The professional attacker

often likes to take his booty
without actually attacking his victim, instead he threatens to
attack. I found it very interesting that many of the muggers
that I interviewed used the 'threatened attack' as opposed to
the 'actual attack' to prime their victims. They professed that
this was because if they got caught and they had used
violence in the course of the attack, the sentence they got
would be longer because of it. So they frightened victims
into submission, rather than beat them into supplication.
The mugger will often threaten the victim with attack to
frighten them in to supplication, frequently underlining the
threat with a weapon or an accomplice, or both. These
threats will be aggressive and menacing, thus effecting
adrenal dump in the victim, quickly escalating to the freeze
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