Were you ever approached by someone when you were younger/asked if you needed a lift?

Yep, in a village in Leitrim while walking down the longest road in the world (tm Leitrim Coco) someone pulled in and asked if I was going into town... wasn't gonna say no to that with another hour of walking ahead. Turned out he was the taxi driver who'd dropped me off the day before, lovely guy too.

Always trust strangers kids, don't let the scaremongers mong you into walking

I read a post on here before about two kids being followed up a quite road by a man with a chainsaw a few years ago.. :eek:

Needler wrote: »

Did he give any indications of being a nutjob?

Do you not thing it's strange a lorry driver offering a young girl a lift? It's not like it was late at night or anything.
What if I'd been the crazy one? Would he wanna put himself in a position where he could be accused of abducting me/abusing me/raping me??


Again, I'm not saying he was a nutjob :P but a lot of these people seem perfectly normal. For all I know he could have just wanted to pay me back for the directions or he could have left me in a ditch along the motorway. Just saying I'd rather not take the chance.

mikemac wrote: »

Only sexy kids get offered lifts

Were you a sexy kid mikey???

I bet you weren't but you were easy so all the kiddy fiddlers came looking for ya

Griffen262 wrote: »

I read a post on here before about two kids being followed up a quite road by a man with a chainsaw a few years ago.. :eek:

:eek:I read about that post....one kid walked back down the road with the chainsaw and a bag,a large bag.Mansized bag.

Not "offered" a lift per sé but:

A couple of weeks before my communion there had been a number of attempted abductions in the (Dublin) city and my parents sat me down to tell me the dangers of been offered a lift and to never take them etc...

Anyway roll on a few weeks later just after my communion and my Aunt was up and she asked me to go over to the shops to get a newspaper and gave me extra money to pick up some sweets or whatever, so I stroll on to the shops (about a 10 minute walk). The walk was completely enclosed with houses on all sides, so plenty of people would have been around although no one was on the street at the time.

Anyway, a really battered old car comes down the road from behind me really really slowly, as it passes me it seems to get even slower and it is crammed full of people and they are all staring out smiling at me. In my head I was like, who the fnuck are these. The car gets about 150/200metres past me and pulls in, I continue to walk a few more steps and notice the back door closest to me ever so slightly open and the people in the car are craning their heads to look directly at me out the back window.

The warnings my folks gave me immediately come to mind and I pretend to look at my watch (didn't have one on) make some sort of mad exaggerated face "wow, is that the time" and I turn back to walk towards home, a few seconds later I turn around and the car is moving on and I see the door being opened fully and slammed shut as it is moving.

I'll never know what would have happened that day had I kept walking towards the car and had my parents not gave me the warnings. I often think to this day, could I have been buried somewhere in the mountains. scary stuff.

No, can't say I ever recall being offered a lift by someone I didn't know.

There were always stories doing the rounds about how there was a child molestor on the prowl and how "someone" had been approached and asked to get into a car "last week".

Despite that, not one child ever disappeared in my locality for the entire time I was in school. Philip Cairns was the last one, before I even started school.

Random abductions are insanely rare in this country. Even Philip Cairns is generally not believed to be a "random" abduction, as the main suspect still lives in the locality and has never been arrested on any other charge or implicated in any other incident.

Gilda Fortune wrote: »

I was about 8 or 9 and walking home from the shop. head in the clouds. car pulled up and a man said get in i will give u a lift. I thought he was a neighbour and in i got.
when we pulled away i realised this wasant my neighbour , i was so frightened i hardly spoke a word . i had been warned so many times never get in a car with a stranger.
as he was driving he musta realised i was scared and he said, you just dont recognise me do you ?
I whimpered no . and he laughed and said im a friend of your mothers love dont worry, and he dropped me right outsie my door safe and sound.
Innocent man doing a kind thing.told me his name and to say hello to my mother.


when i was 25 i was in Temple Bar, gee eyed. My boyfriend had dumped me and left me stranded and i had mascara running down the cheeks, totally pissed crying and in a state. i was very far from home prob 40 euro taxi fare and i only had bus fare. i was stumbling about crying and a car pulled up, the man offered me a lift. I was so drunk i had no sense and in i got.
I was in bits crying and also dressed quite provocatively i guess in short skirt and heels. it dawned on me i was with a stranger as i started to sober.
anyway he chatted away to me told me i was a lovely girl and that he had a daughter my age. and the thoughts of some guy dumping her and leaving her stranded in a strange place alone made his blood boil. he said he was worried something could happen to me when he saw me.
he drove me home, which was a fair distance. gave me a good pep talk about men and safety. and didnt ask for a thing in return. to this day i think his daughter is a lucky girl

I do enjoy your stories..