Hitch hikers - do you ever pick them up?

johnayo · 10-11-2019 12:14PM

FluffyTowel wrote: »

Haven’t picked up any, but have been the hitchhiker twice. First one was after a wedding in Galway where we missed the bus to the train from a B&B in some remote place in the backend of nowhere. Ah - memories of the driver trying to feel me up while my friend was getting sick out the window in the back.

The second one wasn’t as pleasant.

Did you murder the second driver:rolleyes:

FluffyTowel · 10-11-2019 01:15PM

johnayo wrote: »

Did you murder the second driver:rolleyes:

No...

Ubbquittious · 10-11-2019 06:53PM

I pick them up if I have room. Only picked a few this year. There are no dodgy fcukers where I live. Everyone is lovely

10-11-2019 06:55PM

Not a chance. In this day and age I wouldn’t even stop if I seen someone lying on the road so I’m hardly going to stop for someone deliberately trying to stop a car.

tuxy · 10-11-2019 06:58PM

I always stop but can go many months without seeing one.
It' almost always an alcoholic who has been drinking in town and needs a lift to their home village to continue drinking for the day.
Don't approve of the lifestyle but they are harmless. They sometimes have a few crazy stories which are enjoyable once I don't have to listen to them for too long

Purple Mountain · 10-11-2019 06:58PM

biko wrote: »

I picked up an old fella about two weeks ago.
He was only going a couple miles down the road.

There's an old lad near me who'll stand outside his house waiting for someone to stop to take him to local village.
I used to often give him the lift but he wouldn't be great in the soap and water department so now I don't look when I pass him, I pretend I don't see him

corks finest · 10-11-2019 07:06PM

Yes as long as they look clean/ sober and over 18,,,thumbed years ago everywhere

ruwithme · 10-11-2019 07:16PM

No hitch hikers in Ireland. country is too small for that. Only lads and the odd lassie thumbing a lift afew townlands over the road.

anyway a rare enough sight nowadays. yes i would give them a lift if they didn't look shifty.

jayus if you stopped to lift the wrong lad ,you might well regret it.

10-11-2019 07:19PM

ruwithme wrote: »

No hitch hikers in Ireland. country is too small for that. Only lads and the odd lassie thumbing a lift afew townlands over the road.

anyway a rare enough sight nowadays. yes i would give them a lift if they didn't look shifty.

jayus if you stopped to lift the wrong lad ,you might well regret it.

Anyone could be the wrong lad no matter what they look like. Why risk it?

punisher5112 · 10-11-2019 07:28PM

I'd recommend anyone to watch American horror story 1984...

Absolutely class as there is a hitcher in it.

Season 9 episode 7.

You will never pick another....

wakka12 · 10-11-2019 07:35PM

ruwithme wrote: »

No hitch hikers in Ireland. country is too small for that. Only lads and the odd lassie thumbing a lift afew townlands over the road.

anyway a rare enough sight nowadays. yes i would give them a lift if they didn't look shifty.

jayus if you stopped to lift the wrong lad ,you might well regret it.

So you think appearances never deceive?

ArchXStanton · 10-11-2019 09:07PM

I do, I spent years on the side of motorways and roads doing it myself so I know how it feels, I used to play a game, insulting passing drivers with lines from Hardcore songs.. "this time I'm not going to let you slide" "You drew the last straw Our friendship's reached its end" etc etc
It passed the time

tuxy · 10-11-2019 09:14PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Anyone could be the wrong lad no matter what they look like. Why risk it?

There is a very small risk something could go wrong but my quality of life is better when I live it without thinking every stranger could be out to get me.
Of course common sense is important when doing this but the satisfaction of helping someone outweighs my fear.

SmartinMartin · 10-11-2019 09:15PM

ArchXStanton wrote: »

I do, I spent years on the side of motorways and roads doing it myself so I know how it feels, I used to play a game, insulting passing drivers with lines from Hardcore songs.. "this time I'm not going to let you slide" "You drew the last straw Our friendship's reached its end" etc etc
It passed the time

I'm glad I didn't stop for you now.

Wanderer2010 · 10-11-2019 09:41PM

Not in a million years. Firstly, as a woman alone when driving the last thing I want is to invite any possible trouble or criminals into my car. Now I know people will say that most hitch-hikers are fine but since having kids, im now ultra careful and I don't need the risk in my life.

scamalert · 10-11-2019 09:43PM

once stopped to give a lift mid way home, some older hippy type traveler from NZ, usual talk for 15mins drive, but maybe 3-4 years later going back from work, stopping and same guy

took me few minutes to remember, but he recalled myself and even diff car back at the time, no clue if some farm job or returned or maybe stayed but good few years apart so nice coincidence

apart from one scum that was barely sober and dirty in general mostly good experiences, dont get the danger idea - same risk going out after it gets dark really into town,prob worse in comparison. But most either seem needing short lift or missing a bus.

Galwayguy35 · 10-11-2019 09:44PM

No.

Last winter there were 2 young women thumbing just outside the local town at 6am still in dresses and heels from the night before, it was freezing and pissing rain but there was no way I was stopping to give them a lift.

afatbollix · 10-11-2019 09:58PM

A neighbour of mine would come over from time to time.

He was such a lezy fecker he would hitch and once in the car would say 'Oh feck I've left my wallet at home and would say let me off here and all walk home'

it was about 200m.

The other good story I had was I was late to head down to cork from the West. I picked up a father and son, They were sailing around Ireland and their engine had gone. They were heading back to Galway for a part for the engine and then would head back to the boat.

I informed them I was running late for a motor rally down in Cork. They said that would be grand as they will get to Galway. I headed off at speed and made Galway in good time and they literaly had a lift waiting for them at the first roundabout in Galway. To be honest I don't know why.

Thinking back I might of scrared them a little bit.

They left about 10 quid in change in the cup holder tho.

sonyvision · 10-11-2019 10:09PM

I would if they were going my direction.

I benefitted from hitching a few years back. Was waiting for a bus in Italy which never came to catch a train. We knew it would be tight but no sign of a bus... no taxis and in the middle of no where my girlfriend and I had no choice.

Thumbs out standing side of the road, rug sacks on our backs within 5 minutes a car pulls in. (Lady drive mid 30s) asked us where we need to go. Couldn't have been nicer she chatted to us for the short car journey.

Got to the station train pulled in made it with 60 seconds to go. Yes we legged it through the station for the train!

SmartinMartin · 10-11-2019 10:10PM

Fado Fado a friend of mine who used to live out the back of Dublin Airport drove into Phibsboro every working day. One desperate stormy morning she was passing the cottages at the boot Inn when she saw an elderly neighbour standing at the bus stop. As it turns out he was heading to Ballymun Post office to collect his pension, which he did the same day every week for many years. She picked him up and said good morning Paddy, to which he replied "Fcuk you, you cnut, why did you never pick me up before?".

10-11-2019 10:11PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Not in a million years. Firstly, as a woman alone when driving the last thing I want is to invite any possible trouble or criminals into my car. Now I know people will say that most hitch-hikers are fine but since having kids, im now ultra careful and I don't need the risk in my life.

jayz i always thought you were male

HorrorScope · 10-11-2019 10:16PM

Just once but digging the grave took so long I couldn’t be arsed to do it again.

whisky_galore · 10-11-2019 10:18PM

Black Swan wrote: »

If you go across the pond to visit, I would not recommend picking up hitchhikers, or hitchhike yourself. According to the FBI crime reporting database:
From 1979 to 2009, there were 675 reported victims of sexual assault and murder along Interstate Highways. Although in fairness this could represent a small number of incidents, why play the odds?

Not that surprising as it's Murica, home of crazy.

PsychoPete · 10-11-2019 10:21PM

No because I'd actually like to reach my destination

Bishop of hope · 10-11-2019 10:25PM

I used to, then I saw that rutger hauer movie, I said fcuk that after watching it, so not in years, unless it's someone I know.

El Tarangu · 10-11-2019 10:44PM

Haven't seen any in Ireland for years, but I would yeah - the last one I picked up needed a lift home from the pub, and we needed directions, so it was a quid pro quo.

See them all the time in France; never in the middle of the night or anything, so have always picked them up when there was space in the car/when it was convenient.

Black Swan wrote: »

If you go across the pond to visit, I would not recommend picking up hitchhikers, or hitchhike yourself. According to the FBI crime reporting database:
From 1979 to 2009, there were 675 reported victims of sexual assault and murder along Interstate Highways.

There must be billions of journeys taken each year on the interstate highway system, so I am surprised it's that few over the course of 30 years. Plus, rest stops are often centres of prostitution and dogging and similar, so I'd say that this would account for a fair chunk of those numbers.

Edgware · 10-11-2019 11:33PM

HorrorScope wrote: »

Just once but digging the grave took so long I couldn’t be arsed to do it again.

Just make them do the digging

poisonated · 10-11-2019 11:41PM

I took a greyhound bus and it left me in a really dangerous neighbourhood that i wasn’t familiar with. This woman pulled up and offered me a lift so I took it. That was probably pretty dangerous when I think about it.

4Ad · 10-11-2019 11:47PM

I generally pick them up, rare to see them these days..I remember one lad who wouldn't wake up, langers drunk..
Just got him to the village he mumbled, and pulled him out..
Without a doubt he hadn't a clue how he got home..

punisher5112 · 10-11-2019 11:59PM

poisonated wrote: »

I took a greyhound bus and it left me in a really dangerous neighbourhood that i wasn’t familiar with. This woman pulled up and offered me a lift so I took it. That was probably pretty dangerous when I think about it.

Did you check the back seat for the husband....

Hitch hikers - do you ever pick them up?

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