{"id":64769,"date":"2025-01-28T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/woman-goes-viral-after-escaping-creepy-man-following-her-during-run-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:52:08","slug":"woman-goes-viral-after-escaping-creepy-man-following-her-during-run-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/woman-goes-viral-after-escaping-creepy-man-following-her-during-run-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman goes viral after escaping \u201ccreepy\u201d man following her during run &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman goes viral after escaping \u201ccreepy\u201d man following her during run TIKTOK: lacie_kraatzA TikToker went viral after escaping a \u201ccreepy\u201d man that was allegedly following her during her run for over a mile and a half. Content creator Lacie (lacie_kraatz) recorded a video of herself informing women to be aware of their surroundings, while a stranger was walking a few feet behind her. \u201cHello, I\u2019m just making this video so that women are a little bit more aware of them. See the gentleman behind me? Yeah, this is what this video is about,\u201d she began, pointing to the unknown man. Lacie revealed that during her run, the man was ahead of her, running in the opposite direction. However, she said things got suspicious when he allegedly \u201cwaited\u201d and \u201cstopped in the middle of the trail just to get behind\u201d her Woman gets followed by unknown man during run But as soon as she continued her walk, the stranger got \u201cin front of\u201d her. \u201cHe just keeps doing a peek like this behind him, over and over again,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd yes, I went a different way on the trail just to give him the benefit of the doubt.\u201d Lacie even ran through a red light to create distance, and he allegedly followed suit. In the clip, the man appeared to be running behind her as she sped up. The TikToker added that she wanted to \u201cdo three miles,\u201d but had to cut her run short because \u201ccreepy men just had to be creepy f**king men today.\u201d \u201cIf, for a minute, you feel like someone\u2019s following you \u2013 odds are it\u2019s probably happening,\u201d she concluded in the video, which went viral with 3.7 million views on TikTok. In a follow-up clip, Lacie said that she ended up walking through someone\u2019s backyard to escape the man, and that he did not see where she lived. \u201cI\u2019m so happy you\u2019re safe, but this terrifies me for my daughters,\u201d one viewer commented. \u201cIn broad daylight too. These people are insane. We are never safe,\u201d another shared. \u201cDon\u2019t ever go home when this happens. Go to a busy public area and call a ride,\u201d someone advised. \u201cSome people saying police stations, I also say if there is a firehouse nearby that\u2019s a good place to pitstop and spook away a stalker,\u201d another added. For more TikTok news and other viral stories, check out our coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman goes viral after escaping \u201ccreepy\u201d man following her during run TIKTOK: lacie_kraatzA TikToker went viral after escaping a \u201ccreepy\u201d man that was allegedly following her during her run for over a mile and a half. Content creator Lacie (lacie_kraatz) recorded a video of herself informing women to be aware of their surroundings, while a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}