‘She-Hulk’ collars alleged T creep after lewd act

Boston Herald ^ | 4/21/2012 | Renee Nadeau Algarin

[Morgana]

A strap-hanging MBTA heroine said she went into “She-Hulk” mode to single-handedly collar a man who exposed himself on a crowded B-Line trolley — dragging him off the train and holding him until cops arrived.

The 24-year-old Allston woman, who did not want to be named, said the man boarded one stop after she did on her ride home from her marketing job Thursday. She immediately noticed him staring.

“This guy was just being a real creeper,” she said. As she shuffled along the train, he followed her. She zoned out, listening to music, only to look up and see him standing over her.

“I looked up and felt awkward, so I looked down,” she said. She said the man was exposing and touching himself, but tried to cover himself with his shirt.

The woman — not someone to meekly let an alleged creep get away with it — shouted out what he was doing, but no one stepped in to help. She said one male passenger even shrugged. So, she said, she went into “She-Hulk” mode, lunging as the man tried to bolt at Packard’s Corner in Brighton. She said she held the man with one hand and “berated” him while she waited for the cops to arrive. She said he looked frightened.

“He kept saying sorry, but he was just sorry for himself,” she said.

[rabidralph]

So you would be one of the men on the train, shrugging his shoulders?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I meant that women shouldn’t engage these creeps, because they get off on female attention and it’s dangerous. I remember taking my daughter to Capron Park Zoo some years ago, and two young teens were throwing rocks at gibbons in a cage. Though they were not successful in hitting them, they clearly were discomforting them. Besides myself and my young daughter, there was a respectable looking young couple there. I turned to the brats and shouted, “Don’t you know how to act?” They sheepishly offered that they did and skulked off. The young couple gave me looks askance, as if I had committed some sort of faux pas.

I don’t know what I would have done in the event, but I like to think I would at least have shouted at the creep, “Don’t you know how to act?”

There is something about witnessing unexpectedly crude behavior that can freeze us, with fear of seeming strange or getting involved in a distasteful situation that we would like to avoid that prevents people from taking actions they might ordinarily take. BTW, the T is encouraging riders to photograph these jokers with their cell phones and turn the photos over to the T-police. Should discourage some of them.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It gets better and worse. The charges against the father were dropped and the perve fled the country.

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/state_news/x1542104559/Charge-against-dad-who-defended-son-dropped

[Daffynition]

I’m saddened and disappointed that Boston is so full of pansy-boys now, that no male would step forward to help. Behooves us wimmen-folk to think through what we’ll do to protect ourselves when something similar happens to us.

**She also had some choice words for the people who stood by and did nothing on the train: “That’s appalling. That makes me so angry. I want everyone to know that they have to say something.”**

[rabidralph]

I kind of see your point, although my first impulse would have been to punch the guy, but then I would be charged with assault. It’s a screwed up world. Well, I would not want that thing waving in my face if I were here so “engaging” him would be the only way to get him to stop, because the other passengers were not willing to help. Would be a shame if my little “assisted opening” Browning knife were to brush past his privates, with all the jostling on the subway and everything.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The young woman was very lucky this guy wasn’t more dangerous. You have to have a screw loose to act like that.

[rabidralph]

Exposing oneself is a very passive act. At this point of his idiocy/perversion, he is not dangerous. So he would be very easy to bring under control. It’s when these creeps move on to breaking and entering and/or rape that they become more dangerous and we have to respond with our personal firearms.