It’s not uncommon to find yourself in unpredictable situations when you’re walking through the streets of New York City (NYC), like the time a woman somehow became an accessory to theft just when she moved to The Big Apple. For one woman, however, what was supposed to be a simple wait on the sidewalk unexpectedly turned into a public spectacle when she was accused of stalking another woman she didn’t know.
“Reminder not to believe everything that you see on the internet.” That’s the advice Caroline (@tinystar.world) told viewers in a video that has since gained over 17,800 views on TikTok. According to Caroline, the incident happened a couple of months before she recorded her TikTok video.
Caroline said she had been standing on a street corner, simply minding her business and scrolling through her phone when a woman suddenly appeared in front of her before allegedly pointing a camera in her face. “I was standing on a corner, like, in the city, waiting for my boyfriend, minding my business, scrolling on my phone,” Caroline recalled. “A woman comes up to me and sticks her phone in my face.”
The NYC crowd was watching
While getting a phone shoved in your face by a complete stranger isn’t exactly an ideal scenario, Caroline said she initially didn’t think much of it, believing the woman might be a content creator filming street interviews, which is a rather common occurrence in New York. “I look up and smile cause I think she’s gonna be like, ‘What are you wearing?’” Caroline said.
The situation, however, quickly took a turn when the woman allegedly began screaming in her face and accused her of stalking on camera—a far cry from asking what designer she’s wearing. The woman supposedly went on a tirade, yelling, “This girl’s been stalking me all day! She’s following me… she won’t stop following me! She keeps stalking me! I’m just trying to get on the bus! I’m just like a woman trying to get on the bus, and this girl is stalking me!”…