I’m a big fan of the local Y’s. For those who haven’t been keeping track lately, the YMCA now is known simply as the Y. Not sure why the big rebranding effort is underway, but there it is.
Of course, none of that has absolutely anything to do with what I’m talking about, but, you know, going off on tangents is pretty much my standard operating procedure. Sorry.
Back on track.
Oddly, it’s the track I’d like to talk to you dudes about. It seems there’s a pretty sleezy sort of creep running around in our local Y’s outdoor track.
People who use the outdoor track at the Harris YMCA in south Charlotte area dealing with a flasher problem again.
Members told management at the YMCA branch. . . that they spotted a flasher Monday at the track. YMCA officials sent e-mails to members later, informing them of the problem.
This after two other incidents of flashing took place over the summer.
It’s just sad, really. To think that there are some people who are so sad and so broken they think they have to go out and shock people with their (semi) naked body in order to get some sort of strange sexual thrill.
The newspaper from which I took the above item recommends that people using the track do so only during the day and also run with someone else.
Sure those might be preventative efforts, in that they would probably prevent anything worse from happening, but what about doing something that would prevent even the flashing from occurring again.
Hence the suggestion for pointing and laughing. Surely that would discourage someone.
If the point of the man flashing his private bits at the unsuspecting is to shock, then getting pointed at and laughed at by the people he’d tried to shock might set him back a bit. Surely?
There’s nothing wrong with pointing out when someone has stepped over the line. This guy? So far over the line that it’s not even a memory.
Be careful. Be safe. Be aware.
And get ready to laugh this guy into handcuffs. Or back into his cave. Whichever comes first.
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