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8 DOORDASH_CHICK-FIL-A HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: A few years back, I decided to move out of
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  Speaker 1: my mother's house. I had a girlfriend at the time
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  Speaker 1: and eventually she moved in with me. We were both 19.
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  Speaker 1: We were still in the honeymoon phase of our relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Where we lived was pretty small and only had a
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  Speaker 1: few restaurants. And the other thing was we were introverts,
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  Speaker 1: so we liked staying in our apartment. Being that we
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  Speaker 1: always stayed in our apartment and lived in a small town,
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  Speaker 1: we always ordered DoorDash from the same places. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: have many choices. One night we were in bed and
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  Speaker 1: I was feeling a little frisky. I turned on a
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  Speaker 1: Nightmare Files YouTube video because his voice usually gets her
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  Speaker 1: in the mood. So that's exactly what happened. Like clockwork.
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  Speaker 1: I turned on one of his videos and she was
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  Speaker 1: all over me. Anyway, we were hungry and I ordered
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  Speaker 1: some food on DoorDash. While waiting for our food, my
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend fell asleep. She was worn out. There was a
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  Speaker 1: wing stop near our place and I would always order
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  Speaker 1: from there. It was always the same Dasher every time.
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  Speaker 1: So there was some trust there. In the delivery instructions,
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  Speaker 1: I put the code to get in the building. I
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  Speaker 1: picked the option where it cost more to get there quicker,
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  Speaker 1: but 30 minutes went by, still nothing. I was already
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  Speaker 1: notified that my food was picked up about 15 minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: But then I noticed that the delivery driver was right
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  Speaker 1: by my apartment building on the DoorDash map and has
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  Speaker 1: been there for about eight minutes already. I looked outside
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  Speaker 1: my third story window and I saw the same car
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  Speaker 1: that always delivers here. The lights were on and the
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  Speaker 1: car was running. I went into my bathroom real quick
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden I heard my buzzer go
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  Speaker 1: off as if someone was at the front door downstairs
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  Speaker 1: and wants to get in. That's weird because the only
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  Speaker 1: person I was expecting was the door dasher and he
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  Speaker 1: has the code. I walked to the intercom I said, uh, hello?
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  Speaker 1: Can I help you? Yeah, it's your door dasher, and
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  Speaker 1: I got jumped by some guy. He took my phone,
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  Speaker 1: and the screen was unlocked, so at this time, you
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  Speaker 1: should maybe call the cops. He's on his way up
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  Speaker 1: to your apartment. I buzzed the actual dasher up, and
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  Speaker 1: as he was saying that, there was a knock at
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  Speaker 1: my door. All I heard after this was, Hey, it's
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  Speaker 1: your door dasher. I have your order. I didn't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: then another knock i told him just leave it and
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  Speaker 1: then he said nah i can wait people around here
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  Speaker 1: look pretty sketchy i then told him it's okay i'm
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  Speaker 1: not dressed i told him to leave after that then
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  Speaker 1: there was a pause so what exactly are you wearing
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  Speaker 1: and the guy started messing with the door handle trying
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  Speaker 1: to get in i had a complete brain fart i
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  Speaker 1: forgot to call the cops At the same time, my
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend was limping out of our room, asking what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. Then I heard tussling and fighting outside our
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  Speaker 1: apartment door. I told her to go in our room
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  Speaker 1: and call the cops. I opened the door and the
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  Speaker 1: door dash guy was getting choked and beat up on
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  Speaker 1: the ground by the crazy guy. So I did what
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  Speaker 1: anyone else would do in this situation. I closed the
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  Speaker 1: door and I ran back in the apartment. That dude
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  Speaker 1: was so big. There was no need for both of
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  Speaker 1: us to get beat up or killed, so I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I heard the fighting stop and then there were more
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  Speaker 1: knocks at the door. Hey, it's the door dasher.
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  Speaker 2: I have your order.
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  Speaker 1: I thought to myself that this guy was out of
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  Speaker 1: his freaking mind. My girlfriend yelled from the other room
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  Speaker 1: that the police should be here soon. I looked out
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  Speaker 1: of my peephole as we were waiting and the guy
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  Speaker 1: was just standing there while the real door dash guy
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  Speaker 1: was laid out on the floor. Cops got there pretty
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  Speaker 1: quick and arrested the guy. When they got there, DoorDash
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  Speaker 1: guy stood up and he told them what happened. So
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  Speaker 1: when he pulled up, he was updating something in his
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  Speaker 1: phone for DoorDash. As he stood outside of his car,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, some guy came out of nowhere
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  Speaker 1: and smacked him a few times. Then he punched him
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  Speaker 1: and knocked him out. He took his phone and the
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  Speaker 1: food and went to the apartment. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: that guy was and why he chose us, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that DoorDash warned us. I've never had anything like
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  Speaker 1: this happen to me before, so I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: perhaps I'm overthinking it. I'm a relatively short girl, which
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  Speaker 1: is why I didn't even want to go outside and
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  Speaker 1: see if it was just a matter of the guy
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  Speaker 1: wanting to personally hand over the food. So yesterday at
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  Speaker 1: around 5 a.m., my friend had ordered me some DoorDash.
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  Speaker 1: We always put the leave at the door option, especially
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  Speaker 1: when it's in the morning, so it just turns into
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  Speaker 1: a matter of waiting for the dasher to leave. However,
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  Speaker 1: the guy I got yesterday scared the hell out of me.
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  Speaker 1: We had gotten a DoorDash notification that the food was
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  Speaker 1: dropped off, ready for pickup, I didn't notice until later,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no picture. I was just about to
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  Speaker 1: walk out, but before I opened the door, I looked
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  Speaker 1: out the window when I noticed that he was just
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  Speaker 1: standing there. Not on his phone. Not trying to see
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  Speaker 1: if he was at the right house. Nothing. No kind
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  Speaker 1: of movement, just standing there. I was a bit confused,
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  Speaker 1: so I told my friend. I asked if she had
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  Speaker 1: put the leave at the door option, and she said
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  Speaker 1: she had. so I waited a bit before she decided
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  Speaker 1: to call and remind him to just leave it at
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  Speaker 1: the door. I could see his phone lighting up, but
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  Speaker 1: he never answered. He ignored every call and every text.
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  Speaker 1: He even answered once and immediately hung up on her.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even a matter of stealing my food. If
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  Speaker 1: that was the case, he would have just drove off
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  Speaker 1: with it. He spent a while waiting, and at one
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  Speaker 1: point almost went out when I no longer saw him. But,
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  Speaker 1: I realized that he was just standing behind one of
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  Speaker 1: the bushes. Then he just sat in his car across
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  Speaker 1: the street waiting. He hadn't even left the food at
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  Speaker 1: the fence. He just took it with him and he
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  Speaker 1: waited in his car. He even drove off angrily, almost
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  Speaker 1: like he was upset that I didn't go out to see.
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  Speaker 1: So when he drove off, that was around the same
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  Speaker 1: time that he hung up on my friend. All the
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  Speaker 1: times that he waited outside, outside the fence, behind the
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  Speaker 1: bush and at his car. It lasted around 10 to
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  Speaker 1: 15 minutes each. I had no doubt that this guy
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  Speaker 1: was up to something. He was a little weird. Then
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  Speaker 1: I was confirmed a few days later when I saw
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  Speaker 1: that a DoorDash driver tried kidnapping a little girl when
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  Speaker 1: she came out to get her food. And it was
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  Speaker 1: that same guy. Not gonna lie, that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the weirdest nights of my life. This happened about a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half ago. I was at work, you know,
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  Speaker 1: night shift, a little past midnight, and I ordered some
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  Speaker 1: DoorDash for myself and my supervisor since it was her birthday.
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  Speaker 1: I was happy to see that I had the same
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  Speaker 1: driver as last time. As I work in a small
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  Speaker 1: building among other identical buildings with a convoluted road system
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  Speaker 1: in between them all, It can be a little confusing
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  Speaker 1: to someone not used to it. I had been watching
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  Speaker 1: the map and went outside when I saw that he
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  Speaker 1: was close. I stood under a cluster of bright lights
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  Speaker 1: in our parking lot, wearing neon yellow. You couldn't miss me.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately get a call from my driver asking me
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  Speaker 1: to come to him. I look around and I don't
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  Speaker 1: see anyone until I walk a couple yards to the
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  Speaker 1: center of the lot. He's sitting on the side of
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  Speaker 1: my building by the dumpster where there's no light. He
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  Speaker 1: also has his lights off. I'm thinking, what the hell, dude?
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  Speaker 1: I start waving my arms and telling him I'm in
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  Speaker 1: front of the building and he's on the side. He
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  Speaker 1: hangs up and just chills there for a minute. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, I'm really annoyed because our food is getting
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  Speaker 1: cold and this guy delivered to me before and the
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  Speaker 1: same as that spot a week before. Finally, he turns
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  Speaker 1: his lights on and comes over to me. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as he pulls up, He's speaking another language into his phone,
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  Speaker 1: which then translates in English. Something like, hello, I'm practicing English.
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  Speaker 1: I need new friends. Will you be my friend? And
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  Speaker 1: then he puts the phone toward me. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking to a child and I just say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a cool app. And I look at him, just waiting.
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  Speaker 1: We just stared at each other for a few seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Keep speaking into the app about needing friends and I
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  Speaker 1: tell him that my supervisor is waiting for me. and
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  Speaker 1: I reach my hand out for the food. So when
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  Speaker 1: he reaches out, he actually touches my hand and then
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  Speaker 1: asks for my number, but he tugged on me slightly.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, the fact that he had tried to
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  Speaker 1: get me in the dark, plus his persistence, turned my
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  Speaker 1: growing annoyance into fear. I tell him I need the food,
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  Speaker 1: and he asks me to get in his car in
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  Speaker 1: perfect English. Thank the Lord that at this moment, someone
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  Speaker 1: in my sister building comes out and makes their way
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  Speaker 1: over to the lot. He finally gives me my food
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  Speaker 1: and scurries off, which freaked me out. Why after all
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  Speaker 1: of that would he speed off at the sight of
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  Speaker 1: another person? and how did he just learn english that
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  Speaker 1: quick first he wasn't speaking it clearly but then out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere he spoke it very well clearly his intentions
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  Speaker 1: were not good i reported all of this to doordash
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  Speaker 1: at the time as well as my local police and
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  Speaker 1: social media And it turns out that he's done this
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  Speaker 1: to someone before who lives about two miles away from me.
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  Speaker 1: She had also ordered late night and he apparently asked
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  Speaker 1: her if she lived alone and if they could hang
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  Speaker 1: out while holding her food hostage. DoorDash assured me they
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  Speaker 1: deactivated him, but his boldness plus the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: seems to only drive late at night makes me think
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  Speaker 1: he does this a lot and has probably already assaulted someone. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just glad that other person walked out of that
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  Speaker 1: building next to ours.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a female, age 22, and a few years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I used to work at a Chick-fil-A. It was my
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  Speaker 2: first ever job, and I lived with my parents in
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  Speaker 2: a neighborhood nearby. I would walk to and from work
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  Speaker 2: every day because it was only a 15-minute walk, and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have a car. Both of my parents used
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  Speaker 2: the only cars that we had, and part of the
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  Speaker 2: reason I was working there was to save enough money
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  Speaker 2: so that I could buy my own. I was part-time
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  Speaker 2: and would work all sorts of hours. Mainly, I would
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  Speaker 2: work in the afternoons and nights on weekdays and earlier
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  Speaker 2: on the weekends. On one night, probably four months or
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  Speaker 2: so after getting the job, I was working pretty late.
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  Speaker 2: I think I got off at like 10 p.m., and
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  Speaker 2: then I left the restaurant to walk home. This wasn't
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  Speaker 2: uncommon at all, and by now the restaurant and the
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  Speaker 2: area were pretty quiet. This particular Chick-fil-A was near a
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  Speaker 2: few larger stores and a couple of other restaurants. I
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  Speaker 2: would take the sidewalk to the residential area less than
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  Speaker 2: a mile away, and my house was back there. As
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  Speaker 2: I left that night and started to walk on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 2: I saw this one guy that was standing out in
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  Speaker 2: the Chick-fil-A parking lot. Before I had started walking ten feet,
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  Speaker 2: the guy began approaching me. I had never seen him before,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't know what he wanted. I was still
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  Speaker 2: wearing my Chick-fil-A clothes, and I had clearly just left
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  Speaker 2: the buildings. so I thought maybe he had a question
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  Speaker 2: about Chick-fil-A. I guess that's what I was hoping, because
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  Speaker 2: I had a bad feeling. The man walked closer, and
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  Speaker 2: then he reached me. I was sort of nervous, but
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  Speaker 2: I tried to act calm. When he got to me,
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  Speaker 2: he said hi in a friendly tone. The man said
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  Speaker 2: that he had noticed that I walked home every day
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  Speaker 2: from work and told me that it could be dangerous
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  Speaker 2: to walk alone at night. He said that he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to walk me home. It seemed pretty weird to me.
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  Speaker 2: I told the guy that I was fine, and I
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  Speaker 2: was capable of getting home by myself. I had walked
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  Speaker 2: home by myself countless times, many of them at night.
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  Speaker 2: He asked if I was sure, and I said yes.
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  Speaker 2: The guy seemed disappointed, but then sort of walked away
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  Speaker 2: off into the parking lot of a nearby grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: Then I started walking home. I kept an eye out,
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  Speaker 2: and the guy didn't follow me or anything. As I
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  Speaker 2: was walking, I realized just how weird of a situation
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  Speaker 2: it was. The guy said that he noticed me walking
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  Speaker 2: home every night. Had he been watching me? When I
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  Speaker 2: did make it home, I looked around to make sure
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't followed still. I didn't see anybody. A few
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  Speaker 2: days later, I worked another later shift. I got off
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  Speaker 2: once again at roughly 10pm. This night, I had been
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  Speaker 2: working a long time and I wasn't thinking about the
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  Speaker 2: guy that I had seen the last time. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: there though. I started walking home on the sidewalk like
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  Speaker 2: I always did. When I made it to the end
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  Speaker 2: of the sidewalk on the first street, I turned and
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  Speaker 2: then started to go into the residential area. The streets
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  Speaker 2: were much darker and there were not as many lights around.
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  Speaker 2: I walked past an apartment building first, and then there
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  Speaker 2: were many different other houses. All I had to do
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  Speaker 2: was walk to the end of this street, take a left,
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  Speaker 2: go two blocks, and then I was home. When I
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  Speaker 2: was walking past the apartment building, I thought I heard
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  Speaker 2: a noise. I looked over after hearing it. I saw
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  Speaker 2: that next to the apartment building there was a tree,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought I saw a guy sort of behind
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  Speaker 2: the tree. It was like he was hiding. His head
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  Speaker 2: was looking between two large branches. The tree was probably
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  Speaker 2: 15 feet away and really obstructed. could still tell that
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  Speaker 2: it was the same guy I had seen a few
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  Speaker 2: nights earlier who was hiding behind it though. I looked
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  Speaker 2: away immediately and kept walking. When I did, I was
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  Speaker 2: really worried that I would hear him walk on the
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  Speaker 2: sidewalk behind me. Luckily, I didn't though. I walked as
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  Speaker 2: fast as I could back home. When I was back,
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  Speaker 2: I told my parents about the situation. They agreed to
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  Speaker 2: drive me to and from work after that. Only a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks later, I finally had enough money to buy
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  Speaker 2: a car, and from then on, I drove to and
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  Speaker 2: from work. I never walked to work again. and I
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  Speaker 2: never saw the guy again after that either. If I
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  Speaker 2: had to guess, I would say that he lived in
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  Speaker 2: those apartment buildings. That must have been how he had
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  Speaker 2: seen me walking home from work every single night. It
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  Speaker 2: really creeps me out that he probably saw me walk
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  Speaker 2: home many times without me knowing, especially the way that
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  Speaker 2: he was hiding behind the tree watching me. This happened
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  Speaker 2: a couple of months ago. It was a weekend afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: and I was really hungry. I went to the nearby Chick-fil-A,
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  Speaker 2: which is one of my favorite restaurants. I was really
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  Speaker 2: craving it, but when I got there, I saw that
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  Speaker 2: they were very busy. The line in the drive-thru was
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  Speaker 2: literally going out of the parking lot, so I decided
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  Speaker 2: to park and then walk inside. Sometimes this is faster
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  Speaker 2: than the drive-thru in my experiences. When I got inside,
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  Speaker 2: I saw that there was a long line in there, too.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of people were inside, and I got in line
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  Speaker 2: at the back. The line started moving up and I
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  Speaker 2: was getting closer to ordering, but about a minute after
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  Speaker 2: I got there, somebody got in line behind me. When
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  Speaker 2: they did, they got uncomfortably close. I felt like they
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  Speaker 2: were invading my personal space. I could tell that it
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  Speaker 2: was a man and that he was really tall, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't turn around and look at him. When the
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  Speaker 2: line moved up, he did too, and he remained a
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  Speaker 2: really close distance away from me. He wouldn't move, and
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of annoying. I didn't want to be
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  Speaker 2: rude and tell him to back up, but he was
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  Speaker 2: probably less than a foot away from me, I inched
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  Speaker 2: closer to the people in front of me. When I did,
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  Speaker 2: the guy seemed to move up as well. Within two minutes, probably,
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  Speaker 2: it was already my turn to order. I walked up
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  Speaker 2: to the register and finally away from the guy. I
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  Speaker 2: ordered and then walked over and waited. As I was waiting,
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  Speaker 2: I looked around casually. I saw the guy who had
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  Speaker 2: been standing so close to me. It had to be him.
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  Speaker 2: There was only one really tall guy there. He was
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  Speaker 2: standing about ten feet away from me now. As soon
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  Speaker 2: as I looked at him, I saw that he was
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  Speaker 2: already looking at me. I then looked away. The guy
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  Speaker 2: had kind of big glasses and short hair. Several of
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  Speaker 2: us were just standing around waiting for food. When my
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  Speaker 2: name was called, I went up, got the food, and
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  Speaker 2: then left. All of my frustration from the guy being
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  Speaker 2: really close to me and staring at me was now gone.
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  Speaker 2: I was just really excited to finally eat. When I
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  Speaker 2: walked out the door, though, somebody walked out right behind me.
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  Speaker 2: When I got outside, I noticed who it was. The
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  Speaker 2: tall guy that was standing really close to me. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't even have any food in his hands. As I
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  Speaker 2: walked to my car in the parking lot, the guy
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  Speaker 2: walked right behind me. I unlocked my door, and as
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  Speaker 2: I was getting inside, I saw the man go to
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  Speaker 2: the car right next to mine. That was his car.
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  Speaker 2: I started my engine, and he started his. I sat
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  Speaker 2: there waiting for him to back up first, but he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He looked over at me a couple of times, I
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  Speaker 2: could tell, but I didn't look over at him. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to see him. After maybe two or three minutes,
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  Speaker 2: both of us just sitting there in our running cars,
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  Speaker 2: I turned mine off. I was kind of concerned at
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: this point. and I thought maybe the guy would try
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: to follow me home or something weird. After turning my
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: car off, I opened the door and got out. There
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: was a Target store right by the Chick-fil-A. In fact,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: their parking lot's connected. I figured I could walk in
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: there and maybe lose the guy. I really didn't think
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: he would follow me inside still. But when I started
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: walking to the Target, he got out of his car
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: and started following me. I made it about halfway through
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the Target parking lot and then looked behind me and
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: saw the guy was still right there. He was maybe
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: 10 feet away. I was frustrated and really tired of
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: this guy. I took a few more normal steps and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: then turned around and out of nowhere I sprinted all
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the way back to my car. I looked behind me
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: to see if the man would sprint as well. He
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: turned around and faced me but looked confused and did
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: not chase after me. I kept running though. I'm sure
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: if anybody saw me they thought that I was really
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: weird but I didn't care. I made it back to
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: my car, started it up and left. I was able
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: to make it home just fine without being followed. I
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: don't think I have been to that Chick-fil-A ever since.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that guy's deal was either. How
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: long would he have followed me? And what would he
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: have done? I used to work at a Chick-fil-A. This
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: was about five years ago now. One night, I worked
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: until close. We were pretty busy that night. But by
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the final hour of work, the restaurant was basically empty.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: All of the customers were in the drive-thru. We had
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: a couple here and there come inside, but not too many.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I had been working, taking customers' orders. When it was
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: just about time to close, I got off the mop
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to clean the floors. This is something that I often
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: did as we were closing. I would clean the dining
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: area and make sure that any customers knew that we
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: were closing, if there were any. There appeared to be
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: nobody in the dining room as I mopped. But then,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: as I looked around, I thought I saw a man.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: We had a play place at our location in the
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: back of the dining room area. It looked as though
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: there was a guy hiding in the play place. There
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: was like a toy car that you could go inside,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and it was connected at the top of the slides
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: and other things that kids could play on. I could
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: see the man's head looking out from the car window,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: then he ducked down. I was not happy to see this.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: As I mopped the floor, I hoped that the guy
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: would leave, but it was clear that he wasn't planning
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: on it. I decided that I would have to go
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: over and tell the man that he had to get
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: out of here. Adults were not supposed to be in
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the play place, first of all. And second, we were closing.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I walked over and into the play place. I couldn't
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: see the man at all now. When I got to
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the structure, I called out asking if the guy was okay.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I got no answer. I moved back and looked to
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: the window of the toy car again. I saw a
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: man's face briefly appear for just a second. Then he
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: ducked down and out of sight quickly. I said that
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: we were closing now and everybody had to leave.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Still nothing.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I wasn't quite sure what to do. I decided to
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: go back and tell my two coworkers who were still
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: here what was going on. When I got back to
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the front counter area and was walking behind it, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: heard some noise. I looked and saw a guy running
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: out of the front door of the restaurant. I was
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: glad to see him leave. I really didn't know what
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: he was doing in there. After that, I finished up
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: mopping the floors.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Then I left.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: As I was walking out to my car, I saw
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: the guy again. He was standing near the building on
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: the end. When I looked in his direction, he quickly
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: moved to around the corners I left after that. I've
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: always wondered what that man was trying to do, hiding inside.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Was he planning to rob the place after we closed?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: That's my best guess. I also don't know why he
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: was still hanging around afterwards. It was very mysterious.
• 21:43
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• 21:45
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• 21:48
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• 21:52
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• 21:55
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• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I made it free to subscribe to me so I
• 22:00
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• 22:03
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• 22:08
  Speaker 1: My IG was public, so anyone could get it. Pause.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I logged on and I started a live stream and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a few people got on. Then it was just one person.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I wore glasses and the guy told me that I
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: was gorgeous and to take my glasses off. So I did.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Then he sent me $ 10. I told him thank you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Then a message popped up on the screen. You have
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: nice lips. Can you put on red lipstick if you
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: have it? I said, of course. So I got up
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and I got my lipstick. Sat down and I put
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: my lipstick on. Then I was sent $ 25. $ 25. I
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: told him thank you. Then he asked, if I give
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you $ 100, will you do whatever I say for the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: next 15 minutes? I told him that I don't think
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that's worth it and I was about to log off.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: He said, no, no, no, not yet. What about $ 300?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I gave the same answer. Then he simply just put $ 1, 000 enough.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I sat there and I thought about it. Then I said, yeah,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I'll do it. Then I set an alarm for 15 minutes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: The first thing he asked me to do was to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: blow him a kiss and smile. So I did. Then
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: he told me to say that I love Adam. Then
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I said it. At that point, I was thinking that
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: this was pretty easy. Then he asked me, do I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: have a red dress? I said, yeah. He then asked
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: me to try it on. So I put the dress
• 23:31
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• 23:34
  Speaker 1: popped up. It simply said, cry. I asked him what
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that means and he said, He wants me to cry.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So I sat there for a few seconds and I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: began to try to cry. He typed, nope, none of
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that fake stuff. I want real tears and emotion. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: told him I don't know if I know how to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: do that. And he said, then no money then. I
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: tried again and no luck. He then put $ 1, 500 in
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the chat. Well, he typed it. I said, okay. And
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I walked into my kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, put
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: my hand inside, And closed it as hard as I could.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I walked back to my laptop and I began to cry.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: He put good girl in the chat. Then he asked
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: me do I have scissors. I said yeah why. He
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: typed cut your hair. I said no then he typed $ 2, 000
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: in the chat. I paused for a few seconds and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I said okay. I grabbed some scissors. Sat back down.
• 24:32
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• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I paused and I said okay. I grabbed a knife,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: sat down, and began to cut my hair. Then my
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: ponytail was gone. He typed, you look good with short hair.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Then he asked me to take my dress off and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I said no. Then he typed $ 2, 500 in the chat.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: And luckily my alarm went off. And I told him
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that time is up. Then he typed, how about 15
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: more minutes for $ 6, 000? I said no. Then he asked,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: do you want these to go public? Then I received
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: 77 photos. I clicked on them. They were from my iCloud.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I asked him how he had my photos, and he typed,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: if you don't do what I say for 15 more minutes,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: everyone that you know will see these photos. I told him, yeah, right,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and I closed my laptop. And no lie, a few
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: minutes later, I received over 50 text messages from family
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and friends that they saw my photos. My landlord told
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: me not to worry about the rent and that he
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: didn't know I was working with a dump truck back
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: there and that I was thicker than a bowl of oatmeal.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. And after that, honestly,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I never went back on the OnlyFans. I went and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: got a real job, something safer. I became a stripper.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: But anyways, I changed my whole iCloud and everything. But
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that was the weirdest night of my life.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: It all started with a Zoom call. At least, I
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: only became aware it was happening because of a Zoom call.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: For all I know, it could have been happening for
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: much longer, but the day of the second post-lockdown work
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: meeting was the first time I noticed it. We're in
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the middle of a pretty tedious brainstorming session with a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: few members of marketing when a co-worker interrupts whoever's talking
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: to address me by name. It actually made me jump
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: at first. I was totally tuned out, so... hearing my
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: name brought me right back around again.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I respond, huh? Yep, I was listening.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: When I notice the person who addressed me is now
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: closely studying their own laptop screen. I don't mean to
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: alarm you, they said, but I think someone's watching you
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: through the window behind you. I know exactly which window
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: he's talking about, so I turn, a bit nervous at
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: the idea of discovering he's right, only to see that
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: There's no one there. I'm more relieved than anything, to
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: be honest. I figured he was playing a joke on
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: me because he clocked that I was nodding off during
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the meeting, and I'd be lying if I said I
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: didn't maybe deserve it a little bit. Very funny, I said,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: and a few of the other callers had a little
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: titter at the impromptu prank. I'm sorry, but I wasn't joking,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the guy said. Did no one else see that?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I'm so sure.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Eh, you're probably just seeing things. Someone else chimed in,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: and within a few minutes, the whole thing was completely forgotten.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: A smudge on the screen, a bit of lag on
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: the call, eyes playing tricks. There were a hundred ways
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: to explain it. The truth was literally unthinkable at that stage.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: A short while later, the exact same thing happens. The
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: same guy interrupts, only far more urgently this time, saying, Look, look,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: it's right there. I'm not imagining it. You can all
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: see that, yeah? I know what he's talking about. Only
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I don't turn around immediately. I look at my own
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: webcam feed to see what he was talking about. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: right when I see it, what's clearly the silhouette of
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: a head in the window behind me, I hear one
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: of the other callers say like, Oh, wow, I see
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: it too. I spin around just in time to catch
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: the quick blur of whoever was watching me ducking out
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: of view. I'm actually really creeped out at this point
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: because It obviously wasn't just somebody walking past my ground
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: floor bedroom. Someone had actually stopped to stare inside. My
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: window isn't even facing the street. It's at the side
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: of the apartment block like you have to actually go
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: out of your way to find it. Now I'm only
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: 5'3 and I'm 8 stone which for any Americans reading
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: this means I'm tiny. And I had to make sure
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: if someone was actually creeping on me they weren't just
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: hiding out and waiting until I was vulnerable.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: So.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Phone in one hand, kitchen knife in the other. I
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: tell the Zoom call that I'll be right back and
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: then head out to make sure that everything is kosher.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: It's peak lockdown during all of this, so the streets
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: are pretty much deserted, so I'd think I'd have noticed
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: anyone wandering around. But there was no one, not a
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: soul in sight. So I guessed, or rather hoped, that
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: it was just some neighbor kids messing around, maybe looking
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: for a wayward ball or something. About a week goes
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: by and the whole window face incident has been at
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: the back of my mind the whole time. For a
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: lot of young women who live alone, the idea of
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: being targeted where we're most vulnerable is frankly terrifying. So
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: the prospect of that nightmare coming to life just didn't
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: bear thinking about. I'm not saying I was on edge
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: the whole time or that I lose sleep over it
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: or anything, but let's just say I held my keys
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: a little tighter in my fists whenever I walk down
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: the street my apartment block is on. But anyway, at
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: one point I head out to the grocery store to
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: pick up food and I ended up caught in one
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: of those super long COVID lines that you're stuck in
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: for like 40 minutes before you're allowed into the store
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: to buy your stuff. This is on top of the
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: fact that the store near me had implemented this dumb
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: one-way system in the aisles in an attempt to stop
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the spread. My point is, a trip that would have
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: normally taken like half hour ends up taking more like
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: 90 minutes, and an annoying amount of my day has
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: been completely wasted. So, I'm already in a bad mood
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: by the time I get back to my apartment, only
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: to find that the front door has been bashed in. Apparently,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: there had been a break-in while I was out. If
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: only criminals could work from home. It seemed obvious that
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: it was a burglary at first. All my stuff had
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: been strewn around, drawers and cabinets were opened and emptied.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: The TV was still there along with my playstation but
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: most break-ins just go for jewelry and phones I heard,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: anything small that they can pawn easily. Obviously I called
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: the cops like there and then who arrived within a
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: half hour or so. They advised me to help them
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: look around the apartment for anything that might be missing,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: valuable electronics and what not but I told them I
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: already looked and that nothing obvious seemed to have been taken.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: My bedroom looked like it had been hit by a bomb.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Clothes had been strewn all over the place. Whole drawers
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: had been pulled out and flipped, like whoever broke in
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: was looking for something. One of the cops spent some
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: time looking around in there before he called out to
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: his partner. Hey, we need forensics up in here is
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: what he actually said. I asked him what the deal was,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: if he'd found something that I should know about. Both
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: cops had been warm, friendly, and helpful up until that point,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: but when I asked them why forensics was needed, one
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: of them told me not to worry about it and
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: to stay out of my bedroom for the time being.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: It was no big deal at first. I was just
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: grateful that they showed up so fast, even if they
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: did wear masks and insist on keeping six feet between
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: us at all times. So by the time forensics team
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: showed up, I'm out front in my apartment building talking
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: to my mom on the phone. Only when I see
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: what they're actually doing in my apartment, it triggers what
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I can only describe as a mini freakout. Guys in
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: gloves and white coverall suits have been scooping big handfuls
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: of my underwear into bags, sealing them, then taking them
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: out to the truck outside. And then it dawns on me,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: whoever broke into my apartment had left DNA on my underwear.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: I probably don't need to tell you how exactly they'd
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: done that, The whole thing grosses me out too much
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: for me to actually type it. But the thing that
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: really got to me was, if I'd actually been home
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: that afternoon, there's no telling what would have happened if
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: some violent perv had actually gotten their dirty hands on me.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: But anyway, the story does actually have something of a
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: resolution and thankfully a happy ending, because they had this
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: guy's DNA. Police were able to match it on their
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: database with a guy who'd had multiple run-ins with the
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: law for public exposure, among other things. He was arrested,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: and is now looking at three years in prison for
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: aggravated burglary, some kind of charge like that. But the
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: whole thing came full circle for me in an interview
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: with some detective, who'd mentioned that this guy liked casing
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: his victims' places before he struck. Over the past month
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: or so, have you seen anyone hanging around your apartment
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: who doesn't live there? Maybe someone looking through your window?
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: He said it. He literally said it. It was him,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: that day when I was in the Zoom call. It
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: was him that had been looking through my window. He'd
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: been stalking me for God knows how long, and when
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: it came for him to actually get me, only by
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: the grace of God was I lucky enough to have
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: been out grocery shopping. Otherwise, it doesn't bear thinking about
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: what might have happened.