Women on TikTok Are Sharing Stories About Getting Punched Randomly in NYC
glamour.comGlamour that she remembers being distracted, taking photos and videos, excited to be in the city and using a map on her phone to guide her to her next destination.“I was completely focused on my phone,” Sirmali recalls. “I was not aware of my surroundings, which was not good.”Suddenly, she felt it, out of nowhere.“It was more like a slap,” she says. “Someone approached me when I was looking down and then just walked away.
It happened so fast. I was just like, ‘what? Did that happen? Or is it like, I'm just dreaming?’ I was so shocked.”Terrified, she froze.
She didn’t look around for her assailant, she didn’t shout. It happened too quickly for her to get a description besides, she says, a man who was shorter than her.“And then I just kept walking to the office because I was scared,” she says.It was a traumatic experience, one that Sirmali says she has worked to try and move on from.
She even posted a video on about it, writing “is this part of NYC life?” In the video, she holds a cup of ice to her face, which she says was bruised for days afterward.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Her video got some sympathy, but then, suddenly this week, it exploded in views.
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