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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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 Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:04 am Post subject: Just when I thought it was safe to ride the bus... |
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*graphic, sorry if this is not acceptable.
I get on the bus with my girlfriend and we hit a red light. Next thing you know, some old man in a car pulls up next to the bus, pulls his pants down, and proceeds to pleasure himself.
I'm still a little shocked.
Is this common? |
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Nolos
Joined: 23 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| just a little Sunday afternoon fun. Leave the man alone. |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| I couldn't stop laughing, but my girlfriend is mildly upset. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| I just burst out laughing.. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:10 am Post subject: Re: Just when I thought it was safe to ride the bus... |
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| PatrickBateman wrote: |
| Is this common? |
Is this an honest question? If it is, it's a stupid one! |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:20 am Post subject: Re: Just when I thought it was safe to ride the bus... |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| PatrickBateman wrote: |
| Is this common? |
Is this an honest question? If it is, it's a stupid one! |
If it were common... it would not be funny. |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:08 am Post subject: Re: Just when I thought it was safe to ride the bus... |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| PatrickBateman wrote: |
| Is this common? |
Is this an honest question? If it is, it's a stupid one! |
It's actually a serious question. I asked a few Korean friends that are female and they didn't seem terribly freaked out by it.
One of them said, 'Go around a girl's high school, you will see that kind of man'.
I was able to snap a photo of the dirty old man.  |
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Teechuh
Joined: 15 Jun 2013
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My very first morning in Korea I was flashed by an old man as I was getting into an elevator. It was a bit of a shock but at least it made for an interesting first conversation with my boss. I just dismissed it as one of those strange one off occurrences that happen in life but then, I kid you not, seven months later it happened again THREE TIMES within twenty four hours on my walk to school. The first was by a guy in his early twenties who, to be fair, was already pleasuring himself whilst looking at his mobile phone as I turned the corner. He put on a big grin and didn't miss a beat as I walked past though. Then, as I was puffing away on a much needed cigarette behind a building a young guy in a suit walked up, dropped his pants and underwear and, gathering from his gestures, seemed quite keen on getting me, a complete stranger, to give him a blow job at nine thirty in the morning. Then the next morning (and if the building manager didn't tell the police he had it on camera I would have thought I was suffering from some kind of post traumatic *beep* hallucination) a haggard old ajoshi jumped out as I left my apartment. The last one did freak me out and I made my boss pick me up in the mornings from then on.
I have never met anyone else this has happened to and I have no idea why it happened to me so many times. I wasn't dressed provocatively and my Korean friends were really shocked so I don't think it is that common, even in the odd little country town that I was living in at the time. I've stopped carrying the pepper spray now and can see the funny side but it did make me extremely nervous of walking anywhere on my own for a while. |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| Teechuh wrote: |
My very first morning in Korea I was flashed by an old man as I was getting into an elevator. It was a bit of a shock but at least it made for an interesting first conversation with my boss. I just dismissed it as one of those strange one off occurrences that happen in life but then, I kid you not, seven months later it happened again THREE TIMES within twenty four hours on my walk to school. The first was by a guy in his early twenties who, to be fair, was already pleasuring himself whilst looking at his mobile phone as I turned the corner. He put on a big grin and didn't miss a beat as I walked past though. Then, as I was puffing away on a much needed cigarette behind a building a young guy in a suit walked up, dropped his pants and underwear and, gathering from his gestures, seemed quite keen on getting me, a complete stranger, to give him a blow job at nine thirty in the morning. Then the next morning (and if the building manager didn't tell the police he had it on camera I would have thought I was suffering from some kind of post traumatic *beep* hallucination) a haggard old ajoshi jumped out as I left my apartment. The last one did freak me out and I made my boss pick me up in the mornings from then on.
I have never met anyone else this has happened to and I have no idea why it happened to me so many times. I wasn't dressed provocatively and my Korean friends were really shocked so I don't think it is that common, even in the odd little country town that I was living in at the time. I've stopped carrying the pepper spray now and can see the funny side but it did make me extremely nervous of walking anywhere on my own for a while. |
All that is WAY more creepy. Sorry you had to experience that crap.  |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Just when I thought it was safe to ride the bus... |
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| PatrickBateman wrote: |
*graphic, sorry if this is not acceptable.
I get on the bus with my girlfriend and we hit a red light. Next thing you know, some old man in a car pulls up next to the bus, pulls his pants down, and proceeds to pleasure himself.
I'm still a little shocked.
Is this common? |
It's funny when Bill Maher is talking about William Blakely, fmr vice mayor Mt Carmel, TN. Who did it driving at 90mph. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| Teechuh wrote: |
My very first morning in Korea I was flashed by an old man as I was getting into an elevator. It was a bit of a shock but at least it made for an interesting first conversation with my boss. I just dismissed it as one of those strange one off occurrences that happen in life but then, I kid you not, seven months later it happened again THREE TIMES within twenty four hours on my walk to school. The first was by a guy in his early twenties who, to be fair, was already pleasuring himself whilst looking at his mobile phone as I turned the corner. He put on a big grin and didn't miss a beat as I walked past though. Then, as I was puffing away on a much needed cigarette behind a building a young guy in a suit walked up, dropped his pants and underwear and, gathering from his gestures, seemed quite keen on getting me, a complete stranger, to give him a blow job at nine thirty in the morning. Then the next morning (and if the building manager didn't tell the police he had it on camera I would have thought I was suffering from some kind of post traumatic *beep* hallucination) a haggard old ajoshi jumped out as I left my apartment. The last one did freak me out and I made my boss pick me up in the mornings from then on.
I have never met anyone else this has happened to and I have no idea why it happened to me so many times. I wasn't dressed provocatively and my Korean friends were really shocked so I don't think it is that common, even in the odd little country town that I was living in at the time. I've stopped carrying the pepper spray now and can see the funny side but it did make me extremely nervous of walking anywhere on my own for a while. |
It's good you can have a sense of humor about it(seriously, you should write a blog) but I think you are lucky that those situations did not, uh, get out of hand.
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One of them said, 'Go around a girl's high school, you will see that kind of man'.
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Yeah my male co-teacher at a girl's middle/high school told me the same thing way back in 2007. I was shocked! That and the prevalence of the barber shop poles shattered some of my illusions about what goes on below the surface. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Just when I thought it was safe to ride the bus... |
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| PatrickBateman wrote: |
| One of them said, 'Go around a girl's high school, you will see that kind of man'. |
Supposedly it's considered goodluck if you catch a glimpse of a flasher before a test. Was told so by a bunch of middle school girls, but their English wasn't that good and it was one of those end of class laugh discussion things. I was wearing a burburry shirt... |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| lol. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:46 am Post subject: Re: Just when I thought it was safe to ride the bus... |
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| Julius wrote: |
| cdninkorea wrote: |
| PatrickBateman wrote: |
| Is this common? |
Is this an honest question? If it is, it's a stupid one! |
If it were common... it would not be funny. |
But it is relatively common. No I dont have stats, but many of my girl students have encountered this behavior. I think its exactly the "normalcy" of it that allows them to make light of it & not freak out.
The high courts seem to be starting to take it more seriously. This story was in the news earlier this year: http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/01/113_129096.html from a case in the little town I teach in. Its not just creepy, it really is criminal. But then the court in fact reduced his sentence to nothing much. I just dont get it.
[& cant help joshing: this thread is brought to you by Master Bateman.] |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickBateman wrote: |
One of them said, 'Go around a girl's high school, you will see that kind of man'.
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Are they referring to the "school guards"? |
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