Mum’s video of man under her car divides the internet

A woman has gone viral on social media after sharing a video of a man’s “creepy” act that left her – and her teenage son – feeling deeply uncomfortable.

A mother has revealed how her 14-year-old son’s chance interaction with a man in a large black truck left him feeling uncomfortable — and set off alarm bells for her.

The Texan woman shared a clip of a man “hiding” under a black truck at a local park.

Footage showed the man on his stomach underneath his vehicle.

“PSA to my ladies: watch out for creeps at the park,” she wrote over the top of the clip, adding the man was watching her from underneath the car.

“See him moving on his belly?”

The video clocked up to 12 million views, and garnered a lot of comments that were divided on what was actually happening.

Some argued the man could have simply been fixing his car, while others said that was unlikely, given he was on his stomach. A few questioned why the woman didn’t call the police.

“Tell me why I thought I was looking for Pennywise in the sewer,” one said, referencing Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Stephen King’s horror novel, It.

One commented: “Ngl I was terrified just hearing ‘there’s a man’.”

“He’s def looking at something under his truck,” another defended.

A mum claims she found a creep under her car. Picture: TikTok/@rhoda_1985

One said; ‍️ “Hello, call the cops?”

“Start yelling, ‘Hey whose car is this, there is a man hiding under the car’,” one social media user suggested.

“It’s a Dodge … he’s probably fixing something,” another said.

One commented: “Man just looking at something on his truck being accused by women.”

“Oh my god — when I was a teenager my friend’s dad said watch out getting in your car because kidnappers will cut your Achilles tendon and I never believed it,” another shared.

One person commented: “I would totally make a scene. He might be planting an AirTag so he can find somebody later.”

“Men in the comments being like ‘maybe he’s working on his car’ (despite being on his stomach) and ‘it’s not illegal’ are INSANE. like what!!! if someone’s up under a car, on their stomach, watching people – that is not okay. men wonder why there’s a loneliness epidemic like damn maybe it’s deserved,” one added.

She said she wanted to spread awareness about what had happened. Picture: TikTok/@rhoda_1985

In a follow-up video, the woman gave more context about what had unfolded. She said her son had run to her car to get her water bottle for her, when a man sitting in the next car along “clocked” him.

“My son said he immediately started feeling uncomfortable, got a weird feeling, so I look over. As I am looking over the man is getting out of his car and crawling underneath it,” she said on TikTok.

“He just watches me the entire time.”

She said she told everyone around her what was happening — but didn’t call the police as technically the man hadn’t done anything wrong and police in her county are slow to respond at the best of times.

So, she called someone else she knew who could help in the situation. When they confronted the man, he allegedly didn’t have “a whole lot to say”.

The woman said she shared the video to social media — and her local neighbourhood app — to spread awareness.

Originally published as Mum’s video of man under her car divides the internet