Imagine showing up for a first date and they call 911. This could have gone really bad. Domestic violence charges carry heavy penalties.
Fortunately the man had the dating App messages and Texts to prove he just met her online 2 weeks earlier
That’s pretty bad, but it could have been worse. She could have gone on the date and then called the police afterwards saying the same stuff. Obviously not the pregnant part, but certainly the hitting, punching and kicking part. That wouldn’t have been as easy for him to defend by showing a few texts. He should consider himself lucky.
I’m thankful my dating days are decades behind me.
It’s a minefield out there now.The majority of people wouldn’t do something this extreme. But even showing an interest in approaching someone has to be done carefully. The best of intentions can be misunderstood.
Unfortunately nothing much will happen to this person. I don’t know what would be appropriate in her case but it should be something that will deter others from this kind of abuse of the police and the public.
I can only recall one bad date. This was in the days of the personal ads in newspapers. She was about my age and when we talked she mentioned all her friends said she had big eyes. Sounds good, Betty Davis maybe? Yeah, she had big eyes. Like a frog! I could not look her in the face. I’m surprised her friends mentioned them. Not really a bad date I guess just not what I expected.
You are terrible😳
Times 3 ?
For sure.
However, experience has convinced me that a lot of people use dating apps solely as a cheap way to feed their vanity, raking in as many admirers as they can while having no intention whatsoever to actually start a relationship. So, they need to come up with excuses to justify their cowardice and selfishness.
“I’m sick !” (you felt “great” yesterday and will feel “miraculously better” tomorrow)
“I have too much work !” (but you signed up to a dating app knowing this)
“I have no free time !” (you’ve told me that you spent the whole weekend partying)
“I thought you said next week !” (my text just above says otherwise)
“I’m facing a sudden child custody challenge from my ex-husband !” (after 10 years)
The news item linked above is only an extreme example of that exact behaviour.
luckily I am out of this game for a long time, but i do read a lot about this effect (mostly women, as men hugely outnumber women on dating apps) …
which also leads to very little committment, as a “better” option for the woman might just be around the corner (when getting 10-20 “friend requests” per day).
interesting aspect how a (mathematical) excess of options also leads to paralysis … a fact that every good salesperson also knows 
but yeah… not an easy turf to live on, nowadays …
I’ve been married 40 years and I have long thought that if anything happened to my husband, I would not date again. Stories like this convince me I’m right about that. Not that there’s a huge demand for 70+ y/o grandmothers out there in the dating world.
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Don’t be so sure - the ones that are clever AND nice are so very rarely single, dammit!
I remember something similar happened like 10 years ago but with a twist.
Two people meet on a dating website and agree to go on a date. Date goes well enough that they both go back to one of the persons house to have sex. After sex the spouse of one of the two shows up, and freaks out (obviously) and thekr partner claims the other people is in fact a burglar so cops are called and the person is arrested.
Or they threaten to call the cops, so the mark empties his wallet
Perhaps it was not so much “mentioning” as “warning”. 
So not so much Bette Davis eyes, more like Marty Feldman eyes?
Not a promising start for a relationship. 
He fell in love with her driving skills first.
Bumped.
In the late Nineties when I was a prosecutor, I had a case in which a man badly beat up a woman on their first date once they got back to her apartment. She suffered a concussion and had to be hospitalized. She couldn’t remember what set him off, if anything; he wasn’t saying.
It was me.
Lousy weather that can’t be helped, my soft top jeep didn’t help the ride. It was kinda a dressy occasion. The work Christmas party.
This was a friend of a friend. Wrote for the local paper so I had seen her name in print. Ya know some Italian names can be a little hard for me to pronounce. It was her last name, and I had never heard anyone say it. I said that’s an interesting name, I tried to pronounce it and totally botched it. I mean bad. The way I said it sounded like a cat horking up a hair ball.
She pronounced it properly. It’s beautiful.
Then, when introducing her to one of my co-workers, I forgot her first name. Total brain freeze. When we sat down to dinner with ~250 other people. We ended up at an 8 person table. By ourselves. All the other tables where full, and it was just the two of us left to be seated.
I pretty much borked the entire night. Was a long dive home in distance, snow, cold and silence.
I really liked you Stacy.