SRSLY. Not all heroes wear capes. Some of them wear very normal clothes and then witness a potential date rape unfolding and then BEHAVE LIKE GODDAMN HEROES and intervene, preventing a rape from happening and delivering the scumbag to the cops.
A Facebook post about three women who did exactly the above is going viral. Sonia Ulrich, Monica Kenyon and Marla Saltzer were at a restaurant in Santa Monica, California, when Monica saw a man a few tables over put something in his date’s drink.
“I saw Monica staring behind and making a funny face,” Sonia wrote on Facebook. “I stopped. ‘What’s going on?’ After a few second she said ‘That guy just put something in her drink.’
“Now, Fig is a nice restaurant. We were enjoying our charcuterie platter and some fancy cheeses. That type of place. They [the couple, a.k.a. the women at the next table and the scumbag who’d slipped something in her drink] had a bottle of wine they were splitting. It seemed like a first or second or third date. After a few “Oh god. What do we do”s, I got up to find her in the bathroom to tell her. Warn her. Tell her to get up and leave this creep. Make him drink it. Something.
“So, after feeling awkward hanging out by the sinks in the bathroom til she was done, I approached. ‘Hey! Um, this is kind of weird, but, uh, we saw the guy you were with put something in your drink.’“‘Oh My God,’ she said. Shocked, kind of numb, so I babbled, ‘Yeah, my girlfriend said she saw him put something in your drink and we had to say something. Woman to woman…you know. We had to say something.’”
Sonia then asked the woman how she knew her date, expecting to hear that they’d just met.
Instead, the woman told Sonia: “He’s one of my best friends.”
“Shit. Yeah. One of her best friends. They had known each other for a year and a half. They worked together,” Sonia wrote.
When she went back to her table, Monica was explaining what happened to the server, in the hopes the restaurant could take action.
She said: “He pulled her glass toward him, kind of awkwardly, then he took out a little black vial. He opened it up and dropped something in. Then he tried to play it cool, like checking his phone and hiding the vial in his hand and then trying to bring it back down slyly.”
Sonia continued on Facebook: “He apparently saw Monica looking. Marla said she was just going to lean over to Monica and say “that guy is acting really creepy” when she saw Monica already looking. Witnessing.
“It only took a minute for the manager to walk to their table, see if everything was ok, allowed the girl to order a sparkling water. All super cool. He stopped by our table and said he couldn’t do much because he didn’t see it. But he did let security know.
“The poor woman had to sit through 40 more minutes, sitting across from ‘one of her best friends’ knowing that he was trying to drug her. Marla noticed him several times chinking his glass to hers to get her to drink. She played it cool. Mostly, I believed, just stunned. The staff wanted to jump in and dump the glass, dump him, do something! I was going through fantasies of walking up and demanding he drink the tainted glass of wine. Eventually, they finished up dinner. There was a delay getting their bill “The computer is down” is what the waiter kept saying to him. Then, in walks Santa Monica PD. They say ‘Come with us’ and he doesn’t protest. Doesn’t ask why. Doesn’t seem surprised. ”
In a goddamn excellent twist, not only did the police have the tainted wine glass as evidence, but – because the women had alerted the restaurant so quickly – they also had the security footage which showed him *literally* committing the crime.
SEE YOU GOODBYE, HOPE YOU ENJOY CRIMINAL CHARGERS, FUCKER.
In a not-so-excellent, but actually very sobering and highly depressing twist, the women were then inundated with similar stories from other restaurant patrons.
“It happened to my sister…I’m glad I was there to take her home.”
“It happened to my roommate at a producer’s party. He’s still messed up from it.”
“It happened to me. At a backyard barbecue.”
“It happened to me. At a bar I worked at.”
“Some Heroes don’t wear capes. Thank you. It happened to me. Thank you.”
“Fuck yeah you guys! You fuckin rock!”
The whole thing is twisted as fuck. When they asked the woman if she was okay getting home, she realised her car was at the guy’s house – they had driven over together. “Part of a plan,” wrote Sonia. “We were blown away. She was still in shock.”
She ended her Facebook post with a callout for everyone to keep an eye out for one another.
“We kept thanking the manager for taking action. We are well aware how many people would not have taken what we said seriously. Not taken action. Said their hands were tied.
“So thank you, everyone at Fig and Fairmont in Santa Monica for keeping this guy from harming someone.
“And thank you in advance to everyone who sees this and shares this and reminds each other that yes, you SHOULD say something. Even if it’s awkward or weird or just uncertain if anything can be done.”
YOU LADIES ARE AWESOME & AMAZING & PLEASE GO AHEAD AND TAKE 10,000 LIFE POINTS.
You can read Sonia’s post in full, which at the time of writing has garnered over 70,000 shares. Holy shit.
Photo: Facebook / Sonia Ulrich.
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