California Woman Fakes A Seizure To Avoid Being Mugged

A California woman was faced with a nightmare situation, and her quick thinking may have saved her life…

According to this:

A quick-thinking California woman foiled would-be robbers by faking a seizure in a move she learned from the TV show Law and Order.

 

Julie Dragland, 32, of Oakland, was riding a Dublin-bound BART train from Daly City at around 4.50pm on Saturday when a threatening note was dropped in her lap.

 

‘There are 2 guns pointed at you now,’ the frighting note read. ‘If you want to live hand back your wallet + phone NOW + do not turn around and be descreet(sic). Do not turn around until after you have left civic center + you will live.’

This is Julie…

And THIS is the note she got….

No, she was not carrying a gun.

This is CALIFORNIA we’re talking about. Only the CRIMINALS who were trying to mug her had guns on them… obviously.

Full disclosure, I’m actually in California right now. Not currently in San Fran, but maybe later this week. I ride the BART often, and this freaks the crap out of me.

Dragland, a PR Specialist at SEGA, started ‘freaking out’ and desperately tried mouthing the words ‘help me’ at a nearby passenger.

 

Unfortunately for the victim, that man completely failed to notice her pleas for help and got off the train.

 

It was then she remembered an episode from one of her favorite shows, Law and Order, where a victim escaped a mugging by faking a seizure.

 

‘I probably looked very ridiculous,’ she told the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘I slumped sideways and started shaking and crying. I closed my eyes and increased the vigor so people would pay attention.’

 

‘I think (the idea) had something to do with watching a lot of ‘Law & Order.’ I think I saw that in an episode. I was very impressed with myself.’

 

As Dragland began shaking and slumped over, a nearby couple came over to ask if she was OK. She then passed them the note.

 

The 32-year-old believes the mugger got off at the next stop, the Civic Center Station, and suspects it may have been an older woman with a suitcase.

 

She reported the incident to the police who searched the station but could not find anyone matching that description.

 

‘The victim was not sure who handed her the note, and did not see anyone with a weapon,’ police wrote in a report.

 

Cops are now reviewing the surveillance footage from the BART train.

I was cheering her on for being a complete bada$$….until I read this.

However, Dragland says she will not press charges against her mugger as she wants to put the incident behind her.

ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME?!

Does she not realize she’s just allowing this to happen to someone else?! Maybe they won’t be so lucky next time… Maybe someone will actually get KILLED next time.

But no worries! She wants to put this behind her and maybe karma will get them and maybe they’ll learn their lesson and be rehabilitated because it’s not criminals’ fault they’re criminals, they’re just VICTIMS, right?!

California – where the criminal always wins.