Attempted Abduction - USC (So. Cal.)
 

I saw this on the news this morning. USC ladies, please be on the look-out!:

http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_268204615.html

Attempted Abduction Investigated At USC

(CBS) LOS ANGELES USC and Los Angeles police are investigating an attempted abduction in which a 20-year-old female student fought off an attacker along 27th Street.

The suspect in the Friday night crime on 27th Street near Hoover was about 30 years old and driving a white, mid-size sedan.

"The suspect ran up behind her, she said, and grabbed her around the face with one hand over her mouth and started dragging her backward, saying: 'Don't yell. Don't scream. You'll be sorry if you do,"' USC police Capt. David Carlisle said.

The man started dragging the woman toward the car about 9:30 p.m., but she fought him off while screaming for help, Carlisle said.

Carlisle told the Daily Trojan that the attacker warned the woman that "if you scream, you're dead," but said it was appropriate for the woman to fight back, since the aggressor did not appear to be armed.

First-year USC medical student Aman Goel told the campus newspaper that "ever since I found out that this incident took place, I don't feel safe enough ... I need to start staying inside after dark."

A female student said the attack "just increases the worry on campus."

Another was more philosophical.

"I think the community members are ultimately good people," she said, "and I think you have to consider these events isolated."

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one of the requests most of us tend to ignore on college campuses...if you are travelling after dark, travel in groups.

But then....hey...you can be snatched up from almost anywhere

True, you can be kidnapped anywhere these days.

Sororities, especially, are in a good position to set up a "buddy system" for walking at night. When I was an undergrad, we always walked home from evening study hours or activities as a group, usually with at least 3 of us. If we ever hosted a party with a fraternity that had a house, we also had sisters available to walk other girls home so they wouldn't be out on the streets alone at night.

Yeah that Watts can be a scary neighborhood.

-Rudey

ANYONE walking close to USC at night should be extra aware of their surroundings and try to walk in groups...the neighborhood is not safe. The sorority houses have bars on the windows.

"Inglewood always up to no good..." ;-)

Regardless of whatever the neighborhood is....crime can and will happen.

So just stop pointing out the neighborhood in which it happened...I am almost willing ot bet that the criminal PROBABLY didn't even live in the area.

What is first and foremost is common sense if you want to be safe traveling after certain hours.

Heck...a gentleman and his wife was shot and robbed last year only a few blocks from the US Capitol last year.

if it's meant to heppen it's going to happen but we have to be aware of our surroundings at all times.

Oddly enough the few times I have had instances of problems were in so called 'safe' neighborhoods....

When my truck was broken into back in April, I was parked right around trhe corner from Johns Hopkins University (not the hospital) at a conference.

Agreed.

You're right. Rapes and crime happen at the same rate in Watts as they do around Rodeo Drive. I'm sure both are equally safe.

-Rudey

^Rudey, we already know your perspective on what "good" and "bad" neighborhoods and people are like, so this routine of yours is getting kind of tired.

Really? Please explain it to me.

Actually what it sounds like is you lying and making up a story. In fact you're using labels I haven't even used.

Too bad you live in a neighborhood full of crime. It must also breed liars.

-Rudey

LOL! :D

I think you've just explained to everyone, yourself. :)

I dont know :( I haven't talked to him in a while since he geeked it out and went to law school.

-Rudey