Posted on 01/21/2023 5:29:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On the afternoon of Wednesday, January 18 in East Memphis, Tennessee, a woman was nearly kidnapped while out for a jog with her dog, reported WREG Memphis.
Just before 3 p.m. local time, a damaged grey vehicle with tinted windows and no hubcaps pulled up alongside the 28-year-old woman, who has remained anonymous in all reports. The suspect in the driver’s seat was reportedly weaaring a black ski mask and gloves. The suspect in the backseat opened the door and attempted to grab her. The victim ran away screaming for help.
The woman’s neighbor, Laura Slavney, saw the events unfold from her kitchen window. She quickly went to her garage to tell her husband, who was working on their house with a contractor. The three of them approached the victim to assist.
“She ran to us, and [the vehicle] backed up and headed west,” Slavney told Action News 5. “We were all just standing out there talking, and we were like, ‘What just happened?’ What do you think they were doing?’ It was very scary. She thought she was being kidnapped.”
The victim’s home, which was nearby to the incident, caught security footage of the car fleeing the scene.
On September 2, 2022 in East Memphis, just a mile from the location of this week’s incident, teacher Eliza Fletcher was abducted and killed during a run. A week after her death, running communities around the U.S. gathered to show support, symbolically running four miles to “Finish Eliza’s Run.”
Didn’t a white women out jogging get kidnapped and murdered in memphis within the last 6 months?
All white people armed, all the time.
See last paragraph of article.
Let me guess, the video (unseen) shows the usual white guys seen on TV ads trying to do the abduction?
“A week after her death, running communities around the U.S. gathered to show support,”
Without a mention of meaningful self defense of course.
Yep
I don’t typically do on-body carry at home, but things are handy. Leave the house, something is on my person.
See: Last paragraph of the posted excerpt.
Good point. I meant outside the house. I don’t carry to go into the kitchen lol.
That was Eliza Fletcher, mentioned in the last paragraph of the article.
Carry mace and run with a friend.
Yep, really rich family.
Don’t jog, it’s a garbage exercise modality.
Viking or medieval mace
Or go modern with a Walking Dead mace.
Ya, well, if that’s your option, go with the Sig P365....
That’s why I run: jogging is too slooooow.
Morningstar.
Yes, very close to where this happened. But, the woman who was killed was out at the crack of dawn, this thing happened at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
I do sprinting and plyometrics. Steady state, I’ll do swimming or biking.
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