Just Run

[cakeandcustard]

On the BBC news advice to women if stopped by the police is to ask to speak to the control room on the radio or if in doubt 'just run' ... WTAF I'm speechless, how is that protecting 50% of the public?

@BakingOfTheFoodCats

Did I read that they also said you should flag down a bus?!😐 I’m in London and there is NO way a bus would stop randomly at the side of the road if you tried to “flag it down”

They will never stop. A couple months ago I was running away from this drunk guy that was shouting and threatening to kill me. I run to the middle of the road and flagged a bus but the driver never helped me. He saw the guy running after me and I kept looking back to check if he was still chasing me but had not help from the bus driver. Before covid this was an extremely busy junction. I made a complain to the police they just said;" well if you did not record it on your phone we can't help you. " I told the police that my friend was on the phone and heard all the abuse but they did not care and did not bother to check the traffic cams. My fault, for credibility, I should have explained them that my friend on the phone was male.

JamieNorthlife That sounds awful! I wish I could say I was surprised though, they barely want to help if it’s happening ON the bus so can’t see them doing anything about it happening on the street. My mum was groped by a man on the bus and the driver wouldn’t do anything (like ask him to get off the bus), she reported it to the police and they asked her if she had done anything to encourage him! Needless to say nothing ever came of it despite buses having cctv, she’s in her late 60s and was scared to get on a bus after that.

@BakingOfTheFoodCats

JamieNorthlife That sounds awful! I wish I could say I was surprised though, they barely want to help if it’s happening ON the bus so can’t see them doing anything about it happening on the street. My mum was groped by a man on the bus and the driver wouldn’t do anything (like ask him to get off the bus), she reported it to the police and they asked her if she had done anything to encourage him! Needless to say nothing ever came of it despite buses having cctv, she’s in her late 60s and was scared to get on a bus after that.

Hope your mum is ok now. It's shocking and disrespectful to ask if she has done anything to encourage a complete strange to assault her.

I just checked the police reports. My "event" happened in January at around 5pm. So they can't blame me for being out late at night. Pre covid this was a busy junction but still had the cctv from the pubs, restaurants, traffic cams and the tube station. I gave them a good description of the guy. The scary thing was how aggressive he was and he had a bottle of spirits with he broke to come after me.
This is my local area and I had to avoid it and take different routes in case the guy saw me again. He said he was going to kill me and chop me into bits. I don't want to be killed and chopped into bits. I was really scared.

*something

When I was a teen and big hair was in fashion, we all carried spiky afro combs and cans of hairspray for protection. As this problem has been around for well over 50 years you'd think that by now

1. Attitudes would have changed
2. Police would have clear and effective strategies to help women
3. Mobile phones would be more help (even a deterrent)
4. We'd be taken seriously
5. Society would have evolved so that men wouldn't even think of terrorising women

How many more years eh?