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Realtiger

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    Realtiger reacted to joizy in Close call on Grindr   
    I'm a little hesitant to share this experience because I'm not in the mood for the critics who will tell me everything I should have done. But I'm sharing it because it was scary, and I want people to be careful and hopefully learn from my mistake.
    I'm in Philadelphia for two weeks, and of course, I've been looking for ways to have fun. When I lived here in the 80s there were no shortages of places to have fun. Now, most of those places are gone. So of course, I was looking on Grindr.
    I was not having much luck, until yesterday, when a guy I'd seen, but thought was out of my league contacted me. It has happened before, so I didn't think it was too good to be true, but I should have.
    He said he had an 11 inch dick. He sent an album with lots of photos that looked legit. He told me he was DL and asked how he'd meet me.
    I'm staying in an Airbnb in a condo building. There is an elevator code to come up to my floor. At least I had the sense not to give him the code. I told him I'd meet him in front of the building.
    When he arrived, I went down and he was waiting outside. He looked like the photos he sent. He followed me to the elevator and we came up, chatting along the way. He seemed like a nice guy. He said he was visiting from Cincinatti, he was DL and had a girlfriend. I saw no reason not to believe any of this.
    Once inside, I offered him some water (I don't have much in the condo) and we sat and chatted a bit.
    He asked to use the bathroom and was in the bathroom for a while. When he came out, he said he thought I'd be naked. I am not proud of my body at this stage of my life, so I only took off my shirt and kept my underwear on. I was planning on just sucking him off.
    He looked at the mirror in the bedroom and said he wanted to do it in front of the mirror. I told him there was a bigger mirror in the living room, so we went out there and he stood while I got on my knees and started to suck.
    His dick was not very big, but I've seen others that start out small and grow a lot, but he was not growing. He was not getting hard. I also saw him holding his phone and now I realize he was recording me in the mirror.
    We came back to the bedroom and he sat in a chair while I tried to suck him. He still was not getting hard. He said he had to use the bathroom again. I was beginning to realize this was not going to work out and trying to think of a way to get out of it. I thought I was going to tell him the maintenance man called while he was in the bathroom and needed to come up. I wish I'd tried that. I didn't realize things would turn to the worst.
    So he came out of the bathroom and I tried sucking him a little more until finally telling him I didn't think it was going to work out.
    He said, "So you wasted my time." I got that feeling in my stomach that told me I was in trouble
    So he asked me how much I was going to give him. I said we'd never discussed money. He said, "You didn't read my profile?" and started to become agitated. He showed me a profile that said in all caps - THISBIGBLACKDICKCOST560DOLLARS - that was definitely not the profile I saw. I opened Grindr on my phone and he had blocked me, so our messages were not visible.
    I had put on my clothes and tried steering him out of the bedroom because that's where my money was. I told him my money was in a safe deposit box on the first floor. I figured if I got him out of the apartment, I had a chance.
    We got to the door but he wouldn't leave, so I called 911.
    He grabbed my phone and threatened to beat me up. I tried calling for help, but I'm sure if anyone heard, they would not come out to help me.
    Finally, I said my money is in a safe deposit box on the first floor. There were lockers on the first floor for people who check out but have later flights. I pretended that's where my money was.
    We went down the elevator. Halfway down another guy got on. I should have asked him to help me, but I didn't. He was bigger than the guy from Grindr. Of course, he probably wouldn't have been able to help, but in a situation like this, you think of all of the "should haves".
    When we got to the first floor, we walked over to the lockers. I tried to get him to give me my phone but he wouldn't. So I went to the front desk and asked the clerk if he could help.
    This guy then started this crazy story saying I posed as a female and lured him over and then made him let me suck his cock. He had a video. I tried to explain my side, but the clerk said, "I don't need to hear all of this". I asked him to call the police and he did.
    The guy then left and yelled "don't follow me". I needed my phone. As you know, everything is on our phones these days. So I did follow him. He was yelling at me and then finally threw my phone into the street. I ran after it and got it. It was completely destroyed.
    I'm lucky I got out that situation without being injured or hurt in any way. I'm done with Grindr, and will probably just look at porn from now on. I feel like my age has put me in a high risk category for any type of cruising.
    I got a new phone and tried logging into Grindr because I wanted to post a warning. My account was banned. So this guy probably filed a false report about me. I wrote to Grindr, called and left a message and so far they have not responded. So this criminal is out there, potentially targeting other men, and I can't do anything. I don't know if it would do any good to report it to the police or if it will be a humiliating experience, but I feel like I need to do something. So, I'm sharing this experience with you, in the hopes that someone will read it and think twice before hooking up with someone who seems too good to be true.
    It was definitely a wake-up call for me.

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