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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 22:46:11 GMT
I once had my bike stolen, which is kind of the same thing. It was at 6th form college, and I was getting pretty blasé about locking my bike up, it was a pretty shit bike, and I hadn't been putting the lock on it for about 3 months. Then one day, it wasn't there, it had finally been stolen. I had two options at this point, go to reception or the police, and risk getting humiliated when I tell them my bike wasn't locked up with little chance of it ever being retrieved, let alone getting a conviction against the evil bastard(s) who did it. Or stay quiet, and try and find some way of moving on with my life. I chose the later, I stayed quiet. I didn't want to be the victim. It is not easy coming forward in cases like this so I an empathise with what these women are going through, and it is only now I can speak up about what happened to me. Think of all the bikes that might not have been stolen had you come forward when it happened. So many innocent bikes harassed and raped that could have been prevented had someone stronger than you come forward. Now all you can do is say "what if?" Well I was young, 16 or 17, and in all honesty I blamed myself, I felt ashamed, dirty. It is only now I realise it wasn't my fault.
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