Sufficiently Creeped Out
Okay, about three weeks ago, I posted that I had a peeping tom at my bedroom window. Creeped me out a bit, but seemed realtively harmless compared to other things in the world. I filed a police report (which I almost didn't do, and now am EXTREMELY glad I did)and reassured myself that it was an isolated incident and just someone peering in the window with no intention of breaking in. I reported it to the manager of my complex at the time, and assumed she would inform RSI. Apparently, none of this happened.
Anyway, my friend whose moving into an apartment a few rows down from mine was speaking with our new manager, who informed her of another incidence of a prowler either the SAME NIGHT or the NIGHT BEFORE my own little run-in. That one happened at about 3 AM, mine at 2:15A M. This one, however, occured in the row across from me and down a few apartments, the ones where one side of the apartment runs along a creek. Apparently, this guy sat at the open bedroom window under which another WOU college girl who looks alot like myself was visibly sleeping, slowly cutting away the the screen for 15 minutes before he was caught by the girl's unseen boyfriend. What are the odds that these are isolated? NOT BLOODY LIKELY. Scares the living crap out of me. To make sure I wasn't getting an embellished story from my friend (who didn't know of my own incident) I just went and talked to the manager myself. We both think it's the same guy, and will be calling the cops tomorrow to make sure they've made the connection that neither was an isolated incident nor a figment of an overactive imagination.
This seriously creeps me out. This was not just someone peering in a window trying to catch someone in a state of undress, no someone looking to run in and steal a stereo in a room where there is visibly someone asleep when other windows are open of empty rooms where the computers and crap are. This is someone who was trying to get in for his own sick, creepy reason, to either snatch or rape someone.
I am PISSED BEYOND BELIEF that my rental company was not informed, and will be even moreso if the cops blow me off tomorrow. They told me they'd give it a case number, but I was never given one, which leads me to believe that the notes in the officer's notebook was as far as it ever went. The other incident had a report filed as well, and they never caught him. This sick fuck is still out there, and most likely, after getting caught at one girl's apartment, moved onto another. Scares me what might have happened if my cat hadn't woken me up. Scares the freaking crap out of me.
Good news: my new apartment manager kicks ass. She's determined to catch this guy and string him up by his balls. Creepy freaking bastard.
Bad news: even if they caught the guy, I couldn't identify him.
Good news: that wouldn't stop me from kicking the snot out of the bastard.
Bad news: suspicious footprints are still appearing in the morning near other windows, that match the ones found in front of the other window. The creep is still around.
I apologize for my language in this post, buy I'm pissed and scared. All tact goes out the window.
I know I bullshitted about it before, but tonight I'm ordering some pepper spray off the internet. And a rotweiler. And an AK47.
Am I that far off base to be this disturbed? Am I wigging for nothing?
Anyway, my friend whose moving into an apartment a few rows down from mine was speaking with our new manager, who informed her of another incidence of a prowler either the SAME NIGHT or the NIGHT BEFORE my own little run-in. That one happened at about 3 AM, mine at 2:15A M. This one, however, occured in the row across from me and down a few apartments, the ones where one side of the apartment runs along a creek. Apparently, this guy sat at the open bedroom window under which another WOU college girl who looks alot like myself was visibly sleeping, slowly cutting away the the screen for 15 minutes before he was caught by the girl's unseen boyfriend. What are the odds that these are isolated? NOT BLOODY LIKELY. Scares the living crap out of me. To make sure I wasn't getting an embellished story from my friend (who didn't know of my own incident) I just went and talked to the manager myself. We both think it's the same guy, and will be calling the cops tomorrow to make sure they've made the connection that neither was an isolated incident nor a figment of an overactive imagination.
This seriously creeps me out. This was not just someone peering in a window trying to catch someone in a state of undress, no someone looking to run in and steal a stereo in a room where there is visibly someone asleep when other windows are open of empty rooms where the computers and crap are. This is someone who was trying to get in for his own sick, creepy reason, to either snatch or rape someone.
I am PISSED BEYOND BELIEF that my rental company was not informed, and will be even moreso if the cops blow me off tomorrow. They told me they'd give it a case number, but I was never given one, which leads me to believe that the notes in the officer's notebook was as far as it ever went. The other incident had a report filed as well, and they never caught him. This sick fuck is still out there, and most likely, after getting caught at one girl's apartment, moved onto another. Scares me what might have happened if my cat hadn't woken me up. Scares the freaking crap out of me.
Good news: my new apartment manager kicks ass. She's determined to catch this guy and string him up by his balls. Creepy freaking bastard.
Bad news: even if they caught the guy, I couldn't identify him.
Good news: that wouldn't stop me from kicking the snot out of the bastard.
Bad news: suspicious footprints are still appearing in the morning near other windows, that match the ones found in front of the other window. The creep is still around.
I apologize for my language in this post, buy I'm pissed and scared. All tact goes out the window.
I know I bullshitted about it before, but tonight I'm ordering some pepper spray off the internet. And a rotweiler. And an AK47.
Am I that far off base to be this disturbed? Am I wigging for nothing?