Crazy RW follows other RW from Metro, whips her with bag of rotting food

[Larry1]

Alexandra, another Muscovite in her 20s who asked that her last name be withheld because she finds her story embarrassing, was heading home on the metro late on a summer night two years ago.

"I was standing near the door of the metro car when a woman with a large plastic bag of what appeared to be packages of rotting fast food got on and stood close to me," Alexandra told The Moscow News. "I could smell whatever it was that was rotting in that bag, and for a very brief moment, we made eye contact. That was it. She suddenly yelled at me, ‘What do you want? What do you want?'"

Alexandra got off at the next station to transfer trains, but didn't realize that the woman had followed her - until the woman began hitting her with the bag of food. "She attacked me from behind, hitting me repeatedly and screaming obscenities. The bag was soft and mushy, so it didn't hurt, but it was just a very gross feeling," Alexandra said. "It was funny and surreal at the same time, like a David Lynch movie."

Eventually, another passenger came to Alexandra's aid and the woman escaped up the escalator.
When she filed a police report that night, Alexandra said, the officer in charge blamed the policies of local mental hospitals for the incident. "The police officer told me in confidence that in the summer they see many disturbed people on the metro, as some of them are given extended holidays from their psychiatric facilities," she said.

This is from an article in The Moscow News about crime on Moscow's Metro.  It's entitled "Frotteurs and thieves: crime on the Moscow metro".  There is some speculation that a good deal of this crime is committed by mental patients, who are rumored to be let out of confinement during the Summer:

The police source did suggest, however, that sexual harassment currently happening on the Moscow metro might be a factor of the season - summer being a time of year when Moscow's psychiatric wards release mental patients onto the city streets. "As I understand it, those who are treated as inpatients during the winter get something of a vacation in summer," he said. "It's the season when our psychiatric wards let people out. They ride the metro, so in theory, [the sexual harassers] could be them."

By press time, staff at three different Moscow psychiatric hospitals said they were unable to comment about their release policies. Yet police have, anecdotally, connected psychiatric patients on "summer holiday" to crime on the Moscow metro before.

http://themoscownews.com/local/20130729/191804185/Frotteurs-and-thieves-crime-on-the-Moscow-metro.html