Warning men of Halifax: The Glove Man
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If you want context before diving into this weird as fuck story, here are two posts
1 2 made on this subreddit about this same guy in the past, also note he browses this subreddit so please don't start a shitstorm with him personally involved or I'm worried it might come down on my head, and I absolutely do not want any further involvement with this man.
Last weekend I was on my way back from downtown walking alone on Spring Garden road scouting for a cab when a well dressed guy in a black SUV pulls up beside me and asks if I'm looking for a cab. I said yes, he asked where I was going and I told him. He said he was headed in the same direction and that he offers rides around town on the weekend. Thinking this was some friendly guy running his own Uber service, I got in hoping for a cheap ride home and handed him $10 out of my pocket. I'm 6'3 and 200lbs so I didn't feel threatened. Stupid of me.
The guy is wearing a leather jacket and leather gloves, and as soon as we're driving, starts talking about the business he has selling leather gloves. He gives me his business card. At this point I think he's just a quirky salesman with a small business which he promotes on the side while driving people.
When we get near my street, he tells me he wants me to try on some gloves. He is very excited about his gloves and despite being a bit weird I thought I'd humor him, give his business a chance and then tell him I wasn't interested and be on my way.
He gives me a pair of leather gloves which are extremely tight to fit on my hands and I start to put one on, despite it obviously not fitting. He then prompts me to pull the glove right on and thread my fingers together to stretch it on properly, and shows me how to stretch the glove by pulling on it and making a fist. At this point I'm getting extremely wierded out by the whole thing, and we turn onto my street, when he pulls over and encourages me to put the other glove on too. While this is happening an obviously drunk girl walks up to the window to ask for directions. I go to open the door to talk to her, seeing a good excuse to dip, and he says "No, don't open it" or something along those lines - I think he actually hit the window lock button too. She asks me for directions from outside the car and I point her on down the street. I turn back to the guy and he has a "better fitting" pair of gloves for me to try on. At this point I should have gotten the fuck out of there but I just told him "Okay I'll try them on and I have your card so I'll get in touch if I like them," this seemed like the least confrontational route out of his car. Again they are ridiculously tight and he has me stretch the gloves. This time it becomes extremely obvious that he has a fetish for young men wearing leather gloves and this is how he gets off. As I stretch the glove onto my hand, he starts breathing heavily and telling me how to stretch it. I had to physically turn and look down at his hands to make sure he wasn't jerking off, because it sounded like it from his breathing and the way he spoke. I was pretty drunk and too uncomfortable to voice concern or contend with his requests. I felt like I would have been behaving weirdly if I straight up turned down his attempts to have me model and buy his gloves. I did what he said for a while and stretched the gloves pretending to be interested/consider buying them for what felt like an eternity and then said "Anyway that's great but I should really get home, I have your card", at which point he acquiesces and starts driving down the street again. I had him drop me a block away from my house and hid in somebody's yard around the corner to wait for him to leave, which he did after idling there for 5 minutes.
After this happened I told my roommates in the morning and was absolutely convinced they wouldn't believe me/wouldn't believe that there was any weird sexual shit involved. One of my roommates told me this guy is well known on the Halifax gay scene and one of her friends knows who he is. I looked it up and lo and behold, the previously linked reddit posts told me all I need to know.
This guy, who told me his name was MJ, goes around picking up young men, offering drives, and gets off by making them try on and stretch out his leather gloves. There are multiple other stories of him offering people drugs, having them drive (drunk/high) while wearing his gloves, and other fucked up things.
So this is a warning and appeal to other people in Halifax. Getting in a stranger's car at 3am hammered is obviously fucking stupid and I won't be doing it again. After it happened I kinda just shrugged him off as a harmless weirdo but having read other people's stories on here I realize this guy actually makes a habit of taking advantage (even without physical contact) of drunk young men for his own sexual pleasure. At no point did he touch me but he pressured me into an extremely uncomfortable situation for his own pleasure, and has done this to countless other young men. Some of the other stories do include unwelcome physical contact. If this guy was doing the same to young women he would absolutely be locked up right now, without any question.
Take care dudes. Fuck
