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Megan had her earphones in when it started. It was about 10 p.m. She was on the bus, alone. And at first, she didn’t hear the guy yelling.

“He had been calling out to me for a minute or so, just saying ‘Hey! Hey, what’s up?’ over and over,” she said. “I finally noticed and turned around and looked at him. As soon as I did, he got up and slid into the seat next to me.”

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At first, the guy was just pushy. “What’s good?” he asked her. “What are you up to tonight? Where are you going?” But when Megan rebuffed him he turned from “creepy to furious.”

“He got about an inch from my face and said ‘I hate sluts like you. I really hate f—ing sluts like you’,” Megan said. When they pulled into the bus station near Scarborough Town Centre mall, he leaned in even closer. “You’ll see what happens to sluts like you,” he told her. “Get off the bus and I’ll show you. I dare you to get off the bus.”

Megan, who didn’t want her last name used — this happened six months ago, and she’s still afraid — was a victim of a common problem on the TTC, and public transit everywhere.