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A video showing an elderly man approaching young women who were resting during a hike and making inappropriate comments and advances has spread rapidly across social media and online forums, sparking controversy.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>Published under headlines such as Old man harassing hikers, the clip has provoked public outrage over intergenerational etiquette and conduct on public trails.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The footage shows the man sit beside two women who were resting on a bench during a hike. He asks their ages; when one replies she is 30, he brings up his family, saying, “My daughter is well over 40.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The interaction escalates when the man says, “Oh, how pretty \u2014 would you be my girlfriend?”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When one woman asks, “What did you say?” he brazenly repeats, “Would you be my girlfriend?”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A woman responds firmly, “No, that’s not acceptable.” The man then mutters, “Right, that wouldn’t work,” attempting to dismiss it as a joke. The women, visibly uncomfortable, quickly leave and the encounter ends.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Online commenters reacted with anger. “You don’t make those jokes to a stranger, especially someone young enough to be your child,” wrote one. Others called it “verbal abuse and sexual harassment” and said, “Age is no excuse; at minimum, you should observe basic manners as you get older.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With hiking, camping and other outdoor leisure activities growing in popularity, incidents in which people disturb others’ rest or cause discomfort on trails and at campsites have become more common.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Experts say unwanted personal questions or flirtatious remarks can inflict significant psychological stress. They urge people to observe basic public etiquette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A video of an elderly man making inappropriate jokes to young women during a hike has sparked controversy online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/04\/CP-2023-0429\/thumb-84a1afa0-2c97-4101-a6a2-9fcfb7c41319.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social"],"yoast_head":"\n