When Brittany Clark checked Hal Herzog's Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals out from the library, it's likely she was hoping, to paraphrase Herzog's blurb copy, to look at her relationships with other creatures and, ultimately, how she sees herself. It's less likely she expected to look at her relationship with another creature's junk, but that's what happened.
According to the Glen Park Association, Clark was reading Herzog's book at the mini park at Alemany and Cayuga at around 5:45 Wednesday afternoon when a white man, aged 20-30 with dark hair and beard approached her.
“He cut across the park and then came back a few minutes later—this time coming towards me," Clark said. "He greeted me, and when I looked up he was exposed."
"He asked if I 'liked his c**k.' I said no and hit him" with Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, she said. "It was a library book too, which is why I didn’t hit him anywhere else."
Clark says that though she called the San Francisco Police Department, they never responded to take a report. (SFist has left a message with SFPD regarding the case, but hasn't received a response at publication time.) If the police truly failed to respond, that's especially disquieting—though it's fun to make wacky flasher jokes, some experts say that exposure of this type can be a precursor to even graver crimes.
Though the flasher didn't react or follow Clark as she fled the area, she was "still incredibly unsettled," she said.
"It was still daylight and there was a lot of foot traffic," at the time of the incident, Clark says. "This guy was bold."
Update 3/17: SFPD spokesperson officer Albie Esparza says that officers received Clark's call at 5:42, and responded to the scene at 7:17 PM. Understandably, Clark was no longer at the location, and therefore officers couldn't take a report. Esparza says that if you call the police but must leave the scene, you are urged to call SFPD again and to ask that officers meet you at your home, instead of the incident location.
