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I'm glad you returned that shoe, they could have used your "robbery" against you.

Sounds quite a dangerous situation to be in, I'm glad you two managed to "resist".
I've never been in a proper "robbery fight", some tense situations, yes, and a couple times an ATM machine was indeed the focus of the whole thing, but nothing happened beside a few sketchy looks and angry faces.

One time a guy tried to take my phone from my bag, I turned and looked at him in the angriest (?) way I possibly could (I'm big and probably I look like I could do some damage with a well placed punch if I manage to suck my belly in haha) and told him: "give it back NOW". He looked genuinely scared and gave it back, he also apologized and got away. I laughed haha.
The phone was worth around 20 euros, go figure. I read in the local newspaper that he got "caught" after some small tefths here and there in the city center, I recognized him coz they said the guy had a sort of "foulard" covering the arm/hand he stole stuff with.
Another time three guys kind of "surrounded" two girls while walking on a street in bologna, and while one of them "distracted them" talking about some bullshit the other two were trying to slip stuff out of their backpacks, while keeping on walking. I stopped one of the guys while he was taking a cd player or something out of the back pocket of one of the girls' backpacks, and they got kinda surprised and let the girls alone. I kept the "angry face mode: ON" even if they were 3 guys (3 tall guys, but not that "muscular"), and one of the them told me: "you did good, mate, they never notice us.", smiling, and they just walked away. Surreal.
Both of the times I didn't call the police, perhaps I should have, dunno...

another time a guy, EVIDENTLY drunk followed me and a friend of mine..we where walking at night in a small street, we heard steps behind us and we saw this weird guy like 20m behind us, no big deal, we thought..then we heard a "metallic" sound and we "accelerated" a bit..then we heard steps like someone is running behind us, and guess what? This guys is running towards us wielding a metal pipe. For no reason. NICE. He probably picked the pipe up from the ground where there was some small contruction site a few meters behind him.. we managed to dodge his first "attack" and then ran towards him screaming FUCK YOU, YOU BETTER RUN!! he threw the pipe on the ground and ran away.

I think that's all my experience with stuff like that.
Superlong post, yeah. It's raining outside.