“If only I wasn’t in my car right now.”

I was fifteen years old and I was walking to work after school across a highway overpass. There weren’t very many cars on the street, and I noticed this car with two men in it driving slower than normal slightly behind me. They looped around the block 3 times so they kept passing me and the third time they started driving the same pace that i was walking, right next to me. One man pulls out a camera and starts taking pictures of me, saying “hello gorgeous,” and “if only I wasn’t in my car right now.” I was in an area where there were no shops and and at the moment, no pedestrians, so I walked as fast as I could and had to call the police, pretending I didn’t even notice. They drove away when they saw the cop car. The people who did pass me as I walked by noticed something was happening, and yet did nothing.

– Anonymous

Location: Santa Monica, CA

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