The kid in the picture (to the right) doesn’t look very harmful, right? He’s reasonably well-dressed, anyway. But actually, he is quite a large fellow, and likes to assault random women with the help of an equally vile friend of his.
I’ve just spent hours with the police (after a nearly two hour wait to actually see a police officer), telling and re-telling every detail of what happened to me today, and I’m in no mood to blog it all. What I will say is this to my female readers: Don’t be fooled into thinking that, just because you’re minding your own business, some punk isn’t going to decide you need messing with. Sadly, scumbags like this have no problem with launching unprovoked attacks on women. If you dare to wear something as revealing as a pair of Levi’s and a long winter coat, you may not only be physically assaulted but have names like “slut” and “whore” screamed at you on a crowded Tube platform. About fifteen minutes of assault and abuse may pass before anyone watching this happen will say a word, or do anything to otherwise intervene.
I hope that this punk gets caught… It was smart of her to snap a picture of him. I never understood Britons ban of self defense weapons. I can’t see Mace and Tasers being bad. And if you look at Texas’ crime averages. The fact that so many carry guns seems to settle down a lot of crime, even if it wouldn’t of helped in this type of situation.
In this case the amount of publicity plus the quality of the cell phone snap will hopefully put the punk (and his friend) in the “helpful” hands of British Railway Constables.
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