I noticed something strange about a man in the store, years later I finally learned the truth.

Once when I was about 19, I was shopping with my mom and sister at a Target store.<br><br>I was bored so I wandered off on my own. I walked over to a display of CDs and started looking through them.<br><br>There was a man also looking at the CDs. He was about 40 with a goatee and wore impressive shades indoors. He said hi to me. When he did, I noticed he acted all nonchalant, but his head turned away from me in a way that seemed too extreme to be natural.<br><br>I said hi back and he started talking about the CDs. He asked me if I was looking to buy a CD. I said no.<br><br>There was something strange about him. So I only gave him a few words here and there, trying to discourage him from further conversation.<br><br>His head turned away a few more times, and I realized he was doing that so that he could see what was behind him. I looked to see what was behind him, and sure enough, it was a police woman. I think a security guard was there too. They were at the end of the aisle looking at him.<br><br>I said a few more words and he seemed to get impatient. He said, "Hello?" to me a couple of times in this annoyed tone, like "you're not saying much".<br><br>I said a few more words and he took that as a cue to leave. I think he didn't want to look at the cops because it would have been obvious, or something. He said goodbye and left.<br><br>The cops walked up to where I was, then they asked if I had talked to that man. I said yes. They asked me what he said to me, and I told them. They said, "You did good by not saying anything to him".<br><br>I asked, "Why? Is he a pervert or something?"<br><br>The cop said, "He's not allowed in here". They left.<br><br>I never learned what the final deal was. Years later, I was complaining about police shortcomings to a coworker who used to work for a police department. I told him this story and he laughed. He told me to look up the name of the guy on twitter using #seattle and #mostwanted.<br><br>I started typing that into google and autocompleted to #mostwantedseattlesherrif.<br><br>The top results were from the sheriffs department. One was a list of most wanted. I scrolled through the pictures until I saw the guy. It was him. His name is Brian Carney.<br><br>He's wanted for child rape and other things of that nature. He was wanted for multiple crimes dating back to 1996. I posted a reply to a comment on one of his wanted tweets. Someone replied saying they think he's in Portland.<br><br>I tweeted the police, "I saw him once".<br><br>They replied, "Call 911 if you ever see him again."<br><br>What I learned from this ... I didn't used to believe in people having "a bad feeling". But what I have learned is that if these "feelings" don't make sense - there is probably a reason that you can't see, especially if they are strong.<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>EDIT to respond to comments:<br><br>This was maybe 7 or 8 years ago in a store in Seattle.<br><br>I don't know if the person was an employee or not.<br><br>I only saw one police woman. It was a regular police woman, not a mall cop.