local menace or stalker? altgeld and cali
2-3 weeks ago, my roommate was catcalled and has experienced continued threats and harassment from a late 20s hispanic guy in a 2010s silver mitsubishi full size sedan. busted bumper and some rust spots.
she was taking a friends kid to school and was stopped and catcalled. silver car crept alongside her down the street complimenting her and asking for her number, she relented and gave him the number, intending to block him as soon as he reached out.
and oh boy he reached out. weeks later. this monday. polite enough at first. but my roommate, sweetheart that she is, let him down gently saying that she’s too busy and not interested. met with walls of text of a deranged, rejected, unstable man. too pathetic to note specifics. using slurs! blocked!
a few messages after being blocked from the phone went to the ipad. one of them mentioned that it’s not illegal to know where she stays.
fast forward to today,
car of the same description was sitting on altgeld on the corner of fairfield facing california idling. with all of the talk of creep behavior, i didn’t so much notice the car at first, but just noted that the spot would be a good place to watch the house. perfect view of the house but far enough that anyone inside wouldn’t see.
i started to walk back towards cali. i was distracted momentarily by adjusting a hoodie that’s been riding up while walking, but i had looked up and noticed that the silver mitsu was slowly driving alongside me.
as soon as i noticed, they started gently tapping the horn as they followed along. i reached into my pocket to grab my phone to take pics but as soon as i did, they laid on the horn and erratically took a right and peeled down california towards the highway, nearly hitting a pedestrian.
i am generally not a suspicious person, and would like to believe that this is somehow a local freak who menaces local ladies.
posting to see if anyone has had a similar experience being menaced by a silver mitsu near cali/altgeld or if my roommate and i are specifically being targeted.
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UPDATE!!! Saw again today at 6:10pm near the same corner. taking post work joint walk and the car was parked on fairfield. as i was getting a photo of the car and he came up out of his house and asked why i was taking pics of his car!!!!
AS EVIDENCE IN THE FUTURE CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST YOU!!! booked it tf out of there. called roommate. we have plate numbers and will be filing a police report ASAP
like he said, it’s not illegal to live near us and know where we live or to idle your car facing our home. but i guess we should have something on the record if god forbid it does escalate.
ALSO!!!! to the contrarians in the comments who felt the need to hone in on the roommate giving the phone number:
why? lmao i get that it was incredibly silly bitch thing to do , she does too. but like… who cares??? nobody is confused as to how we have ended up in this situation.
can you freaks wait until this stalker creep either fucks off (ideal), carries on until it escalates with the police and fucks off (not great) or carries on until it escalates to him entering our home and getting blasted (registered, locked away safely) in the chest to use this as a cautionary tale????