Woman walking into me deliberately

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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.

I had this happen at Kings Cross - as I got off the tube there , some suited and booted and quite a bit larger than me buffoon decided that rather than wait on the platform for me to get off like everybody else was doing , he was going to barge past everyone waiting , and push me out of the way to get his seat first .

Unfortunately , he picked on that grey haired middle aged lady police officer , who is used to standing their ground . So I did . I planted myself so and turned slightly sideways so that essentially he was unable to push me backwards , and more or less bounced all his force back on himself . Whereupon he staggered backwards , fell off the tube and landed on his arse on the platform . I then stepped off the tube, and helped him up ,as everyone else was a bit busy laughing . He did actually have the grace to apologise to me in the end , but I’m hoping it was a lesson learned .

plominoagain I LOVE this story!!!

Donkey.
No. That’s ok. I mean disabilities are often invisible and as I say I use no walking aids so people cannot know I’m disabled. That’s what I mean about no badge. I have a BB.

This has happened to me a few times, always by men. Twice in my children's school playground and the caretaker dealt with them both, luckily. And a few times while just out. It isn't by accident either, a full on shoulder bump and once a thump. I always shout at them afterwards but they run off.
If you can capture her on CCTV, I would phone police and pursue it. It's assault

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

I think Mummy means she doesn't have a visible disability. Also, it sounds like she also has a blue badge so don't think she is being offensive.

I’d follow it up to at least get security to identify the woman and find out why she was in the building.

Perhaps she’d just messed up an interview and was taking out her aggression on you?

I think that’s why these people behave like this, working off spite and pent up aggression. Or feeling so deeply insecure they need to prove to the world that they are bigger and better than some stranger on the street. Sick really.

It’s not a modern phenomenon, but I’d be fascinated to know whether this kind of thing surges in times of strife, and economic disparity. Not simply poverty of a whole country, but the injustice of the rich overlords and the poor and increasingly powerless serfs ... it’s got to breed anger and discontent surely?

For my dissertation I interviewed a lot of elderly people (a privilege I can tell you!) and a lot of their stories have stuck with me.

One lady told me how in the war she lived near an army base and the American Gi’s used to fancy themselves something rotten. She was struggling up a hill heavily pregnant, and one of them came over the brow of the hill on a bike he’d nicked / borrowed for a fun little joy ride to wind up the kids playing out in the next street over.

She said he deliberately aimed it at her and he ran straight into her... she described her shopping rolling everywhere and the mangled bike, and his eyes locked onto hers as he did it. It was only after talking all around it for a few minutes she dropped in in such a quiet still voice ‘of course I lost it. All that blood from my skirt and I had nothing to wipe it with. I knew he’d died by the time I’d walked to the clinic but I couldn’t walk any faster I was in so much pain.

The fucking bastard killed her unborn baby :( and left her there on the road on her own.

Sorry, I’m actually crying remembering that lady. She must have been pushing 90 when I spoke to her and gone for years herself now. And she had 7 more children and so many grandchildren and great grand children. But it doesn’t make up for her one little boy that fucker deprived her of, deprived of life. Ffs.

Anyway, I’ve just dissolved myself!!!

Point being. That woman was an evil bitch and I’d see if you can at least inform who she was visiting of her assault on you.

Mummy and Shumpa yeah fair enough...I'm ratty and sore today and easily offended over nothing, so apologies . And Wellthisishits story puts being offended into context and I'm getting a grip right now!

Some people are vile. And most of the vileness is directed at women. Really scary.

I feel for you it is horrible when this sort of thing happens. I was once in a clothes shop and a random woman barged past me deliberately knocking me aside. I do not know what my crime was but she took umbrance with me and targeted me. I followed her shouting "how dare you touch me" and spoke to the security guard but he couldnt really do anything, and the woman ran out of the shop. i was really shaken.
i assume she had her own issues. your woman has hers too! x

WellThisIsShit
How awful for the woman. How can people be so cruel?

Donkey
No worries. . Sorry you’re feeling rubbish.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for sharing your terrible stories, it’s actualky made me feel less shit. I kept looking out for someone wearing what she was today which is crazy!

I did feel like it was personal and I have terrible balance / have low muscle tone at the best of times so I guess feel a little vulnerable today which isn’t like me either.

That story about the GI’s is just beyond awful and just goes to show how crazy people can be for now apparent reason.

@Mummy thanks and

I walk with a stick, a hiking pole with a rubber ferrule, but can stand without it for short periods, so I stepped back just a little. I lifted the stick, planted it on his throat, just below his larynx, and pushed, quite slowly, I didn't jab it at him. He stumbled backwards, then walked away, still didn't say anything. There was a bit of applause from the onlookers! I just smiled, made that gesture of hand to head that means 'what a nutcase' and carried on. It all happened in slow motion. I'd never seen that man before and never saw him again

The nutcase in question was you

My MIL (83) did this to another women in a busy park. She shoulder barged into this lady who was obliviousy talking in a group with friends. The lady was stood slightly on the path but MIL could have walked round or said excuse me. The entitled look on MIL face, nose stuck in the air and sneering! I was so embarrassed 😳. I apologised profusely to the lady as MIL walked off! I gave MIL a telling off but she just said “well she was in my way” . Needless to say I/we will not take her out in a busy public area like that again. Some people are just so full of nastyness and frustration with busy public spaces that they forget social niceties and behave like angry deranged morons. Sorry this happened to you OP

@Kamma89

I gave myself the best chance of ensuring that he didn't.

I had to spend more than a decade defending myself from a very violent, obsessive, diagnosed psychopathic (scored 36 on the PCL-R scale) husband before and after our divorce. Despite the fact I had a restraining order against him, I made 28 999-calls to the police (most of them witnessed by a third party) over a six year period, with no response. A subsequent claim against the police for negligence was dismissed because the police said, rightly, they had no evidence of any of those calls - they'd destroyed all of it. This was the same police force that forced out an exceptionally competent female Chief Constable just because they didn't think a woman should be in that position - there was no comeback for the men involved and no compensation for her.

I've applied to the High Court for permission to bring an action out of time against that police force.

It's been demonstrated to me by the police time and again that there's no help available from them. Against that background, I really have no hesitation in taking the initiative in defending myself if I think it's the right thing to do. Obviously I'd rather walk away, but legally, I can't even walk, I completely fail the tests of what 'walking' actually comprises in the disability legislation. So I have to have an alternative.

I travel by train a lot, and it's quite scary how much harassment I get because I'm an obviously disabled person, and how that harassment has increased so much since 2010 when the coalition government came to power. That government since 2010 has treated we disabled people with absolute contempt and a certain section of the public follow their example, as exemplified by Boris Johnson and his comments on women being veiled, in the last few days.

I carry a small camera in my pocket to record those incidents when I can, and several times I've been able to supply photographs of other people being harassed, date and time-stamped, for evidence.

@HotBlack

This is for you too. The only way men will learn not to treat us like shit, is to actively discourage them. We need to be rather more angry than we generally are, and channel that anger into action. I don't get hot and carried away angry, I get cold and clear angry. It saved my life and my three cats' lives when my ex set fire to my house with us inside. It saved my life twice when he attacked me with a hunting knife.

He's dead now, he upset his middle-Eastern business partners; the world is a better place for it.

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.

What total bastards! He could have been killed - what is wrong with some people?

@feistyoldbird does the police force you refer to begin with G?

FeistyOldBat, I meant, sorry!

He's dead now, he upset his middle-Eastern business partners; the world is a better place for it.

I'm not sure you want to drag a forum such as this into this kind of court-case.

Ok so calling a poster a loon is bad but jabbing complete strangers in the next with implements is ok?

Good to know

Why is there always someone who has to resort to name calling? Boring.

Again to be clear, we're all getting riled up at name calling but not blinking at physical assault of strangers and carping about how great it is when people are murdered?

Strange priorities.