Gay men encouraged to report crime, says Burnaby RCMP<\/p>\n\n \n\n
A Vancouver man is warning gay men to be aware while cruising in public, after he says a hookup robbed him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n He says he\u2019s afraid to go to the RCMP for fear of being charged for public sex, but a spokesperson for the Burnaby RCMP insists they will not charge men who report a crime while cruising. <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n Chris, who asked <\/span>Xtra<\/em> to withhold his last name for fear he\u2019ll be prosecuted, alleges a man stole his wallet and then started a physical fight over it after they hooked up.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Chris says the night he was robbed, he dropped by the popular cruising area in Burnaby\u2019s Central Park, where he met a man he\u2019d hooked up with previously and even chatted with at the Pumpjack pub in Vancouver\u2019s gay village. <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n This time, Chris says he and the man gave each other blowjobs, before they joined a third man. Soon, the third man invited Chris to follow him to another spot where they could have sex.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cI went to follow him and pulled up my pants, and at that point I noticed my wallet was missing. I thought it must have fallen out,\u201d Chris says.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n After retracing his steps and searching with the help of other men in the area, Chris gave up.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n But when he returned to the parking lot and began to drive away, Chris says he saw the first man sitting in the driver\u2019s seat of a vehicle, looking down in his lap.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n \u201cI pulled over aside him and I rolled down my window because I wanted to let him know I lost my wallet and couldn\u2019t find it \u2014 to see if he saw anything,\u201d Chris says. <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n That\u2019s when Chris alleges he saw the contents of his wallet in the other man\u2019s possession. <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n Chris says he demanded his things back, but the man denied having them. <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n The two struggled, Chris alleges, as the man tried to slam the door on him, while Chris punched him in the face and elbowed him in the gut to get him to release the wallet and cards. <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n