I guess nothing too bad but I have been the subject of some crime. Besides the things that have happened to the family like someone coming into the house and stealing our tv and my parents life savings (they were old school and hated banks so would keep money under the mattress, thousands of dollars) I have had the following that I still remember:
In high school, I was walking home from wiring my brother who was in iraq or south korea at the time ( I forget which one he was based that year) when two guys called out to me as I walked home. I looked back but not recognizing them I continued walking. I then heard running footsteps and when I glanced over they were upon me. One flanked over in front of me while the other stood behind. This occurred on the busiest street in the city in front of a Carl's Jr and 7-11 in broad daylight. So the one guy in front starts yelling at me for not stopping and then sticks his hand in my pocket to take my wallet, I grab his hand and stop him when the one behind pops me in the back of the head momentarily stunning me. They both proceed to pound on me. Somehow I stay up and manage to break away and run across the street and into a barber shop, where a older patron eventually took me home. I escaped with a large bump on my forehead and many bumps in the back and an ER visit with slight concussion.
A couple years ago I had finally gotten my first brand new car a 2007 Nissan Versa (my first car being a used 1990 Toyota Corolla) but even before I was able to put the license plates on it, it was totaled in a hit and run accident. I was coming home from a friend's birthday party when a large pickup truck (think Ford F150) cut me off from the left on the freeway going over 80mph and sent me into a tailspin. I spun about 3 complete 360s and ended up hitting the center divider facing oncoming traffic. I was able to pull it over to the side of the freeway but the other car was no longer in sight. The final damage was a broken driver window, two tires blown to the rim, rim damage, scrapes all around the car, huge impact starting at driverside mirror, with the mirror being taken out. Luckily the only damage to myself was cuts from the glass shattering and getting stuck in my head.
Luck would have it that I would eventually get another new car a 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer, but unfortunately that would also eventually get totaled, this one happening in August of this year. I was stopped at an intersection when a SUV came barreling into me and shattered my rear window and pushed in the trunk and knocked the frame off all around. So apparently I have not had much luck with my new cars so I haven't replaced it yet in the three months since, relying on my wife's old car for now, which has been broken into it in the past year for the stereo and is a accident victim itself, having been salvaged from an accident by its previous owner.
Other than that I can't really think of anything other than the time I loaned a family "friend" about $700 and when it came time to pay me he tried to borrow more money with the promise to pay me off a week later, I declined and said he had to pay me immediately and he said by the next week but I never heard or have seen of him since. I was victim of small fraud online before too but my credit card always refunded me my money. That guy that beat me up in high school also approached me two other times in the course of my high school years but never got around to doing anything because someone would come by and talk to me by chance and he would go away.
“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life." - author unknown
