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With your luck, fenwaydav, it will be a lesbian and you'll lose!!!!

Fenway,

I see Daisy is back in the pic. I like it. :)

I looked at the posters on the train today and my first thought was: "Yeah, ok, good luck making this work without somebody screaming rape for no reason". You are absolutely right. If I could scream everytime I'm 'touched' the blue line would never make it out of my station. I think they are giving some folks too much credit by not being specific about what is considered "groping". We'll hear about this. Soon.

Hi June and Xantun, Both of you make great points. Another point if I may. Couldn't those cops handing out the literature been doing some other detail and let the guy giving out the Metro do that? With all the talk about Police doing details for useless things.

And a "not afraid to defend herself by any non-lethal means necessary" female passenger goes a long way too, Chip. Dave's right about the trains- when they're packed, they're really packed. It's not like someone, even if they ARE groping women on purpose, is going to be dashing off down an empty train or bus during rush hour. A well-placed elbow (or knee) is FAR more efficient than just screaming and taking pics with a camera phone.

Dave, I thought it was T police handing this stuff out? If it is the T cops, then no, they need to be hanging around in the stations and on trains for serious issues. If it's Boston Police, then yeah, I'd say give the duty to the people handing out the Metro cards.

Xantun, It was the transit police. That's what I mean, let them ride the trains. A perfect solution is to hold your hands over your head, or just cut them off all together.....I almost feel like going down and riding the T now. You think 5 PM a good time?

Xantun,

One good karate chop to the throat is a great one too! :)

I think I'd rather wait until I have him nice and hurt before turning him over. After all, once I give him to police I won't get my chance anymore, LOL!

True story: I take kickboxing. It's pretty good self-defense (of course, it won't be as effective against a weapon, but one has to try). Anyway, on my way home from the gym about 2 months ago, I was walking home and this guy stayed in step with me the entire way. About 2 blocks in, I realized he was in fact following me. If I slowed, he slowed. If I sped up, so did he. It's amazing but my entire body became aware of his every move. I shut off my ipod, took my keys in my hand, tensed and prepared to attack the hell out of him. When I reached my corner, I walked out onto the middle of the street with a green light (traffic halted) turned around and charged him while everyone was watching. He ran off. He didn't expect that. I've been more careful since.

Dave, all this campaign is going to do is help bankrupt the T even further. (False arrests leading to huge lawsuits.) It's not going to do much, if anything, about stopping intentional groping. I'm all for them looking into ways to stop the problem, but this isn't the solution. There's got to be more effective ways to handle this.