Mauserguy
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I have a lady friend, non-romantic, that needed some help hanging curtains. I went over there a week ago with my tools and we finished up sometime after dark. We decided to out to dinner, so she got her purse, and I put on my shoes. I unlocked the front door and pulled it open, and there was a man standing there in the dark.
She was shocked and called his name. I figured that he was a boyfriend, so I put my hand out to introduce myself. He shook my hand, and turned around and ran away.
As we walked out, she told me the story. She twice had dinner with this guy five months ago. Ever since then he has been showing up at all different hours of the night. He calls her and leaves weird messages. He is a black belt in the marshal arts, and teaches Karate part time at a local university. He's also an environmentalist (they're all nutcases and sex creeps).
Anyway, Sunday night, she was working at her computer, set up in her living room. The sun had just set, so she had not yet turned on the lights. The only light in the room was her monitor. Sitting there, she saw the shadow of a man approach her front door through her curtains. The man did not knock, or ring the door bell. She switched off the monitor and sat there afraid, in the dark. The guy, she could tell from the shadow in the curtains, tried to look in her windows.
After five minutes, she got up and quietly moved to the door and looked through the peep hole. It was the stalker guy again. She was afraid, so she sat down in front of the door, and nearly cried when she heard the guy try to open the door. The dead bolt stopped him.
This went on for about fifteen or twenty minutes, so she crept upstairs, careful to make no noise, and hid in her closet. She got on her cell phone and called her sister. Her sister told her to just ignore it. Her home phone then rang, but she did not dare pick it up. Thinking that it may have been me on the line, she called me and told me what was happening. I told her to call the police, but she did not want to, so I swung by with my spotlight and a baseball bat. The guy was gone by then, of course.
Since Sunday, the guy has left her a phone message, and this afternoon he sent her a nasty email. I know that she needs to get a restraining order against the guy, but she doesn't want to make things worse. As her friend, I can't sleep on her sofa every night, and she doesn't want to get the police involved. What should I do?
Mauserguy
She was shocked and called his name. I figured that he was a boyfriend, so I put my hand out to introduce myself. He shook my hand, and turned around and ran away.
As we walked out, she told me the story. She twice had dinner with this guy five months ago. Ever since then he has been showing up at all different hours of the night. He calls her and leaves weird messages. He is a black belt in the marshal arts, and teaches Karate part time at a local university. He's also an environmentalist (they're all nutcases and sex creeps).
Anyway, Sunday night, she was working at her computer, set up in her living room. The sun had just set, so she had not yet turned on the lights. The only light in the room was her monitor. Sitting there, she saw the shadow of a man approach her front door through her curtains. The man did not knock, or ring the door bell. She switched off the monitor and sat there afraid, in the dark. The guy, she could tell from the shadow in the curtains, tried to look in her windows.
After five minutes, she got up and quietly moved to the door and looked through the peep hole. It was the stalker guy again. She was afraid, so she sat down in front of the door, and nearly cried when she heard the guy try to open the door. The dead bolt stopped him.
This went on for about fifteen or twenty minutes, so she crept upstairs, careful to make no noise, and hid in her closet. She got on her cell phone and called her sister. Her sister told her to just ignore it. Her home phone then rang, but she did not dare pick it up. Thinking that it may have been me on the line, she called me and told me what was happening. I told her to call the police, but she did not want to, so I swung by with my spotlight and a baseball bat. The guy was gone by then, of course.
Since Sunday, the guy has left her a phone message, and this afternoon he sent her a nasty email. I know that she needs to get a restraining order against the guy, but she doesn't want to make things worse. As her friend, I can't sleep on her sofa every night, and she doesn't want to get the police involved. What should I do?
Mauserguy
Why not make waves? The other guy sure as hell is. She needs to be willing to hit that oxygen theif with a bigger wave than he thinks he can make.
