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I used to run regularly; now I prefer to bike. As a runner, you surely have been harassed while running. There is something about runners and bikers that bothers the physically inert. On the afternoon of Sunday, Sept.30, while I biked on the Little River Turnpike just east of Guinea Road, a scraggly kid riding in a Jeep (my favorite vehicle) hollered, “Get off the road, faggot.”
Had I caught up, I would have asked him who he was telling to get off the road. I was biking according to Virginia law. These streets are mine too.
- John Bartelloni
Location: Little River Turnpike between Prosperty Avenue and Guinea Road, Virginia
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Thats the thing about harassers, most of the time they would never consider making the comments they do when face to face with their victims. It is their ability to de-personalize their victim that is the scary thing. If we can keep in front of perpetrators that the victim is a real person just like they are……how to do it?!
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