Private security for a neighborhood is luxuriously nice, but you know something shady is going on when the guards are chasing people out on a jog. That said, a marathon runner in Austin, Texas, was out running as part of their exercise routine when they entered a new development near their home. They were simply going to run a loop around and then continue down the trail elsewhere. However, during their job in this new-ish and fancy neighborhood, they were approached by a private security vehicle.
The guard driving stopped the runner and told them to show their resident ID. Obviously, they don’t live in the neighborhood, so they don’t have one; that’s when the private security patrol becomes aggressive. “He pulled his security car a little too close to me and he firmly told me I had to leave or I would get trespassed, and that this was a private community,” the runner recounted in a Reddit post. They were on their way out of the looping area anyhow, but the guard drove after them, following them all the way out of the neighborhood.
I was stopped and told to leave a neighborhood by private security while on a run…