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WIBTA if I reported this guy to the gym staff for creeping out my girlfriend?

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There is a guy who just started showing up at the gym I go to. He seems relatively fit but nothing impressive. He may have gone in the past to this gym, but I've been going off and on for the past 5 years or so and never have seen him.

When he first started showing up, he introduced himself to lots of people usually interrupting their workouts. "Hi, I'm Shane."

Anyway, my girlfriend and I usually work out at slightly different times and usually are at different sides of the gym when we're working out together. Numerous times when my GF has had her headphones in, Shane has gone up to her to ask her stuff. This one day while she was benching with headphones in, he went up to her and asked her if she needed a spot. She clearly did not need a spot.

The other day, Shane very loudly burped and said "Fuck that was disgusting!"The whole gym went quiet for a moment. Last night he showed up and went over to the hack squat machine (which is near a main walkway). He put no weight on it but stood up on it and was just talking to people who walked by. Some dudes actually talk to him and some people look really annoyed when he interacts with them. A really attractive lady walked past him while he was just standing on the hack squat machine and he STARED at her until she got close to the machine and then said something like "what's up? How are you?" She said something quietly and briefly and kept walking. He. Kept. Staring.

Personally, he annoys me. He's very obnoxious and he annoys my girlfriend. I don't think she'll file a complaint against him because she's just not that type. WIBTA if I report him to the gym staff? Or should I just ignore him and wait until someone else does it?

Update: General consensus seems to be that I am NTA. There has been much conflicting advice with what I should do. Some of the gym staff knows me so I'll casually talk to them about this dude instead of 'reporting' him to see if they have noticed his behavior or if they know if he's autistic. For the people saying that I am the asshole, I appreciate the response and see where you're coming from. I am fine with being an asshole.

Another update: I'm reading all of these responses even if I'm not responding. There's a lot of them and some of you are asking/saying the same things and I just don't feel like putting in the effort to respond. This gym is not in Baltimore or Indiana or where you are from. It's not your gym, I almost guarantee it. I included the statement "He seems relatively fit but nothing impressive" not to be rude but to say that he clearly knows what he's doing but he's not a gym rat.

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