Sentence examples for muggers from inspiring English sources

Remember that scene in the 1980s hit movie Crocodile Dundee when Paul Hogan's character and his girlfriend become the victims of muggers in New York City.

The Australian then pulls out a massive machete to make his point informing the muggers: "Now this is a knife", and the-would be robbers flee in terror.

I cursed my stupidity and was not particularly mollified later by the promoter's suggestion that such muggers all carried knives and razor blades used for causing serious injury to anyone foolish enough to resist, so I had, in fact, got off lightly.

Now canals are places where you go to walk the dog while worrying about muggers.

Those who steal cars for fun often go on to become burglars or muggers.

He was cradling a little street-puppy he had rescued from his muggers, knowing his grandmother would not let him take it home.

But neither do muggers, and violent crime has surged.

Its residents seem to fear everything including muggers, drug-pushers, paedophiles, air pollution and rising damp, also of being taken for fools by the politicians they once voted for and the tabloid newspapers they once read.

Home Office research in 2003 showed that 71% of muggers were under the age of 21, while 17% were under 16.

But Keaton was never credible as someone who could hospitalise a dozen muggers before vaulting over a two-storey fence.

Using a map of criminal activity produced by a CyberTracker, police arrested and convicted a gang of muggers that had been prowling a beach near Mr Liebenberg's home.