Threatened during a workout due to Corona fearing citizen

ceo24 wrote:

Similar thing happened to me today. Wanted to get out of the apartment for a bit, rode the skateboard over to an empty parking lot, and just went around in circles for like ten minutes. Didn't come close to anybody. Then, some dude walking his dog on the other side of the street just starts laying into me for being outside. Best quote, "You're not f-ing Tony Hawk!". Asked him why he was out, said his dog had to poop.

Most people are super tense right now, and for good reason. But I think it helps everybody if people can also keep their cool.

Yeah people

Are really edgy. I went to the grocery store after work on Fri with my hospital logo on the front of my polo shirt. I got more dirty looks from the fatties that I had a medical center polo. Yeah I do patient care, but at least I’m working and helping fellow humans unlike these fat slobs who contribute nothing of value to the world.

That’s a good thing. More / faster this is spread to 2/3 population, the faster to herd immunity.

Biggest vector is healthcare workers spreading it to population outside of healthcare facilities.

Nursing home / assisted living outbreaks here, in the last months these residents did not:

Ski in the Alps

Study abroad

Go to spring break

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All I'm saying is that yes - there are enough tracks in my area of the country that are in neighborhoods, that people who live in the neighborhood could easily look out their window and see the track. In places like the northeast there are a lot of neighborhood schools that the kids walk to. Out in the midwest I know a lot of kids are chauffeured everywhere in vans, but here we have a lot of sidewalks, and it is more densely populated. If I lived in a neighborhood with a track, would I watch people work out? Of course not. That doesn't mean other people wouldn't, especially now with everyone forced to stay in their homes.

The story just seems pretty plausible to me.

nearest hippie wrote:

All I'm saying is that yes - there are enough tracks in my area of the country that are in neighborhoods, that people who live in the neighborhood could easily look out their window and see the track. In places like the northeast there are a lot of neighborhood schools that the kids walk to. Out in the midwest I know a lot of kids are chauffeured everywhere in vans, but here we have a lot of sidewalks, and it is more densely populated. If I lived in a neighborhood with a track, would I watch people work out? Of course not. That doesn't mean other people wouldn't, especially now with everyone forced to stay in their homes.

The story just seems pretty plausible to me.

Please post the shelter in place/quarantine notice from your governing municipality.

mikedpitt wrote:

Yes, it was I that hassled you due to poor grammar.

You would only need a comma if “Due to poor grammar” was at the start of the sentence.

Yes, due to poor grammar, I hassled you.

If you were grammatically incorrect on purpose, I get the joke. However, there was no way for me to tell.

Come on, dude. Don't correct people if you don't understand grammar.

Your sentence ("Yes, it was I that hassled you due to poor grammar.") makes "due to poor grammar" a restrictive clause. It implies that we already knows that the reason for the hassling was poor grammar, and we're simply identifying who did the hassling.

But that's not what the guy was saying. In his sentence ("Yes, it was I that hassled you, due to poor grammar."), the last part is a nonrestrictive clause. It's adding further information about the reason for hassling, not simply identifying which act of hassling we're talking about.

Of course, the real point is that there's a fair amount of latitude in comma use. Some publications would include that comma, others wouldn't. Neither is clearly right or wrong unless you're in a context where a specific style guide applies. And that sure as heck doesn't apply here.

You assume people everywhere are lying and your enemy, you automatically leap to ridiculous assumptions and catastrophic scenarios like runaway cars, ec. and you're aggressively arrogant...

OFFICER.

Yep. I want to amend my previous posting only to agree with him that yes, he's definitely a cop.

fear as a weapon wrote:

Today I was watched a majority of my workout by some creep who watched from his house while I worked out on a public track that isn’t closed. Finished my workout and I’m heading to my car and this guy comes screaming at me telling me to leave and to get inside. Me being the petty human being I am took my time and stressed him out. Is this happening all over the country?

I had something similar yesterday on my run, although more a case of just drunken idiots being stupid. Running through a deserted park that has some tall houses one one side, I heard a couple of men shouting to 'put your mask on', and looked up to see two guys holding cans of beer on a balcony. It's compulsory to wear face masks or cover your face with something here (as I do), but had pulled down my covering just for a few seconds to get some oxygen. The thing is the two drunks had their faces uncovered and they were 'outside' on their balcony. They were the only other people within view.

They looked and sounded like Ukrainiacs, so I stopped and shouted back at them in Russian something about Crimea while giving them my middle fingers. They appeared to s *** t themselves and went back inside.

fear as a weapon wrote:

Me being the petty human being I am took my time and stressed him out. Is this happening all over the country?

Yes, but especially on letsrun.

Here's the passive/aggressive "threat" or "request I received on this forum:

runners run wrote:

Allen53, once this is over please stay away from the masters threads. That's been a good place and we don't need your half-baked conspiracy theories and agenda-driven trope there. Thanks.