Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Woman Calls Security on Dad Taking Pictures of His Own Kids, Then Pepper Sprays Him
Reason ^ | 4.27.2022 | Lenore Skenazy

Posted on 04/29/2022 2:37:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

"The suspect then intervened, deployed pepper spray and sprayed the victim, before fleeing the scene on foot," according to the police.

Earlier this month, a woman in Arlington, Virginia, saw a man taking pictures of kids and suspected the worst: a creep on the prowl with his camera. Disgusting.

She quickly alerted a security guard and, according to a subsequent police report, told him she believed the man was photographing children he didn't know, for presumably nefarious purposes.

The security guard went to investigate and made contact with the man. As it turns out, the guy was taking pictures of his own children: He was a dad on an outing with his kids. The guard went back to report this reassuring news to the lady. Case closed?

Not quite. As the Arlington police reported:

The suspect then intervened, deployed pepper spray and sprayed the victim, before fleeing the scene on foot.

So the suspect is a woman in her 20s or 30s—a pepper-spraying maniac—and the victim is the man taking the pictures. (The dad sustained non-life threatening injuries, which were treated at the scene by medics.) The suspect was so obsessed with the idea there are predators everywhere that she literally couldn't accept reality when confronted by it.

Security guru Bruce Schneier coined a term for this leap from mundane reality to thrilling depravity. He calls it the "movie-plot threat." The more something resembles a movie-plot threat, the less likely it is to happen in real life, hence the less time and money we have to spend preventing it.

Thinking that way is the equivalent of seeing a small bruise and automatically assuming child abuse, or seeing a child alone and automatically assuming neglect, which also happens: Watch dad Ashley Smith testify in favor of Let Grow's "reasonable childhood independence" bill in the South Carolina Judiciary committee. His family was investigated for child abuse and neglect because someone saw his daughter doing her homework on the front lawn and called 911.

How much better off we'd all be—saner, smarter, safer, nicer—if instead of assuming the very worst anytime we see a child, or an adult with a child, or an adult near a child or photographing a child, we gave everyone the benefit of the doubt.

In the meantime, the police investigation is ongoing.


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: arlington; children; family; karen; localnews; men; pepperspray; pinac; virginia; virginiawoman
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-51 next last
To: nickcarraway

“The suspect then intervened, deployed pepper spray and sprayed the victim, before fleeing the scene on foot.”

I don’t think there is enough pepper spray to keep me from catching her.


21 posted on 04/29/2022 3:20:18 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

“Movie plot threat” is rubbish. She attacked an innocent person.


22 posted on 04/29/2022 3:21:55 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

What is it with middle aged women in this country? You’d think estrogen was some sort of dangerous psychotropic drug.

CC


23 posted on 04/29/2022 3:26:36 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Arlington, VA is only 5 miles away from Washington D.C.

I think I can understand why she saw pedofiles everywhere.


24 posted on 04/29/2022 3:26:51 PM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

That close to D.C. the poor woman’s pedo-dar was overloaded.


25 posted on 04/29/2022 3:28:35 PM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

They need to “universal background check” to be able to buy pepper spray and if you are a demonrat you cannot purchase! /sarcasm (kinda).


26 posted on 04/29/2022 3:33:34 PM PDT by RetiredMarine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man

I don’t know what I’d do if I were a young man today. Probably turn to hard core degeneracy. That’s a crappy short path, for sure, but probably better than trying to navigate this insanity.


27 posted on 04/29/2022 3:42:37 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: DannyTN

It’s Arlington. That “poor” woman voted for the pedos.


28 posted on 04/29/2022 4:00:26 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man

Agreed,
Since that Garden gig.


29 posted on 04/29/2022 4:06:57 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Sounds like a real Karen on the loose.


30 posted on 04/29/2022 4:10:42 PM PDT by PAR35
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: babble-on

There’s been a huge amount of meme effort to freak people out about rampant pedophilia lately. I wonder whether she might have just been reading some of that.

/\

I think this is fake news intended to be a talking point to promote that very idea.

Headline

Pedophile Paranoia Exasperated by False Smears of Grooming.


31 posted on 04/29/2022 4:34:45 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Celtic Conservative

It is, when combined with Leftist media.


32 posted on 04/29/2022 4:42:11 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Was her name Karen?

My wife wants to know.

5.56mm


33 posted on 04/29/2022 4:44:52 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim W N

Does she qualify for a trip to Disneyland?


34 posted on 04/29/2022 5:04:46 PM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Celtic Conservative

“You’d think estrogen was some sort of dangerous psychotropic drug.”

You mean it’s not?


35 posted on 04/29/2022 5:11:51 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

MALICIOUS INJURY BY CAUSTIC AGENT, April 12

1100 block of S. Hayes Street

The suspect is described as a Black female with an average build, approximately late 20’s to mid-30’s, wearing a blue jean jacket, white shirt, and black sweats. The investigation is ongoing.

The address is Pentagon City mall which is just across I-395 from the Pentagon, and adjacent to Crystal City where the Amazon corporate offices are located.


36 posted on 04/29/2022 5:13:52 PM PDT by deks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim W N

So another woman. Got it.


37 posted on 04/29/2022 5:14:10 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Celtic Conservative; Nik Naym

You sound like Alan Alda.


38 posted on 04/29/2022 5:14:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

People freak out about cameras and the irony is writ large when they pull out their cell phone to video record the guy with the camera.


39 posted on 04/29/2022 5:14:59 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MercyFlush

I guess cameras are like nuclear weapons and lawyers. You need to have your own to defend against the other person’s.


40 posted on 04/29/2022 5:23:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-51 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson