Blind Man Called "Creepy" and Kicked Out of Gym After Woman Reports Him for "Staring"

There is almost nothing worst than being wrongly accused of doing something when you are 100 percent innocent – especially when someone doesn't believe you. In probably one of the most extreme cases of undeservingly getting the finger pointed at you, a blind man has spoken up about being accused of staring at a woman at the gym – and getting booted because of the claim. 

Toby Addison was born with sight, but from the age of 11 started losing it. By the time he was a teenager, he only had 80 percent of his vision remaining. And now, he has just 4 percent. 

In a new interview with Happy Hour Podcast, the now 21-year-old recollects one of the most awkward experiences he had, when he visited a new gym for the first time when he was 17. He says a woman approached him and accused him of staring at her, calling him a creep, and having him kicked out. 

 "I don't really know where I am looking a lot of the time unless I am talking to someone like I know that I'm talking to you so I am trying to look in your direction," he said. "So I was just staring straight ahead and unfortunately there was a woman doing some exercises. 

"I don't know what she was doing, whether it was some squats or whatever, where you may be in a more vulnerable position maybe and don't want to be stared at," he continued. "She came over to me, and I didn't know she was talking to me at first because I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just doing my thing."

"She said something along the lines of 'Why do you keep staring at me? Stop. Don't be so creepy'. "I was like 'Oh no sorry, I'm blind'. I had my cane with me, it was folded up in my lap but she wasn't having any of it". He says that maybe she thought his cane was prop.

Instead of standing up for himself and trying to convince her of his blindness, he left and never returned. "It was rough, it knocked my confidence a lot and made me feel like being blind is a problem, that it causes problems."