Is Julia Price "Little James" Story an Internet Hoax?

Details: Created: Monday, 23 November 2015 11:42; Published: Monday, 23 November 2015 11:42; Written by Ax D. WhiteMan

In the past few days Julia Price posted a facebook story about being cat-called during her run, finally deciding to confront the cat-caller, when a young child named "James" intervened on her behalf.

The post has over 150k shares, 858K likes and been published on hundreds of media outlets from Huffington Post to even a feature article in the Daily Mail.

I think the story is bullshit.

Yeah, I know it's a harmless little feel good story; but bullshit is bullshit - and should be identified as such.

The facts of the story, as she tells it, just don't wash. She say's she was "running" on a trail; when a well dressed man shouted, "Sexy lady, hey hey hey sexy lady!"

She says she decided to ignore him and keep running. She says he "kept screaming it" and that her ignoring him "seemed to piss him off." I'm assuming that when she says "kept screaming it," she means at least two more times - or she would've said, "he said it again," if it was only once more.

So, here's the situation: Running woman (with headphones on), screaming man yelling at leas three times, "sexy lady, hey, hey, hey, sexy lady," Then, when she doesn't respond he yells, "Fuck you bitch."

If someone says that three times, giving at least a second in between to see if there is a response, it takes at least 18 seconds. Remember she's running. Even at a modest pace of a 10 minute mile, in 18 seconds she's covered about 160 feet. For some perspective, that's standing in the back of the end zone and hearing someone yelling from the 50 yard line - while you've got music playing in your head phones.

That's just tough to believe. But what happens next is even harder to explain.

Julia says when she heard the word "bitch," that was her trigger point. She ripped off her head phones and planned to stand up for herself, when a little boy "who was walking alongside his mother" intervened.

So here's the situation:

Stationary man yelling. Mother and children walking toward man. Julia running away from man.

Now, from a distance of about 160 feet (back of the end zone to the 50 yard line), the running Julia, with tunes playing in her headphones, hears "bitch" - stops dead in her tracks to stand up for herself.

But...

At the same moment she ripped off her headset, little James, who was walking toward the man and we are now to assume is directly in his presence, puts the beastly man in his place.

So, how does Julia hear this?

She's over half a football field away. She hears clearly what a child says from 160 feet away? Just not possible.

Then there are the obvious questions?

Where's the selfie with James? Where's the media scouring the earth to interview little James? Where's the hero Mom, mother of James. Somehow these folks are in witness protection? What gives?

What gives is the story is bullshit. It's a way for a fledgling entertainer to get some media exposure and for the media to perpetuate the media narrative, "men suck, women are victims."

The story would be no less bogus if we were told that "James" was really his last name; and his first name was, of course, Lebron.