Similar question came to me in an email from a cousin who forwards everything. Came as a Darwn Award-wannabe-type anecdote: A man walks into a store, puts down a twenty-dollar bill and asks for change, and when the clerk opens the till, stick a gun in his face and demands everything in the register. He takes all the cash and runs, leaving the twenty on the counter. Total cash in till: fifteen dollars.

Question: If a man points a gun at you and gives you money, have you been robbed?

(As circulated, the question was "...has a crime been committed?" To which the answer is Yes, of course: assault with a deadly weapon, intent to commit robbery, etc...)