Residents in Brian Williams' hometown rubbish claims he was mugged in New Jersey

Residents in Brian Williams' hometown rubbish claims he was mugged in New Jersey | Daily Mail Online:
Now doubts arise over Brian Williams' story about being mugged at gunpoint in his quiet childhood suburb where kids 'walked alone at night'

• Locals in Red Bank, New Jersey, are questioning the credibility of claims by Brian Williams that he was threatened at gun point in the 1970s
• According to a regularly repeated Williams tale, he was selling Christmas trees as a young man when someone 'stuck a .38-caliber pistol in my face'
• Residents say the claims sound unlikely as Red Bank is a quiet suburb which was very safe in the 1970s 
• 'I find it hard to believe anyone was held up in this area in the '70s. It was very safe,' said one local