Hidden Dangers

Published on November 26, 2004 By Ravenblack In Scenery

Here's a picture taken in MacRitchie Reservoir park. This is the place where they hold annual interschool cross-country competitions.

The path sometimes run around the water, sometimes, it turns inward towards the forresty area.

About a year or two back, a teenage girl who jogged along here or near this place was jumped on by a stranger and molested. An old couple came by later, found her naked and unconscious and bruised. She had been beaten up too. AFAIK, the culprit was never caught .

I used to jog here when I was a teenager, when I was fit and everything. I used to jog along here, alone. I never thought, back then, how dangerous it was for a teenage girl to do that. I was lucky, nothing bad ever happened to me. It would have been so easy.

In a strange way, I find myself glad that I never knew the danger nor was I afraid of the horrible possibilities that could be lying in wait in the bushes, otherwise I would never have experienced the peace and joy of jogging through this beautiful place. But I wouldn't recommend anyone ignore or be ignorant of these dangers.

It's not the same now. I will never go there alone again. Heck, I think I'll stick to safer places for jogging. That's my cowardice and my sense of survival overriding everything else.

Comments

Danny Bassette

on Nov 26, 2004

That looks like a great place to go jogging, it really is too bad there are scary people out there to ruin it. But nothing wrong with being a coward if it keeps you alive.

Ravenblack

on Nov 26, 2004

It's one of the few places in this city where you can forget that you are in a city.

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