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Tonight as I walked home from a book club I found myself having to run away from a tweaker/schizo wildly screaming threats and slurs He was headed straight towards me but I don’t believe he was locked in on me as a target. I don’t think he tried to chase me as I ran. This isn’t even the first time in the past week I’ve taken off running from someone on the street. Paranoid perhaps, but why chance it. I figure it’s better to be safe and just run. Get myself out of the area. But it was the scariest by far because I know if that guy made eye contact he would have almost certainly hurt me. The way he was screaming to himself was menacing. And Once you lock eyes with one of these men it’s over.

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I alternate between deep hopelessness and outraged indignation. Depending on the moment I either want to lay down and die like a dog or get serious about self defense skills—weapons training, de-escalation training, all the whole thing. My blackpill is that this is just how life is like now if you aren’t rich, or isolated. Like this is what it is. It’s not just Austin, although it’s extra bad here

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this shouldn't be happening in the first place but considering that it is, would you get a dog? it's unreal how pretty much every single girl i know has some story like this. nyc, sf, even dc/va/md wealthy suburbs

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I had a similar encounter thrice with the same person when I lived in Santa Cruz, CA. Was a woman in her 50s who threatened me with a concealed weapon(?) because I was walking to my girlfriends house and I refused to give her a blanket. I turned around and went a much longer way to avoid her. Another time I walked by her without noticing and eventually I ran. Then the last she noticed me and ran straight towards me before cops miraculously pulled up and talked to her as I ran. I found her on a local mugshot website and she had 15+ arrests, most of which for assault, battery, and/or harassment. All on main streets of the city. Constantly in and out of jail and progressively worse in her photos. I was frustrated, scared, furious, and eventually exhausted. It’s one of several reasons why I left Santa Cruz, and the Bay Area. Though I also never had a car there. As long as bipping and petty theft aren’t huge in Austin, I think there’s hope in your case.

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what happened with the car thing?

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Lauren McDonagh-Pereira

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I'm so sorry that you experienced that fear tonight, and I am glad you are physically safe. I have a few of those experiences and near misses in my past and they are so viscerally burned into my memory. 🫂 I hope that you can find some calm and get to sleep tonight.

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this is what you need

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@travisblackburn.eth

Texas is an open carry state with strong stand your ground laws- not saying turn it Wild West (mace will do the job too) but sadly in Austin you gotta protect yourself and can’t expect local PD to do much.

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What, this isn’t the first time this weeek??? And it’s just Wednesday Is it the same street or area that both times happened?

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Stay safe, trust your instincts

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Stay safe, trust your instincts

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dude 🧔🏻↑🔵🟣

ah i see your issue... you live in america.

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Yo what ?!!! I’m so sorry keccer. Glad nothing happened.

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Yikes!!! Glad your ok.

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Is this in Austin?, would you consider carrying protection gear next time just in case you feel unsafe again? Sorry you had to feel this way. ❤️

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Rafaello.base.eth

Your area doesn’t seem safe, or maybe try leaving the book club earlier

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It’s better to be safe than sorry!

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Anthony Pete🧾🎩🍖🎭🌳

So sorry this happened to you Walking freely on the road can be so difficult at times cause of people like this

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Sorry you had to go through all that You need to heal, cos the ptsd one could get from these experiences could be very bad

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do you have to go through these areas frequently? Once something like this happens to me I never go back to the scene never!

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