Mumsnet Jury needed for this one. **IMPORTANT**

[exasperatedmummy]

OK, i shall post this as i see it - please don't jump on me.

Around the corner from me is the local infant school. Opposite this are some private, purpose built flats, fairly modern. In one of the flats, which is pretty scruffy, no curtains, there sits a man, pretty much all day, he has his computor set up on the kitchen side, and he sits so that he can see the school. The past two mornings i have walked past there on the way back from dropping DD at play school - he has a book out, but he isn't reading it - he is staring quite intently at the school.

This is freaking me out, and sadly it is because if you asked me to draw a peadophile, then it wouldn't look much different to this man I don't want to judge the poor sod, there are lots of scenarios that it could be

• He could just like sitting in the window watching the world go by
• He might be lonely
• Maybe his grandchildren go to the school
• He might genuinely love children and be nostalgic about his own children/own childhood
• He might just be staring into space

I have noticed him a few times, it is quite conspicuous the way he sits in the window, so you tend to look, if he notices you he glares at you.

I'm uneasy about this, but im not sure what to do - if anything. My gut instinct is to leave well alone actually - what do you lot think?

We need a drawing to detemine if she is a paedophile or not memoo.

LOL @ IorekByrnison

Nice one IorekByrnison!

lol.

Glasses - tick
Flyaway hair - tick
grey skin -tick
anorak - to be established

Isn't she back from the dog walk yet?

He seems to be dribbling. Was this man dribbling? Without dribble there is no case.

god I saw one of those really hideous dogs the other day (boxer?) dribbling

i nearly vommed, it was disgusting

so -was the man dribbling?

It's BLOOD

Yes I think dribble would be a clincher.

Blood even more so.

Oh hurry up. How long does she walk these dogs for?

which dogs?

Yeah right. You tell the school. The Head mentions it to the secretary. She mentions it to her friend. The next thing someone goes and puts a brick through his window.

She's probably been arrested after a man in his flat reported a mad woman who is always stalking staring at him.

no, seeker, that's an ITV3 drama, surely

unless he leaves his room, and turns up at the school, having been appointed as a staff member with access to the children, I do not see why you are worrying
What do you imagine will happen? A long pole with a hook on it which he will poke out of the window to grab a child when his latent urges suddenly overcome him? Perhaps a large catch-net....?

Yep, the ones you really have to watch out for are the paedophiles that disguise themselves as a school.

Terrifying.

I think if you tell someone in authority that you are worried about a man looking out of his window they are more likely to worry about you than him.

Maybe he looks like this

neat haircut, vegetarian, likes art and classical music

long hair, wears a dress, hangs around in a gang, small children very drawn to him

Appearances can be deceptive.

TDWP, "paedophiles disguised as schools" You a Chris Morris fan too?

This is hilarious. You are all very funny

It's a bit sad tho' isn't it? I an not surprised he glares if you are staring in at him
And no curtains? What the hell has that got to do with anything?

There's an old boy in our village who hangs around and chats to the lollipop man. His own dog died a few months ago and now parents ask him to hold the leads of their dogs whilst they go in and collect their children. He is happy to do it.

I'm a young woman but I do wear thick glasses. Where do I stand?

well not near your bay window, Dryad, just in case...