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What's the most alarming experience you've had with a stranger? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I was sitting in my car in the parking lot of the beer store, playing a game on my phone, procrastinating on my mission to buy beer.

I had locked the door from pure paranoia (I'm just a paranoid guy).

A guy on the sidewalk stepped onto the parking lot and walked toward my car. I thought little of it, but I noticed. He got closer and closer, and then he grabbed the handle and tried to open the driver-side door.

It was locked so he casually kept walking like everything was normal.

It was broad daylight. I still have no idea what he would have done if the door had been unlocked. But I was sitting and in the more vulnerable position.

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had a similar experience. I was maybe 17, driving alone at night to choir practice. Stopped at a red light on an empty street and a guy walked straight up to my car and tried to open the passenger door. It was locked and thankfully the light turned green a second later. I peeled out.

Human beings are FUCKED.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 8 points 5 months ago

All these stories make me feel good about my habit of locking the car doors the second I sit down in the driver's seat.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

But I was sitting and in the more vulnerable position.

His crotch would've been very much within punching reach though