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+1.  I'm the PP that made that comment, and I'm not saying that the fact that he was walking a dog is suspicious.  (I have a dog!  And walk it!).  I'm not a helicopter parent at all (frankly, I can barely keep track of my own comings and goings, never mind the kids.)  But the fact that someone is following you for 30 minutes is, at least, odd.  When I am walking by myself, as a woman, that is EXACTLY the kind of thing that I am on alert for.  If it looks like someone is following me, I cross the street and pretend to tie my shoelace.  If the person is just walking in the same direction that I was, they will just keep on going and I breathe a sigh of relief.  If the person stops to tie their shoelace or fiddle with their phone, I get to a safe place FAST.  That's just personal safety 101 -- be aware of your surroundings and attentive to unusual behavior.  I always tell my kid that if they see a person or a car that seems to be following them, get away from it immediately and if it persists in following you, start screaming bloody murder.  If you let your kids "free range" and don't give them this sort of training, I do think that's pretty irresponsible.  [/quote]

If I (an adult woman) noticed a guy with a dog going the same way I was, walking around at 5 pm on a spring Sunday in downtown Silver Spring, with lots of other people doing exactly the same thing, I would probably think, "Oh, that guy is going the same way I am." Obviously I am not ready to go out in public unsupervised.[/quote]

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