on the same note.....

[orange-gnome]

...as "dealing with a pervert"
A few years back I lived in Staines for a short time (yeah I know!). Anyway, while walking my dog in the park a group of little girls about nine years old started shouting abuse at me for no reason. I ignored them at first and carried on walking round anyway eventually they caught up with me and literally started kicking my bum! Obviously I wasn't about to get beaten up or anything (I was 20) they weren't that strong but it did hurt when all 12 or so were doing it over and over!
My jack russell not liking it started barking at them so a couple of them started after him, at which point I really got angry, I shouted at them to leave him and pulled them away. They left him alone then but started worse on me telling me I couldn't touch them coz I would get in trouble!
I just walked out of the park and in the direction of home but they followed me still kicking me, lots of people saw and of course did nothing. After a while I pushed the ring leader over (not hurting her), it didnt stop them. They only stopped when they saw more of their friends down the road in the other direction. It has always bothered me that I couldn't do more to stop them, they were so fearless! I was so humiliated!
What would you do? btw I had no phone on me

[WoWo]

I would have said, p*ss off or I'll set the dog on you. Then if they didn't stop I would have got the dog to bite one of them (only a little nip)

[orange-gnome]

wowo-- I would have loved that! Bless my little dog, he usually won't let anything happen to me, I have had a few incidents with grown adults and large boys that he has seen me safely out of however he is wonderfully gentle with children and knew that these were little girls, I think he was as baffled as I was to know what to do!!