Jeez that is so freaky! Really, gyah! My friend had a similar experience this summer, riding home from a party through a park area and passing a shady guy only to wake up the next morning to hear that a mentally unstable prisoner had broken out of the psychiatric ward (it's in my zip code, yay) and had attempted rape twice in that very park area that night.

I live in a residential area 4km from the center of town, where hippie city planners have run amok with visions of 'car free zones' and two-way bike paths. What this means is that we have many bike-path 'short cuts' completely removed from the main roads, some of them even running through tunnels under the roads, and all crappily lit (if lit at all!). Every time I'm out at night I feel the urge to rant and rave about stupid MALE visionaries who have obviously never been afraid of being attacked in a sound-proved poorly lit tunnel in an area where no one would find you for hours. Fuck them, and their 'safer traffic' ideas.