A Reddit user said a female friend called him because her ex was stalking her and had followed her onto a bus. According to his comment in the thread, she was scared enough to reach out while it was happening, so he told her to stay on the bus and said he would catch up to it and meet her at the next stop.
He wrote that he got there first and was waiting when the bus pulled up. Then the exact thing he had been worried about happened. His friend got off, and the ex got off behind her too. The commenter said the man kept one hand inside his messenger bag, holding it there in a way that made it look like he might have a weapon.
That was when he drew. He said he pointed the gun at the man and told him not to come one step closer and to take his hand out of the bag. According to the comment, the man complied. The Reddit user got his friend into the car, and the two of them left without any shots fired.
He described it as a pretty tense situation, and from the way he told it, there was not much room to second-guess what was happening. His friend had already called saying she was being stalked, he got to the bus stop to intercept her, and the ex stepped off the bus right behind her with his hand still inside the bag. Once that happened, the whole thing came down to a gun being drawn, a command being given, and the man backing down long enough for them to get out of there.
The story itself was short and direct. A woman called saying her ex was following her on a bus, her friend raced to the next stop, and when the ex got off behind her with one hand in his bag, the friend drew and ordered him to stop. The man did, and that was enough to end it without anyone getting hurt.
What do you think — if someone you cared about called and said an ex was following them on public transit, would you do what he did and meet them at the next stop, or tell them to stay on until police could intercept?
Original Reddit post: Have you ever had to draw your firearm on someone or something?
