Bizarre incident - roid rage?
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Had a bizarre incident today on a walk in the countryside that I can’t get my head round.
My wife and me do weekly country walk - a different area every week. Today we were halfway around a walk. We left a village and walked about a mile on a footpath across a couple of ploughed fields and then reached the base of a hill. Going up the hill were a couple of grass fields with the footpath going up the field on the left hand side. We noticed a guy in his twenties coming down the grass field on the right (not where the footpath was). He was a stocky bloke and was just wearing a t-shirt and shorts with a baseball cap the wrong way round on his head. As he reached the bottom of the hill he turned around and started running up it again, so I just assumed he was a local rugby player or someone doing interval training up the hill.
We then walked up the left hand field on the footpath and then got to the top where it flattened out and continued to walk towards a wooded area. Suddenly we heard someone shout out behind us and I turned and it was the shorts and T-shirt guy about 50 yards or so behind us asking us if we had dropped a T-shirt. I replied, no we hadn’t dropped anything and turned round to continue the walk. He then continued to call to us about a dropped t shirt, so I turned round again and he stopped about 25 yards away and dropped to his haunches and asked “well aren’t you going to come back and pick the t-shirt up”? Bearing in mind that I was dressed in a heavy fleece, hat, boots, etc I hardly looked like I had just stripped anything off.
So I told him again that we hadn’t dropped a T-shirt (we hadn’t seen any clothing dropped anywhere on our walk up the field), the guy suddenly went into rage and screamed at us that we shouldn’t litter the countryside and that he would report us to the police. This wasn’t the sort of shouting that you might get in the street from someone who has mental health issues, but real rage and it felt very threatening bearing in mind we were in the middle of nowhere. I turned round to face him again but my wife told me to just keep walking which we did with him continuing to rage behind us but by now he was shouting at us that we were ‘filth’. But he didn’t make any move to chase after us.
We entered the wood and then walked down a hill which meant we couldn’t see him, but we were constantly looking back to see if he was following us but he wasn’t. After walking a further couple of hundred yards we heard him shouting in the distance that he now had the T-shirt and if he found us he was going to “sort us out”. If he did want to find us all he had to do was run after us down the footpath!
We continued on our walk and never saw or heard from him again, but the whole incident was very strange. Given the guy was quite bulked up, I wondered if we had just experienced ‘roid rage’. It obviously unsettled us and I did wonder if we should of called the police to report an incident of threatening behaviour in case he does this to someone else. But I couldn’t really describe him as he didn’t get that close to us other than to say he was wearing shorts and a T-shirt with a baseball cap the wrong way round.
My wife and me do weekly country walk - a different area every week. Today we were halfway around a walk. We left a village and walked about a mile on a footpath across a couple of ploughed fields and then reached the base of a hill. Going up the hill were a couple of grass fields with the footpath going up the field on the left hand side. We noticed a guy in his twenties coming down the grass field on the right (not where the footpath was). He was a stocky bloke and was just wearing a t-shirt and shorts with a baseball cap the wrong way round on his head. As he reached the bottom of the hill he turned around and started running up it again, so I just assumed he was a local rugby player or someone doing interval training up the hill.
We then walked up the left hand field on the footpath and then got to the top where it flattened out and continued to walk towards a wooded area. Suddenly we heard someone shout out behind us and I turned and it was the shorts and T-shirt guy about 50 yards or so behind us asking us if we had dropped a T-shirt. I replied, no we hadn’t dropped anything and turned round to continue the walk. He then continued to call to us about a dropped t shirt, so I turned round again and he stopped about 25 yards away and dropped to his haunches and asked “well aren’t you going to come back and pick the t-shirt up”? Bearing in mind that I was dressed in a heavy fleece, hat, boots, etc I hardly looked like I had just stripped anything off.
So I told him again that we hadn’t dropped a T-shirt (we hadn’t seen any clothing dropped anywhere on our walk up the field), the guy suddenly went into rage and screamed at us that we shouldn’t litter the countryside and that he would report us to the police. This wasn’t the sort of shouting that you might get in the street from someone who has mental health issues, but real rage and it felt very threatening bearing in mind we were in the middle of nowhere. I turned round to face him again but my wife told me to just keep walking which we did with him continuing to rage behind us but by now he was shouting at us that we were ‘filth’. But he didn’t make any move to chase after us.
We entered the wood and then walked down a hill which meant we couldn’t see him, but we were constantly looking back to see if he was following us but he wasn’t. After walking a further couple of hundred yards we heard him shouting in the distance that he now had the T-shirt and if he found us he was going to “sort us out”. If he did want to find us all he had to do was run after us down the footpath!
We continued on our walk and never saw or heard from him again, but the whole incident was very strange. Given the guy was quite bulked up, I wondered if we had just experienced ‘roid rage’. It obviously unsettled us and I did wonder if we should of called the police to report an incident of threatening behaviour in case he does this to someone else. But I couldn’t really describe him as he didn’t get that close to us other than to say he was wearing shorts and a T-shirt with a baseball cap the wrong way round.
spikeyhead said:
That's terrible. Absolutely disgusting that standards have fallen so far.
It's "should have called the police," not "should of."
...and it does have the hallmarks of roid rage.
Don't forget the opening gaff of 'My wife and me do weekly country walk...'It's "should have called the police," not "should of."
...and it does have the hallmarks of roid rage.
It should be 'My Wife and I do a weekly country walk..'
Bill said:
It really sounds like it was.
That’s what I thought too.OP, try not to worry too much about it and, if you can, just move on.
Christ, I live such a sheltered life; I thought “roid rage” was just a mildly amusing misspelling and on top of that the OP was misusing it. I’m with you all now.
Edited by scenario8 on Friday 27th January 20:25
Bill said:
scenario8 said:
Christ, I live such a sheltered life; I thought “roid rage” was just a mildly amusing misspelling and on top of that the OP was misusing it. I’m with you all now.
Roid as in steroid...(Wasn’t really. Even I’m not that daft).
lord trumpton said:
spikeyhead said:
That's terrible. Absolutely disgusting that standards have fallen so far.
It's "should have called the police," not "should of."
...and it does have the hallmarks of roid rage.
Don't forget the opening gaff of 'My wife and me do weekly country walk...'It's "should have called the police," not "should of."
...and it does have the hallmarks of roid rage.
It should be 'My Wife and I do a weekly country walk..'
'gaffe', not 'gaff'.
Edited by redrabbit on Friday 27th January 21:49
Thanks all for the replies. For the original person who corrected my grammar, I didn’t know one had to be grammatically perfect before one can post on PH, particularly when one is describing a disturbing incident that happened a few hours before.
Also, just to confirm, we did not drop anything, let alone a T-shirt. The strange thing is the way the guy went from seemingly asking a straightforward question (“did you drop T-shirt?”) to extreme rage in no time at all.
Also, just to confirm, we did not drop anything, let alone a T-shirt. The strange thing is the way the guy went from seemingly asking a straightforward question (“did you drop T-shirt?”) to extreme rage in no time at all.
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