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. Im 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 cant 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 didnt raise my voice. I dont think he knew what was going on.
Police still hadnt 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.
Oh, but of course! Isn't that the way liberals say you're supposed to do things? I guess she should have taken out her cell phone and dialed 911 and waited for the police to show up. I hope she and her little son would be able to run fast in case the perv decided to attack!
Remember: when seconds count, the police are minutes away!
That incident could have been a prelude to rape or worse.
How do you know your bat wouldn't have killed someone - it appears you are out to hurt someone!! And your wishful thinking that you turning around and walking away is your answer with not a clue that the 'nice man with issues' would NEVER grab you from behind!
So far you have shown HOW LITTLE you know about JESUS/The Word. ANYONE who knows The Word KNOWS we NEVER turn our back to the enemy - As 'The amour of Christ' has no protection for the back. Why with all your bragging you don't even know the basics? And obviously you are not obedient to The Word either - as you are to put on the armour daily! And that would led you know that there is NO armour for the back.
And why would you turn your back anyway - it demonstrates your FAITHLESSNESS?!!
You can find a lot of His teachings in a collection of books called "The Holy Bible".
Zip it, sarcastic one - you already showed how little you know about God's WORD! Doesn't take long to see how ill equipped you are with "THE sharper than a double-edged SWORD!"
Yep, definitely I bet it is going to be nOObie. Any man that pulls that sort of stunt has just shown he is a 100% dangerous nutcase and is capable of a LOT worse than what he did to her, maybe escalating to that worse scenario just within seconds. Get thee troll can back to your bleeding heart pals at the DUmp.
After she pulled the gun on him, the long view became the short view
You criticize a woman because she brandished a weapon at a guy who was committing a crime against her and her child, while the possibility that he was going to commit additional crimes was clearly present.
Then you state that you stroll in the park carrying a deadly weapon in case you encounter a dangerous situation.
You make Jesus cry when you use his name and make absolutely no sense in your argument.
The stupid, it burns!!
He is a registered sex offender!!! That means that he has done something like this before and being arrested, charged, and convicted, and possibly serving time didn’t shock him back to reality!
Also I’m a woman and if a naked stranger approaches me aggressively, he’s getting shot, but I won’t aim at the big head.
beautiful dog, never heard of that breed before...
My daddy, being a detroit mounted policeman would have given you the same lecture he gave me....DON’T point a gun at anyone unless your ready to pull the trigger..DON’T pull the trigger unless you fully intend to kill the SOB. End of lecture...I point a gun at someone, I fully intend to pull the trigger...You are a born victim....
I think the cops need to have a talk with her.
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Get thee back to DU.
“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. “
I think this is worthy of the DOGGIE PING list too.
(A word to Doggie Ping members; the breed name should be “Norwegian Buhund”, and the breed is not a hound type, but a spitz type used traditionally on farms and for herding.)
“No. I would have acted like the rational and intelligent person that I am and would turned around and went the other way. I would have pulled out my cellphone and called 911. “
You are clearly not a mother of a young child.
The pervert follows you because you have turned the other way.
The pervert is not threatened by you, because he can be done assaulting you and on his merry way before the police arrive.
As a woman, you are highly unlikely to be strong enough to keep the pervert off you, and any object you wield as a club is likely to be forced from your fingers.
You have not only your own life to protect, but that of your child.
By the way, Jesus never spoke of turning the other cheek in response to genital exposure. Public genital exposure would have resulted in immediate *stoning* in first century Judean culture as uncovering one’s nakedness with any but one’s spouse was defined as sinful behavior. Moreover, He was a strong advocate of protecting the defenseless and not allowing them to become a prey to others.
Jesus would not advise this woman to “turn the other cheek” and walk away from a man who proved himself to be a threat to herself and the well-being of her child.
Why are you trying to distort the woman’s behavior as sinful and unrighteous when it is the man who sinned against her and her child, and the man who was committing adultery with her in his heart?
The moment he exposed his genitals to her, he demonstrated that he was dangerous.
And you propose waiting until a dangerous man actually commits assault, sexual or otherwise, before you take defensive action
And if you saw a lion watching you intently, crouched down low for concealment, would you believe “Oh, it has not sunk its great claws or jaws into my flesh yet, therefore, I will merely walk the other way and it will leave me alone.”
The man was looking for victims to prey upon; the incident could have quickly become tragic.
” The alleged flasher is described as a “white male in his early 20s with short dark-blond hair and wearing a gray hoody and dark blue jeans,” the paper reported. “
Clearly if she noticed this, what he wanted her to see was unremarkable.
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