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Smooth and shiny wrote: Today, 8:45 am In my case I was "caught out" a couple of years ago. The following story is unfortunately true. For a few years now, I have sometimes enjoyed a rainy day out on my bicycle, I have found this is an ideal way to go out in public wearing shiny rainwear. I think I can guarantee what happened to me one rainy day in May would not happen to you. I set off in a long PVC mac with my PVC shorts on underneath, anticipating an enjoyable day out in the rain. I pedalled up the hill, along Station Road, just as I get into the town centre, a policewoman steps into the road, and holds her hand up for me to stop. What on earth can she want with somebody riding a bicycle, I thought. She comments on how well dressed I was for the weather, she then asks me my name, then its "we'd like to talk to you about allegations of stalking". My world is instantly turned upside down. In a few seconds there are two other police officers on the scene, another woman and a policeman, who turns out to be the officer in charge. I was taken back home so that I could get changed and to let the officer search my house. They took my mac and my PVC shorts, as well as some other clothing away as evidence, while I was taken to the custody suite in a nearby city. After several hours at the police station being questioned, I was allowed to go. In the end charges of stalking were never brought, but after about a year I had to go to court on charges of criminal damage and theft.
To show the background to these events, I had taken revenge against a former employer who decades ago had done his level best to chip away at what little confidence I had, continually criticising my work and doing his best to find fault when there was nothing really wrong. This treatment was not given to other members of staff who were mostly women a lot older than me, with the result that I felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the way I worked, a feeling that has persisted up to this day. I often carried out attacks on his car and other property in the early morning when it was raining, to cover up the sound of my footsteps, and I always wore my mac when I went to do this. The officers must have looked at cctv footage from the scene, when the first policewoman saw me wearing my PVC mac she must have realised that it was me. Looking back on the five years I spent working for this cunning , arrogant, perverse bully, I think of him as little better than a child molester in terms of the psychological damage he caused me.

vp39 wrote: Today, 5:20 pm I've never had the nerve to try walking in the woods with any of my plastic gear showing unless it's a raincoat over my normal clothes when it's actually raining. I have several woods trails within walking distance from the house, and dozens within a few minutes' drive. (I'm in western Washington.) One place has so many trails that even if the parking lot is full I might walk for an hour and not meet anyone. But if I was in plastics and tried that, it'd be Grand Central Station.