Hitchhickers?

Rich11 · 01-09-2012 03:04PM #1

So i driving into the applegreen at lusk going southbound yesterday(friday), around 4, i think, and seen a guy and a girl sitting at the entrance just after the roundabout, with a few suit cases and a cardboard sign saying Dublin.

Was in there for around 20mins and on the way out they were still there.

Never seen any hitchhickers before in Ireland, so would any of you ever pick one up, or have picked a hitchhicker up, or even seen these guys yesterday.

My self, i dont think i ever would

Where To · 01-09-2012 03:07PM

Two words

Rutger Hauer

Real Life · 01-09-2012 03:10PM

what you never saw hitchikers in ireland before? i see at least one a day.
i never pick them up do, i just give them a thumbs up like what theyre doing.

Captain Slow IRL · 01-09-2012 03:10PM

I pass hippies hitching out to the Shell To Sea protests fairly frequently, wouldn't let them in my car though!

MarkR · 01-09-2012 03:11PM

I've picked up hitchikers quite a few times. Depends on the look of them really. Still waiting on the bikini team to be hitching. Fingers crossed.:)

squod · 01-09-2012 03:11PM

Rich11 wrote: »

Never seen any hitchhickers before in Ireland,

Ye wha? See them sometimes. Mostly stop and offer a lift. Never been killed by any of them before. You should at least try it once.

keith16 · 01-09-2012 03:12PM

I hope you at least told them that it's 2012 OP.

Colmustard · 01-09-2012 03:12PM

Nah I would be suspect of the mental stability of any hitchhiker these days.

I usually drive by the ones waving the prostitutes head.

D1stant · 01-09-2012 03:16PM

I always do if I have room

Hitchhikers are a good sort usually

Alas a dying breed

k.p.h · 01-09-2012 03:20PM

Its a f**ked up world when people are scared of people just because they are looking or a lift ...

You don't have your own transport.. You must be a freak ...

F**ked up logic really ..

Rich11 · 01-09-2012 03:20PM

Real Life wrote: »

what you never saw hitchikers in ireland before? i see at least one a day.

squod wrote: »

Ye wha?.

No never, not driving very long either....well 2 years:p

ejmaztec · 01-09-2012 03:20PM

Hitch-hikers used to be everywhere years ago, in Kerry at least, probably because of the lousy public transport system.

On one occasion, me and the missus stopped because we felt sorry for some woman, and she asked us where we were going, and we said Tralee. She then asked us which part of Tralee, and we told her. Our intinerary wasn't good enough and she told us she'd wait for some other car, cheaky git!

..and no, we didn't look like Fred and Rosemary West.:p

Rich11 · 01-09-2012 03:21PM

MarkR wrote: »

Still waiting on the bikini team to be hitching. Fingers crossed.:)

one day............ it'll be like in dumb and dumber:D

Washington Irving · 01-09-2012 03:22PM

Two words

Don't Panic

Cassidy28 · 01-09-2012 03:23PM

I haven't seen any hitchhikers since the boom started, I forgot they still exist, I might stop if it was a nice looking girl, but if it was a man i would keep on moving and if there was a puddle of water i would soak him.

ejmaztec · 01-09-2012 03:32PM

Cassidy28 wrote: »

I haven't seen any hitchhikers since the boom started, I forgot they still exist, I might stop if it was a nice looking girl, but if it was a man i would keep on moving and if there was a puddle of water i would soak him.

... if your car broke down fifty yards further on, you'd be in deep sh1t.

Kidchameleon · 01-09-2012 03:34PM

I stop and just as they are about to open the door I drive off...

Cassidy28 · 01-09-2012 03:38PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

... if your car broke down fifty yards further on, you'd be in deep sh1t.

Yeah i would alright, but you never know he might be a decent chap to give me a helping hand

Rich11 · 01-09-2012 03:41PM

Kidchameleon wrote: »

I stop and just as they are about to open the door I drive off...

lol:D

Fromthetrees · 01-09-2012 03:50PM

There used to be loads before, haven't seen one in flipping ages.
When we camped in Kerry in our teens we'd thumb a lift everywhere, nobody died or was raped, sure it's grand.
Any one hear the story of an english lad who hitchhiked his way around Ireland with a fridge, heard him on the radio about a year ago and he said they were going to make a film about it.

Zaph · 01-09-2012 03:54PM

http://www.roundirelandwithafridge.com/

Haven't seen the film, but the book is a great read.

Yawns · 01-09-2012 03:58PM

There's 1 lad always out on the main road near me looking for a lift into a town 20k/ms away. If you know you need to get to a place 20k/m away on a regular basis, then get the train that goes there or get your own transport.

mike65 · 01-09-2012 04:21PM

They used to be all the rage then we got rich and started to fear anyone who couldn't afford a car. Now no one can afford a car but we still fear.

PizzamanIRL · 01-09-2012 04:34PM

I don't pick them up because of the awkward silence when you have nothing to say to each other.

MadsL · 01-09-2012 04:36PM

Real Life wrote: »

what you never saw hitchikers in ireland before? i see at least one a day.
i never pick them up do, i just give them a thumbs up like what theyre doing.

You know that does not mean what you think it means.

I once hitched London to Prague like a boss.

Got a lift from London to Zeebrugge including a slap up meal on the truckers ferry (all food and drink was free)

Walked into the truck stop at Zeebrugge, poured myself a free coffee and asked if anyone was going East.
Where are you heading asks one guy?
Prague.
I'll take you he says.
Great I say, how far east are you going.
I said I'll take you, I'm going through Prague.

Turns out he was a hardcore long-distance driver, London to Istanbul. He used to do London to Iraq before the war. Some great stories out of him.

Abi · 01-09-2012 04:42PM

I've never picked up a hitch hiker before, but I have often pulled over if I see someone caught in lashing rain. Especially any one elderly.

keith16 · 01-09-2012 04:55PM

Abi wrote: »

I've never picked up a hitch hiker before, but I have often pulled over if I see someone caught in lashing rain. Especially any one elderly.

And then tear off just as they reach for the door?

Rhys Essien · 01-09-2012 05:29PM

MadsL wrote: »

You know that does not mean what you think it means.

I once hitched London to Prague like a boss.

Got a lift from London to Zeebrugge including a slap up meal on the truckers ferry (all food and drink was free)

Walked into the truck stop at Zeebrugge, poured myself a free coffee and asked if anyone was going East.
Where are you heading asks one guy?
Prague.
I'll take you he says.
Great I say, how far east are you going.
I said I'll take you, I'm going through Prague.

Turns out he was a hardcore long-distance driver, London to Istanbul. He used to do London to Iraq before the war. Some great stories out of him.

Was this the trucker who picked you up by any chance?:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJ4yROg7Ng

marzic · 01-09-2012 05:32PM

I used to hitch-hike like most other young people in the 90's in rural ireland, and when I got a car(1998) I used to give lifts regularly to most having done the cursory long distance security check. Then my attitude changed a bit when I got into my 30's and there were less people doing it, I turned kinda against it unless I knew them, probably coincided with getting married and it not being appropriate to ride give a lift to some tasty Swedish student chick absolutely wringing wet(from the rain:D) on the roadside, so i said "fcukit, get the bus... I'm retired!"
PS
I was thumbing one day and had my cardboard sign with my destination written on it. A lorry was approaching and i stuck out my thumb and held my sign up, as the driver leaned forward in the cab to get a good look I was thinking positive for a lift - then he held up his sign... 'FCUK OFF'... I laughed eventually.

tvnutz · 01-09-2012 05:34PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb7FgSzeGqg

ejmaztec · 01-09-2012 05:35PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I don't pick them up because of the awkward silence when you have nothing to say to each other.

You could talk about spongers who never have to pay for anything and cadge free lifts because they think the world owes them a living. That would break the ice a bit.

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