Always google a 1st date

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well just a heads up if you dont lol

was chatting to a guy he was looking for a full relationship and i was not but chatted and was pretty persistent anyway we did arrange a coffee date but after we had set a day he became a bit to much (slight love bombing) etc etc

i just got a bad feeling about him so googled him just out of curiosity it just so happens he was in court 2019 for breaking into a womens house and stealing her underwear😠he got a fine some community work and a restraining order

so i did txt him saying there would be no coffee date as i had found out about his past and told him not to contact me again,then lots of txt's saying it was not his fault and he could explain

i fully ignored then he tried phoning me,i didnt answer
his parting txt before i blocked him was was i interested in a hook up

he is blocked but a lucky escape has anybody found out something bad about a potential date ??

Oh dear! Thank god you googled him! What an ass!

Googling people is always good advice although not foolproof

As an aside I'm smiling at your need to abbreviate the word text while typing all the other words out in full, what's that about 😂

So it wasn't his fault he broke into a woman's house and stole her knickers, but he can explain? That would take some pretty imaginative explaining 🤣

It's funny how these things are never "their fault". Not taking responsibility for your actions is a classic sign that person will do it again, so I think your knickers have had a lucky escape.

Part of me would kind of like to hear his "explanation" though!

After watching for love or money I’d add do a reverse image search.

You are so right op, people might say it’s OTT and stalkerish but I was chatting to a guy on OLD last year. We had arranged to meet for a date. This guy was saying he was an account manager of a big company, that he travels the world for work, that he used to be an ex police officer etc. I always google potential dates to get as much info as I can. However, I could find absolutely nothing on this guy at all which I thought was strange.

Anyway, about a couple of days before our date he popped up on my Facebook suggestions (due to me having his number stored on my phone). His Facebook profile was under a completely different name to what he’d given me, so I googled his Facebook name to find various news articles about him from about 8 years previously from a woman warning online daters not to approach this man, that she’d dated him for only a few weeks and one day he turned nasty on her and beat her up and put her in hospital. That was it for me, blocked and deleted. I did report him to the site I found him on but I don’t think he was taken off.

I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't Google! I bloody love finding out about potential dates. Linkedin, YouTube, fb, twitter, insta- there's loads to find out about what someone is like. How can any of your restrain yourselves??

I've done online dating, I always screenshot their pictures and reverse image search them. It's crazy how many use fake photos you can find online.

It's madness not to, really. Why would you deny yourself publicly available information about the person? Especially if the only way you know them is through a dating site - surely you want to have an idea of whether they're married or a murderer? 😃

Of course you should.

One guy I would’ve met had done time for selling Class As in a pub.

I had to pretend not to know current husband’s surname when he told me 🫣

Always good to Google :)

You took a risk saying you'd found out about his past though. Once you tell someone you know they are a psycho, they don't need to pretend not to be anymore.

Often best to just say you aren't interested in taking things further and block.

sounds like others had a lucky escape

seriously he wanted to explain,so i guess somebody pushed him into the property and the underwear flew off the clothes horse and landed on him

what a idiot feel for other women that may meet with him though