Man walking around outside nursery each morning

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Not sure if I'm over thinking... For the last 3 months or so, every morning without fail when I drop my daughter at nursery there is a man who is walking past it, then when I come out he's doing a loop the other way back past again. The nursery is on a business park so he could just be walking to work or getting his steps in but I do find it that he seems to do constant loops at exactly the same time every morning. I've stayed and watched from the car this morning and this is his fourth loop around the nursery building again... He doesn't appear to have a uniform or lanyard of any of the businesses on the estate... Am I thinking too badly given everything in the news at the moment 🙃 would you mention it to the nursery?

Can you imagine the police call handlers response to this?
I can because i did the job for a long time.
The last line of your post sums it up very well. 😀

Sounds like he's going for a walk before walk.

Yep, it's the loitering aspect of it that's troubling. I agree with OP. Odd behaviour.

Yes of course there are. But it doesn't alter the fact that the vast majority of pedophiles (by a mile) are men. The vast majority of violent criminals, rapists, school shooters and murderers are men. The vast majority of animal torturers are men. Those are actual facts, not some weird fanciful opinion of mine. Are you saying we should be too afraid to profile potential offenders for fear of sexism or stereotyping?Denial of that sort doesn't usually end well, does it.

Could be a completely innocent explanation but yes I would mention to the nursery manager.

He is allowed to walk past anyehere. If he’s done or said nothing, just ignore him.

He’s not loitering, he’s walking.

If only that were so. There are numerous instances of children ‘escaping’ from nurseries with inadequate entry exit protocols or through human error.

My SIL also ‘acquired’ an additional toddler on a nursery trip bus. Not one of ‘theirs’.

I quoted the OP's message which said he was loitering.....

I would phone 101 and say tell them because i have seen the plans ( cant remember the name) the probation office and police make when a paedophile is out on licence and some bar certain routes e.g. near schools or playgrounds. Also email or phone nursery manager in case its a custody issue. Probably innocent but best to be cautious.

A friend of a friend was interviewed by the police after he had been reported for filming outside an infant school. He was a road usage surveyor ..,,

I was literally coming to ask the same thing, @ColdAsAWitches

So no one can walk near a nursery?

OP doesn't seem clear on what he's doing, she's say he's walking a loop, that he's walking 'back and forth' (which indicates pacing not looping to me) and also that he's loitering. these are all different things.

OP says he walks past it a few times. I walked past dozen of houses on the way to my local shop and back earlier, and a third time shortly afterwards when I went to catch a bus. I doubt any of the occupants would say I was loitering outside their house.

Is he waiting to go to work? Not sure what time you are dropping at nursery but maybe he catches public transport/gets dropped off and his workplace don't open that time so he is walking round the same bit as he is waiting for someone with a key to turn up?

Would you be suspicious if it was a woman?

Do you see him at pick up time?

What do you think is actually going to happen? Do you think he's going to reach through a window and fish a toddler out with a long-handled net?

it's odd behaviour to be loitering outside/repeatedly passing a nursery surely? There has to be a reason for that

Yes, and the 'reason for that' is that the nursery happens to be located on his preferred walking route. It doesn't mean he chose that route because of the nursery. He chose a route and the nursery just happens to the there, just like anything else, and has absolutely no role in any of this.

To anyone who doesn't have a kid at the nursery and therefore hasn't made it the centre of their universe, the nursery has fuck-all significance. Nobody who chooses a routine walking route is going to think 'Hmmm, that route includes a building that has children inside it, I'd better walk somewhere else instead'.

I would phone 101

'Hello, is that the police? Yes I'd like to report a man going for a walk.'

He will be dressing up as a school next.

Speak to him. It's probably a daily walk for exercise. I am sure if it is then that will be volunteered.

If someone came up to me and said 'I've noticed you keep walking past this nursery. Why is that?' I would think they were insane and tell them to mind their own bloody business.

I don't think his age has been mentioned has it?

You are the unwitting subject of a total immersion reality TV programme, and he is an actor playing the role 'man walking by in background during nursery drop off'. Now you've clocked him, he will be fired.

I didn't suggest she inform the police, I think that is a huge over reaction, I suggested she have a word with one of the staff at the nursery.

So if he on a business park there is other things he os walking past not just a nursery

How do people manage to function these days without paranoia