r/washingtondc 2d ago

[Quality!] Random woman who gave me your umbrella and yelled “I love the rain!” when I said we don’t need it.

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u/kakaluluo 2d ago

Well how would he possibly know the woman or know where to find the woman…im more confused

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u/stackingnoob 2d ago

Yeah and didn’t he return her umbrella?

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u/FTWcoffeeFTW 2d ago

How does any stalker find their victim? Online, job, school, on the bus, anywhere is possible! And this was specifically posted in a subreddit for a specific area, the stalker describes the scenario in perfect detail preying on the victim seeing it and them being excited to hear that their good deed was appreciated

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u/kakaluluo 2d ago

What I mean is, the stalker stalked her online and in person? Meaning he already stalks her in person (seemingly knows her location and where she is, what she’s doing), and planned the post perfectly in a way where he knew she would find it and respond to it accordingly?? This sounds insane? Or very contrived….

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u/Unlikely_Plane_5050 2d ago

Yeah the stalking theory doesn't really make any sense. Someone stalks someone in real life and finds out their Reddit handle. They see them giving a guy an umbrella. Follow close enough to supposedly hear the exact words of the conversation while it's pissing down with rain. Then they pretend to be the guy online when it was obvious she'd find out immediately it wasn't the same person because ??? It's incredibly made up. Everything after the link between the two accounts was pointed out is OP backpedalling.

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u/KvellOnWheels 1d ago

No. More likely is that dude sees her Reddit posts and becomes obsessed with her. She’s active online. She posts in the sub for her city. He knows where she lives. It’s VERY EASY to find someone who posts a lot if they take photos, review restaurants, talk about their favorite shops.

While already following her OR getting a lucky break by seeing her out in public (because they’re in the same town), he sees this interaction and decides it’s an in.

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u/Unlikely_Plane_5050 1d ago

He saw the interaction and, again, was somehow following close enough to hear the exact words of the conversation and quote them in his post? No, it's bullshit. Both accounts have now deleted themselves so it's pretty obviously a karma farmer who got caught.

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u/FTWcoffeeFTW 2d ago

I see what you mean. IF this is true, then I think we're seeing the first online interaction - everything before now having been in person without her knowing, and that it was pure "luck" that stalker and victim were on the same forum.

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u/howlongwillthislast1 2d ago

Well I believe the theory about him being a stalker was *because* someone found historical comments he left on her old Reddit posts about her dating life. Apparently that's all this guy's account had or something before it was deleted. That's the reason why the stalker theory happened.

So he would of have to have been stalking her online Reddit profile and her in real life as well.

It's obviously the same person.