原版英语对话1000个:1133 Crime Story

Rebecca: So, Gareth, is England a safe place to live?
Gareth: Um, to be honest, no. I don\'t think so, but I haven\'t lived in England for quite a few years now, so I don\'t know what it\'s like now. But when I left, no. I can remember like walking back at home, having bottles thrown at me from the ops - walking along the road, the opposite road. So, yeah, and being hassled. So there\'s one time, I was walking back from uni and I was going to my apartment. This guy was yelling at me, and I had my headphones on, and I didn\'t really hear him. But he came close and he was still yelling at me, so I turned around, and he said, - Oh, I thought you\'re my mate. And I said, - No, no, no. I mean, you misunderstand. And he said, - Oh, okay, and he said, - Oh, I\'ll walk with you, I\'ll walk with you.
Well, so the road that led to my apartment was so secluded, and I was a little bit wary, kind of made me feel a little bit worried. So he said, - No, I\'ll walk with you. So we started walking and he said, - So, do you have a cellphone? I said, - Yeah, I have a cellphone. He said, - Oh, can I use it? Can I make a phone call on it? And I said, - No. I\'m like, - That\'s all right. I don\'t want - yeah, I\'m just going to go home. And he started getting to this whole conversation about why he needed to use my cellphone, so I said, - Okay, here\'s my cellphone, and he took my cellphone.
Then, he said, - Oh, so then, he asked me about my money, like he said, - How much money do you have on you? And I was like, - Oh, no, so I started to run. I had my big backpack on with like I had a camera in my backpack, and I was worried about him like stealing all of my stuff, so I started to run. He chased after me, and he pulled me down to the ground. And at that moment, this lady started walking down this secluded road - and yeah, if it hadn\'t been -
Rebecca: Oh, the timing!
Gareth: Yeah, if it hadn\'t been for her, like he would have stolen all of my stuff. And it was quite scary at the time. I was kind of shaken a little bit.
Rebecca: Yeah.
Gareth: But as soon as she came, he just dropped everything and walked in the other direction. So, after that, I went to the police. There was a police station very close to the apartment, and they were just sipping coffee, and not really like paperwork, not really minding the streets at all. So, I went there and I reported this. There wasn\'t much they could do because it was an attempt to mug me, but he didn\'t actually steal anything. So, they\'re like, - So what\'s the point? basically. And I tried to tell them that it was maybe preventative, like if we acted now, we can prevent him from doing it again to some other poor boys -
Rebecca: Actually mugging someone, yeah.
Gareth: And yeah. So they didn\'t do much. And so, I don\'t really have much of a good impression of the police in England, and also, just crime in England.