Naked Neighbor Haunts Apartment Complex

[El Pelon]

Naked Neighbor Haunts Apartment Complex
Wednesday, October 13, 2004

If a naked man knocks on your door and asks to use your phone, don't let him in.

That's the message Chapel Hill, N.C., police are giving residents of a local apartment complex following a string of bizarre incidents, reports The Herald-Sun of Durham, N.C.

In each case, the man, unclothed from the waist down, approaches a woman at the Chapel Ridge Apartments (search) with a sad story — he's lost a bet, he's the victim of a practical joke, his girlfriend kicked him out of her apartment — and says he needs to call a friend to pick him up.

In reality, police say, he's just a creative, if polite, pervert who wants to be naked around women he doesn't know.

"It's a sense of watching firsthand, from his perspective, the person's reaction," said Sabrina Garcia, a crisis counselor at the Chapel Hill Police Department (search).

The first incident was nearly a year ago, in November 2003. Since then, the naked neighbor has knocked on apartment doors in March, April, May and June of this year.


This past Monday night, a woman was sitting in her car outside the apartment complex when she saw a guy walking around without his britches on.

He started looking in parked cars, she told police, and when he saw her, walked over and gestured that he needed to use her cell phone.

She refused to open the door or window, and he walked away. Police responding to her 911 call couldn't find him.

"This perpetrator assumes [the] victim is not as bright or as smart as he is," Garcia said.

Speaking of similar flashers, she explained that "their goal is to see the victim's reaction and to see how far they can manipulate their actions for as long as they can."

The apartment-complex creep doesn't sound dangerous so far, but Garcia pointed out that men who expose themselves sometimes escalate their activities as the original thrill wears off.

Garcia said police were looking for a white male aged 20 to 30, between 5 feet 8 inches and 6 feet tall, with brown eyes and brown hair that on Monday was slightly spiky in the front.

[DawnC71]

Ted Bundy started out by spanking his monkey as a peeping tom.....that is the thing with these pervs...at some point the "minor nuisance" caused by this type of "thrill" is not enough to control their impulses and they often take it to the next level by committing more serious crimes like sexually abusing their victims and killing them.....Certainly hope the police start taking this a little more seriously as it sounds like they are just treating it as a bizzarre but harmless case. Hope they are not simply waiting for something more serious to happen. Jeeze they should have enough witnesses to be able to put together a good composite sketch of the guy at this point at least. That bogus physical description could be anybody.
Peace,
Dawn

[El Pelon]

I agree Dawn. So many times there are warning signs for those that go over to the dark side. How many documentaries are on TV where one wonders "why didn't they stop him then???" Too many times the early signs of major problems are ignored and when it gets bad, people wonder why it had to happen and why did innocent people have to get hurt before action was taken.

[unklenastie]

Stories like this make me hate my home state. No doubt that something needs to be done about Mr. Nakey Man. Pervs like that cant be tolerated.

[Texas Carnie Roadshow]

Wait for the one time that reaction he's waiting for turns out to be a very painful feeling in his crotchial area as he gets beaten, bloodied, battered and bruised by some single mother who just got even with her wife-beating ex-husband, is going lesbian, and who's favorite song is "I Will Survive."

[Gopi]

he's lost a bet, he's the victim of a practical joke, his girlfriend kicked him out of her apartment

If you give him the benifit of doubt the guy's had a tough time.

Reminds me of the German who got stuck half way through his 'cat' flap & who's cries for help attracted some jokers who took off his trousers, stuck a daffodil in his arse & wrote a sign saying 'I am a performance artist. Please give generously'.

Better off treating the thinking of the women who feel sorry for a guy with no pants.