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Location: Orange line near Virginia Square stop Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Christmas Eve 2012 I boarded the train around noon to meet a friend in DC. The car was nearly empty when a young man sat in the seat directly behind me. I felt that was odd. I looked out the window to see if I could see […]

Location:  Orange Line between Foggy Bottom and Capitol South Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was heading home from campus, seated on the metro near a window, and reading. A man sat next to me and reached down – between my legs – to retrieve something that was on the floor near my feet. It was an old luggage […]

Location: Swann St. and 19th St. NW (N of Dupont Circle) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) This was in 2010.. but walking home at 11:30pm on a weeknight I heard someone clear their throat loudly and I looked up to see a man leaning out of a well-lit upstairs window masturbating. It happened again later that week. I called […]

Went to Meridian Hill Park to read, sat there by myself until I noticed an older man looking at me through the bushes and slowly masturbating. No one else was around and I called 911. The lady on the phone was extremely nice, but the police didn’t come until thirty minutes later and by that […]

This happened over a year ago, but have never shared this. I want to share it now because it’s actually a positive experience that could have turned into something horribly wrong. I was walking home during the day from the metro to my house, cup of coffee in hand (Columbia Heights area) as I was […]