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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 12:07 PM Oct 2018

Three Women Hailed As Heroes For Stopping Alleged Date Rape

Three Women Hailed As Heroes For Stopping Alleged Date Rape

Friends Sonia, Marla and Monica were out for a drink at a nice restaurant in Santa Monica, California when they saw something that was “no joking matter”. Monica noticed a man at another table holding a vial and dropping some liquid into his date’s drink when she had gotten up to go to the bathroom.

The women were stunned. “After a few ‘Oh god. What do we do’s’, I got up to find her in the bathroom to tell her,” Sonia explained on Facebook. “Warn her. Tell her to get up and leave this creep. Make him drink it. Something.”

She decided to follow the woman and approach her in the washroom. She told her what her girlfriend had seen and the woman was stunned. When Sonia asked the woman how well she knew the man, she responded, “He’s one of my best friends”.

Sonia rushed back to her two friends and Marla alerted a staff member. Staff security immediately acted and reviewed the security camera footage.



Read more at http://www.reshareworthy.com/three-women-stop-alleged-date-rape/#bZvzHoZhMK0xOViw.99

Cops are beginning to get the idea that someone somewhere will almost always have a cell phone to film what they do. Maybe POS men in general will start getting the hint that women aren't going to take this kind of shit any more either. Kudos to the three women who saw something, said something and kudos to the restaurant staff for taking the women seriously and responding appropriately.
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Three Women Hailed As Heroes For Stopping Alleged Date Rape (Original Post) Stonepounder Oct 2018 OP
"He's one of my best friends." TeapotInATempest Oct 2018 #1
Why be so sinister. He could have just asked her if she wanted to. Bfd Oct 2018 #2
Proof that rape has nothing to do with sex, but it's more about dominance, procon Oct 2018 #3
That would be proof indeed. They cannot have a healthy responsible relationship. Bfd Oct 2018 #10
Creep. geardaddy Oct 2018 #4
Hope they idenfy the drug and prosecute the would-be rapist. Raven123 Oct 2018 #5
Awesome news! nt Xipe Totec Oct 2018 #6
This happened more than two years ago More_Cowbell Oct 2018 #7
Thanks for posting this. salin Oct 2018 #8
Thanks for the follow up article! Cha Oct 2018 #17
The kind of 'man' Trump would defend... Women trying to ruin a good man. keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #9
Exactly. They recognize & protect their own Bfd Oct 2018 #12
That poor girl almost got Kavanaughed Garion_55 Oct 2018 #11
Makes me sick vercetti2021 Oct 2018 #13
WAIT!! This could destroy his life! getagrip_already Oct 2018 #14
Amazing job by those women ZeroSomeBrains Oct 2018 #15
Before I met my wife Johnny2X2X Oct 2018 #16
 

Bfd

(1,406 posts)
2. Why be so sinister. He could have just asked her if she wanted to.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 12:19 PM
Oct 2018

Why the sinister, "slip something in her drink" approach.

Creep

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. Proof that rape has nothing to do with sex, but it's more about dominance,
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 12:47 PM
Oct 2018

and power, and control, and subjugation. Men who rape women hate them, fear them, and are incapable of having a normal relationship. Men like that a sick, they are no less a pervert or deviant than a pedofile, and should be treated the same way.

 

Bfd

(1,406 posts)
10. That would be proof indeed. They cannot have a healthy responsible relationship.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:15 PM
Oct 2018

You explanation defines the stark personality flaw society so often dismisses.

I got chills reading your post.
No doubt, from somewhere in my past, and if I allowed myself to examine the source further, I believe I'd not be surprised to realize how often this personality type had crossed my path in life.

Maybe not a drug slipped in a drink, but manipulation so subtle that the methodical preplotting is part of the entire ritual of power & control.

I believe many have met this type of personality.



More_Cowbell

(2,204 posts)
7. This happened more than two years ago
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 01:42 PM
Oct 2018

I'm not sure why it's making the rounds again. Still, I guess it can't hurt to reread it. People need to be aware.

As an update, there were other charges like secretly videotaping the woman, but all but one of the charges were dropped due to lack of a proper warrant. https://www.laweekly.com/news/man-who-allegedly-tried-to-roofie-woman-in-bar-will-stand-trial-for-poisoning-7980864

I couldn't find what ultimately happened to him. He still had the serious charge of trying to drug the woman.

keithbvadu2

(40,091 posts)
9. The kind of 'man' Trump would defend... Women trying to ruin a good man.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 01:54 PM
Oct 2018

The kind of 'man' Trump would defend... Women trying to ruin a good man.

(sarcasm?)

vercetti2021

(10,398 posts)
13. Makes me sick
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:30 PM
Oct 2018

This is one of the biggest reasons I go to bars or clubs with my best friend who is also a female even if I don't want to go. When she gets up to use the restroom. I watch her drink so no one will spike it. Then again, I'm a 6'5, 300 pound man and would fuck up someone given the chance if they tried to do that.

Glad these women caught this. Hopefully more people will be alert on this sort of thing and intervene.

getagrip_already

(17,430 posts)
14. WAIT!! This could destroy his life!
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:48 PM
Oct 2018

(major sarcasm alert!)

He didn't get away with it, so no harm done. It was probably just vitamins anyway. He was concerned for her health.

But whatever you do, don't publically identify this guy. It might hurt his future in the GOP. Well, maybe not there, but somewhere, maybe.

ZeroSomeBrains

(638 posts)
15. Amazing job by those women
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:50 PM
Oct 2018

This needs to be a model of what to do when someone sees this happen. Tell her and alert the staff immediately of what you saw.

Johnny2X2X

(21,746 posts)
16. Before I met my wife
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 02:59 PM
Oct 2018

She was out for drinks with a girlfriend, a couple guys her girlfriend knew saw them and came over and bought them drinks. She remember having a couple drinks and then just being out of it. She left and made it to her car and just as she locked the doors one of the guys was knocking on the window and trying the handle to get in. She passed out and woke up locked safe in her car a couple hours later. She was perhaps 15 seconds from not getting into her car and locking the doors. To this day we have no idea the name of that monster that drugged her and was going to rape her.

This stuff is an epidemic and it's been going on for a long time.

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