I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?

[CapnAwesome]

I just googled Hitchhiker Robberies.  This was in the first 30 results.  Mostly guns.  A couple knives.  A kidnapping was in there.  Usually people get robbed at gun point or carjacked in the stories.  One guy got shot in the head.  This is just the people picking up hitchhikers.  I have no idea what the statistical likelihood is.  But it isn't nothing, and is discouraged by highway patrol, who suggest you call 911, and then they'll try and help them out after checking their id.


http://www.wlox.com/story/10334492/highw...ck-them-up

http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/Hitch...57471.html

http://www.kltv.com/story/28047837/armed...ned-on-him

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2217953

http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime...52152.html

http://www.wect.com/story/24743083/coupl...hitchhiker

http://wishtv.com/2014/08/26/hitchhiker-...arjacking/

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1...8483&hl=en

http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/news...ed-robbery

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/09/hunt...ker_l.html

In a way this is more making my point then yours, what you see here is media alarmism. Nobody claimed nothing ever happened picking up hitchhikers, but statistically you aren't more likely to be robbed by a hitchhiker then just walking down the street, not according to the one study done on it. But boy is it sure more likely to get reported by the media. Refugees aren't more likely to murder, but I bet every time they do it'll get media coverage. One those stories even illustrates the difficulty of robbing someone in a moving car.  Most of them include calls not to pick up hitchhikers, which is bullshit. It's cherry picking incidents to try to make something seem more dangerous then it is and leaving us with a less friendly society because of it. If I choose to, I can make literally any activity seem just as dangerous by cherry picking . We live in the safest time in American history, but people have never been so afraid. I'd hate to live my life in such fear and to become a worse person because of it.

Here are the last three hitchhikers I picked up, every one was chocked full of interesting and incredible stories, two were extensive world travelers. I'd imagine that with the refugees, like with these three, if you lived next to them you could get to know them and enhance your experience as a human being.
Or you can live your life afraid of strangers, assuming that they are bad people and miss out on so much of the human experience. Either way at the end you die. Isn't it better to live a life getting to know, and helping people. I pick up hitchhikers and would live next to the refugees, not because I consider myself a good person, but because it enhances my human experience in the short time I have on this planet.

Dmitry the Russian hitchhiker. Picked him up going to Death Valley. He once hitched from Bangkok to Moscow. He got my pyched for a future trip to Asia.

He introduced himself as Jim. I asked him if that was his real name, he said no, it's Dmitry, but they are very similar, no?


Rita the Finnish survivalist girl- Picked her up outside Yosemite and drove her just north of San Fran. Rita is an expert survivalist who hitches around different countries and teaches survival classes. She killed a snake an used it's spine to make a necklace. Rita is tougher then you

This is another of my hitchhikers. I forget his name, he was a 28 year old gutter punk who had never had a job before but did have a smartphone. He was going up to portland to visit his girlfriend