Oooohhh yeah. I had to stop running in the park because of the homeless around here. I'm a dude, but the amount of times I ran in to a pack of homeless hiding out and out of sight somewhere where it was just a bit too conspicuous and creepy was too much. I ran at dusk to avoid people, and almost ended up getting mugged a few times. Hell, what ended up finally doing it was I was running passed a kids park. This dude in all black on a nice BMX bike (which I can only assume was stolen) rides up next to me and just coasts. Doesn't say a damn word for a good minute until he just tells me, "I'm Chris." He just kept repeating that over and over again until he took off on his bike. Stopped to eye me up one last time under a bridge but I just kept running at him, ignoring him. No more than 20 ft. between us, he (thankfully) got on his bike and rode off. Never ran in that park again. Which sucks because it's our biggest one. Ah well, rather not get diddled by a homeless perv.
My local park was notorious for developing a homeless camp in the center of it, where this awful homeless man would threaten people with a machete for touching his trash!! People would try to clean up the park and he would threaten to kill them, holding a machete! Like what??? Cops did nothing. This park is in a suburb like 20 miles outside of Portland! You bet your ass I moved the fuck out of there.
Oooohhh yeah. I had to stop running in the park because of the homeless around here. I'm a dude, but the amount of times I ran in to a pack of homeless hiding out and out of sight somewhere where it was just a bit too conspicuous and creepy was too much. I ran at dusk to avoid people, and almost ended up getting mugged a few times. Hell, what ended up finally doing it was I was running passed a kids park. This dude in all black on a nice BMX bike (which I can only assume was stolen) rides up next to me and just coasts. Doesn't say a damn word for a good minute until he just tells me, "I'm Chris." He just kept repeating that over and over again until he took off on his bike. Stopped to eye me up one last time under a bridge but I just kept running at him, ignoring him. No more than 20 ft. between us, he (thankfully) got on his bike and rode off. Never ran in that park again. Which sucks because it's our biggest one. Ah well, rather not get diddled by a homeless perv.
Oh my gosh your story is all too common!
My local park was notorious for developing a homeless camp in the center of it, where this awful homeless man would threaten people with a machete for touching his trash!! People would try to clean up the park and he would threaten to kill them, holding a machete! Like what??? Cops did nothing. This park is in a suburb like 20 miles outside of Portland! You bet your ass I moved the fuck out of there.