Have you ever stalked someone or been stalked?

[Ori]

What was it like?

 

[Circle_One]

My boyfriend is currently being stalked by this crazy 15 year old chick and it's really creepy. She calls his cell phone 22 times a day and when he doesn't answer, she calls his home phone just as many times. She shows up at his house at any given time at least twice a week and when he doesn't answer, she just sits outside the door for half an hour before finally giving up. She shows up in places where we are all the time and stuff. It freaks me out a lot.

As for me, I've never been stalked, but back before I started my 'zine and I was a "professional" groupie (heh), I used to follow bands around to meet them... wouldn't really consider that stalking, because I didn't like, wait outside their houses or anything, but I would make sure to go to every single gig of theirs I could, and follow them across the country and stuff...

 

[cardero]

On the New York State Thruway there are some women that make it obvious to me that they enjoy coming through my lane everyday. There is one woman who drives for Lay's (the snack company) and she will bring me a bag of chips. I have done nothing to encourage these relationships. Then there is the mysterious secret admirer who has placed candy and notes on my door handle during Valentines and Easter this year. I would consider that stalking. In a psychotic, cowardly way it is sort of flattering. I have never pursued another person in my life.

 

[jamaesi]

I seem to collect crazy ex-boyfriends (none of my ex-girlfriends have ever stalked me : D).


One called me up one day on my new cell number which no one knew and proceeded to tell me that he just got out of the mental institution and if I wanted to hang out sometime. I wanted to cry. ;_;

Another is the one who liked to show up at my house at 2AM and would follow me around at school. Even after I greeted him at my door with my machete he didn´t quite get the hint.

My last is the fun one, he likes to hack my emails and livejournal and call me randomly and make creepy websites about me.


I´m glad I am no longer in the same country or hemisphere or timezone as these people. : D

 

[michel]

I have never stalked anyone, nor has anyone stalked me (had they done so, I would have referred them to the nearest local 'shrink', for being totally 'out of it')................

 

[Yerda]

When I finished with my last girlfriend she went a bit nuts. She phoned and e-mailed me constantly telling me how much she loved me and how much she knew I loved her. She then started letter-writing (the letters were like novels and oh so poorly written, I can only imagine that her ability to punctuate was damaged by stress). I e-mailed her in response once, my mistake. She used it to justify her claims that I was deeply in love with her and we would ultimately get back together and intensified her efforts.

It bugged me no end and was unsettling, she had been quite a rational, light-hearted person before. Eventually I refused to have contact with her. I think she then decided that she didn't love me after all and found hate more appealing.

Public slander then became the game, and other hateful tactics to provoke me. She lied to everyone about me (luckily the people who know and like me had no trouble telling her to get) - I remember a friend telling me how she tried to convince him of how awful I was to her by recounting an event, which she had surely forgotten he was present at. Idiot. It was infuriating and quite hurtful all the same though.

In the end she just vanished, in a puff of scorn.

I call all this the Truth effect.

I've went off relationships with the opposite sex a great deal since all that happened.

 

[Feathers in Hair]

While I might joke about stalking some of my favorite actors, I hope I would never actually do such a thing to another person. It is detrimental not only to the person being stalked, but to the stalker as well. The thought of it scares me deep in my soul.

 

[Kowalski]

What was it like?

Oh Man, I had this huge violet Sea Bass follow me for days once. It's OK now though, I stopped taking Acid. It was like really weird, I mean this fish kept trying to bum ciggies off me.

Cheers

K

 

[Bastet]

I have never been stalked as such, but I had an ex who didn't want to accept the fact that I'd shown him the curb (with an assault charge and a restraining order to boot). I stayed with a friend initially, and the day after the cops gave him the restraining order and told him he couldn't come within 100m of my flat, I went around with two of my friends to get some of my belongings (even with him out of the flat, I didn't want to stay there until I had the locks changed). He was there, and we called the cops to come throw him out (again). While we were waiting for them to arrive, I decided I wasn't going to let him scare me, and we all went inside. He cornered me in the bedroom, put his arms around me and tried to kiss me...then when I snapped at him not to touch me, he skitzed out and said he didn't know why I was being like this. Told him to take a look in the mirror lol.
Anyway, he showed up several times at my friend's flat while I was staying with her (we didn't open the door), and then when I changed the locks and went home, he would walk past constantly on his way to nowhere. I moved about three weeks after it all happened, and I would see him down the street. He would come up to me and try to start a conversation (I always stayed silent - except for the day he followed me on a bike when I was walking home, and I got sick of him circling me and told him to F-off [his response? "Aww, don't be like that..."]). It made me literally feel physically ill just to see him, let alone have him approach me. Anyway, one day a year or so after this all started, I saw him in the supermarket, and he said "Hi Meg", as I walked past. Totally sick of this, I said "Don't talk to me; you're not my friend." :sarcastic He stopped dead in his tracks, looking as if he didn't believe what he'd just heard, and said "Huh?" (articulate to the last). I repeated what I'd said, quite calmly and firmly, then walked away. Haven't seen him since.

 

[Pussyfoot Mouse]

Umm, not yet!

Oh, and umm, not yet!

 

[kreeden]

I've done some very stupid things in my life . But a few of these posts makes me want to beat a few skulls agaisnt something solid and very hard .

 

[Watcher]

*Renaldo looks out window and sees a pair of binoculars flashing in his direction. Watcher quickly looks in the oppisote direction "oh! look at that uh...umm...that bird!"*
:bonk:


(edited to replaced Feathersinhair's name with Renaldo)

 

[Malus 12:9]

I've went off relationships with the opposite sex a great deal since all that happened.

Dude, I don't blame you. I know what effects these things can have.

 

[Sunstone]

I beat a guy in chess once, and for several weeks afterwards he stalked me demanding a re-match whenever he had a chance. It was among the strangest behaviors I've ever seen in people.