Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 469.. The title of today's lesson is the difference
between robber, mugger, burglar and thief. Yeah. This is one that sometimes you know, students
do get mixed up between these four. There is a little bit of a crossover but there's some clear
differences between them as well. Okay. If anybody wants a screenshot. Now's a good time. Let's
get right into it. A robber is someone who takes money or property illegally often by using threats
of violence , typically a bank robber, a gangster or anyone willing to do armed robbery would
usually fall into the robber sort of a category. A mugger is technically a type of robber because
you know he does... he usually does use a weapon. Is it possible you get mugged without a weapon.
Yeah. You could. Somebody could just threaten to like beat you up or something, but in most
cases a mugger usually has a gun or knife. Let's continue . But usually on a smaller scale. Yeah.
Why is it a small scale because usually a mugger just tries to rob like an individual person or an
individual couple. He's often... he's not working with others. So he's on a much smaller scale than
a robber or bank robber. For example, bank robbers sometimes work in teams. And even if they do work
by themselves they're usually ...even if they just you know, rob one cashier that's still a lot more
money than they'll usually get from an individual person that they're robbing in the street.
Let's continue. A mugger will tend to rob someone in the street or a public place you know,
like a park or something like that. With a gun or a knife demanding cash or valuables or
just whatever they have on them. So like you know, jewelry m expensive jewelry or things like that. A
burglar is someone who steals by breaking into a house, building, office in order to take things.
Smart burglars try to avoid confrontations and usually prefer to steal when no people
are around. So if there's a smart burglar, he wants to go in there when nobody's there.
Is it possible sometimes that a burglar will sneak into somebody's house while they're sleeping at
night. Yeah. Most don't do it. I think the better burglars look for you know, places where nobody's
around. They could get in they could get out. They have more time to look for stuff. You know, they
plan it out usually a little better. Okay. Let's continue. Okay. Good a thief is a more general
term for someone who takes property of others with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
All of the above are types of thieves. So basically a robber, mugger, and a burglar
is a type of thief too of course. Okay. Including others like a pickpocket or shoplifter. All right.
So a pickpocket you know, somebody who steals from you know, somebody's pocket or a woman's
purse. Now a pickpocket though usually they're not violent. So they're not really a robber.
They do try to rob you in the street, but they they don't have a gun or a knife usually. They try
to do it you know, secretly. And you know, they're not a burglar because they're breaking into
anything. The same thing with shoplifter. That's a person who tries to steal something from stores.
They don't really fall into these other categories, but they're still thieves
they're still stealing stuff. They're still stealing stuff. Okay good. And I guess we have
six examples here just to you know give you a better idea of of all of them.
Here's the first one. That bank robber got away with stealing 10 000 US dollars from a cashier
in broad daylight. So maybe he just walked into a bank with a gun and you know,
the one teller gave him the money and he ran out the door and maybe he got away. So that would be a
bank robber. All right. Number two. That mugger robbed an old couple when they walked down a dark
alley by threatening them with a knife. Yeah. So usually they do have a weapon, gun or a knife is
usually typical. Again for a mugger. Number three. Be careful not to go into that park at night , it
is notorious for muggers hiding in bushes. Yeah. This is another thing. So yeah again. Some sort of
a public place usually not with too many people around but just enough that you know somebody
might be passing by and they could you know, find a victim. All right. Number four here. That burglar
broke into a museum in the middle of the night and took several valuable paintings from that museum.
Yeah. So a burglar has to break into something. To break into somebody's house. He could break
into a museum. He could break into an office. Whatever it is, he's looking for something
valuable. All right. Number five here. If you shoplift you are a thief. Plain and simple.
Even if you think the items are of small value. You're still a thief. You're still taking property
that doesn't belong to you. And number six here. She yelled . She yelled out" thief"
when she caught a pickpocket trying to steal another person's wallet. So maybe
she could see from the distance she yelled thief, thief and kind of pointed to him.
All right. So again, hope he got it. I hope it is clear. I hope it is informative. I hope you
can clearly see the difference of how we might use all these four words. Again a little bit of a
crossover but some clear differences between them as well. Anyway, thank you for your time. Bye-bye.