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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenros" data-source="post: 566798" data-attributes="member: 975">As I read through this thread, I started to wonder if the environment has also something to do with the stalking ratio.So far, (at least in this thread) no one has yet to tell a story that matches the 'stalker' level as the stories from the Japanese RPG manga artist. This would suggest that it happens less here in America.I wonder, would it happen more if more of our cities were laid out the same way as major cities in Japan? In Tokyo, (I've only been there once) it seemed very easy to get around by subway and once you took the proper trains, it usually dropped you of within walking distance of your destination. Now how many places in America do that? I think New York is one. Chicago maybe another. But I can't think of any others. Of course my knowledge of American cities is also limited.Given the easy public transit system, its easier for one of these socially retarded male con guys to stalk a female back home. If you were to do it in an average American city, you'd have to stalk her (most likely) to the convention/hotel parking garage. Get in your car (which is no where near her car or within line of sight), visually find her car before it leaves to disappear into traffic, then follow her through traffic to her home. It seems more trouble than to just walk behind someone for an hour. Knowing that you need almost CIA like tailing skills, maybe most guys who would've stalked....didn't because its too inconvenient?I don't know. I just thought I'd throw out this thought as another possible 'factor' in these things.But I'm sure there are cons where the convention floor is attached to or very close to the hotel where a female con-attendee may be staying. So I guess that environment is just as convenient (actually more convenient, because its less travel distance) than the Tokyo city route. So if the American cons had the same type of guys attending as the Japanese ones, you might've heard about it by now? But then again, you may need to be hearing from more convention goers than just the ones who showed up to post here.I dunno. I'm just rambling now. But I mostly was trying to think of other 'factors' involved.</blockquote>

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