Posted on 11/16/2012 8:17:10 AM PST by grundle
A Longview woman who was walking at Lake Sacajawea with her 6-year-old son pulled a gun on a man who exposed his genitals to her Wednesday evening, according to police.
The 35-year-old woman was near Martin Dock around 8:10 p.m. when the man approached her “aggressively,” sat down and began performing a sex act, then suggested she should watch him, according to the woman and accounts from police.
“I put the magazine in my gun. I cocked it,” the woman said in an interview Thursday night. “I said, ‘You need to leave or Ill shoot you. I’m going to blow your brains out.’ ”
“Oh, [expletive]!” the man declared, before running away.
The woman, whose name is being withheld by the paper because she is the victim of a sex crime, said she has never before brought her gun, a Ruger .380, with her to the lake, but she grabbed it on her way out the door Wednesday because it was foggy and dark.
“I just had a feeling,” she said.
It was one of at least two similar incidents that occurred within six hours in Longview. A man exposed himself to a woman in the parking lot of Winco Foods, at the Triangle Center in Longview, at 2:09 a.m. Thursday, then left in a blue Honda, driving toward Ocean Beach Highway on 15th Avenue, according to another police report.
Longview police detective Kyle Sahim said police can’t say for sure yet whether the incidents are related.
The woman who encountered the man at Lake Sacajawea said she saw the man fumbling with his belt as he approached her and her son at Martin Dock. “Miss, miss,” he said, according to the woman. “Could you watch this? You need to watch this.”
As the man fled, she said she sent her dog, a well-trained Norwegian Buhund Hound, after him. In time, the dog had the man cornered at the gate to Lions Island near Kessler Boulevard. She called her dog back, and the man disappeared into the darkness.
Asked how her son reacted to all of this, she said: “I had him turn and face toward me. I stayed calm. I didn’t raise my voice. I don’t think he knew what was going on.”
Police still hadn’t found the man Thursday evening but are investigating several suspects, Sahim said. The woman called police later in the evening, saying she was looking at an online
database of local sex offenders and believed she recognized the man she encountered at the lake.
The man involved in the Lake Sacajawea incident was described as a white male in his early 20s with short dark-blond hair and wearing a gray hoody and dark blue jeans.
The man who exposed himself in the WinCo parking lot was described as a white male with blond hair and wearing a gray hoody.
Well, what do you know! They actually revealed the perps race!
Oh, he was white... That’s why...
Grandpappy always told me an unloaded gun makes a poor club and that is all it is without ammo in it.
I would have preferred to read that she had shot his nuts off.
She was right to display her gun to make clear that she was capable of protecting herself as she walked away, but being in public and being offended in a non-violent way doesn’t mean that you gun down people to assert your control over public space.
You need to change your meds. By stating that this woman took it too far you make yourself sound like a pansy-ass liberal. She should have shot the SOB!!
Now that's funny right there.
I think you have wandered onto the wrong website.
1. She had her 6 year old son with her. Ever hear of NAMBLA!
2. The man was obviously mentally defective. Who knew what acts he was thinking or even capable of committing. Would he chase her down, harm her and her son?
3. There is no right to expose yourself in public and she had a right to protect herself and her son.
You are the only one who thinks a woman who had complete control over her firearm has anger issues. That is more a reflection of what is going on in your head than it is an insight about the woman involved here.
Duuuude.
If the man was more powerful than the women, she was in danger. Being naked had nothing to do with it. THINK before you express a stupid thought.
Remember the old saying of “it is better to sit in silence and be thought a fool than it is to open your mouth and remove all doubt”.
So you believe that exposing ones self to a woman and her child is harmless and should be dealt with in what way?
If the guy was sick enough to masturbate in front of her and her child, he was also sick enough to be considered a threat to her safety and that of her son. He displayed a mentally ill behavior and that gave her enough of a legal reason to feel that her life, and that of her child, were in danger.
I think you had better find a liberal site where you can defend the sick perverts since that seems to be your leaning.
No sh!t, Dick Tracey! He's in the pervert data base, he had his evaluation! Next time he may encounter you. Do you plan on watching the show because he has issues? Hello??!!
Sounds like she has anger issues. Maybe instead she should have walked the other way and called law enforcement.
YOU need to get out more - a walk in the park might be in order. Try and turn around when someone has other plans for you and get back to us. Unless your plans are to bring him home for tea.
Yep! The poster has ISSUES, needed an evaluation and you showed the results! HUTAS.
Save all the responses to your post for future use any time you need to apply a stupid cliche!
The mods are asleep at the switch on this one.
Well, at least you got one thing right on your post. I think you may have stumbled in to the wrong web forum. You probably meant to go here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Dear Stupid-
How did she know her life was NOT in danger?
A pervert approaches her and you want her to WAIT LONGER to see if he actually poses a threat to her life?
Sit there? and ... watch? or.. how do you envision this scenario?
Ask him nicely to stop?
Then what- it might be too late to pull out your gun AFTER you are in a life and death situation.
Yes, I bet the liberal MeOnTheBeach has no problem with abortion where they suck out the head!
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