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PHOTOS: 9 Great Travel Survival Tips

Doug Lansky | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Iphone, Mugged, Mugging, Travel Safety, Survival App, Slidepollajax, Travel Survival, Survival Tips, Safety Tips, Survival, Backpacking, Travel News

Travel is delightfully (and frustratingly) unpredictable. Foreign correspondents and international aid workers often get special survival training. The next best thing is this back-pocket travel survival instruction manual.

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Watch: Injured Boy Mugged During London Riots

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Video, Britain, Riots, Mugging, Britain Riots, United Kingdom, Crime, England, Civil Unrest, Violence, London Riots, World News

Footage has emerged on YouTube showing a young man injured during the London riots being robbed by men who supposedly came to his aid. The video s...

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WATCH: Blind Woman Choked, Mugged In Little Tokyo

Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Blind Woman Robbed, Little Tokyo Robbery, Video, Mugging, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles Crime, Little Tokyo Attack, Los Angeles News

The Los Angeles Police Department has released a video depicting a mugger attacking a blind woman in Little Tokyo. According to the police, the rob...

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WATCH: Luddites Don't Get Robbed

Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Jazzie Show, Mugging, Tech News, Phone Robbery, BBC Comedy, Robbery, Nokia Phone, Old School Phone, Old School Phone Mugging Video, Phone Mugging, Iphone, Smartphone, Video, Retro Phone, Funny Videos, Retro Phone Mugging Video, Snake Game, Comedy News, Comedy News

We've all heard rumors that walking around with an iPhone makes you more likely to get mugged, so The Jazzie Show at BBC Comedy came up with a solutio...

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Police Hunt Suspect In BMW Trunk Case

| Murray Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bmw Trunk, NY Crime, Mugging, Nypd, Crime, Ny News, Bmw, New York Crime, Beating, New York News

MANHATTAN -- Police are searching for an ex-con from Inwood wanted for a vicious attack on a New Jersey lawyer found bound and stabbed with his ear ne...

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Homeless in Columbia: Shifting Gears After a Tense Night

Paul Bowers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Photo ID, Spring Break, Homelessness, Voter Registration, South Carolina, Columbia, Mugging, College News

When he pointed the shotgun at my chest, I didn't see my life flash before my eyes. I didn't bargain with God for another chance at living. I didn't fight; I didn't run; I didn't think at all.

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Mugger Gets 75 Years For Beating 101-Year-Old Woman

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 101 Year Old Mugged, Queens, Mugging, Rose Morat, Crime, Jack Rhodes Sentenced, Jack Rhodes, Video, New York News

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - A New York City man who mugged a 101-year-old woman on her way to church has been sentenced to 75 years in prison. Quee...

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Rose Morat: Elderly Woman Mugged, Punched In Hate Crime

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elderly, Robbery, Hate Crimes, Mugging, New York Crime, New York, Jack Rhodes, Rose Morat, New York News

NEW YORK — A New York City man was convicted of hate crimes Tuesday in connection with a series of muggings that included an assault on a centen...

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SuperFreakonomics Authors Forced To Answer Critics

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Superfreakonomics, Freakonomics, Mugging, Carbon Dioxide, Caldeira, Carnegie, Dubner, Levitt, Global Cooling, Al Gore, Global Warming, Mit, Books News

Since we posted the video and teaser for SuperFreakonomics, the follow up to the bestseller Freakonomics, there's been an outcry from scientists over ...

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Central Park Mugging Fans Flames Of Fear

nydailynews.com | By Kevin Deutsch and Jonathan Lemire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NYC Crime, Central Park Mugging, Mugging, Crime, Central Park, New York City, New York News

Three men were robbed at gunpoint in Central Park early Sunday morning, renewing fears among residents that Manhattan's famed park is not safe after d...

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Brooklyn Hasidic Man Mugged For His $1,200 Fur Hat!

brooklynpaper.com | Sabrina Jaszi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hasidic Man Mugged, New York Crime, Hasidic Jew, Brooklyn, Hasidic Fur Hat, Mugging, Shtreimel, New York, Fur Hat Mugging, New York News

A thief stole the fancy holiday hat off a Hasidic man's head on Oct. 2....

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77-Year-Old Man Beats Up Mugger With 2-Liter Bottle Of Pepsi

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mugging, Pepsi, Crime, Violent Crime, Flint MIchigan, Video, Business News

Pepsi may have received some unintentional branding boost last week when a Flint, Michigan man used a soda bottle to ward off an attacker. Pat Gillesp...

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"Mother," the Mugger of Old NYC

Davidson Goldin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robbery, Mugging, New York City, New York, Robbing, New York News

We were all terrified of this mythical figure in a way totally unfamiliar to New Yorkers today.

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Get Well Soon: To Brian and Everyone Else Harmed by Stupid and Impulsive Crimes

Harold Pollack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brian Beutler, Richard Francis, Handguns, Urban Crime, Mugging, Crime, Politics News

Brian Beutler, the talented journalist and blogger, has been shot and wounded in a botched mugging, another pointless act of violence.

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