Being robbed

As some of you who follow me on various social networks might have discovered, I was attacked last night and robbed.

I was on my way home after playing in the orchestra, walking from Nørrebro to Nørreport station, when I decided to take a shortcut through the bike storage facility that connect to the metro. The moment I open the door, I notice a man around 19-20 years old, along with two girls sitting inside. I couldn’t react before he ran towards me, grabbed me and started to beat me up. He told me to shut up and give him my wallet. At that time, I realized to keep calm and do exactly as he told me to. Seeing that I didn’t have any cash, he forced me to the ATM machine inside the metro station, where he made me withdraw 6000 kroner in cash, and took my card and forced me to reveal my pin code. He even took a picture of me with his camera phone and threatened to kill me if I called the police.

I did call the police, of course. They were really friendly after they heard what had happened, and gave me a ride home. Unfortunately the surveillance camera within the bike facility had been turned away from anything useful, but I am pretty sure that there are plenty of cameras in the vicinity of the ATM machine.

All in all, I’m a bit in a shock, and I try to deal with it as good as I can.  My head is a bit swollen, and I got a black eye. I thought I had a very light concussion, but I’m not so sure anymore. The insurance should cover the money, so there’s no issues there.

This is the first time anything of that kind has happened to me. I took the day off, and am sitting at home at the moment. Mathias came home soon after I arrived last night and talked the whole thing through with me, and Hjalte made breakfast for me this morning. It’s good to have good friends. Also Astrid was nice enough to lend a patient ear to my inconsistent babbling, and she was the first one I called yesterday.

One principle that I stand with after this experience, is that I do not wish to let this effect me negatively in any way. I do not with to adobt any totalitarian ideas, or start having a need to learn how to defend myself, become paranoid or anything in that way. I say so because I had a class mate in elementary school who was beat down by a robber as well, and he changed. He became arrogant and cruel towards those who he deemed inferior to him, probably as an act of stimulating his own sense of pride and superiority, redeeming any sort of trauma he might have gone through on the expense of others.

I shall remain who I’ve always been. I shall keep my possitive spirit and my sense of humor and that will be the way to deal with this.