So I take the train every morning to school and I noticed this guy had his phone pointed at me, and I assumed he took a picture of me since he kept looking at me and I saw he went on his picture gallery on his phone. When he noticed me looking at what he was doing on his phone, he put his phone in his pocket. The next day, he was at my train stop again, and I always take the train at a specific time, and I guess he does too or I’m not sure if he is stalking me now. Ever since, I see him everyday and I told my friends and he still keeps looking at me and my friend confronted him and she said in Spanish (he was Hispanic),
“What are you looking at?” (Que midas) He replied, “I don’t like you, I like her” (No me gusta tu, me gusta aya).
Excuse my Spanish but that’s what happened and now I’m permanently traumatized. Every time I see him he points his phone at me now and one time I saw an Asian wearing only under wear on his home screen. He is disgusting and a pedophile but I don’t have evidence to report him??? I even switched my ways getting to school, but the train is easiest and fastest for me to get to school. If he ever goes beyond this, I will call authorities and I even said that to him.
HE EVEN SITS NEXT TO ME ON THE TRAIN AND HE WHISPERED SOMETHING TO ME BUT I CANT SPEAK FLUENT SPANISH! So creepy!
– Anonymous
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Earth Angel says
EW! A lot of women take out there phones and take pictures in return. Another idea is to start video recording and narrating VERY LOUDLY while you do it! “So this is the creepy guy that takes photos of me while I take the train every morning to school—so I’m taking one of him! See the creepy hands?” I would just keep going until I felt like stopping! And then I would post it on Twitter and You Tube. Doing that a couple of mornings in a row should help. And be empowering. And funny. 🙂