Today as I was walking from my car to the gym, some dude tried to mug me. It went like this--
(dude walks up to me)
dude: give me your money.
me: what?
dude: give me your money n*****
me: are you serious?

At this point I seriously still think he is joking, because he has no knife or gun and although we were in an unlit part of the street, it was still quite a busy street with lots of car and foot traffic. Turns out he was serious, because right after I asked he punched me right in the eye. I turned around and since I was walking off the sidewalk towards the middle of the street the entire time, I'm in the middle of the street and he didn't pursue me any further. Afterwards I called the cops and drove around for a bit, filed a report, but didn't do much else about it when we couldn't find him. I guess the lesson here is...if you want to rob someone do it right. Don't try to rob people with your fist on a busy street.

The cops called an ambulance over to give me a checkup, but since I felt OK and none of my injuries seemed too serious I decided to go to the gym.

Fastfoward 2 hours...

I'm leaving the gym, which is on the 2nd story of a two story shopping complex with an attached parking garage. I walk outside, and as I'm standing on the top floor of the garage I hear lots of screaming, yelling, and then...GUNSHOTS. All of a sudden I'm thinking...how did I decide to come to this gym! To be perfectly honest I had no idea it was even a bad neighborhood because the buildings look nice and new, but I suppose the reason for that is they tore down the terrible looking old ones. What a TARP.
Anyways, right after the gunshots I start panicking, because I had never actually been in a situation like this before, but for the time being I felt safe on the 2nd story of the parking complex. As soon as I thought this though, I hear police sirens coming in from all different directions. I decide to walk over to all the commotion and see what was going on, so I go to the edge of the parking garage along with 2 other guys. I see...people streaming out of 2 clubs, lots of yelling, cop cars blocking off the entire block, firetrucks coming in, and most importantly--one guy on the ground in handcuffs and another guy on the ground not in handcuffs, not moving, and laying in a pool of blood. I could only assume he was dead.
At this point I did what any sensible person would do, so I immediately whipped out my iPhone and started video recording what was in front of me. I was trying to get the 2 guys on the ground, when all of a sudden I saw a cop with an m16 in his hand. I'm not sure if you are familliar with guns, but an m16 is an assault rifle used in the Vietnam war that packs quite a punch. This thing is NO JOKE, and I didn't even know police were allowed to carry it. When I saw this cop I decided that pointing a black object at an alert officer with an m16 from an elevated angle in the dark was probably a bad idea, so I put my phone away, continued to watch the mayhem for a while, then drove home.

Word to the wise--if you are ever in San Francisco at night, I would avoid the area near Bay St and Powell St near the Northpoint Shopping Center. It's not the tenderloin, but its not exactly safe.