Puppies, and kiddy fiddlers, oh my.
I remember when I was a wee girl, I was playing outside the front of my house. Bear in mind we had a fairly large front garden, so I was a good distance away from the house. I don't remember much else about that day, only that a man in a white car pulled up next to me, and wound his window down to start talking to me. He then told me that he had a lot of puppies back at his house, and asked if I would like to see them.

Oh yes, NOW alarm bells are ringing about him being a kiddy fiddler. But back then I was five or six and excited to see the puppies. Fortunately my parents had drilled it into me from a very young age not to go off with strangers, so I ran back to ask them permission. By the time we got out again, the man had gone.

Why is it creepy? Because this is only something I've remembered recently. Since it meant nothing to me at the time, it was just another day. But for some reason it's come back to me, and it's down right chilling to think that he was someone quite sinister. For all I know he might have been a genuinely nice bloke, but since he drove off when I went to ask permission, I doubt that's the case. It really is creepy to think that if I wasn't made so aware of 'stranger danger', I might have gotten into that car, and I wouldn't be here today.

Though he must have been desperate, I was a pretty odd looking kid.
(Aruu does not put all her trust in root vegetables., Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:16, 7 replies)

Yeah, that makes my
blood run cold. I have a six-year old daughter and although I know this sort of crap is very rare, I get weirded out by the fine line between 'little-girl-runs-inside-and-is-OK and news-headlines-and-weepingly-distraught-parents.

I hate the idea this guy had done it before and maybe went on to do it again.

Well done for asking permission. Brrr.
(judgetheobscure used to sweep in butchers' shops., Thu 7 Apr 2011, 19:39, closed)

There was a slightly similar crime in North Wales some years ago, where some kids were 'camping' in a tent in a garden
and one, Sophie Hook, was abducted and murdered.

OK, the child didn't get a chance to ask her mum as she was taken away in the middle of the night, but she was in her cousins' garden at the time.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 22:57, closed)

Not as rare as youd like to think
it happened to me too

the man in question told me that myself and my family had won a holiday and that the holiday company had sent him to tell me and my mum and dad about it. He said that my parents were waiting at his house and would be angry if i didnt come straight away. I told the man i had to put my bike away first in case someone stole it. When i went to put my bike away my dad was in the garage. The story unfolded and i have never seen my dad move as fast but the man had obviously got worried and left.
(Cov Boy, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 0:46, closed)

Fuck and double fuck!
I remember being about seven or eight and round my mum's friend's house. She has two kids (now adults, technically) a year young and a year older than me. The three of us were playing on the swings at the park very close to their house, when a beaten up Transit van stopped on the road, two men got out and started making the relatively long walk towards the swings. They could of course have simply have stopped to ask directions, mistaken us for kids they knew etc, but Sara (who's the eldest) and I looked at each other and she just said "run!". We got Dylan's attention, who I think too had stopped swinging and we ran to their house as quick as our weiner legs legs could, not stopping to see if they followed, just ran.

As I said, I really have no idea what they wanted... but there was something that smelt a little Mystic River about it. You kind of dout and forget these things, but Sara and I talked about it not too long ago, and we both didn't think they were just coming over for a friendly chat.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 3:52, closed)

"Though he must have been desperate, I was a pretty odd looking kid"
it is a well known fact that they only go after sexy kids
(whorsepower needs an amusing sig, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 13:33, closed)

Well...
I did use to have a habit of flashing my knickers as a wee one.
(Aruu does not put all her trust in root vegetables., Thu 14 Apr 2011, 12:26, closed)

Similar thing happened to me when I was a little older, maybe 7/8
It wasn't puppies, but he was asking for directions, then asked if we'd come with to show him. He seemed reasonable enough, not scary or anything, but strangerdanger had been drilled into me and even this particular technique 'can you come with me to show me the way'. So, recognising that this was a bit suspicious like, I said know, but my friend was all for it despite being a couple years older.

Not sure what happened, but the man drove off without either of us. I remember him saying something to us like 'oh you don't won't to come with me because your parents have warned you about stranger danger'. Maybe my friend was too old for him, or the fact I was suspicious and reluctant freaked him off, or maybe he was just an idiot who didn't realise you shouldn't ask little kids into the car with you...

I think I told my parents who wanted to know what the car looked like, what he looked like etc

But like you the strange thing is it wasn't scary much at all when it happened.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 0:52, closed)