Would you hitchhike?

Demetrius · 01-10-2006 09:04PM

Yep, I've hitch-hiked in the past a few times when I didn't have a car and now I pick up hitch-hikers often enough since I have a car.* I haven't met one strange person on the road ever, (except for one guy who gave me a lift when I was 17.)

*I drop them off at the end of the journey...before someone says something!

danniemcq · 01-10-2006 09:11PM

it took me over three hours to get a lift one day. and i was in a suit had a huge bunch of flowers and a big box of chocolates and it was 3 in the afternoon. bastards. still hitch-hike though it sometimes has to be done esp up where i am from originally with the lack of buses and all

Wez · 01-10-2006 09:24PM

Yeh, after personal experiences, I'm defo gonna pick up hitchers when I get a car! Most of them are sound, decent blokes just stuck for a lift, although I'd obviously think twice about anyone looking dodgey..

Also, I reckon, if you drive a pickup, you've GOT to pick up hitchers, it's like an un-written rule!

Heyes · 01-10-2006 09:55PM

Simple answer, nope.... just wouldnt risk it, dunno whos car your getting into.

greenkittie · 01-10-2006 10:11PM

It's been an ambition of mine to pick up random hitch hikers for fun. Unfortunatly never actually came across one so haven't had the chance yet.
It may be dangerous, but im a risk taker. For me, life is about taking risks, it might end it short

but its more likely to just enrich it.

:| · 02-10-2006 12:03AM

I've done it a few times on my summer holidays down the country, its quite common down there so it just seems normal, the nearest village(and off licence) is quite a walk away.

mainly with people but i have done it once or twice on my own, most of the people who stop are people you already know anyway....although my own mother did drive past me one day...

funk-you · 02-10-2006 12:43AM

Lump wrote:

UNtil they claim you raped them!

This happened to my uncle a few years back. He picked her up and after a couple on mins she said she wanted money or she'd say that he raped her. He drove to the nearest garda station and pulled her inside. it took a few days but it got sorted in the end.

I had a fairly weird experience once. Myself and a few mates were down in Kerry and thumbed a lift after a night out. We got into a fiesta van, one in the front and two in the back. Yer man was pissed as a fart and speeding along. I looked down in the back and saw a rifle and a hand gun and immediately started sh!tting myself.

The bloke turns round calm as you like and says "whip the bullets out of them and give them to us would ye? you mind the gun and i'll mind the bullets, sound fair to ye lads?"

Some of the stuff he came out with was nuts. I'd never do it again.

-Funk

cournioni · 02-10-2006 08:38AM

Did it when I was small and didn't have a bike with me or a mobile (as that wasn't the in thing at the time). It was good enough craic, but some of the drivers were lunatics. I wouldn't do it again, because I have a car so no point really. But I do pick up people that are looking for a lift, especially if it is a hot chick...

[edit]After reading the above post... What I've said doesn't seem like a good idea.[/edit]

Bard · 02-10-2006 08:40AM

I've done it before but only on the Hearse Road on the way to Donabate, where I used to live, and usually it'd be someone I at least vaguely know (small village... at the time), who'd pick me up.

I'd rarely need to hitch-hike these days, having the car and all...

Stromecek · 02-10-2006 09:56AM

I've hitched through almost most of Europe, including Kosovo where I got a lift from the UN which was handy, but I really do think its a great way to travel, to meet the local people with their wildly different views on life tis class, of course there's been a few hairy moments like the time in Bosnia where just before the border the guy driving suddenly takes a left turn up a narrow country lane approaching a definate dark forest then suddenly the car stops I'm thinkin oooohh donkey bollox, the guy turns and looks at me and then suddenly asks if I wanna line of a mix of coke and heroin assuring me that the addition of heroin is a "much better effect" and that he had to get rid of it before crossing the border! the rest of the way then was both the car and chat at 100mph. Thankfully I made it to the next town and off I went,
Point is though I've never thought it of dangerous and have had many an adventure and got to know many people, couldn't recommend it enough

godtabh · 02-10-2006 10:01AM

I was in NY during the black out in 2003. Was meant to fly to Toronto to see friends but my flight got cancelled. Meet some people on the flight and start chatting. Orignal plan was to try and rent a car. Didnt work.

Ended up getting a lift of them and drove something like 600-800 miles. There was 4 of us and I felt safe. Could've been the fact that I hadnt slept in 2 days but I'm not sure if I would've normal do something like that.

Great way to see the country

fabcat · 02-10-2006 11:47AM

I always done it with a group of my cousins when we were in Donegal as kids, can't believe I done it now, 'cos we were on a main road where alot of the cars would be people travelling through the country and not neccesarily from the small village we were trying to get too. The strangest thing is my Mother never had a problem with this, she woul;dn't let me out of the house on my own when we were in Glasgow, but as soon as we hit the soil in Donegal, she let us roam the place freely, brought this up to her recently (I'm now 25) and she said Donegal is a nice safe place and nothign would ever happen there :rolleyes: innocence is a virtue

Lurk · 02-10-2006 01:20PM

no way, I'd never hitch...i'd be murdered for boring the shlte out of the driver.

Me: "What type of car is this? What size engine is it? I don't really like Chinese food, do you like Chinese food? Can't wait to start Christmas shopping. What are you gonna buy your relatives? You're quite a slow driver. My god, is that a cow?....."

NeMiSiS · 02-10-2006 02:01PM

Jesus.. I'm after having a ****ing flashback.. I was gonna say yeh.. hitching is grand.. and I've picked up a few.. and they have been cool, and grateful. But then I remebered I was heading to my mates house for a party.. on my own.. dunno would have been round 10 or so, no bus due.. so I started thumbing.. all well and good, guy stops to give me a lift.. in his 30's.. The usual howaya blah blah blah.. anyway..

We get near my mates house and I say 'This will be fine here, thank's very much' He didn't awknowedge me.. so I say the same again louder.. now I know at this stage he's heard me.. cause he turns to me.. and just stares at me.. so I say 'OK stop the car please, I would like to get out' same thing he is ignoring.. So I start shouting.. 'stop the ****ing car !', the rest is a bit of a blurry mess in my head, but I started fighting with him in the car and pulling up the handbrake while I held the wheel, and then fighting him off, the car coming to a stop, and me jumping out.. Then I started booting the side of the car, and turned to get a rock to smash the windows out of the car.. he put the foot down then and belted off.

The house party was good craic though..

TK

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