Michael Macintyre in Mugging Horror

Mike was parked up in Hampstead, sitting in his £120,000 top-of-the-Range Rover, when he was attacked by a gang of masked moped robbers yesterday. The incident happened in a tree-lined street flanked by large detached £5million properties and luxury cars.

They pulled up next to his car and smashed the driver's window with a hammer.



According to reports, heroic Mike (42) leapt from his car and valiantly fought off the pair of robbers, who faced with the Macintyre onslaught, fled like the cowards and jackals they are.

But not before he was unfortunately forced to take off and hand over his £15,000 Rolex watch.

Mike pictured after the attack. I don't know why he still has a watch on. Maybe he had another Rolex in the glove box just in case such a thing happened.​

Mickey, who's a keen Tottenham Hotspurs fan, is said to be worth £38,000,000. A Met Police spokesperson said: ‘The victim was stationary in his car when two males on a moped smashed the car windows with a hammer before stealing property. No injuries were reported."

A local resident added "I have never seen anyone target a car like this. Maybe they were following him or maybe they were following the expensive car."

No arrests have been made. Enquiries continue. Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 quoting CAD4018/04JUN or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.’

 

lol, not the robbery, that's not funny but the narrative is!

 

There is something wrong with that broken window. That's laminated glass which is only used for the windscreen. The door glass is toughened but that's not toughened glass there.

 

What is the point of this thread? Is it expected we take joy in a successful person being robbed?

 

While having sympathy, I did hope that this incident might have wiped that irritating grin off his face for something more than a nanosecond. From the pic it appears not.

 

i never understand why some people find the need to wear more than one Watch!,

 

Well the boot's on the other foot now Mcintyre as I've always found your "act" criminal. Ahhhh that 15 minute piece on the fact that the Welsh for "ambulance" is "ambiwlans"...comedy gold.

 

Maybe it's just me but if I was seriously minted I'd not wear a watch costing more than £200 or drive anything worth worth than £25K new. Not because I don't want to be targeted but because I've never felt the need to advertise wealth. You've got to be a bit of a d*** to do so.

 

Good, the repulsive ****'s been stealing a living for years.

 

Lol, I totally agree in principal about showing off wealth = ****, but try telling that to any footballer.

And if I was worth 25m I'd drive a car worth more than 25k. Whilst i wouldnt drive a white range rover with extra big alloys and personalised plate, I think I'd have a top spec daily car like a bmw or audi. And I'd prob have a car like a Honda NSX or Audi R8.

 

I hate his routine and don’t find him funny whatsoever.

That being said, I’m not sure that the narrative of the story is great. Man earns money but shouldn’t buy nice things and therefore deserves to get robbed. The nerve of a rich man to have a nice car and drive in a nice area and not wear a Casio watch.

I see it also singularly fails to mention that he had his small child in the car and it must have been absolutely terrifying for them. But let’s all laugh at yet another violent robbery by a gang in London. The hilarity of it all.

 

If some people have loads of money and others have not enough robbery is as inevitable as the rain.

While he deserves sympathy for being attacked he should be embarrassed to flaunt such ostentatious and quite frankly tasteless consumption. He can't be surprised if people's reaction is therefore SFW?

 

Anyone wearing a watch worth over £200 is a “d***”? Or does this just apply to rich people?

 

What on earth are you on about? A 15k watch is hardly flaunting it. Ordinary Joes put 5k watches on credit cards.

Are you seriously contending that a bloke driving a 100k car and wearing a 15k watch in an affluent area deserves to be robbed because of his “tasteless consumption”. This is positively middle class behaviour and pretty restrained consumption by multi millionaire standards.

What a bitter place your world is.

 

The only people actually in the wrong are the gang - does two people constitute a gang these days? - who committed the robbery.

A man tells jokes that enough people find funny to make him very well off isn't doing anything wrong.
The man who made lots of money from telling those jokes adorns himself with baubles isn't doing anything wrong.
Two men smashing a car window with a hammer and stealing anything is wrong.

Aim your ire at those ****-wits and not the bloke whose jokes you don't find funny or whose display of wealth makes you raise an eyebrow or two, depending if you're Roger Moore or not.

 

He should be embarrassed to drive a Range Rover? Now I’m no car fan, but you see plenty of those on the roads and I’ve never thought them ostentatious or tatsteless. Whilst expensive, they are a regular fixture on our roads, in and out of rich parts of London. I don’t wear a watch and like you, have never really seen the point in expensive watches. However, I would imagine a large percentage of people with wealth will wear an expensive watch - hardly makes you deserving of being robbed.

If he was dripping in gold, driving a Ferrari and driving around throwing money out the window and spitting on passers-by, I may agree that he’s made himself a target of sorts but I certainly don’t that in this case.

 

I know a man who could explain it to you

 

After having been forced to sit through an hour of his "act" (a corporate event where non-attendance would be "...a disciplinary matter...") AFAIC he deserved it.

 

No need to wear even one. A watch is just a fashion statement these days rather than a necessity given the time is on your phone. I only wear my £95 watch as my wife bought it for me and it just consumes 20 seconds of my day to put it on and take it off. If it ever needs a battery it will probably end up in a drawer. Unlike most presents she buys me, I didn't ask her to send it back.

 

You assume that everyone carries phones all of the time. There are some of us who don’t, you know. I regard a watch as far more of a necessity than a phone.

 

I never said it was correct that he was robbed, merely inevitable. Why are you even saying that? Why is imasnowflake even liking that? - something I did not say.

I'm saying that his antisocial car, too big, too polluting for taking a child to school in the city is going to inevitably narrow the sympathy shown to him, as will his oafish expensive watch. Most people in London are sick of people driving such stupid cars around the place to the inconvenience of everyone else.

That people care less about the rich being robbed is natural. The rich clearly care less about them. It's reciprocated. You expect a lot of forelock tugging.

 

Which would be fine, if I had said he deserved to be robbed.

 

But I think you have purposely alluded that people should have less sympathy because he’s wealthy and some how he brought it on himself? Even if that is true - whether you have £10m in the bank or just £1, the fear you would feel if a gang of masked robbers smashed into your car is the same. Expecting successful people not to buy things is just folly. I agree that no person needs a 4x4 in London - but then I’m of the mind that less than 10% of people in London who own a car actually need one. McIntyre seems to have a number of kids so maybe he’s one of those 10%...so what should he drive?

 

No most people generally frown on robbery and leave it at that, as opposed to you who is busy justifying the act.

He pollutes. His car takes up too much space. His watch is too expensive. It’s inevitable that he’ll get taught a lesson.

I find your viewpoint utterly strange.

 

He needs a people’s car like a trabant.

 

I don't think people should do violent robberies and I think they should be punished if they do, whoever they do it to. I'm sure you'll ignore me saying this and continue to demand that I'm sympathetic to people who I find antisocial.

If you want to carry on being affronted stop being a pussy and tell Lizard off for being pleased, or Diamond for saying anyone flaunting their wealth is a ****. No? Didn't think so.

 

I already took issue with Diamond’s preposterous notion that anyone with a £200 watch is a ****. I think it’s pretty clear where I stand on this you Momentum thug.

 

I said people would have less sympathy not that they should. But, I'm firmly in the less sympathy camp.

The trouble with great inequality is that it skews every relationship.

Generally those with lots agitate for the disadvantage of the many, lower wages, self off social housing etc. You simply cannot then expect the general sympathy of the less well off.

He may be different and have lots of nice views. But if so he isn't doing a good job of dissociating himself from your average parasite by his consumption.

 

Lol.

You should write for the Sun. Forum member who says robbery is wrong and who is not in the Labour Party = 'Momentum thug'. Priceless.

Maybe you too could have a successful comedy career.

 

Looks like some more trolling from Clive has got the desired response. Strange thread though.

 

Thug was tongue in cheek but you have the ethos of one of those Momentum devotees. Man is successful so deserves to have it taken from by law. Failing that it is “inevitable” it will be taken from him by force.

 

No?

That watch is worth 1 year and 3 months of wages to me. 15 months worth of sweating. That seems pretty flaunting it to me. It seems pretty ostentatious consumption to me. If he wants to know the time, then there are plenty of £50 watches that would do just the same job. The other £14,950 is devoted simply to showing off how rich and well to do he is.

I don't condone the robbery (especially since his kid was in the car and must have been frightened), but I don't have sympathy for his loss. He could doubtless go and buy another 10 Rolex watches without even noticing it. Mere pocket change. Meanwhile, the proceeds from the one that was stolen will perhaps feed and house a few families for several months.

I have the same sort of sympathy for him as I do for rich cruise passenger tourists who go marching into the deprived inner cities of developing countries dripping with gold jewelry and expensive video cameras etc that are worth a year's wages to the locals and are shocked and amazed when they get bonked on the head and relieved of their belongings.

 

Those situations are clearly not analogous. The rich cruise passengers are being culturally insensitive, and stupid (or, at best, unaware of the context). Macintyre was just going about his normal daily business in his own locality as he had presumably done on many occasions before.

 

No offence but why should he be mindful of what you earn? I agree that there is a hugely disparate gap between the ‘haves’ and have-nots’ in this country that needs to be fixed. But this is by no means a way of doing it!!! And a man or woman who earns their own money should be able to spend it as they see fit. It’s a fact of the world that some companies make stuff for people with money and some for people without.

I’d say you are being quite na*ve if you believe the proceeds of his watch being sold on the black market will feed and house families - the age-demographic for people who commit these aggravated moped robberies points towards the proceeds going on black market weapons, trainers and such like. Trainers that no doubt these kids wear that cost 5x as much as the average kid who goes to school to get an education can regularly afford. They aren’t Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to give to the poor. At least Michael McIntyre’s life is paid for by largely* legitimate means (even if his comedy is anything but legitimate!) rather than stolen from others.

*I say largely because I’m aware some of his income comes from the taxpayer through the TV license/BBC.

 

I'd say the situations are equivalent. The divide between the rich and us poor in this country has become a chasm. The gap is no less than that between the flashy tourist and the 3rd world street kid.

As I said, just his watch was worth 15 months of (gross) pay to me and others like me. Never mind his car which is worth a whole 10 years pay for us!

Bearing that in mind, wouldn't you agree that some of that culturally insensitive stupidity applied to Macintyre too?