Woman walking into me deliberately

[Dontbersorude]

Not sure what to make of this but, I was coming out of one of the main office entrances when I woman marched straight into me very aggressively and actually ended up hurting me. I was coming out but through the door.

I said as much to her and she went off on a bit of a tirade most of which I couldn’t make out but one would have thought she could be a little more apologetic after I told her she had hurt me.

Building security agreed it was all very odd as this sort of thing doesn’t happen here. Ever.

She doesn’t work in the building but all activity is monitored.

I suppose I’m a little shaken and upset at such agression from another woman so wondering if IAM to be so upset by her batshit behaviour.

[CatkinToadflax]

I had a young couple charge into me at the train station a couple of weeks ago on the way home from work. I was standing looking at the departures board and they came charging past with plenty of space but for whatever reason banged right into me. I stared after them in annoyance, the girl turned round and saw my look of disgust and nudged her partner so that they could both look back at me and have a good laugh. Delightful.

[mastertomsmum]

make sure you haven't been pickpocketed

[LighthouseSouth]

there's another word for it (apart from manslamming).....I can't recall what it is....it was def a word when it happened to my friend's mum.

no, it's not just "wankery"

[LeighaJ]

Ugh threads like this are why I hate people.

People are just assholes.

[Shockers]

I remember a woman barging into me so hard as a child that she knocked me over. My dad chased after her and shouted at her! She definitely did it on purpose- I saw her face.

[TheCraicDealer]

Maybe it's because of the job I'm in but that looks like a bit of a set up to a injury claim to me tbh- she's not a normal visitor to the premises, she seemed to do it purposefully, she made sure it was in an area which likely has CCTV, she made a scene in front of a 'witness' (i.e., the security guard) and immediately loudly blamed the OP.

I'm probably being a bit paranoid but I would formally report it just in case.

[Fwend]

Someone did this in Ikea a while ago to my DH - deliberately rammed him with a trolley, and laughed. He limped for a week.

[hmcAsWas]

I've had this happen to me just once in 50 years. I am quite tall, broad and have a bitch resting face. If I was small / slight / elderly I guess this might have happened more often. I don't understand some people

[FeistyOldBat]

@Kamma89

I know it was assault, under one statute. But he assaulted me as he put me in immediate fear of violence (Offences Against the Person Act 1861) and I defended myself which I'm entitled to do. Moving away from him stepping either sideways or backwards was not possible for me with my disabilities, so I would have had to turn my back on him, putting myself at further risk, which is an unreasonable expectation. I did give him a chance to move before I touched him, and he didn't take it.

He acted deliberately aggressively, to a clearly disabled elderly woman; his action was seen by at least a dozen people including a friend of mine who works at the station and saw everything. She said to me when I went into the ticket hall that she thought he was going to hit me.

It was a lovely sunny summer morning and I was on good terms with the world, peacefully going about my business. This massive tank of a man, at least 30 years younger than me, interrupted that by deliberately preventing me from doing what I wanted, and this feisty old bat wasn't having any of that.

[HollyGibney]

My teenage ds gets this a lot, he's quite tall but skinny and very unassuming. He has hyper mobility so looks a bit floppy and hasn't the best posture. I honestly believe that a certain kind of man looks at older boys like that and sees them as fair game to push or shove past knowing that they can intimidate them and beat them if it comes to a confrontation. I've seen it happen with him so many times. Shoved out of the way on transport or pushed in front of in queues. On three separate occasions, when he's been a bit ahead or a few paces away, seemingly alone, he's been barged into really roughly by perfectly respectable looking men who have then shouted at him or told him aggressively to "WATCH IT!" He just freezes and then I pop up like Medusa to give them a good loud telling off and ask them what their problem is? Only once has one of them stood his ground, he'd actually knocked my son's drink out of his hand then just carried on without without even apologising. That escalated to a shouting match that he did walk away from in the end because people were watching. It really makes me worry for ds being out and about alone.

[Tara336]

Would she have had to sign in?you could maybe fine out who she was and take it further if you’ve been hurt (an apology is owed). I had an ex colleague deliberately knock into me once, all because I complained about some extremely inappropriate messages they had left on mine and my husbands facebook! They were angry because my husband demanded and got an apology! I was so shocked as they nearly knocked me flying! Some people are just so damm awful.

On the other hand though I was walking my dog in pouring rain the other day and a man on a bike shouted at me as I didn’t see him coming due to umbrellas etc. I shouted back sorry but there’s no need to be so rude and he did stop and apologise to me 🙂

[Funnyface1]

Well this is just shocking. What a scary, fascinating thread. Sorry this happened op, hope you're ok.

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

I am quite tall, broad and have a bitch resting face

It has never happened to me either - I am short, round, and apparently have a "murder" resting face.

(According to family members . . . )

[ScrambledSmegs]

I made a mistake, it was the Putney Bridge jogger, sorry. But this sort of thing has been happening for years, and not just in urban environments.

The incident involving my family member was this: he was cycling along a main road near his house (semi-rural), he heard a vehicle, possibly a van or 4x4, approaching from behind him and then as it pulled alongside him someone leant out of the window nearest to him and shoved him hard. He was very lucky to escape with only some nasty cuts and bruises, the bike was quite badly damaged though and he was very nervous about cycling on roads for a while. No witnesses or cctv and police never found out who did it.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

I had an older chap thump me with his crutch.
I was 20 weeks pregnant at a motorway service station. There wasn't a lot of room, I was already tight up against the wall as it was and he deliberately hit me, in my bump.
I told him to mind out and he said that I should have minded out. I didn't have any more room to do so, he was just being a knob.
Some people are just jerks.

[FeralBeryl]

@ScrambledSmegs was this the video that was doing the rounds last month? A car full of lads filmed themselves shoving a cyclist over really hard. a couple of seconds later and he'd have slammed into a load of metal road signs. Absolute twats.

I've only ever had one 'barger' but it was at a music festival and the girl's eyes were rolling everywhere and she was chewing her face off so I thought better of approaching her about it.
I've got a resting bitch face too, but also tend to smile when I come across people, so maybe they think I'm either too lovely or too scary to barge

[Sunnymeg]

We have a relation who is forever walking into people. They had an operation for a brain tumour last year and have lost a slice of their vision. It is worse in places like supermarkets where people come at you in all directions and he really struggles.

Not saying this is anything to do with OP 's situation, but I'm sure my relation isn't the only one walking around with this problem.

[FullMetalRabbit]

A lot of people just walk around angry all the time

We know someone like this, we call her “default position angry”

[ScrambledSmegs]

@FeralBeryl No This was several years ago and to our knowledge nothing was put online by whoever did it. I can’t believe someone did the same thing and filmed it! That’s terrible. Do you know where it was?

For further context, the cyclist in my story was my dad. He’s a keen cyclist but clearly not a young man. I’m still appalled that anyone would see a person who was obviously at least in their 70s and do that to them.

[sodabreadjam]

We had an outbreak of youth anti-social behaviour in a housing estate near where I live. A private estate - teens from well-off homes. They took to shoulder- charging shoppers in the local supermarket, just for kicks. Due to this and other offences (vandalism, threatening behaviour, etc.) there was a strong police presence for a short time until things calmed down.

[FeralBeryl]

@ScrambledSmegs your poor Dad! Was he confident enough to ride again?

I don't know the location, it was all over Twitter, the vast majority of people were rightly outraged and it was removed after a couple of days. I did see a statement (but unverified) saying that the police were reviewing footage, the man had several broken ribs and many cuts and bruises.
I'll have a nosey and see if they ever caught anyone, the bloke was going really fast too, I know DH nerdily tracks his speeds can be doing 30mph so the idea of being flung is terrifying.

[DonkeyHotei]

@Mummyoflittledragon I am disabled but I don’t go around wearing a badge “I am disabled”

I find that a bit offensive actually. Is that what my blue badge is?

[RoseWhiteTips]

There is clearly a level of premeditation in this - albeit a short one. She saw you and for some reason the weirdo wanted to barge into you. Take it further. There should be cctv evidence.

[DonkeyHotei]

Apologies if there is some other kind of disabled badge that actually says "I am disabled" that I don't know about.