That's the oldest trick in the book... they are always there the next day pulling the same shit. When you say robbed you mean you were taken not held up right!?

One time I was walking up to my evening classes at the Uni. The west end of Glasgow is quite well-to-do and your not really expecting to get people coming up to you asking for money. But all of a sudden this guy came rushing up to me.

He said he was a plumber renovating a house and he had lost track of the time and he had suddenly realised that he hadn't taken his insulin and he needed some quickly. The basic point of it was he needed £20 for a taxi to his house in East Kilbride.

If he was faking it he was a good actor (he did seem very panic-y) and I had the money (just!) but something just didn't seem right about it so I told him I didn't. There's a hospital next to the University about 10 minutes walk from where we were standing so I told him I'd show him the way there and he would probably be able to get some insulin there. He didn't seem to interested in that option. After that he ran off down the street.

To be honestly I wasn't entirely sure if he was faking or not but just something told me he was lying - something about it just didn't add up.

I hope he was a con-artist or I'll feel really bad!

Damn that's like 90 people! A lot of people to piss off if you got caught.