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Hitch-hikers....

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john_o:
always a risk these days , but if Im on my own I would consider it  :happy2: (not with wife and child in car)

I remember stopping to give a guy a lift from the Carlisle services all the way to Glasgow one day in my M3 !
he almost choked when I stopped to offer a lift........

turned out he was fairly sound and we chatted all the way back up the road.

as you say its an assessment at the time based on many factors  :happy2:

RedRobin:

--- Quote from: john_o on May 23, 2010, 11:42:17 am ---
I remember stopping to give a guy a lift from the Carlisle services all the way to Glasgow one day in my M3 !
he almost choked when I stopped to offer a lift........


--- End quote ---

....I remember when I was thumbing a ride that any car which was half-tasty was always a huge bonus.

 :happy2:

vRS Carl:
As mentioned already. Dangerous pastime thats for sure.

It's not something i would do.

Not everyone is bad and i feel sorry for genuine hitchhikers who just want to get somewhere. But you just never can be to careful these days.

Golfgirl:
I did a Jailbreak for charity last year.  This is where you get taken to a mystery location and have to find your way back to your starting point with no money.  We started off in Hereford and got dropped off in Paignton, so quite a long way really.  After blagging a train ride and taxi ride we found ourselves at Exeter services along with several other teams.  We managed to blag three lifts from there and got as far as Bridgwater services (Somerset).  Then we got stuck.  We just couldn't get any more lifts and it was getting on for 8pm (we'd left Hereford at 6am).  We ended up cheating and using a mobile to call a friend we knew who lived in Somerset and he came and picked us up and took us all the way back to Hereford, arriving there about midnight.  The event was over, the place was in darkness and they were just locking the gate.  Five minutes later and we wouldn't have been able to get the car out to get home.

Even though we were in the official Jailbreak t-shirts, wore Union Jack hats and explained to people what we were doing, hardly anybody was willing to give us a lift.  As we were a team of four it made it more difficult anyway as we could only fit in cars with one person in (we had to stay as a team).

If I saw people dressed up in fancy dress doing a similar event I may give them a lift because I now know how it feels.  However, I wouldn't pick up a random person that was just thumbing a lift.  You just never know who they are.

RedRobin:
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Feelings such as "you never know who they are" and "you just can't in today's society" are totally understandable, but.. They are feelings of fear and negativity. I don't mean this unkindly and I'm not saying it's wrong to have such reservations or caution. I am asking why more people can't get past their prejudgements and trust their instincts and gut feelings.

You can suss people in milliseconds and be right 99%. We're programmed to do so and animals can suss even faster and better. We have animal senses too but society has knocked them out of many of us.

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