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My high school algebra teacher was a really great guy, a former boxer who felt it was his Christian duty (I think he was a Jehovah's Witness) to pick up hitchhi
by jonstokes 11y ago
My high school algebra teacher was a really great guy, a former boxer who felt it was his Christian duty (I think he was a Jehovah's Witness) to pick up hitchhikers. His family always tried to talk him out of it, but he persisted under the theory that God would protect him. One day, we showed up in class to find a substitute teacher telling us that he had been killed by one of the hitchhikers he picked up. True story. That's a data set of size one, but still, I'd never pick up a hitchhiker.
Edit: Heh, Google... here's a doc for the murder trial: http://www.leagle.com/decision/19951341658So2d683_11297.xml/STATE%20v.%20CROSS http://www.leagle.com/decision/19951341658So2d683_11297.xml/...
- brc 11y agoThat says the conviction was overturned on appeal, and a new trial? Then what happened?
- Theodores 11y agoWell, here is a sample size of two. As young adults my sister and myself used to frequently hitch hike on the exact same roads that noted serial killer Fred West used to pick up hitch hikers. We would be hitch hiking independently or with friends, yet not once were we brutally murdered. Really this hitch hiking thing is like a social network that has gone wrong, to no longer have 'network effects'.
- girvo 11y agoI've picked up dozens of hitchhikers, and never once been murdered (that I know of). I don't do it nowadays simply because I don't have a car, and very few people try and hitchhike around here.