselling, also finding a support group. It is really hard facing something like this, and being able to talk about it with others can make it easier to bear, it did for me.

 

[goldenviolet]

God bless your heart elm0!

 

[Lonnie]

Sorry to hear about all these robberies.

Its terrible that people people threaten your life(and the lives of others) to get what they want.

 

[jenelis]

Hi again all! In rereading this entire thread, we're definately a diverse group weaved with similar experience.

I "celebrated' four years of surviving just a few weeks ago. Honestly, I don't know how any of us do it.

Just last week, I was dead asleep on the couch having just finished a HUGE project at work. Weather was bad in the area. A funnel cloud (tornado) had been seen. The news was reporting a business where sheds had been uprooted. The owner was recanting the events and at the sound of his voice I sat straight up and thought it was my attacker. I focused on the TV-- it was my attacher's brother! Wierd, huh?

So point is, you never really forget. We can pretend, but for me its always right here on my sleeve.

God bless you all... survivors and supporters!

 

[little_lily613]

I know exactly how you all feel. It truly is a terrifying event, and one that lasts with you forever. In November of 2004, I was robbed at gun point at work. It was right around supper time, and I was working at a booth smack dab in the middle of the mall. My boss was even there. The booth was small, so she wasn't that far from me, but had her back turned. She never knew the robber was even there, and noone else noticed him either. The robber put a note down in front of me. It was folded, and I had no idea what it was. I thought it was trash that he was just leaving behind as a "present" as so many others rudely do, and having OCD and a mild germaphobia, I do not touch things like that (until they are gone with a kleenex). I did see "robbery" in it, but because it was folded, I didn't read anything else. And "robbery" just didn't clue in. Well, not until he pulled out a gun and unwrapped it from a cloth. I will never forget that gun. It was silver with a white handle. I quickly gave him everything in the till. Luckily, my shift had just started so the loser only got away with 200 dollars or so, not the couple thousand he could have had a few minutes earlier when my boss was still working her shift. He couldn't take me anywhere, there was nowhere to go without getting caught. He told me to stay there and not to move or tell anyone what happened. I just looked straight ahead and refused to move. I could see something out of the corner of my eye way behind me, but I couldn't tell if it was a big sign or him and I didn't want to take my chances (it was a sign though). I was crying at this point, but I wouldn't move a muscle, I wouldn't even move my eyes from that spot. Not until my boss came up behind me to see what was going on, and I turned around and made sure he was gone. It was a truly terrifying experience. Unfortunately, this guy was never caught either. I never saw him again, not in town, or on the bus, or anywhere else. I pray noone has to experience that fear, and I pray for the day when violence and crime such as this disappears from our world forever.
G~d bless,
~Lily~

 

[Blackwell]

About 10 years ago, I was working at a outlet store in Washington St, and me and a co-worker were getting ready to lock the doors and close the store up and a man with a motorcycle helmet came in and pulled a knife out on me, and demanded everything out of the register. I thought it was a joke at first, so I asked him if he wanted our rolled change as well.. I know not a very smart move on my part.
After he got all the cash out of the registers he made us crouch down and followed us to the backroom while still holding the knife to us.
We got into the back of the store, and he was standing right in front of our safe, lucky for us, he didnt see it. He then proceeded to try and tie us up, with the only thing I can describe it as, is those plastic things that police use to tie someone up when they are not cooperating with them.
He couldnt figure out how to do this, so he made us try and tie up each other..Doesnt appear that he was very smart.
He told us not to leave the backroom for 10 minutes, I was so deathly afraid that he was still in the store waiting to see if we were going to wait the 10 minutes, but lucky he sped off.
We were un-harmed and I am so thankful for that, but it has left a damaging effect on me still today. I am afraid to go out at night by myelf I hardly ever go out, unless I absolutely have too.
I'm afraid of being kidnapped and or something terrible will happen to me. I have such bad anxiety's.
The man was never caught, and as far as I know the police were not able to generate any leads on this guy.

I was the victim of a murder attempt (gang initiation) by four teenaged gang members when I lived in Seattle in 1993. I'm alive because I fought back. I was able to wrestle the 9mm out of the shooter's hand without being injured. The incident launched a new career for me. Please pm me for my homepage.

 

[mebby02]

You have ever right to be scared hun l was raped and l still haven't got over that this guy really hurt me. Since then everytime l see a guy l get scared and don't look at them in the eye anymore. Everytime l'm with my boyfriend l'm scared he might do something to hurt me. He hasn't yet but l still get scared of every guy it takes time to get over horrible experences. And l had a abusive boyfriend before that all happend but hang in there hun go to counselling talk to God ask him for help thats what God is there for. Talk to a close friend or a family member. I hope all goes well for you hun
God bless

 

[elm0]

3 years on from my 'incident' and I've chosen to do a presentation on my ordeal to my fellow students at college as one of my course assignments. It has brought some feelings back up that I thought were done and gone, and has caused me some unease revisiting it in detail. But I have also had some valuable personal feedback from it all, in being able to see that although I'm not completely over it I am able to talk about it and face it again without the nightmares and/or flashbacks returning.

God has been very good to me.

 

[xtreN]

I know exactly how you all feel. It truly is a terrifying event, and one that lasts with you forever. In November of 2004, I was robbed at gun point at work. It was right around supper time, and I was working at a booth smack dab in the middle of the mall. My boss was even there. The booth was small, so she wasn't that far from me, but had her back turned. She never knew the robber was even there, and noone else noticed him either. The robber put a note down in front of me. It was folded, and I had no idea what it was. I thought it was trash that he was just leaving behind as a "present" as so many others rudely do, and having OCD and a mild germaphobia, I do not touch things like that (until they are gone with a kleenex). I did see "robbery" in it, but because it was folded, I didn't read anything else. And "robbery" just didn't clue in. Well, not until he pulled out a gun and unwrapped it from a cloth. I will never forget that gun. It was silver with a white handle. I quickly gave him everything in the till. Luckily, my shift had just started so the loser only got away with 200 dollars or so, not the couple thousand he could have had a few minutes earlier when my boss was still working her shift. He couldn't take me anywhere, there was nowhere to go without getting caught. He told me to stay there and not to move or tell anyone what happened. I just looked straight ahead and refused to move. I could see something out of the corner of my eye way behind me, but I couldn't tell if it was a big sign or him and I didn't want to take my chances (it was a sign though). I was crying at this point, but I wouldn't move a muscle, I wouldn't even move my eyes from that spot. Not until my boss came up behind me to see what was going on, and I turned around and made sure he was gone. It was a truly terrifying experience. Unfortunately, this guy was never caught either. I never saw him again, not in town, or on the bus, or anywhere else. I pray noone has to experience that fear, and I pray for the day when violence and crime such as this disappears from our world forever.
G~d bless,
~Lily~

Amen to Peace.

Keeping everyone here in my prayers.

Pretty name btw.

God is Good

HAPPY EASTER FRIENDS!!

xtreN

 

[x0xJesusIsLovex0x]

That's so scary. I would be crying my head-off, if that ever happened to me. I'm so sorry, but at least you guys aren't harmed. May God be with you.