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.
So the lady called the cops due to her concerns. Fair enough, maybe she had a reason to be concerned. Cops came and checked things out and found out the man was taking pictures of his own children (which every normal parent does) probably to send to grandparents (my phone is loaded with them). Cop informs lady that all is okay. So, she has done her duty even though it sounds as if she was a bit paranoid. I mean, I would think the kids were probably interacting with the man as if he was their Dad, but let’s give her the benefit of the doubt.
But, THEN the “Karen” continues to harass the guy and ends up pepper-spraying him???!! Even after the cops have informed her that the man is just taking pictures of his own children? At that point, you can officially declare her bats!%t crazy.
They need to lock her up.
Please don’t lump me in with that decrepit communist. The character “Hawkeye Pierce” I can live with. But Alan Alda? Nope, no can do.
CC
Not sure what you mean by that but I somehow feel insulted.
“Pederast” has systematically been removed from our dictionaries.
Wow! I guess if it was me being pepper sprayed by some fruit loop while out with my grands I would likely assume a kidnapping attempt and neutralize the threat. End of story.
But then again I am always armed, I assume this dad was likely not. Maybe next time.
Yes, “another woman”.
Unfortunately the decrepit “Women’s Movement” has deceived many women and made a fair number of them kind of crazy.
Yup another solution looking for a problem to solve
I noted to someone just last week that I see see posts on FR from mothers saying their sons have difficulty finding any girls suitable to date because so many are just nucking futs and it is a crap shoot that you will unwittingly link up with one.
I also noted that I have yet to see a similar post from mothers of girls saying similar things.
There was a phase a few years back where mothers said their daughters could not find men able to or wanting to support them.
Seems that much of the whole selection is pretty marginal.
Started with Oprah and Phil Donahue etc.
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