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Would you pick up a hitchhiker?
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Yep, done both. Hitchhiked mostly abroad. Bank card stopped working in Cuba few years ago so I had to hitchhike over the island. I made money from impromptu teaching on the beach, luckily it was Easter and there were British teens there with parents worried about gcses!
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Yes, several times. One of the first was a biker who’d broke down, he’d ran out of fuel. So we got him to a petrol station and back, but me and my ex wife are bikers so we wouldn’t leave another stranded.
A young lad at the services was asking people for a lift a couple of weeks ago. I heard where he needed to go and I took him most of the way. |
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I have once. We were on our honeymoon in the middle of nowhere in France. We were walking back to where we were staying from a lovely dinner at a restaurant. A guy stopped and offered us a lift. He also offered to take the dog that was following us. We had to shoo it away so it didn't get run over. Saved us a long walk.
I don't think I'd have felt so comfortable about it if I was on my own. |
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over a year ago
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"Christ no.
Dahmer. Pitchfork. Kemper. The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker Kai (it’s on Netflix, check it out!). Terrible things happen to hitchhikers…"
Aileen Wuornos.. |
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over a year ago
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Done so london to norfoll many times as used to travel there every week end, for 5 yrs, visiting a lover.
Not sure if i would risk it now. With the mental state of many out there. |
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over a year ago
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Wouldn't pick one up, got no upper body strength.
Tried hitchhiking a few weeks back after a night out. Robbing taxi companies wanted £50 for a 10 minute drive. Took me over 2 hours to walk home. No one picked me up, got a few honks though.....which was nice. |
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Never hitched but picked up plenty, not always going exactly where they were headed but got them a step closer on their journey, I always liked to think someone else picked them up and helped them a bit further. |
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"Christ no.
Dahmer. Pitchfork. Kemper. The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker Kai (it’s on Netflix, check it out!). Terrible things happen to hitchhikers…"
Rutger Hauer evened those odds.. |
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I’ve hitchhiked quite a few times in the past but I think I’ve seen too many serial killer documentaries to do it now.
I’ve never picked one up, but that’s more to do with the fear they’re going somewhere that’s slightly out of my way and I don’t want the awkward situation where I have to tell them I’m not prepared to drive more than 30 seconds out of my way |
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Me, no. I’ve done neither and never would. I’ve watched far too many serial killer documentaries!
My mum however did, from the uk to France in around 82/83 following the loss of her first babies. She said it was amazing from what I remember. But she was lucky.
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Not hitchhiker, but got in many a 'taxi', with mates that wasn't an actual taxi in my youth. Just bunged the driver whatever bob, no harm done.
Also circled round with daughter to pick up/drop off a young woman, clearly quite d*unk walking back from an isolated garage to a pub after going to buy a pack of fags. She seemed v happy for the lift. If v unsure (obviously) to start. When she saw it was two women & we told her to bunk the kiddie seat along the back she was way happier... Would have felt wrong leaving her to totter the lonely stretch of road alone frankly |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
My final job before retiring was running a vehicle delivery company employing around 15 drivers. For a number of reasons it was not always easy to get the drivers back to base by public transport so they hitch hiked back using their red and white trade plates. you may have seen "Trade Platers" on the side of the road.
My own best hike was fron Inverness to Leicester Forest East services where I met up with one of my drivers heading back to base.
I will always pick up Platers and usually any other hikers, never had any issues. |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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Picked up a lovely american girl who was hitching accross europe in my truck at stafford dropped her at lymm services kept in touch via faceache as she moved north .worked as a beater on one of the big shooting estates arranged to pick her up at perth couple of months later dropped her at lymm again on way back .last i heard she was heading from spain to morroco then my fb got hacked and we lost touch .lovely girl |
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By *am1ebMan
over a year ago
Wishaw |
Got to be 30 years ago + recently separated, picked up a student in my truck, hitch hiking on the A66 at Appleby, dropped her off at York after a most enjoyable session. The next day the clutch packed in on my truck, thank goodness it wasn't when I was off route dropping her off. One of the most memorable days of my trucking life |
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By *am1ebMan
over a year ago
Wishaw |
But have also had the scary side, of picking a guy up, thinking he was genuine, but sitting there with his holdall on his lap, fumbling around inside it! Stopped at next services, saying this is as far as I'm going, and firing him out |
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Last time I did was about 3/4 years ago on Achill Island
That's where Banshees of Inisherrin is set. She was flagging me down and I thought there was an accidental so I stopped.
Turns out she just wanted a life. She was local but she said no one local gives her a lift. I soon found out why when she cadged €6 in coins out of me to go to the shop ha ha. |
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Funnily enough I saw a guy thumbing a lift the other day in the new forest.
Haven't seen anyone doing it for many many years.
My company fleet policy excludes us from having non employees in the vehicle, however I wouldn't have stopped regardless being very shallow and judgemental he looked bonkers!
Long shaggy beard,long hair all over and I'm sure he had blood on his hands ( but that was probably my imagination running wild).
I have picked up one or two many moons ago one was a guy after a night out woke up on a bench no money,no wallet hungover and lost was just trying to get back to Worthing after a night out in Brighton.
He slept most of the way.
It's not a long journey,I wouldn't do it today although it's quite common in rural areas where people know each other. |
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I have hitchhiked and picked up hitchhikers too.
I know people are worried about the safety aspect but I always think the chance of 2 serial killers being in the car at the same time is next to zero
Marc |
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Yes. Of course. If you’ve got space in your vehicle why the hell wouldn’t you?
I’ve had a couple of amazing experiences, the best of which was picking up 2 gap year teachers in Namibia a few years back. They were such good fun my mate and I ended up driving them around Namibia and South Africa for 2 weeks. We even took them on safari.
In the UK I always stop if I see people trying to hitch. A few months ago I gave a lift in my camper van to 2 walkers that had got completely saturated in a storm.
With regards the safety element, I’d argue that you’ve never actually been safer. Mobile phones, number plate recognition, cctv coverage must make the likelihood of problems way less than the so-called golden age of the 1950s |
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My best hitching experience was on the Isle of Islay. A gang of us were planning on staggering back to our accommodation after a distillery ‘experience’. 3 of us thought we had got lucky when some 20 year old stunner picked us up in her car, but we were quickly made very jealous when the other lads got a lift in the 35 ton truck that was heading from the distillery down to the ferry. |
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