Reply #16: As far as the geography goes, the story seems believable

[muriel_volestrangler]

It doesn't say she was a student; it says she was 19, and the bar was near Melbourne. He was a student, and he took the train back into Melbourne. So all this means is that, one night, he was in a bar near Melbourne, for whatever reason, which is not unusual.

As far as the story goes, Gawker is trying to make too much of it; they call the emails 'creepy' and his behaviour 'stalkery', but she was the one who approached him first, and if a 19 year old (yes, technically a teenager, but a typical age for the people a student meets) approaches you, a man may well get the impression she's interested in you. He didn't give up at once; but some women have funny ideas about "it's up to him to pursue me", and maybe he read her approach wrong. The woman actually says he wasn't creepy, or weird; and that "he's just a funny bugger". Much ado about nothing.