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Last time I hitchhiked, the driver was the Spain public enemy no.1. Escaped from jail a few days before, using that soap pistol trick, is still on the run, more

by narag 12y ago

Last time I hitchhiked, the driver was the Spain public enemy no.1. Escaped from jail a few days before, using that soap pistol trick, is still on the run, more than 30 years after. https://www.google.es/search?q=rafael+bueno+latorre https://www.google.es/search?q=rafael+bueno+latorre Uh, never more.

GauntletWizard 12y ago
But now you've got a great story to tell! Think of how many more you could get.
- narag 12y ago
  I already had many great stories to tell, both about hitchhiking and about other things. Not sure why, I was like a magnet for that kind of strange happennings. But I don't like fear, not at that particular level :-)
pluma 12y ago
Did he do you any harm? Otherwise it's just a great anecdote.
- narag 12y ago
  No, he had stolen a taxi at knife point and took a couple of old-style hippies before... we (me and a friend) thought the hippies had tired of waiting and took the taxi and now they were telling the taxi driver to also took us as solidarity. Then the man started to drive like in an action movie, "daddy's car" he shouted all the time, rebasing other driver by the right side and asking us if we were snitches, that he had a special treatment for then (indeed, he made a band mate to cave his own grave and shot him facing the ground: "if he awakes, let's him dig downwards"). When he took the highway, we barely could convince him that we had to take the other way. We were terrified. Edit: I'd always thought the psycopath incarnation in the movies was one of those movie artifacts that someone invented once and others copied. Not at all. This guy was exactly like that.
AnimalMuppet 12y ago
That (almost) happened to me. I was driving across West Germany in 1988, and picked up a hitchhiker. The next day I was in Frankfurt airport, about to fly back to the States, and I saw a wanted poster for him on the wall. (Wanted for murder.) So I found a cop, and pointed out the picture, and said "I picked up this guy yesterday about here, and dropped him off there." The cop said "We caught this guy two weeks ago." So it was just somebody who looked like him. Still, it made me nervous for a couple minutes...

by narag 12y ago

GauntletWizard 12y ago

But now you've got a great story to tell! Think of how many more you could get.

narag 12y ago
I already had many great stories to tell, both about hitchhiking and about other things. Not sure why, I was like a magnet for that kind of strange happennings. But I don't like fear, not at that particular level :-)

pluma 12y ago

Did he do you any harm? Otherwise it's just a great anecdote.

narag 12y ago
No, he had stolen a taxi at knife point and took a couple of old-style hippies before... we (me and a friend) thought the hippies had tired of waiting and took the taxi and now they were telling the taxi driver to also took us as solidarity. Then the man started to drive like in an action movie, "daddy's car" he shouted all the time, rebasing other driver by the right side and asking us if we were snitches, that he had a special treatment for then (indeed, he made a band mate to cave his own grave and shot him facing the ground: "if he awakes, let's him dig downwards"). When he took the highway, we barely could convince him that we had to take the other way. We were terrified. Edit: I'd always thought the psycopath incarnation in the movies was one of those movie artifacts that someone invented once and others copied. Not at all. This guy was exactly like that.

AnimalMuppet 12y ago

That (almost) happened to me. I was driving across West Germany in 1988, and picked up a hitchhiker. The next day I was in Frankfurt airport, about to fly back to the States, and I saw a wanted poster for him on the wall. (Wanted for murder.) So I found a cop, and pointed out the picture, and said "I picked up this guy yesterday about here, and dropped him off there." The cop said "We caught this guy two weeks ago." So it was just somebody who looked like him. Still, it made me nervous for a couple minutes...