I mean look at what happened with those elderly people whose information was tweeted by Spike Lee for allegedly being the residence of George Zimmerman. They received hate mail and threats.

If this dude is a FB stalker, the authorities should handle it. Vigilante justice isn't allowed for a reason.

yeah if only she had a gun none of this wouldof happened right?!?

yeah if only she had a gun none of this wouldof happened right?!?

Uh...what?

Cause you can totally shoot a Facebook profile.

i dunno, thats usually everyones solution on here to everything. invoke weapons.

First thing women think of when a guy acts like a d*ick is that he has a small one. Given the number of rapists, pedophiles, stalkers and men who beat up their wives or girlfriends, there must be a whole lot of itty bitty johnsons out there.

i dunno, thats usually everyones solution on here to everything. invoke weapons.

Indeed. Why get the justice system involved when I can just shoot something?

"I sent a picture of my penis to a stranger, and she told everyone. I'm offended, and my feelings are hurt."

Shouldn't the world ALWAYS work this way? When a member of congress tells a baldfaced lie, shouldn't ALL the other members of congress call him a liar? If you're a world famous football coach at Penn State, shouldn't you follow through and MAKE SURE something is done about a child rape? I don't see what the question is here.

This is how the world should always work. It's called personal responsible. Don't do things to strangers you wouldn't want everyone to know about. If you can't grasp why, it's a sign of mental illness.

littlechanges,

I find myself curious/disgusted by my interest in the significance of your name...and your obvious obsession with little peckers.

If this dude is a FB stalker, the authorities should handle it.

She did ;) (not saying it's right, i just think its amusing.)

pishaw

When a member of congress tells a baldfaced lie, shouldn't ALL the other members of congress call him a liar?

What country do you live in? Here in America that would be the pot calling the kettle black. Are you going to call your coworker a liar when you are one too?

Outing a stalker on Facebook does not make the victim wrong. I applaud her move. She took the power out of his hands by refusing to shake in fear while remaining silent. The fault lies with the crackpot who sent her the photos and the crackpots that will harrass him. She did nothing wrong. It is time people stop blaming the victims and put the blame where it belongs.

She's a German Police officer She doesn't really need a gun. How not to get your ass kicked by the police(see SNL) is to not make a German Police Officer Angry. Now for any woman that is being stalked finding a way to publicly humiliate stalker more power to you. Stalking is a psycopathy for whatever reason people devolp a fixation on another person and then bad things happen. In this case the idiot better just back off the officer ( He's in for a real asswhoopin') and then Jail time. so yeah the officer has a right to call the idiot out. Maybe it will save him a hospital trip. See ballad of Blue Cyclone by RaY Stevens you stalking idiot. Follow Ray's advice or one day you will need an undertaker not a doctor.

pishaw,

Penn State has never had a "world famous" football coach. What we call soccer is what the rest of the world calls football and they don't follow American college football. If you are refering to Paterno, what was reported to him was not "child rape" but suspicious activity which he followed through and reported to the head of the police who had jurisdiction over the event and to his University superiors. This event did not involve any of the then current members of his football team. His actions were reviewed by a Grand Jury who felt he had done nothing wrong. The tendentious media - looking for sensationalism/publicity to sell their product and willing to go to any lengths and exaggerate to make it appear so - smeared Paterno. This created a lynch mob mentality. The University/Board of Trustees (of which the Governor was a part) needed a scapegoat to protect their complicity in not aggressively pursuing the matter when it was reported to them (they apparently swept it under the rug). To say or infer that Paterno had anything to do with raping or molesting children is preposterous. From what I have learned about him, he lived a far better life than those who would condemn him, a life worthy of respect and veneration.

In general it is "personally responsible" to wait until an individual is proven to be guilty before you condemn them. This is where you and Frau Friedrich have misstepped. As has been asked, does she know for certain that the person that she has "exposed" is in fact the guilty party? If not, it could be libel. In any event it is a distraction from her training and competition which is where she should be focused. This is probably why her coaches are upset.

I am afraid the part of the story I find amusing is her coach saying this is not a public issue...what on earth is Facebook if not public......and her being a cop..really if anyone should know that you do not out an Alleged criminal before they are found guilty in a court of law it should be her......

Turn about is fair play, IMO, in this instance. If he can give it, he can take it! I think she is doing what she needs to do for herself and good for her!

and if in fact the person using the name on Facebook is not really the person she outed???? Do you really believe everyone on facebook is who they say they are......how sad....

I do not believe anything about facebook, don't use it and never will. That cr4p is for idiots, much like Craigslist, IMO. In fact, how sad for you that you are probably are on both those sites on a regular basis.

Ouch...just like your last post.....you seem to jump to conclusions before you know the facts...and that is what is truly sad.......I use neither...and I hope you never serve on/any jury duty.....I wouldn't want an innocent person sent to prison......because someone jumps to conclusions....

She did right and deserves a "Job well done".

who the hell said I was dressing to provoke a reaction? Sorry, I work in corporate America, I don't dress like a whore when going to my job in a cubicle, and 9 times out of 10 I am not even wearing make up. Maybe it's those sexy converse sneakers I wear. or perhaps that really cool north face jacket.

meh, pay him no mind.. he's a conservative republican, clearly. its always the womans fault.

someone is always to blame, but NEVER them.

ahh.. i love listening to single men. its YOUR fault i gawked at you sexually cause youre attractive!

next he'll be posting about why gays should just excersise self control and not be gay.

maybe he takes it as a compliment when people look at him like he is an idiot or a pervert?

never know..

men have a penis! its not their fault!

If they're going to blame their penis for their lack of common decency, then remove the source of the problem.

Ate a lot of lead paint chips as a child, didn't we?

Personally, I do take it as a complement if I see a woman giving me a once-over on the street or in a restaurant. It's a nice little self-esteem boost. I'm not saying I leer like a drunken frat boy, but if I see a very attractive woman, I'm going to look, and I'm not going to feel bad about it.

no doubt. after all, as men we just have ZERO ability to control our thoughts, bodies, actions.. its the womans fault of course.

Scott, that's typical statement from a GUY. Why is it guys never want to take responsibility for their own actions and try to blame the woman? They sound like Muslim Extremists who want all of their women to wear things like a Burka because the men don't have the will power to keep their you know what in their pants. So they blame the women for the mens failings and make them cover everything.

believerof, you're a man?

Wow. You hide it well.

I am not some crazy feminist, but I stand by my point that there are a lot of men - maybe not majority - that take the gawking to far, and to a point that makes a female uncomfrotable, and that is a fact.

a common symptom of of questioning others manliness is a feeling of weakness about your own.

Gawking at its worst is obnoxious, but who cares? It's not even worth a conversation. Stalking is delusional and dangerous.

chris-629698, are you so stupid you can't see the sarcasm in believerof's comment?

There is a difference between a guy quietly admiring a woman, and a guy that wants to make sure that you know he is leering at you. One is an instinctual reaction that is not offensive, and the other is an attempt by the leering man to be aggressive and intimidating. I usually respond to the latter with a polite but stern "WTF are you looking at?" and that usual shuts them down. Guys take note - if you look you look, but don't make a woman feel you are marking her for your lunch menu. And if you actively pursue acknowledgement of your leering then the majority of women will interpret that as threatening.

Chris 629698 you said:

That only happens if you're really stunning..

Oh if that were only true. If it were only about checking out a cute girl, but the ones who actively leer are really attempting to make a woman feel small and vulnerable not compliment them. so it really is not about how beautiful she is.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.......North Face....MMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Hardly think this discussion would be taking place if Eve had just left well enough alone with the fruit!

The staring from the car window, the turning around to watch a female walk by or the creepy comments at the deli counter - its all intrusive. I don't care what the female is doing or wearing to garner the attention.

Poor you, it's just so hard being attractive, give it a few more years and it will pass

the bigpicture

who the hell said I was dressing to provoke a reaction?

-----What? Are you as ugly as the gal in this article is? Grow up. You take your sensitivity training way too seriously. You are a big part of the problem society faces.

Tough crowd here tonight. Now ladies not all of us are bad guys.

No, Rick, not all of you are bad guys and you can tell that by the number of men that can understand the issue.

However, there are a sufficient number that see women as their prey to make it a grave concern. I don't blame the individual men as much as the societal beliefs that have fostered the attitudes for centuries. Just like the sarcastic comment about Eve above. It truly is the belief of some men that it is still all the woman's fault. Until our societies (note plural) really start to demand civil, moral awareness of the ugliness fostered by the idea that women are created for the pleasure of a man's sexual and control issues, the problems will continue to exist.

What if the picture wasn't of him?

The rumor out now is the pictures were from Brett Favre...

The rumor out now is the pictures were from Brett Favre...

Maybe Anthony Weiner let the snake out of its cage again.

coulda been mark foley.. or maybe ted haggard? nah, he likes dudes.

Even if I was attracted to a guy, considering initiating a relationship, a photo of his junk would slam the door hard. Guys, there's nothing visually attractive about a penis. It's silly looking and located in an awkward place. We love you despite the way it looks, and because of what it does. If you send pictures of it to get a woman's attention, you're just driving her away. It's always inappropriate.

there's nothing visually attractive about a penis

Ain't that the truth.

Gee thanks for letting us all know fatibel, I was about the hit the send key on a picture of my dick but then I read your post and stopped myself. How can I ever thank you?

@fatibel: Speak for yourself. Making the blanket assertion that there is nothing attractive about the penis is like saying there is nothing attractive about the fleshy meat curtain of a vagina. It is all in the eye of the beholder.

As for the topic at hand, good for the athlete for shaming her stalker. If it wasn't him, well thats unfortunate - someone should find out who the imposter is and deal with it. I can understand a stalker concealing their identity from their prey, but it seems counter intuitive for a stalker that has hopes of one day meeting F2F and becomming BFF that they lie about their identity... Any stalkers reading? What say you?

BTW she could have ignored the stalker. But we do too much of that in society these days. Thats why things get out of hand no one is telling these jerks to stop until its too late for the prey.

I would have to say I agree with fatibel and Ray, both. There is nothing attractive about genitalia, period. While I think the human body as a whole is a beautiful thing, there is indeed a difference between nudity and porn.

Engaging an irrational person in a battle of the wills is a good way to prolong and/or escalate the behavior. The fact is a stalker is not living "in the real world" so it's completely ineffective to try to fight with them.

yes and removing them from the protection of their anonymity is the first step of making them know its not gonna go their way.

good--please substitute the word "stalker" with "serial killer." Then read it again. Just because someone else doesn't live in the real world, doesn't mean I must follow their suit. I am responsible to protect myself, and if this means screaming at the top of my lungs (whether on the street or on the internet), that's what I'm going to do. I can't help it that someone else is irrational, out of line, criminal, stalker, or serial killer. I can put my foot down and say, "No you don't." A battle of wills? Fine. I've got more will than any of them, and they'd better get a grasp of that idea right now. Good for this lady. She's got more will than this jerk, and she's got it right up front. Good for her.

Basically some men act like all women are dressed like hookers, so you sort of lose your argument with that one. Any woman out in public is fair game for leering and comments. It's not right.

FormerCARes, I can assure you I don't dress like a hooker. And if I even come close to dressing like one, it would be on a friday or saturday night in a bar.

The examples I provided are when I am going to or at work. I work in the city, and I can't tell you how uncomfrtable it is every morning when I walk by an entire construction site of males. You just feel them staring at you, and I feel like turning around and telling them to f*ck off, because to me, its an invasion of my privacy. I know, people will say, take it as a compliment or there not doing anything wrong... but it is. you shouldnt stare at someone in a wheelchair and you shouldnt start at a female walking by.

Guys who stalk DON"T CARE what you are wearing. It's not about what you wear or don't wear. It's about power and the need to dominate. Many women in the Middle East wear a burkha and it's not like crimes against women NEVER happen there. Think about it.

Big Picture, maybe you are shy, and the hooting construction workers embarrass you, but life is too difficult to worry about this. Birds sing, construction workers ogle passing women. It may even be required by the Basic Construction Workers' Contract.

Men sneak peeks at attractive women. The quiet ones are just better at hiding this. Don't you give attractive people a second look? It's human nature.

Just be happy that you are not actually in a wheelchair.

I agree with Melissa.

There's a big difference between this "Any woman out in public is fair game for leering and comments.", which is what jerks do, and what every normal heterosexual man does which is see a thing of beauty and take note of it.

I see an attractive woman, I appreciate it and move on. Maybe I'll smile or say hello to her if I'm feeling confident or get a smile back. Possibly it moves into a conversation and maybe exchanging numbers if we like each other.

I'd like the man haters to tell me what's so wrong about this? Men have hormones and women have hormones, it's natural. There's a difference between that and what this stalker did to the olympian in this story.

For one I commend her on confronting the stalking. She could have simply forwarded all the info to the police and let them deal with it, but he's probably much less likely to keep stalking now that he knows he's outed.

The concern isn't so much "PC", as much as it's a realization there needs to be a distinction in which cases it's o.k. to publicize. There are cases, male and female, of someone requesting nude pictures and then specifically gaining negative attention with them in an attempt to ruin someone (there's another story on msn right now like this). Just for a sense of personal power. It's quite different to post sensitive information about people just to be malicious, than to discourage a stalker.

Maybe she was unaware there are perverts out there and so she was shocked and offended by his reactions to her image (speaking of images, maybe he caught a glimpse of the one in this article - captioned "Germany's Ariane Friedrich reacts in the Women's High Jump final during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in this August 2009 file photo."

hmm are you a murderer?? you sound and probably look 'suspicious'

No - lol - just a woman who thinks there are other ways to get away from stalkers and dangerous men.

So what should she have done? That's a serious question. I applaud her for letting him have it. But I'm open to a better suggestion.

Yea! No more 'innocent until proven guilty', let's just take matters into our own hands! /sarcasm

Ruken, I agree. Everyone is thinking from the victim's point of view, and in this case, it appears that it's the valid perspective. However, what happens when some teen girls decide to give the old disabled man in the house on the corner a hard time just for laughs? They post on FB that he flashed them or something to that effect. The police get involved, and perhaps he ends up in prison because his only defense is "no I didn't do that." It's almost like every one of these situations must be taken on a case-by-case basis. Since we, the public, don't have all the facts, it should be the police's job the handle it, not a court of public opinion based on suppositions and mob mentality.

can she investigate while in training??

No Casey, she should have turned it over to the proper authorities

you asswipe needledick

niyol, you really need to wrap that tinfoil hat a little tighter around your head.

Sandy-the border to Canada is wide open and they have room for one more socialist....China, the world's greatest current communist country is now a hybrid commie-capitalist country...you know - "for profit."

I guess you run your household as a "non-profit" organization? You accuse niyol of having tinfoil wrapped around his head...I suppose you have plastic wrap duct taped around yours...any fresh air lately?

Skeeter-Wow, that's a 10 on the old stress scale! I'm "puzzled" as to why you reacted so strongly to Sandy's rather innocent comment but completely ignored/endorsed Casey's insulting, in-your-face remark. It couldn't possibly be because it appears that she is female and perhaps Casey is a man? Just wondering.

I agree with her. Smart woman. Now if he tries anything everyone will know who to look for. These pervs operate best when their victim is too scared to tell anyone. Bravo to this courageous woman. He should have thought about the hatemail before he sent her pictures.

Her actions are disturbing in response to her ALLEGED stalker's ALLEGED disturbing actions.

This is just another example of the VIGILANTE justice movement that seems to be building steam in the US and apparently around the world.

We have the perceptions and ALLEGATIONS of ONE individual only. She may be correct and she may be part of the problem herself. Until this was independently investigated there is no way to know the truth - only her alleged facts does anyone have at this point.

The danger of this vigilante movement is clear. So much of it is mindless and emotion fueled only. What do all the people who have so quickly jumped on this bandwagon really know? That she's blond and thin so she must be telling the truth? This is dangerous folks.

I was even more alarmed when I learned she is a police officer - in fact that is when my red flag meter kicked on in earnest. Was that fact thrown in to try to wrap her vigilante justice attempts in her private life in a flag of legitimacy because she is a police officer. And this is a good thing? Or is it just misuse of power or a perception of power.

Be careful, everyone. Due process is a good thing and trumps a rush to judgment EVERY time.

If Germany actually values privacy, reason and the rule of law, good for them. We need that here, too.

He sent her a photo of his genitalia, I would say that pretty much takes care of the "alleged" questions, wouldn't you?

Or maybe real fit. If you are a high jumper you want less wait.

Oh just because someone is skinny, they're automatically an anorexic....

Usually, I will agree if I think someone is anorexic. However, this woman is very fit and very muscular, not anorexic. Hopefully, the German police will find the stalker and make sure he cannot follow her to the Olympics. She should not have to compete while in fear of her safety. If she loses, it should be because someone is better than her, not because she could not perform to her utmost best because of fear. If she wins, all the much better for her.

I think we have all gotten so used to being surrounded by obesity that we've forgotten what a normal weight person looks like. She's normal and incredibly fit. A lot of the rest of us aren't.

Amen.

Is it me or does she have some serious labial lips hanging in that one picture?

Its just you

I see them.

Due process. Not vigilante justice.

@ Andrew,

I read every post and there were only 3 mentions of that photo ,quite surprising as I picked up on it straight away.

andrew401 - you're seeing things, and by 'seeing things' I mean seeing things that aren't there. If you look closely (and I'll bet you have!), you can see that what you are interpreting as labia is, in fact, something behind her, probably her fingers of her other hand. Note the position of her arm. But don't let that spoil your fun.

While I agree that the position of the fingers behind her back is indeed interesting, you aren't seing genitalia.