A St. Petersburg woman says she found a sexually explicit note on her car outside a thrift store \u2014 prompting a viral TikTok and a police investigation.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Pete woman is speaking out after finding a sexually explicit note on her car outside a thrift store \u2014 a note she says left her shaken and prompted a police investigation.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Karasack says she walked out of the store and found a piece of paper tucked onto her vehicle. When she read it, she says she was instantly unsettled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever I first read the note, I was, yeah, creeped out,\u201d Karasack said.<\/p>\n
Karasack says the wording made her realize the person who wrote it may have been in the parking lot for a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was sitting there waiting for an hour and a half for me to come out of the store and the car,” she said. “As I was pulling out, I was watching behind me to make sure no one was following me home, and there was a car that followed me out of the parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says she pulled into a gas station to make sure the car kept going. After posting about the note on TikTok \u2014 where her video has now been viewed hundreds of thousands of times \u2014 other women began sharing similar experiences in the comments.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when Karasack filed a police report. She says investigators reviewed surveillance video and showed her a picture of the man and his vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was on edge about that car but was also like, it could just be a random person pulling out at the same time. But now I know it was him,” she said. “It\u2019s kind of nice to know my crazy thoughts weren\u2019t just crazy thoughts and they\u2019ve validated now.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. Petersburg police say they\u2019re treating the reports seriously.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s extremely creepy,\u201d said Ken Knight, a public information officer with St. Petersburg Police.<\/p>\n
Detectives are working to determine whether the incidents rise to the level of a criminal offense and how many people may have been targeted. They\u2019re urging anyone who finds a similar note to report it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you see such a note on your car it\u2019s going to freak you out,” Knight said. “So instead of dealing with that by yourself, it\u2019s important you contact the police department.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karasack hopes that speaking publicly encourages others to stay alert.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely trust your instincts, and I think it\u2019s better to be over cautious than not cautious enough,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
St. Pete police say anyone who finds a note like this should call the department\u2019s non-emergency line and, if possible, return inside the business to ensure they are safe while waiting for officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Petersburg woman says she found a sexually explicit note on her car outside a thrift store…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-54844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}