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@Whorty
Best attempted mug that I've been in was Swindon, about 7 years ago. I worked for Deloitte at the time, so was a suited an booted 'professional'. Me and a colleague had been at the client 'til late, so was walking back to the hotel looking for somewhere to grab a quick bite. Was about 10 o'clock and nothing was open .... Swindon is a shit-hole and shuts at 5 o'clock!
Anyway, this little geezer twat walks up to us, inhales from a balloon (with helium) and squeaks "nice suit mate" (to my colleague). My mate says "what?". And pickey takes another slug of helium and squeaks "nice suit .. give me your wallet". "erm, no, fuck off" was the answer.
"oh" he goes, and starts to walk off. We walk up to him and say, why the balloon. He says, it's so if we did give him the wallet then we wouldn't be able to describe his voice to the police! We pointed out that we know what he looks like, so his voice is irrelevant. He looked confused, and just scarpered.
We walked back to the hotel and couldn't quite work out if we really had been attempted mugged. Very weird.