What would you do? If anything. (1 Viewer)

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Just went to Wet N Wild with my wife. In the middle of the wave pool stood a 50-60 something year old man with a red mullet and white sunglasses. He just stood in the same spot looking at girls as young as 6 years old I'd say.

He'd just scan side to side but I'd see him lock onto a little girl floating by on a tube.

My wife pointed him out because of the mullet. I told her to watch where he was looking for a few minutes.

She figured it out and was creeped the fuck out. The whole place is staffed with teenagers so I don't know what telling them would do. Plus he just stood there.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I should mention we got there, he was in the spot in the middle. We left after 15 minutes, went on a ride and ate lunch. Came back, he is in the same spot.

It isn't that fun to just stand there for an hour.

If he was a lifeguard he had no shirt or anything to show it.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Take a picture of him, then take a picture of him so he sees you taking a picture of him. Then ask to speak to the manager, show him the pictures and explain why you're concerned. Looking at people isn't a crime but if he is up to something he won't like having his picture taken and will most likely leave.

 

[Hobbesarable]

Just went to Wet N Wild with my wife. In the middle of the wave pool stood a 50-60 something year old man with a red mullet and white sunglasses. He just stood in the same spot looking at girls as young as 6 years old I'd say.

He'd just scan side to side but I'd see him lock onto a little girl floating by on a tube.

My wife pointed him out because of the mullet. I told her to watch where he was looking for a few minutes.

She figured it out and was creeped the fuck out. The whole place is staffed with teenagers so I don't know what telling them would do. Plus he just stood there.

Did it look like had a grandchild there?

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Did it look like had a grandchild there?

Nope, we waited in line in the shade together. He never spoke to a soul.

 

[barfo]

Maybe his granddaughter was kidnapped a few years back, and he frequents pools and chuck-e-cheeses looking for her. He's not entirely sure what she looks like since years have gone by and she was just a baby then, so he has to study each girl that is approximately the right age. But he's sticking with the search and not giving up, spending his days standing in the hot sun, even though people assume he's some sort of pedophile.

barfo

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Maybe his granddaughter was kidnapped a few years back, and he frequents pools and chuck-e-cheeses looking for her. He's not entirely sure what she looks like since years have gone by and she was just a baby then, so he has to study each girl that is approximately the right age. But he's sticking with the search and not giving up, spending his days standing in the hot sun, even though people assume he's some sort of pedophile.

barfo

He's a hero then!!!!! With a creepy red mullet.

 

[crandc]

If all he did was stand there I'd probably think he was watching his daughter of other relative

 

[Further]

Here is what I hope I would do, but you never know until it happens.

I would watch him for a bit, and if I really though he was fishy (pardon the pun) I would first check with the workers there and see if he was supposed to be there as a lifeguard, an owner or something else I'me not thinking of. If they didn't have a clue who he was, and I was still sure he was creeping on kids, I would go up to him and ask him outright but in as non-confrontational way as possible. Judge his answer, but hopefully if he was perving out, he would feel busted and leave on his own. I would not physically try and remove him, but if after confronting him he stayed there and I was still convinced he was kid-oggling, I would just stand a 10-15 feet away staring at him, making him too uncomfortable to continue.

 

[riverman]

Probably a private detective....the mullet says it all!

 

[MarAzul]

If all he did was stand there I'd probably think he was watching his daughter of other relative

Me too.

 

[Denny Crane]

Maybe his granddaughter was kidnapped a few years back, and he frequents pools and chuck-e-cheeses looking for her. He's not entirely sure what she looks like since years have gone by and she was just a baby then, so he has to study each girl that is approximately the right age. But he's sticking with the search and not giving up, spending his days standing in the hot sun, even though people assume he's some sort of pedophile.

barfo

You're sticking to that story?

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

If all he did was stand there I'd probably think he was watching his daughter of other relative

Being naive is a good thing, except when a molester is swimming with your kids.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Here is what I hope I would do, but you never know until it happens.

I would watch him for a bit, and if I really though he was fishy (pardon the pun) I would first check with the workers there and see if he was supposed to be there as a lifeguard, an owner or something else I'me not thinking of. If they didn't have a clue who he was, and I was still sure he was creeping on kids, I would go up to him and ask him outright but in as non-confrontational way as possible. Judge his answer, but hopefully if he was perving out, he would feel busted and leave on his own. I would not physically try and remove him, but if after confronting him he stayed there and I was still convinced he was kid-oggling, I would just stand a 10-15 feet away staring at him, making him too uncomfortable to continue.

I didn't know what to do. Just like the guy I saw peeping out from behind his newspaper at the food court in the mall a few years ago I really didn't have proof other than I just KNEW what he was doing. I've been wrong before and nobody else seemed to notice a wildly out of place single 60 year old man with a hideous mullet standing in the middle of the wave pool for an hour.

I thought about waiting until he left and following him home to see if his address came up on some pervert list of some sort. It was just so obvious but like I said there were just 18 year old kid employees everywhere. I doubt they would even care if they did notice him.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

You're sticking to that story?

This is the same way he comes up with his political stances. Hooks a chain to something deep and pulls it out.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I'd probably just tell some lifeguard or manager on duty there's a creepy looking dude they might want to watch.

 

[barfo]

This is the same way he comes up with his political stances. Hooks a chain to something deep and pulls it out.

That's probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my political point of view. I'm touched.

barfo

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I didn't know what to do. Just like the guy I saw peeping out from behind his newspaper at the food court in the mall a few years ago I really didn't have proof other than I just KNEW what he was doing. I've been wrong before and nobody else seemed to notice a wildly out of place single 60 year old man with a hideous mullet standing in the middle of the wave pool for an hour.

I thought about waiting until he left and following him home to see if his address came up on some pervert list of some sort. It was just so obvious but like I said there were just 18 year old kid employees everywhere. I doubt they would even care if they did notice him.

Shit is this how I look at "da club"

 

[Denny Crane]

You might mention it to one of the moms. She'd raise hell.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

You might mention it to one of the moms. She'd raise hell.

Thought about that one.

 

[crandc]

I did once intervene with strangers, but that was when a man was actually hitting a woman. I got between (about 5 or 6 men were just standing around) and the woman took off running. Then one of the men came up to me and explained, in most polite and rational tones, that I had no business interfering between A man and HIS woman (his pronouns, my emphasis), that she is his woman and if he wants to shoot her dead that is his right. What was scariest was that he was really trying to explain this to me in a reasonable fashion. You know, like you might explain why a person should wear seatbelts. As though it was just some basic fact that I for some reason was unaware of and he needed to just let me know.

 

[Natebishop3]

Was he sporting wood? If so, that's your answer.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Was he sporting wood? If so, that's your answer.

He was old and waist deep in the water. Had no intention of bumping up against him for any reason.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I did once intervene with strangers, but that was when a man was actually hitting a woman. I got between (about 5 or 6 men were just standing around) and the woman took off running. Then one of the men came up to me and explained, in most polite and rational tones, that I had no business interfering between A man and HIS woman (his pronouns, my emphasis), that she is his woman and if he wants to shoot her dead that is his right. What was scariest was that he was really trying to explain this to me in a reasonable fashion. You know, like you might explain why a person should wear seatbelts. As though it was just some basic fact that I for some reason was unaware of and he needed to just let me know.

Did you figure it out? You better redneckonize.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I did once intervene with strangers, but that was when a man was actually hitting a woman. I got between (about 5 or 6 men were just standing around) and the woman took off running. Then one of the men came up to me and explained, in most polite and rational tones, that I had no business interfering between A man and HIS woman (his pronouns, my emphasis), that she is his woman and if he wants to shoot her dead that is his right. What was scariest was that he was really trying to explain this to me in a reasonable fashion. You know, like you might explain why a person should wear seatbelts. As though it was just some basic fact that I for some reason was unaware of and he needed to just let me know.

Seriously though, I've done things and screamed at my wife. Things I'd rip someone's arm off and beat them to death with it for. I don't know why men are like that, but we are.

Edit. I mean things if I caught someone else doing to her if it wasn't clear. I choked her old supervisor behind the machines at the computer chip plant we used to work at because he made her cry.

 

[crandc]

Bodyman, I never have figured out why it's OK for a man to shoot a woman dead on a Portland street. Or anywhere else, for that matter.

 

[Natebishop3]

I don't know why men are like that, but we are.

No "we" aren't.

I have been with my significant other for almost 8 years. I have never hit her. I have never shoved her. I have never slapped her. I have never choked her.

Hell, we hardly ever argue, and we've probably only raised our voices at each other a couple times in that span.

Abusing your significant other is never okay. Not mentally or physically. The only time you're allowed to lay your hands on anyone (male or female) is to defend yourself. I don't believe that women should be allowed to hit men and expect no response. But I also don't want to be lumped in with men as a whole.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

No "we" aren't.

I have been with my significant other for almost 8 years. I have never hit her. I have never shoved her. I have never slapped her. I have never choked her.

Hell, we hardly ever argue, and we've probably only raised our voices at each other a couple times in that span.

Abusing your significant other is never okay. Not mentally or physically. The only time you're allowed to lay your hands on anyone (male or female) is to defend yourself. I don't believe that women should be allowed to hit men and expect no response. But I also don't want to be lumped in with men as a whole.

Sorry, we means man. You are a part of it as a group. Not you specifically, not Brad Pitt. I don't hit my wife, but I sure as shit make her cry every so often.

When I used to drink many years ago we had an incident where SHE went to jail. I've told that story before. Your unrealistic ideas about the nature of men and women as a whole are likely what helped get Washington domestic violence law so out of whack that I got battered spouse literature sent to HER house but addressed to me.

I intervened in a domestic dispute one day where the young girl was being followed down a side road as she walked, by her boyfriend in a car. They were screaming at each other and he was going insane. I asked her if she needed help and she flipped out on me.

That certainly isn't a normal thing any more than a man and woman who rarely even argue. Just like you hear about women who get abused over and over and never leave due to fear. No one description fits the entire population but I suspect my description of men is more common than yours.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Bodyman, I never have figured out why it's OK for a man to shoot a woman dead on a Portland street. Or anywhere else, for that matter.

I've never even heard that was ok? So I guess I haven't figured it out either. Is there a specific story I'm supposed to know about?

I'm sure if Family Feud surveyed 100 people about things it's ok to do on Portland streets that one wouldn't come up often.