Location: Vienna Metro Orange Line
Time: Night (7:30pm-12am)

When I was 17 and waiting for my brother to pick me up a man sat down next to me. I nodded at him and he started speaking to me and reached for my crotch. [I] ran very fast into the metro and have been fearful to be alone at a metro at night walking to my car ever since.

Submitted 2/26/14 by “CY.”

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