Today, I called the cops on this guy who kept emailing me without revealing who he was. I had told him that if he emailed me again, I would call the cops, so I did. Turns out it was my roommate. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my roommate came home and instantly began raging, cursing, and threatening to kill me. While I was cowering in my bedroom, the police had to settle the situation. All I'd done was rearrange some furniture. FML
Today, I got a stern talking-to from the police about threatening and harassing people. Who had called them? None other than my stalker, whom I'd just informed about the restraining order I was filing against him after finding him in my house. For the second time. FML
Today, I had to call the police to get my crazy stalker of a neighbor out of my house. When the police arrived, I found out that she was friends with the officer. FML
Today, a guy I blocked online for sending me creepy messages showed up at my house. I have no idea how he found my address, or even my real name. FML
Today, I found out the person who's been stalking and harassing me online was actually my now ex-boyfriend. He only confessed as I finally picked up the phone to report it to the police. He basically said he wanted me to turn to him for comfort and protection, so he could "feel like a man". FML
Today, some guy I’ve been talking to showed up at my house while I was on video call with my boyfriend. I had to confess to a stupid situation I had no business being in. FML
Today, I got a call from the guy I have been seeing. I wasn't him. It was his wife wondering why I have her husband's number. FML
Today, a girl I've been talking to online for a while asked me if I wanted to meet her in person. Two hours of driving later, I end up at her house. When she opened the door, she screamed and called the cops on me. While detained, she called my phone asking why I never showed up today. FML
Today, my now ex-boyfriend called the cops on me and told them I wasn’t letting him in the house. His keys were in the door, he was just too drunk to unlock it. FML
Today, I was getting catcalled downtown by a guy I've never seen before. Then he told me he knows where I live, and accurately described my apartment while he followed me for 2 blocks. FML
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RamboMartini 10
You should have just blocked their email or have it sent to the junk mail folder.
Rainbow_Rhinos 23
Were the emails threatening? If not, it probably wasn't worth calling the cops :/
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Malsain_fml 10
How to ruin a relationship in an instant... it's his fault to me. he was warned, right? If someone says "Stop". Well that is reason enough to stop. If someone says "Stop", or I punch you. Well, if you don't stop, don't be surprises if you have been punched! And yes. Calling cops might sound extreme, but if the guy would haver been seriously doing that, unless you call the cops on him, he can repeat with someone esle as much as he wants.
klutzyduck1 24
How is that illegal? If it's not a crime, or someone in danger, you should handle it yourself and not waste police time. People complain about police having too much power, but then can't handle even the smallest of situations themselves.
Kiernan151 25
Well if he was harassing OP for a long time, with threatening emails, or if OP told them to stop multiple times, then it is very illegal. Plus if the roommate could easily just create another account if one email address was blocked.
domolovesyoshi 33
Harassment is illegal
Malsain_fml 10
If you think about the fact it was his roomate, he most probably let her know things like he knew about her whereabout, adress or work/study location. So obviously, if someone is harassing you and knows you for real, you better call the cops
klutzyduck1 24
Harassment is unwelcome physical touching FYI (different states probably have different laws/definitions). In Oregon the only illegal repeated contact after asking them to stop, is telephonically and only from a known number. However, my point was more this seems like an overreaction. Like many have said, block the emails or ignore. If they were threatening, they would have said that, but even then what could the cops do from a generic email address? It's not a terror plot, so I don't the FBI is stepping in and local pds don't have the time or technology to track that down. Have we forgotten how to make grown up decisions on our own? Do we demand every person who hurts our feelings or does something we don't like, get in trouble? Do we blow things out of proportion and forget what real emergencies are? I know the answer, I just wish it were different.
Malsain_fml 10
I get your point and i generally agree with it. But again, what if the guy wrote things like "I like to watch you going out of your place Cecilia. Have you been studying well recently? Sciences classes are tough you know. But your university is nice." and so on. With details that indicate you the guy knows a lot about your everyday life. You can't ignore that to my mind. Tracking an email adress is not complicated to the cops. If you consider google is able to know which city you are in, I am pretty sure policemen can know too, with more precision, unless the other person happens to be a super hacker or something. When I go to holidays and connect to my yahoo mail from abroad, I instantly get warning messages becaus emy log in location suddenly changed. By the way, I feel like she discovered it was her roomate next to the police intervention.
Kuibe 18
Its your roommates fault for not taking the threat to call the cops seriously. I would do the same thing OP or just block the email... Either one.
revolvearoundme 15
Next step, Restraining Order! Who ever gets home first gets the place till they have to leave.
worldclassrager 41
So what happened next? Cops get him/her for stalking?
idk_rose 25
This is NOT your fault.
IvyChennyChen 21
Really curious what kind of emails your roommate was sending. Was it threatening? Creepy? Psychotic? If not I would've found the whole situation pretty funny~
Lalala579121 28
Maybe it was pictures of OP sleeping.
dman798 18
You warned them not to
caarlosgomez_ 14
I moderated this bitch!
mastersmithson 13
tbf you gave him a chance to stop. he kept doing it. his own fault as he knew the risks!