Suspicious looking man...(Ferris Road, February 20th)

[Anna 82]

Not sure if this is something to worry about but I have just come home and my cousin (who is staying with me) said he saw a rather suspicious looking guy this morning on Ferris Road (just off Tyrrel Rd). He kept coming up to our front door and looking through the post box and when my cousin went to answer the door, he kept running off. He came back a few times but then ran off again. Slightly concerning!

Has anyone else seen this guy today or in fact any other day in the area? Only description is he is white, dressed in dark trousers and a dark coat and had dark hair. Not very helpful I know.

Just thought I should mention it, especially to those in the area....

[bigbadwolf]

Ring the police you silly women.

[BlueOne]

I wonder if this is the same guy discussed in the 'Peeping Tom' thread?

[Anna 82]

What are the police going to do with that info? Arrest everyone with dark clothing? I will let them know but there is nothing they will be able to do. Especially as I wasn't actually around to see it. Just wondered if anyone else had seen something?

[BlueOne]

Here's the Peeping |Tom link

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,227331,227708#msg-227708

[olski p]

Probably not very helpful calling her a silly women. Sure, remind her to call the police but why be so rude?

[bigbadwolf]

I appreciate they don't have much to go on Anna but their presence in the area will be a deterent.

[Anna 82]

Thanks Olski. Glad someone has some manners.

As for the peeping tom thread, could well be. The guy clearly new someone was in as my cousin answered the door and called out twice but he still came back. Very odd!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Make sure he sees you taking a picture of him - if he knows he will be identified that might just be enough to deter

[Anna 82]

If he comes back I will for sure.

[seanmlow]

this is concerning. Agreed, once he knows he has been identified he may go away.

What worries me is that it could be an old lady in there who may open the door to see what is going on...

[Anna 82]

I have reported it to the police. There isn't anything they can do really but they have it on file. I will keep my eye out and try and get a pic if he comes back.

[LuvPeckham]

Call the East Dulwich Safer Neighbourhood Team and alert them to his activities, they are on foot patrol in the area and can keep an eye out for suspicious behaviour... if you take a photo make sure you can't be injured when you do (i.e. the person tryign to grab the camera off you)

If you are in Nunhead / Peckham Rye then call the Peckham Rye team.

The more information they have on someone acting like this, the better the chance they have of stopping him.

He may be harmless, but then again he may not, always best not to take that chance and if the SNT's aren't on duty at the moment or it is an emergency then call 999

[matthew123]

I wonder what "honk" would have said about the description

[fractionater]

I'd go out and give him a good kicking....then call the police!

[Mikecg]

I remember a few years ago I heard the letterbox go at my old flat, I was working from home that day. I crept outside checked down the stairwell and I saw two men aged between 35 and 40 kick the door in to the flat downstairs, I called the Police, when they arrived I told them "Look" they are walking around that corner, they were more concerned about me saying they were about as urgent as a tranquilized slug than catching burglars, it was a good job Harry my 91 year old neighbour was out, they may have hurt him if he was in. During the time I called the Police and them actually arriving, they managed to ransack his flat, they never got caught.

[Strawbs]

That's my street!! I will keep an eye out and an ear out for the mailbox flap.. I was home all day yesterday and didnt see anything admittedly I was quite poorly so didnt venture out at all but will keep my eyes peeled..

[Jimbob]

Anna 82 Wrote:

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> I have reported it to the police. There isn't

> anything they can do really but they have it on

> file. I will keep my eye out and try and get a pic

> if he comes back.

there is a fair bit they can do, obviously they won,t be placing bobbies on permanent duty at the end of the street, but the likelihood is the info will be placed on daily briefing for the area and the officer responsible for the area will be aware of potential problems and will be more likely to do the occasional pass whilst on their duties, which in turn should deter the potential offender, or at least send him somewhere else, which obviously dosent solve the problem, but at least its not your problem any more.

[minder2]

best thing to do i think is open a top window and chuck a bucket of cold water over him! that should make him think twice before looking through letterboxes again invading peoples privacy.

[nylonmeals]

Weird - I had a guy come up to our house (which is on the street mentioned in the post) early evening a few nights back. He tapped at the glass of the front door and rattled the letter-box. I got a strange feeling, so went up to the door and said "Who is it" loudly. He said nothing. In fact didn't seem to move. I switched on all the lights upstairs and when I looked out of the window he was gone.

Didn't phone police - what could I have said. Someone tapped on my door and wouldn't answer me. But I was very spooked and happy when husband got home!

[Morag]

This has happened twice to our household on Hindmans Road in the afternoon 20th of January and the 13th of February. A male matching the description has rattled our letterbox twice and looked through it and he stayed there for a while just looking through. This has been reported to the police.

Personally I feel this is a tatic to gauge whether someone is actually in, to possibly burgle the premises, or from observing the target locations that have been selected by this perp, he seems to be persistant and focusing on female households, so perhaps maybe some vigilence should be called for if you are a female living alone, in case his motives are more sinister and some protection arranged for yourselves.

[SteveT]

Sharpen a stick,

wait behind the door,

when he appears poke him in the eye.

Then open the letterbox and shout "SURPRISE"!

If you can film it at the same time, you will have a winner.

[Asset]

250 quid on 'you've been framed'

[louisiana]

Aren't all men suspicious looking?

[AllforNun]

Did he have a man pouch ? and was he carrying a piece of green iron and a tambourine if so call the police NOW and get that pouch searched !