A Creepy Man Approached Her And Demanded That She Drive Him To A Homeless Shelter, But After She Escaped And The Cops Came, She Found Out The Shelter Didn’t Even Exist
A few weeks ago, this woman’s three children caught the flu. Her oldest child got sick first, followed by her two other children. She took them to the doctor and then went to CVS, located right down the street from their home, to pick up her children’s prescriptions.
Rather than bring her children along, she dropped them off at the house with her husband. She thought they should lay in bed and rest, and she left to pick up the medications and Pedialyte from CVS.
Their neighborhood is safe enough that she goes walking at night without fear. The majority of their neighbors are elderly and have been living in the area for more than 10 years. Once she reached the store, she parked parallel to their street. By this point in the day, it was a bit dark on this side of the street, but the CVS entrance, located around the corner, was lit up.
As she was parking, she noticed a man outside the store, and he walked past the front of her vehicle. He was talking, but since she was playing loud music in her car, she couldn’t hear what he said and assumed he was talking on the phone. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Before she got out of the car, her husband called, and she saw the man begin walking toward the corner closest to the store entrance. She got out of the car while updating her husband on their children’s flu situation, letting him know she was about to pick up some prescriptions at CVS.
As she approached the store entrance, where the man was still standing, he kindly asked her if she knew where Main Street was. She was still on the phone, but she acknowledged the phone and told him she did, assuming that he was just asking her to point him in the right direction. Her phone had a bright pink case, and she continued holding the phone up to her ear so the man could see that she was on the phone with someone.
She analyzed the situation and noticed that the man stood directly in front of a pillar and a garbage can. Around the corner, where she needed to walk to enter the store, there was a propane cage and Red Box directly against the wall of CVS. Since she needed to pass by him, she realized that she would be close enough that he could harm her if he wanted to.
After explaining where Main Street was, the man asked her if she could give him a ride to the homeless shelter, adding that it was freezing and he didn’t want to sleep outside. In response, she offered her sympathies but refused to give him a ride, instead suggesting that she purchase gloves and a blanket. She also mentioned that he could find out if any of the CVS employees could give him a ride to the shelter.
“This guy’s face instantly changed to pure rage. Then right back to pleasant. He said, ‘Well, you know what happens to homeless people stuck outside. You’re going to help me. It’s. Right. Down. The. Street.’ I’m standing there, unsure what to do. My husband is on the phone, asking what’s going on,” she said.
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As carefully and politely as possible, she told the man she felt uneasy giving him a ride and explained that she had the flu (it was a lie, but she hoped it would scare him off). She also pointed out that her husband was on the phone.
The man screamed, “‘I don’t care about the flu!'” He became madder by the second, refusing to move out of her way so that she could enter CVS. She didn’t feel comfortable turning around to run back to her vehicle, which was parked a few feet away in a dark part of the street.
“While this guy was glaring at me, I decided to walk past him quickly. I had my mask from the clinic in my jacket pocket, so I pulled that out and held it in front of me while I moved toward the trash can. He looked disgusted but kept telling me I needed to give him a ride. It’s right down the street, he insisted. But I know where the street is, and it’s not as close as he says,” he explained.
From her perspective, the man was attempting to manipulate her into giving him a ride, and even though he didn’t make any direct threats, his behavior and tone still felt intimidating. Eventually, she succeeded in rounding the corner, raced into CVS, and marched to the pharmacy.
She was still on the phone with her husband, and he told her he’d call the cops because he could hear the menacing way the man spoke to her. He advised that she stay in CVS for the time being.
At this point, she was shaking with fear. Normally, she doesn’t feel this terrified during tense interactions with people. After she reached the pharmacy, she approached the pharmacist, who was speaking with a customer, and said sorry before interrupting their conversation to let the pharmacist know about the man outside the store and how uncomfortable he made her feel.
The pharmacist notified the store manager, who was an intimidating, tall man with a long beard. He was the type of man no one would want to mess with. The cops arrived at the store, and the manager walked outside to confront the man and tell him he needed to leave the premises.
While the man briefly listened to this order, he eventually returned and walked into the store, screaming, cursing, and making comments directed at her. The store manager demanded that the man leave, pointing out that he was now trespassing on private property.
“The cop came back to talk to me and told me she had arrested him many times. He’s loud and likes to yell at people. But he isn’t violent. The pharmacist had me hiding behind the screen where they give vaccines and left the half-door to the pharmacy cracked open in case I needed to get out of there,” she shared.
During her conversation with the police officer, she told her the man’s first and last name and the pharmacist also verified the man’s identity. Finally, she got the prescriptions she needed and walked out of CVS. The police officer parked right next to her so she wasn’t alone when leaving the store. She also heard that when the police officer offered the man a ride to the homeless shelter, he rejected the offer.
After the ordeal, she looked up the man online. Luckily, his name wasn’t common, so it wasn’t difficult to track him down. She stumbled across his criminal record, which included numerous charges of public intoxication, DWIs, assault, and battery.
She researched the homeless shelter the man asked her to give him a ride to, and it turned out that there wasn’t a shelter on Main Street. In addition, that street is in a dangerous part of town.
A few days later, she went to the corner store across the street from the CVS, where the chaos had gone down. She’s friends with the overnight shift employee, and when she told her what happened, her friend told her that she’d had issues with him, too.
Every time he tries to enter her store, she immediately tells him to leave and calls the cops since he always screams and verbally attacks customers. However, he usually runs off before the cops get to the store.
In hindsight, she wished she had handled the situation differently, acknowledging that she was thrown off and taken aback by how suddenly the man shifted from kindness to fury. She was incredibly grateful to everyone working in CVS pharmacy for protecting her and to the store manager who went to speak with the man directly.
Plus, she appreciates her husband for taking the initiative to call the police when he realized that she wasn’t safe around this man. She knew the man was still in her town and hoped she would never see him again.
What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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