# The stuff attractive women can get away with beggars the imagination **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786 "2009-01-17T21:47:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/21 "2009-01-18T17:49:59Z")
Warning number one: “I’m not crazy” Warning number two: I forget, I just noticed how sheer her blouse was. ---
**Author:** ![Sublata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sublata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublata)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/22 "2009-01-18T18:18:54Z")
I don’t know what the OP means by “get away with.” There are plenty of comments on YouTube calling her a stalker, a slut, a whore or a faker, or noting how much creepier this would be if she weren’t so pretty. Personally, I’m in the faker camp. I think this is an attempt at viral marketing, or maybe just someone who really, really wants attention. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/23 "2009-01-18T19:58:20Z")
She can stalk me any time she wants. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/24 "2009-01-18T20:10:58Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/25 "2009-01-18T20:21:40Z")
“Missed Connections” used to be a staple of newspaper singles ads. This is just a high-tech version. The only way it become stalking is if the guy says “No, thanks” and she keeps hounding him. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/26 "2009-01-18T20:25:42Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > She can stalk me any time she wants. Don’t stick it in the crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/27 "2009-01-18T20:26:28Z")
> [@mecaenas](#): > > If a _cute_ guy did the same thing it wouldn’t be stalking, but if an _ugly_ guy did it would be stalking. Nah, if an ugly guy did it he would be a laughing-stock, and the video would be linked to for humorous value. Same deal if it were an ugly girl, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/28 "2009-01-18T20:29:22Z")
Assuming for the sake of argument that the facts as presented are true, what should she have done? A fellow lost an item that’s probably valuable enough that he’d want it back, and she’s taking a course of action that’s likely to result in him getting it back. If he didn’t feel the same chemistry that she did, he can just call her up and say “That’s my coat, thanks for holding it for me. Bye.”. ---
**Author:** ![mecaenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/29 "2009-01-18T20:36:22Z")
This morning she appeared on one of the big breakfast TV shows, and from the description of the situation her story sounds pretty flimsy. I reckon it’s a marketing stunt, she seems way too desperate for her hotness level and it’s bizzare to me that no one has come forward yet. There’s no way the guy has missed it now that it’s been across all of our national papers and now national TV. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/30 "2009-01-18T20:56:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Assuming for the sake of argument that the facts as presented are true, what should she have done? A fellow lost an item that’s probably valuable enough that he’d want it back, and she’s taking a course of action that’s likely to result in him getting it back. If he didn’t feel the same chemistry that she did, he can just call her up and say “That’s my coat, thanks for holding it for me. Bye.”. Maybe by doing what anyone else would do if they noticed that someone had left something at a place of business; point it out to a member of the staff so it would be held _where he lost it_ for him to pick up. In fact, this is exactly what I did last year when I noticed that a woman had left something behind when she got off the bus. I brought it up to the bus driver and explained what had happened (by the time I noticed it, the bus had already pulled away from the stop). ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/31 "2009-01-18T21:02:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Miss Clarke has also created a website and email address to aid her mission, complete with photographs of her posing seductively in the jacket If I met an attractive woman at a restaurant who slipped off her lovely pink tights during the conversation and then left them behind, should I slip them on, snap a picture, and put together a website so I can find her? That wouldn’t cost me any friends, right? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/32 "2009-01-18T21:14:24Z")
FWIW, a quick scan through the craiglist personals for Sidney yields nada ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/33 "2009-01-18T21:16:31Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Maybe by doing what anyone else would do if they noticed that someone had left something at a place of business; point it out to a member of the staff so it would be held _where he lost it_ for him to pick up. In fact, this is exactly what I did last year when I noticed that a woman had left something behind when she got off the bus. I brought it up to the bus driver and explained what had happened (by the time I noticed it, the bus had already pulled away from the stop). Yeah, what she did would reduce the chances of him finding the jacket, not increase them. ---
**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/34 "2009-01-18T21:41:23Z")
That girl is hot. She could snap her fingers and get any guy she wants. This makes me wonder why she’s making Youtube videos and setting up e-mail accounts and building websites for the sake of some random she met for two minutes in a cafe. Verdict: Either this whole thing is a bunch of bullshit, or she’s at least a little bit crazy. Personally, I’m leaning towards option 2. And yeah, if an ugly person of either gender did anything like this it’d be on SomethingAwful in five minutes and in all our inboxes by the end of the day with the e-mail header “Psycho fat bitch thinks she’s in a Tom Hanks movie LOL!!!” ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/35 "2009-01-18T22:04:50Z")
Nope, don’t buy it. My money’s on viral marketing. If she’s not a hired actress I’ll eat my shorts. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/36 "2009-01-18T22:11:18Z")
> [@mecaenas](#): > > This morning she appeared on one of the big breakfast TV shows, and from the description of the situation her story sounds pretty flimsy. I reckon it’s a marketing stunt, she seems way too desperate for her hotness level and it’s bizzare to me that no one has come forward yet. There’s no way the guy has missed it now that it’s been across all of our national papers and now national TV. Not everyone pays attention to those things, and it was likely a pretty minor event to him, which means that his friends might not know about it, so they wouldn’t be able to alert him if they saw the media reports. I think it’s conceivable that this could be real and that he hasn’t seen the news. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/37 "2009-01-18T22:18:59Z")
> [@mecaenas](#): > > This morning she appeared on one of the big breakfast TV shows, and from the description of the situation her story sounds pretty flimsy. I reckon it’s a marketing stunt, she seems way too desperate for her hotness level and it’s bizzare to me that no one has come forward yet. There’s no way the guy has missed it now that it’s been across all of our national papers and now national TV. I didn’t know anything about it until I read this thread this morning, AND I have a jacket just like that, or at least I had one, hmmmm where did I put it? But seriously I just don’t watch much TV or read the papers. I’m sure I’m not the only one. There is something odd about the video though. I couldn’t watch the whole thing because of all the "um"s and "ah"s and stuff. I would think that a normal person would do the video a couple of times until it says what they want a bit more succinctly. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/38 "2009-01-19T00:13:41Z")
If you really want a response, you try something like this (scroll down for it) [http://www.theviralfactory.com/Campaigns/Webcamgirlsgonewild/tabid/81/Default.aspx](http://www.theviralfactory.com/Campaigns/Webcamgirlsgonewild/tabid/81/Default.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/39 "2009-01-19T00:36:51Z")
> [@sjc](#): > > I actually think it’s probably an ad; there’s something about the way she speaking that tweaks my ‘acting’ sense. It might also be that she doesn’t really want to be doing this, like maybe her friend is pushing her to do it or something like that. (I must admit though that I haven’t really spent that much time listening to Australians talk and I may be picking up on a feature of the accent and mistaking it for insincerity.) You’re spot on. That is the accent of an Australian who is acting, not a hot Australian (we have our own accent, you know - I’m still working on getting it 100% right) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786/40 "2009-01-19T00:47:13Z")
A guy leaves behind his jacket and a woman tries to find him via Youtube. O.K., I can almost believe that. But what are the chances that she also happens to look like a model? This is a fake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stuff-attractive-women-can-get-away-with-beggars-the-imagination/481786.md?page=3)