Ladies do not walk alone

[Tiff]

All through the winter myself and a couple of pals have been walking around Calis , along the creek (which the upside down bridge crosses ), and through the residential areas around the Huzurevi. Sometimes I have gone alone and felt perfectly safe. Recently I went out to walk a circuit around the creek with my much fitter and FAR more attractive , young , slim ,blonde step daughter . As she is in serious marathon training she took off at a run while I power walked .I have done this so many times and it is s built up area where I often meet like minded souls in the morning.
I have read with some distress the incidents of ladies walking home on their own late at night and being followed (and worse), and thought , silly girls what the hell do they expect walking alone in the dark ?.
HOWEVER
Imagine my distress when at 9 am, in broad daylight, right in front of some villas on the Calsi side of the creek,  a young chap passes me on a scooter ( cream colour did not get the reg) ,turns back gets off the scooter ( I am thinking he is a worker looking for one of the houses I am passing ) runs up beside me and makes a grab at my top. My reaction was to make a lot of noise which sent him back to his bike and thankfully there were other people approaching in the distance He drove off but not without turning the bike around again and giving me a flash ! I was SO fortunate that my step daughter chose that moment hove into view and we were able to walk home together.
It shook me up a bit and I have only been out once since but lost my nerve at following my usual routes choosing to stick closely to main roads very close to my house and carrying a pair of hand weights which could do some damage if anything were to happen again. On telling a good friend of my 'incident' , she told me that there have been a couple of incidents on the wide road which runs from Cafe Inn down to the Aquapark, both to women who were not alone, one was even with her husband, and a guy "goosed" her as he passed on his bike.It is shame I have to tell you this but I now dont feel so safe and what I really cannot get over is why me I am an overweight ( trying to lose it , hence the walking ),& 50 something .
Girls/ Ladies please be careful.

[laffa]

Tiff, as I was reading your post I cant help but wonder, how many more this has happened to,meaning those that have not got access to this forum, or those who have chosen to not do anything, I cant help but feel the situation is not taken seriously enough, its ok saying carry a spray etc, but its just not good enough,I know it can happen anywhere, but if it were here, there would be a strong police presence in the area,it saddens me to think yourself and others buy into the dream of a place in the sun, only to end up carrying sprays and putting bars on your windows, how sad is that.
oh and on a lighter note, how did the bloke on the bike manage to "GOOSE" the lady on the way past, must mean something different in your neck of the woods,

[tonysue]

Laffa, I think it means bum pinching.   not our goosing.

[Rimms]

I must agree with Laffa on this one. I remember about 5 years ago posting on here after we had a break in at our place. It happened at a time when the chief of police was having a drink in the Ernur hotel. Following the incident, he started a police patrol in the area and they went on to catch the people involved and sent them to prison. I remember at the time thinking how good this reaction was and how it sent a the right message to tourists as well as the criminals.

Maybe its about time someone re-introduced those evenings where local officials came to meet the residents and listened to concerns like this one. It really does need sorting out before we have a castatrophe.

[puma]

how awful what a terrible experience
hope you you get back running soon

  goosing scouse version can't be printed:D

[pelin]

Hi I had my mobile phone stolen on monday night outside my house on the main calis road, after the guy had groped me at the park near cok supermarket. Two guys were hanging around one of them walked off, my friends walked to their apartment not far from where i live the other walked the same way as my friends it looked like he was following them so i watched them walk to the gate of their apartment and started to come home, the guy who had started to follow them saw i was watching and came around the back of the park and approached me thhe groped me, and he would not go away i did not want to go into my house alone in case he followed i took my phone out to phone my husband and he grabbed it and ran off. There seems to be an increase in this behaviour, arount the area. I have always felt safe in calis however things are changing for the worse I fear.

[goodytwoshoes]

Heard from two girls ( both in their forties )who were staying at the Pelin, they had someone who tried it on groping and following them. It quite upset them, then he went past and hid near the reed beds by the mainroad bridges then jumped out and asked for sex. It also made them angry and I think the next one along would have had a right bashing with their handbags.

[amanda bullock]

i think someone should ask the police to patrol this road at night.This is becomming very worrying!!!!

[Scunner]

It's disappointing to read an increased number of reports of these sexually motivated approaches, they can really blight the whole holiday. Most of them seem, and I mean this most respectfully to those approached, a bit "carry on" and carried out by quite pathetic individuals. Jumping out of reed beds and asking for sex? How successful is that going to be? Once again I am sure it is extremely scary for the ladies involved. I have a feeling, based on nothing at all, that this could be down to just one or two prolific goosers (Southern meaning Moe lol)

In that case, all you need is a brave lady, two or three blokes waiting close by and two or three baseball bats.

[Old Daffodil]

I wonder how long they have to sit around in the reed beds waiting for a victim! Do you think they take a backgammon board in there with them to while away the time?