Mugging Quotes

“These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund”
― Ben Elton, Meltdown

“Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.”
― Brenna Ehrlich, Placid Girl

“I wanted to love the city. There is an electricity to the dullest day here that overpowers its clinging aroma. Friends have moved cityward, rarely seen again, each acting as though they relocated to Shangri-La, despite muggings and struggling.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: "Yo, empty your pockets," and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone who can make himself disappear isn't safe, who is?”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“The concept and terminology of "mugging" as opposed to, say, "robbery" was created as part of the panic, even though there was no evidence that this ill-defined activity was increasing. This is similar to the creation of the term "carjacking" in Detroit in the early 1990s.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Celebrities are like the perpetrators of crime in that they appear out of nowhere when you least expect it and are usually gone before you know what's happened.”
― Stewart Stafford