My roommate's boss is in the hospital in Chicago after spending a week in ICU while still in the Netherlands. Why? I'll tell you.

Paul was in Amsterdam for vacation. One night, he was walking from where he parked his rental car to a bar about a block down the street. A mugger came up behind Paul, grabbed him backward, and stabbed him in the chest with 5" blade. Luckily, Paul had his wallet in a breast pocket that stopped the knife. No sooner than Paul tried to push away the hand with the knife, the guy had it at his throat. (Also) Luckily, there was a man across the street who saw all of this and got a tire iron out of his car before rushing over. The good samaritan hit the mugger in the back of the head with the tire iron once but it was hard enough to crack the guy's skull and kill him instantly. The mugger hadn't hit Paul's carotid with the knife so he was able to be rushed to the hospital before he would have bled out. He had to have surgery to close up the wound but he had lost a lot of blood so the first night his chances were about 50/50. Then he had to worry about infection. Now he's going to spend a little longer in the hospital because he has to have another couple of surgeries to reconstruct the area before he'll be allowed to go home.

SO REMEMBER KIDS, DON'T WALK AROUND ALONE AT NIGHT. ESPECIALLY NOT IN A CITY YOU DON'T KNOW. D: