Strange behaviour near the library last night.

[katietatie]

Something quite weird happened to me last night, and i'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar.... At about 5pm I was walking away from the library on London Road (in the direction of the Harvester.) I was walking along and talking on my phone (which i know is silly...) when a young man ran up behind me and slapped me really hard in the lower back. He then sprinted off up the road. I don't know whether it was an attempted mugging (perhaps hitting me to see if I would drop something or loosen my grip on my bag?) or someone trying to slap my backside with a dreadful aim (although the way that he sprinted away suggests that might not be the case.)

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

[BJL]

From five weeks ago - slapping at Goose Green.

Have you reported it to the police?

[Huguenot]

Is is assault, and you should report it even though it didn't cause injury.

This type of behaviour escalates, and the previous reporting will often be useful in identifying the culprit of more serious offences.

[Polmoche]

Please do report it Katiekatie. This happened while I was at university--"innocent" bum slapping for a few years with the person never caught, until he tired of it and went on to trying to assault women.

[jennyjen]

It could have been kids playing a joke but if no one else was around and the guy was clearly not a youth the you should definitely report it. Very odd behavior...

[tinagwee]

its at times like that when you think, wish I had an airgun, that'd teach the lil bugger! lol

[Brendan]

Yeah but you get into trouble for shooting kids with airguns these day. Odd I know but there you go.

When I was a boy our parish priest shot at us with a shot gun (ok they were only salt shots and he didn't actually aim at us but anyway it frightened the life out of us) Didn't dare tell anyone or we would have got into trouble for trying to steal the boxes of crisps from the church hall in the first palce.

There's no justice in this world I tell you!