"The incident had involved a man riding his bike with his pants pulled down around his ass, hissing at me, "You want some of this?" It was quite a feat of balance, I thought in the split second before I realized he was a threat, stalking me in the black morning when I was just trying to go for a run."
"I refused to let a creepy stranger dictate when I could leave my house, so I kept running in the dark, but now it was different. Every time I shifted my gaze to avoid tripping, my headlamp cast a hard shadow that looked like the man, ready to pounce. He was everywhere. When my boyfriend came to visit the following weekend, we ran together, and I felt safe again."
"After my boyfriend flew back home, the creeper reemerged, this time riding his bike past my house in broad daylight and then U-turning to look directly into my kitchen window. I called the police, and they dispatched an officer to search the area. That was the first time I got a good look at him: hooded eyes, black hair, skin drawn tight around his jaw."
A woman called her boyfriend and the police after a bicyclist exposed himself, hissed "You want some of this?", and stalked her during an early morning run. She began a new relationship about a year after ending a 19-year marriage and opened up quickly about her life. She continued running despite fear, but headlamp shadows made the stalker seem omnipresent. Running with a visiting boyfriend restored a sense of safety because he was a man. After he left, the bicyclist returned in daylight, U-turned to peer into her kitchen, prompting another police response. A close look revealed hooded eyes, black hair, and skin drawn tight around his jaw.
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