This is kind of random, and it was random for me, but this is an example of why taking notice of people, can benefit for yourself. This is fairly recent, and not far from any of the missing women, same city, really. IM NOT RELATING this as being any kind of connected.
This happened not even that long ago...
I was driving home, & did happen to take notice of man standing what looked to be almost completely still on the sidewalk, on a main road. I didn't have to turn my head at him to see him. He wasn't hiding, per say, just picked it up, with front/side vision. It was late evening, it was dark. So I turn, park, go about my business, gather up my belongings, my car door wasnt even shut yet, when my dog on the leash, started lunging/barking 2 seconds after paws hit the ground, like dog saw squirrell. What did dog see? Oh just the man I saw standing still, was now a man that weirdly became closer, once I was out of a moving vehicle. Mans reaction to dog, was interesting, like he didn't expect a dog. I was an extended leash, angry/barking dog.distance away from man. What did man want? Oh he said nothing to me, almost like I was invisible. I said nothing to him, as well (I let my dog say it)..he did however talk to my dog, "heeey...doggie,"..in a calming sort of way. I said, let's go dog, & we walked up stairs, through door. Belongings from car, had barely been set down, dog wasn't off leash yet, when dog heard something, loud enough for dog to hear, to start aggressively barking, now BOTH dogs were PO'd. I had been holding a smaller dog too, but now that one was mad. So what were they barking at? Quick look trough peephole..oh just the man, I saw standing still on busy road, was the man I saw coming towards me, off a quieter turn off, not speaking any words to me, was the man that walked up stairs behind me, & sood quietly outside the door, for minutes.
I don't know what any of this was supposed to be out, if anything at all, but it was all kinds of nooe, nope & NOPE.
So, yes I called the police, because man should not be outside this door right now. That's all I know. And I'm not going to open door, & confront man, who followed me up to it. But maybe he thought I would, b/c he was out there prety much the entire time, I was on the phone with 911, and with loud barking angry dogs.
Police arrived, and man was still hanging around. They were going to be the only people, that could get him to leave. And even I knew, this man hadn't committed a crime against me, or threatened me violently...yet.
So I don't know what happened with man, but nice police man called me, and said if same man comes back, CALL POLICE back. Even if he came back and still hadn't harmed me, police don't like having to tell someone twice to leave, when they told him once before. Now he'd be irritating the police..