This afternoon I was working from home and when it was time for my break I put my dog on a leash to take him out. As soon as I got off the elevator a woman started screaming at me about my dog. He started barking. As I was trying to leave the building the woman's roommate tried to block me from opening the door. She screamed at me that her child was afraid of my dog. I said well you can't stop me from coming out. And I went out the door. The woman outside threw some food at me, which hit me in the back and spilled all over the sidewalk. Then she kicked the door and broke the glass. My dog freaked out, and backed out of his collar, running away. I got him back and decided to go back inside.
I thought they were gone. But when I got to the elevator the first woman came through the door with pepper spray in her hand. I was already in the elevator and my dog was behind me. She reached in and hit the open button, then sprayed pepper spray at me, more than once. It got on my hands and face and I got a lungful. It was surreal. She had gone back to her apartment to get pepper spray and come out to find me and deliberately attack me.
I called the police and they came up to take a statement. I don't even know these women, just that they live on the first floor. Its pretty weird that people who are afraid of dogs would live here, because there are dozens of dogs. Mine is a nine month old puppy and he's very friendly. But if you start screaming, he will bark because he is trying to protect me. And these women were raving lunatics. I couldn't get a word in edgewise because they were yelling the whole time.
Later I told another neighbor about it and she said they hate her dog and give her trouble too. But nobody else has been pepper sprayed. Nothing like that has ever happened to me.
The police called me back and said they were asking the property manager if there was video. I really hope the cameras were working and they caught her attacking me with pepper spray. I won't think twice about pressing charges. I hope she gets evicted for kicking the door in.
I feel traumatized by this. I didn't do anything wrong. Somebody else is afraid so they turned their hate and fear on me. I feel like crap.