No offense, but do you have any idea how many people are in the Chicago Metropolitian area? its probably like 10 MILLION people in the greater Chicago metropolitian area (and that's not including those who visit and/or pass through the region, and vagrants/wanderers often are a big part of crime in places).

The point I'm making is Chicago is probably one of the more crime ridden big cities and despite that its less than like 1/15000 a year being murdered or something. Bear in mind a massive percentage of those people being murdered are in fact involved in organized crime.

People throw out numbers and things always seem intense without context. The average person out walking to 7-11 in Chicago isn't getting murdered. Just saying.

Honestly, since I have never encountered crime for the most part, I fear travelling abroad will be a rude awakening if I get mugged or anything in Europe or Southeast Asia. I went to Japan a year ago and it was pretty much the same thing as my small town except urban, but no crime. Of course tons of shady people tried to reel me in to shady places to possibly drug and mug or scam me out of money.

does it include if it is a role play?

I've had few guns pulled on me by drunken douches at bars. Got jumped, had my orbital socket fractured with a golf club by 3 guys who mistook me for someone else.

I used to live in Chicago and once I was walking around and some muggers approached me. The robbers frisked me and were too stupid to find my wallet, so they let me go. The wallet was in the inside pocket in my coat. I think that is the only time I've been a target of a crime.

I had my nose broken in high school by an upperclassmen wearing 4 class rings. I was sitting at a table with my friends eating lunch and heard "hey Yoder" i turned in my seat and blammo! They had to graft cartilage out of my cheeks to rebuild me nose. My folks didn't press any charges but the kid got expelled.

I got pick pocketed by a prostitute in Chicago when I was a teen. I only had like 5 bucks in my pockets and knew what she was doing but let it go. All my money was in my sock. She tried to get me to go down an ally with her for a free BJ but I declined and tried to get her to meet us at the hotel we were staying at. We gave her the room number for the room across the hall hoping she would waste her time going there, I doubt she ever showed up. That same night a guy got us into a club underage, our cabby warned us to beware of him. Once we were in the Dome Room they guy tried talking us into going to a party at a private residence and we we just lost him in the club. It was a really fun night.

Had my house broke into just before Christmas one year, it cost more to replace the window they broke than to replace what was stolen. It freaked my wife (wife at the time) out. I have quit locking my doors since she and i divorced and not had a problem since.

Well I was in Budapest, and this group of gypsies cornered me into an alley and ran off with my wallet. Thank god it was almost empty. Still, it was a damn find wallet. Stupid shits...

My family was robbed years ago. We came back from school and the windows were shattered. The robbers took all my games, consoles (PS2 and Gamecube at the time) and they even took my gameboy pocket XD What the hell are you going to do with a gameboy pocket in what, 2008? They also took my dad's wedding ring...why wasn't it on his finger that day, I really don't know.

I guess they got hungry too because they took some maruchan noodles with them on the way out Man, I can laugh about it now but being a kid, it scared me. To make matters worse, the robbers did get caught, we didn't press any charges, but when the cops recovered our materials our parents didn't know what was ours so they just picked up anything...including a broken PS2 phat instead of our new PS2 slim... man. Why do I still remember this XD

I once went to a beach with my family, and our car was stolen. Another time, when we were in USA or somewhere abroad, someone broke a window and entered our house. Weirldy enough, nothing was missing as far as we knew (we had lots of stuff, even money and jewelry. My dad was glad he hid all that stuff correctly).

More noteably though, I was once almost kidnapped between the Venezuela-Colombia border. We were travelling by car, and literally at the border 3 or 4 guys blocked off the road and jumped at our car. They pushed off my parents and took the rest of us (3 kids, 2 women) to the wilderness (idk how to call it. Plains? It was like a small jungle). Like 10 or so minutes later they let us go in the middle of nowhere, and some policemen found us. This was 9 yeara ago. Since then, I've been terrified of traveling by ground (in South America).

Oh, and once a friend of mine stole my legendary Pokemon. Looking back at it, it's a funny story. But he was a jerk tho.

Had my car stolen once. Had my PS2 in it (does this fact date the occurrence?). When I was in high school 2 of my "friends" broke into my house and stole my clothes and $4,000 in cash. Also had my identity stolen by my girlfriend at the time. $56,000 in credit cards. Ruined me for a few years.