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DO NOT COMMENT ON LINKED POSTS. I am NOT OP. Original post by u/ApprehensiveDoge7287 in /r/Upperwestside

trigger warnings: Stalking

mood spoilers: classic kinda frustrating reddit moment but ultimately ends OK

Big guy in brown suit stalking riverside this AM - March 11, 2025

Had a weird experience with a deranged guy in a brown suit stalking riverside, looking to fight

Noticed this guy at 10:30 AM strolling down riverside drive slowly, full double breasted brown suit. Watched as he approach some middle aged guy who was training his dog. Brown suit then started threatening the dog owner for speaking harshly to the dog and approached as if to fight; I saw this and said “hey, do you want me to call the police?” because this guy seemed dangerous.

The brown suit then turned on me and started threatening me, calling me a “cuck” (lol) and a “coward liberal” (not sure where he got that idea. Nobody said anything political) and using a lot of that sort of language. He was walking toward me aggressively and I had the sense this was going To turn physical.

I tried to walk away and he followed me for about 15 minutes, shouting insults and walking faster and faster and closing the distance between us. I called 911 at that point because the guy was huge and I felt extremely threatened, he wouldn’t stop following. When he realized I was on the phone with the police he sat down on a bench and stared at me, calling me a coward, and I was able to walk away. I left him at 108th and riverside

I’ve never had an experience like that up here. Weird times

Notable comments:

DenverSports610: Is that not the NYC Real Estate YouTuber Erik Van Conover?

Kleos-Nostos: That’s him for sure.

I hope this is a troll post, because if not…

OOP: Not a troll. If I knew who he was I could have recorded his behavior and cancelled him

New_Found_Confidence: This post seems sus to me. That looks like YouTuber Erik Conover who just posted an anti Elon/Tesla Instagram story a few hours ago. This account has no post history and has DOGE in the username…

electrax94: Yeah his IG story doesn’t track with this. Did this guy lose a bet or something, or is someone out to get him

Discredited and attacked for posting about harassment from UWS resident and influencer - March 17, 2025

Almost a week ago I posted here to share an experience getting threatened and stalked on Riverside by a big guy in a brown suit:

Guy in the suit was identified by some as the famous YouTuber and UWS resident Erik “van” Conover. For this post I was called a liar, a shit poster and even an agent of elon musk because my handle had “doge” in it and Erik had recently criticised musk in one of his IG stories (lol). As the dog pile grew my post was aggressively down voted and locked

Just FYI to everyone who caught that, the guy in the brown suit is currently under arrest in NH for running over a cop after a week of similar chaos and violence:

Needless to say that I’m grateful my encounter ended without further violence or escalation. It was still a troubling experience, and being discredited in this sub also sucked

Maybe think twice before you discredit an accuser posting about one of our beloved influencers?

Notable comments:

electrax94: As one of the people who commented on the original post, this definitely proves this guy is spiraling, and I’m sorry that on top of dealing with him that day you didn’t receive a warm welcome here. I know personally I don’t really relate to your last sentence—won’t speak for anyone else, but it’s pretty common to approach stories on Reddit with a certain degree of skepticism (“trust but verify” doesn’t really work in cases like this, influencer or not). But it’s fair that you felt piled on. And I’m glad you’re safe given what he seems capable of.

jericho74: Yikes! I remember this post (and likened him to a creepypasta character, which was one of my most liked comments in months), so whatever dogpile you encountered was certainly not what the silent majority was thinking.

Thank you so much for documenting it because I did find the whole thing very worrying. And I guess glad to see it has become a police matter.

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