I remember just before Christmas '08 me and my mate got mugged by a gang of lads who actually decided to follow us from somewhere they'd obviously spotted us, and therefore attack from behind. They demanded my stuff and I simply said no, so I got a few punches to my face (though they didn't hurt because the guy who did them was a bit of a porker!). Then when I gave them everything I got hit in the face again! Luckily it happened near my house so we rang the police, they were caught and mirculously I got all my stuff back.
Absolute fucking cowards though. They ran like the wind once they had our things and if it was just one or two of them we'd walked past they wouldn't have even looked at us. The idea of a fair fight, or the victim having a slight advantage instills fear into them, so they have to attack in large groups, complete scum. They also had their faces covered, point proven.
I'm no Daily Mail reader who would brand a policeman as incompetent for refusing to shoot someone on the spot for littering, but I'm all for vigilante justice. Innocent, hardworking people need to have power back from the twats who got people like me and the OP. Something must be done to rid the streets of these people who could be branded as no more than useless, trampy wastes of space.