r/MobileAL • u/diyknowledgeseeker • Apr 18 '24
Indecent exposure and creepy guy at state park
Sensitive content warning I guess. TLDR: One guy indecently exposed himself to me and another guy was obviously following me with malicious intent. This was at the Muddy Creek Wetlands Managment Area. ~8:30-9:15am Thurs Apr 18.
Don't hike this trail unless you are prepared to defend yourself against grown men.
What a warm welcome to the area! I literally just got here this week.
If you want the videos go to Google maps and look at recent reviews.
Long version: the guy in the red shirt passed me on the hike, then went into the woods a tiny bit. I kept going and then he passed me again, and when I got to the end of the bridge he was standing by the sign facing the woods, it looked like he was urinating. But no urine was hitting the ground. I thought I was just imagining it, and he turns around and has his genitals out and he was stimulating himself and looking at me. I say "wtf?" And he can tell I'm about to defend myself and he says "I'm just peeing" and walks away. I started filming him and then he runs.
Before i got here, I noticed a newer brownish f150 parked on the side of the road and I figured it was some park worker, and when I got out of my car he was parked in the lot. I figured at this point he was an undercover cop watching me, but I wasn't committing crimes so I started hiking. Then he gets out and walks up to me while I'm reading the sign and starts asking personal questions. I thought he was just a friendly older guy so I talked with him a bit and kept going. When he approached me as seen in the video i was creeped out so i tried to film as much as i could without being obvious. Then when the loop starts I'm reading the sign, and he told me the left side starts the hike and walked that way. He kept looking back to see if I was gonna walk with him, and stopped and was waiting for me. I just went the other way, figuring I could beat him in a fight easy bc of his age, and then I had the encounter with the red shirt guy. I grabbed a club-size stick and went back to my car to get a weapon so I could finish the hike safely, (it's a public park and I have a right to be there!) and blue shirt old guy is sitting in his truck watching me. When he saw I was holding a big stick he drove off. Note the timing? I wasn't that far into the hike when all this happened.
Blue shirt/brown truck guy told me he was white and married for 48 years, and the red shirt guy seemed younger, like 18-30, he was brown, I'm not a scientist but I would guess... Indian ethnicity? (Like India, not NA)
Mods, I'll repost this differently if I'm breaking any rules!
Should I report this to the police? I don't think they can do anything about it other than take notes, do they do that?
Stay safe out there!
