My friend was going for a run one day in the park holding her phone in her hand which she was using to play music. A guy jumped out at her and karate chopped her arm which held the phone, but she didn't drop it. He stood there kind of perplexed what to do next, as did she. Then she said "SERIOUSLY??", which kind of woke the guy up again. He started to reach into his pocket for something, so she turned around and bolted. The guy didn't chase her.

Reminds me of my partner and I's story of "Two Knives Guy"

So we're looking for a place for dinner downtown at dusk and this kind of guy starts following us. We are just outside one of those bustling Italian places where there's this outdoor seating lit by brewer's cable and there's like a whole bunch of people milling about waiting for tables or drinking. We are just at the edge of the crowd when behind us the guy calls for our attention.

We turn and he has a knife in each hand, one trained on either of us. I tense thinking that okay - it's a VERY short run to safety but I am not leaving my partner, if this guy attacks I'm protecting my man. The mugger gives us his best glower and goes "GIMMEYRMMMMERRGGR"

My partner blinks as though confused by his intentions "Umm... What?"

I feel like face-palming.

"GIMMEYRMMMMERRGGR!!! "

"I... sorry what are you asking?"

The guy just looks at us like we're complete idiots he turns to me and I just shrug. He tries one more time and my partner just goes "I don't understand..." and the guy, who realizes somebody in that busy establishment is gunna notice what's going on eventually just growls, feigns a slash at my partner and runs away.

When we were talking about it over dinner we broke the interaction down and we were like. The guy had a knife in each hand... If we tried to hand him something how would he take it? I dunno if we rolled a 20 or if the guy rolled a nat 1.

If someone was waving a knife at me, and I had a spare cookie, I'd offer them one.

Cookies make the world a better place.

I had a friend slap a knife out of a dudes hand by accident at a gas station once. The way he tells is, he was in line to pay, guy in front of him pulled a knife on the cashier, friend made a "oh shit" noise, guy turns around, friend drops his shit and somehow simultaneously knocks the knife out of the guys hand while clumsily trying to raise his own hands in a "don't stab me" guesture. Knife dude was running for the door before the knife hit the floor.

Friend got all the praise for saving the day, but he lets us know it was all a nat 20 luck roll and divine intervention from a trickster god.

I was walking to the train station once when a guy said "do you want to buy this?" and showed me a flick knife.

"No, I'm alright thanks" I said and carried on walking, and he went his own way.

It was only later that I realised that was a really odd question to ask, and I might not have heard him properly. I did have headphones in at the time and there was traffic. Plus I'm slightly deaf anyway.

There's probably some crackhead out there still wandering how he got Derren Browned out of mugging someone.

I had an NPC in a RPG that was kind of like this. A werewolf was going berserk in a church. The players were like "Reg! Get out of there!". Reg sees the werewolf rip a corporate stooge in half and come running at him. He goes, "Bro. Fucking metal."

Rolls really high on his social check. Werewolf high fives him and just runs by to go murder more corporate leadership.

No lie, i did a cool line like this for real which isn't like me usually (I should mention im a dude probs)

On vacay near the French quarter, half-hammered and fully lost trying to get back to my hotel, a group of street kids crosses the street to get behind me. Maybe after a block of me playing it like I'm cool, this deep voice says from right behind me,

"i'm... gunna rape ya."

I whirled around and saw this guy leering down at me. Even if he weren't larger and younger than me, even if he didn't have half a dozen friends, I'm not tough. In the time i finished spinning i knew i wouldn't be winning any fights, but i surprised myself by asking

'Mouth or ass?... I just want to know what kind of night I'm having.'

He looked as surprised as i felt and laughed honestly.

You're alright, dude!

and everyone ~~clapped~~ just walked away chuckling, i found my hotel, and a fresh pair of underwear.