Re: Ask BOTW what it is like to be a stalker...
when i was in high school, one of my (hot and female) classmates lived directly behind me. from my bedroom you could see the pool in her yard and the patio around it. from the balcony off the back of my house, you could see directly into her bedroom. i never really took advantage of this, as i considered her a friend and i'm not a scumbag.
plus i wanted to keep using her pool.
i had pretty slack parents and a huge house, so my friends would usually hang out at my place. i was a pretty slack kid, so they'd sometimes bring their friends to play my state of the art sega genesis on our massive 31" sony tv. often when i wasn't home. my parents were inexplicably okay with this. i said they were slack.
it turns out one of these friends of a friend was stalking the girl who lived behind me. i kinda hated him, but he'd show up at my house all the time. if i was home, he'd say he was looking for one of our mutual friends and leave. (this was in the dark ages pre everyone had a cel phone). if i wasn't home, he'd take advantage of my parents inability to tell my friends apart to hang out in my room or on the balcony, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his obsession. i had no idea this was going on until i came home after midnight with one of my nascent girlfriends intending to sneak her in the back. we sneak up the stairs, and this creepy dude is hidden on my balcony holding binoculars.
i didn't want to get busted breaking curfew and smuggling a girl into the house, so i just took his binoculars and told him never to visit my house again. i told my neighbor what was going on and apologized. three days later her brother caught him in my backyard at about 6am. after an ass kicking, he stopped using the backyard as a staging area, but didn't stop stalking her.
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