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Police: Woman who's had enough of this crap tries to detain shlub who'd just flashed her on Mem Drive

State Police Seek Public's Help in Finding Flasher

Flasher

State Police report they're looking for a man who likely didn't reckon a woman would try to hold him for police after he exposed himself to her while she jogged along Memorial Drive last Thursday evening - or that their interaction would be recorded by a surveillance camera.

State Police, who released a portion of a video of their interaction, around 7:30 p.m. near Vassar Street, report:

The woman pursued the man and attempted to physically detain him while calling for those nearby to contact police.

The man resisted the woman’s attempt to detain him and fled the area, last seen running down Amesbury Street.

The man is described as:

A white male with a heavy build, short dark colored hair, a receding hair line, wearing black and grey running clothes and black running shoes with white soles.

If he looks familiar, or you have any info, contact Trooper Martin Concannon at 617-727-6780.

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Kudos to the brave woman who refused to let this clown get away with his cowardly ding-dong exposing act!

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she should have asked him to see it again and then dragged him by his dick into the river.

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Is it legal to grab someone because (you think) they intentionally flashed you?

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A citizen can make an arrest if they see someone commit a felony. This was a felony, the citizen witnessed it and tried to make an "arrest".

So I think she is in the clear from any wrongdoing. Good thing we are worried about that here.

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Thank you. It's always the guy we are worried about. Jeez, he's still going to take home 20% more than her; the dude will be fine. Chill the eff' out.

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I'm worried about both of them getting treated fairly, according to the law and considering the facts in evidence.

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So you can quit worrying, it isn't healthy.

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No cop would arrest, no prosecutor would charge, and no jury would convict the lady unless she was shown to be completely untrustworthy for whatever reason.

Plus cops might have video of the flashing. Lots of good reasons not to release that.

Hope they catch and convict the guy and throw the book at him.

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Ohhhh the poor guy...women really aren't smart enough to know when someone is flashing them, harassing them or raping them. I guess it's lucky our bodies have a way of just "shutting down" when that happens. FFS.

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He messed with the wrong person. She is taller, faster, and in much better shape!
I'm sure she could have pushed him in the Charles, slowing him down.

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So we have a surveillance video that starts one second after he did anything incriminating? Seems weird. You could tell me that it was edited specifically not to show this guys junk, but this is from a distance and they couldn't get any shot of him acting strange? Hopefully the rest of the vid will lead to a conviction and this isn't just a waste of time.

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What makes you think the State Police released the entire video?

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Just saying they could have shown us something without showing us something. KnowwhutImean?

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Why is it so important to see?

In any case, legally, they probably wouldn't want to release that part because if the guy is caught, it will be used as evidence against him at his trial, and it's not a good idea to just release evidence beforehand for any number of reasons (start with potentially shrinking the jury pool). So what they released (and I'm kind of surprised they even released the video with the victim in it) can maybe help ID the guy, but won't help his case at all.

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Why is it ok to release the part they did release? Would seeing that be fine if you're on the jury?

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And assuming he's charged with open and gross lewdness, then what a prosecutor might want to show the jury is the actual act, i.e., him pulling down his shorts or whipping out his little twig or whatever, because the goal would be to convict him on that. The part of the video that was posted obviously doesn't show that.

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Seems weird you feel you have to be THAT guy.

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The success rate must be very low for this pickup technique- to the extent you could call it that. Maybe if the woman was desperate and the guy looked like Zac Efron, but even then, I doubt this would work.

Anyone know someone that met their significant other this way?

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Sorry, Mark, it's just not working out. Time for another break.

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but you’ve had your right hand your whole life.

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What a way to minimize the alleged crime...

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Sexual harassment isn’t funny, guy. Lucky for you, statistically, it is much less likely that you will be sexually harassed/assaulted in your lifetime than us ladies so you can make a joke of it.

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The victim is a veteran of the Israeli military so it's no surprise she acted appropriately in attempting an arrest on a felony that she knew the suspect "in fact committed." It is also important to note that she reported it to police and surveillance footage was quickly produced.

That's a much better approach than saying, "I didn't have time to stop" but I had time to publish a lengthy piece for public radio about the attack. Hopefully when the suspect is arrested his name will not be covered up like the UMass Vietnam Veteran's Memorial swastika suspect.

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Just waiting to hear how Elizabeth Warren is at fault for this...

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I'm waiting to hear how it ties in with that Boston Globe phone operator who was in Manila, even though Oafish dialed a Dorchester number!

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She tossed him down and sat on him while asking passers by to call police.
Sadly, none did. Adam should add the interesting details to the story.

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I'd imagine that those people who refused to call 911 are feeling ashamed of themselves now.

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That's ridiculous that nobody helped if it got that physical. I could understand someone passing by if it just looked like a verbal argument but this is another case. People need to look out for each other more.

Also the black pickup that passed the camera at 0:08 was the Cambridge SWAT K9 truck that patrols around Harvard Square, too bad he didn't see them!

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NBC Boston reports the woman served in the Israeli military and "I was not ready to see his little [expletive]."

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This also probably explains why she fought back.. military woman.

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This also probably explains why she fought back.. military woman

Yup. Could very well be.

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Was NBC Boston trying to , uh, make some kind of a point? :-)

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And obviously a very small putz.

Adam, please update this when they catch him.

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