I was talking a walk down the street with a girlfriend one afternoon and a truck with two men slowed down beside us. The passenger yelled out of the window, “Hey baby! Where are you going! Want to come with us?”
We ignored the men and kept walking. After about 30 seconds from when they initially accosted us, the passenger threw a glass bottle at us from the vehicle and shouted expletives before racing away.
Another time, on the metro in DC coming home from high school, I made the mistake of dozing in my seat. I awoke gradually to the feeling of the man sitting next to me groping my leg beneath my school uniform skirt. The train was extremely crowded and I wasn’t able change seats or even move to another area of the car. I was so scared and I didn’t know what to do. He got off the train several minutes later.
- Anonymous
Location: 10th St and Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC
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