A New Jersey woman said in a TikTok video that a stranger left her shaken while she shopped with her family at a Walmart in Ledgewood. Renata Thornburg, who posts as @renatathornburg, described the man walking beside them, looking at her toddler, and smiling in a way she called creepy. In the caption on the video, Thornburg wrote that the man was “so so creepy” and that she would not go back to that Walmart. She added, “This dude would have been tackled for sure.”
The video has gained 440,600 views and more than 1,570 comments. Thornburg said she had her baby in a stroller and her husband had their 2-year-old in a shopping cart. She stated the man was on the phone through a Bluetooth headset and kept looking at the child.