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Title: picking up hitchhikers Post by: paulhouk03 on October 30, 2011, 04:09:34 AM I was driving home around 330 am on the bypass and saw a dude hitch hiking
obv i didnt stop but i was wondering Has any one picked one up before? I was thinking it will be a super nice thing to do but I would be shit scared that the man would be a psycho or under the influence of some drugs or alchol. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Girgy85 on October 30, 2011, 04:55:42 AM Yer don't wanna be picking up people under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: SirPerceval on October 30, 2011, 08:03:00 AM Watch the Warner Brothers film "The Hitcher" from 1986.
cliffs: - Driver thinks it would be "a nice thing to do" - Hitcher is psycho Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Leatherman on October 30, 2011, 08:05:07 AM What if ya saw a chick after a lift?
Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: GreekStein on October 30, 2011, 08:39:32 AM What if ya saw a chick after a lift? you know the answer to this. is she alone? is she fit? Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Leatherman on October 30, 2011, 09:03:39 AM What if ya saw a chick after a lift? you know the answer to this. is she alone? is she fit? 1. Yes 2. No Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: paulhouk03 on October 30, 2011, 09:22:00 AM Yer don't wanna be picking up people under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Yer but u don't know that when ur driving 80 mph But they wasn't staggering at all Have u picked one up before girgles Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: paulhouk03 on October 30, 2011, 09:24:02 AM Might be a ambush if u pick up a fitty hicthhiking
I hear stories about babies on the side of the road etc etc Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: GreekStein on October 30, 2011, 09:27:26 AM What if ya saw a chick after a lift? you know the answer to this. is she alone? is she fit? 1. Yes 2. No no chance Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: gatso on October 30, 2011, 09:44:37 AM Might be a ambush if u pick up a fitty hicthhiking I hear stories about babies on the side of the road etc etc Lol, please share the stories of hitch hiking babies setting up ambushes. Do they have the manual dexterity to stick out a thumb and hold up a sign? Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: paulhouk03 on October 30, 2011, 09:48:10 AM Might be a ambush if u pick up a fitty hicthhiking I hear stories about babies on the side of the road etc etc Lol, please share the stories of hitch hiking babies setting up ambushes. Do they have the manual dexterity to stick out a thumb and hold up a sign? Just an email from work doubt it's true tho Baby on side road u stop u get ambushed U drive off u get eggs chucked at you but don't use wipers cos it will destroy ur visibility Rofls Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Girgy85 on October 30, 2011, 11:56:37 AM Yer don't wanna be picking up people under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Yer but u don't know that when ur driving 80 mph But they wasn't staggering at all Have u picked one up before girgles Can't recall ever picking up a hitch hiker. But in the taxi game you never know who you've got sat behind you. could be a nut job. can't worry about that all the time tho. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Eso Kral on October 30, 2011, 11:57:45 AM Yer don't wanna be picking up people under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Yer but u don't know that when ur driving 80 mph But they wasn't staggering at all Have u picked one up before girgles Can't recall ever picking up a hitch hiker. But in the taxi game you never know who you've got FYP Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Girgy85 on October 30, 2011, 12:03:17 PM Yer don't wanna be picking up people under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Yer but u don't know that when ur driving 80 mph But they wasn't staggering at all Have u picked one up before girgles Can't recall ever picking up a hitch hiker. But in the taxi game you never know who you've got FYP Yep people are so trusting getting in a strangers car. never know what nut job is driving it ;) Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: redarmi on October 30, 2011, 12:15:33 PM Just out of intterest Girgy what percentage of puntyers you get in the cab would you say are troublesome in some way ie. runners, non payers, aggressive, weirdos etc
Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Girgy85 on October 30, 2011, 12:23:50 PM Just out of intterest Girgy what percentage of puntyers you get in the cab would you say are troublesome in some way ie. runners, non payers, aggressive, weirdos etc in 14 month I've had 1 non payer, 2 people being aggressive who i didn't pick up funilly enough. Plenty of weirdos but the worst are drunks who think its acceptable to drink alcohol in your car. when you tell em they can't they just think your picking on them and think ur miserable cos your at work on a Saturday night and there out acting like a twat. Women are the worst and act very childish muttering stuff under there breath. Apart from that id say 90% of people were sound. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: SKYPOKESHER on October 30, 2011, 07:21:05 PM pics of best lookin women u picked up? :)
Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: gatso on October 30, 2011, 07:30:38 PM Might be a ambush if u pick up a fitty hicthhiking I hear stories about babies on the side of the road etc etc Lol, please share the stories of hitch hiking babies setting up ambushes. Do they have the manual dexterity to stick out a thumb and hold up a sign? Just an email from work doubt it's true tho Baby on side road u stop u get ambushed U drive off u get eggs chucked at you but don't use wipers cos it will destroy ur visibility Rofls so people set up ambushes by putting babies by the side of the road and then throw eggs at people? not only is this the most ridic thing I've read in a long time I have no idea what it has to do with hitchhiking <3 the ho Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Girgy85 on October 30, 2011, 07:54:33 PM pics of best lookin women u picked up? :) really wish i could take pictures. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: the sicilian on October 30, 2011, 09:09:17 PM Lol many years ago after getting made redundant I drove a cab for a while... I had very short shaved hair..went to pick a woman up and she refused to get in the car with me.. She said to the controller..and I quote ' he looked like a murderer'. Charming...
Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: SKYPOKESHER on October 30, 2011, 10:05:59 PM Lol many years ago after getting made redundant I drove a cab for a while... I had very short shaved hair..went to pick a woman up and she refused to get in the car with me.. She said to the controller..and I quote ' he looked like a murderer'. Charming... you shoulda told her, u won't harm her, she will enjoy it :o Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Ironside on October 30, 2011, 10:28:11 PM in my time i have picked up well over 100 hitch hikers
never just after or before the pubs have close unless i know them dont think i have picked up more than 5 in last 10 years though just dont see many anymore helps to break a drive up Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: boldie on October 31, 2011, 08:56:47 AM I used to hitchhike to school when living in Holland (and too lazy to cycle the 20mile or so)...used to be very common for students to hitchhike to and back from school.
Would definitely give someone a lift if he stays in the same town and is not a scruffy bastard, even if I didn't know them, not sure about motorways..depends on my mood TBH, I'm just not a people person and prefer to drive alone. If they can sit still and shut up, it's fine. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: kinboshi on October 31, 2011, 11:32:54 AM I used to hitchhike to school when living in Holland (and too lazy to cycle the 20mile or so)...used to be very common for students to hitchhike to and back from school. Would definitely give someone a lift if he stays in the same town and is not a scruffy bastard, even if I didn't know them, not sure about motorways..depends on my mood TBH, I'm just not a people person and prefer to drive alone. If they can sit still and shut up, it's fine, otherwise I wrap them up in gaffer tape and stick them in the boot. You crazy Germans! Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Swordpoker on October 31, 2011, 11:52:57 AM I've given lifts to a few hitch hikers. There is a stretch of road between Perth and Blairgowrie where loads of foreign students come for the summer to pick berries. They get paid very little and live in a campsite in the middle of nowhere so most of the locals give them lifts all time. It's good etiquette to give lifts there.
Most interesting hitch hiker I ever gave a lift to was a French guy in a wheel chair. He was hitch hiking all over Europe for 6 months on his own. I was totally impressed. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: DaveShoelace on October 31, 2011, 01:07:44 PM Freakonomics did a podcast on this recently
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/10/10/where-have-all-the-hitchhikers-gone-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ Stuff like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie made people fear strangers, being on of the interesting suggested reasons for the decline. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: Chompy on October 31, 2011, 09:40:16 PM Lol many years ago after getting made redundant I drove a cab for a while... I had very short shaved hair..went to pick a woman up and she refused to get in the car with me.. She said to the controller..and I quote ' he looked like a murderer'. Charming... Awesome! I wouldn't get in a taxi with you either but only coz you might start talking about poker. Had a job for a while dropping cars off and hitching back. Best job ever. I'd never pick up anyone not carrying the numberplate though. Title: Re: picking up hitchhikers Post by: the sicilian on October 31, 2011, 10:41:03 PM Lol many years ago after getting made redundant I drove a cab for a while... I had very short shaved hair..went to pick a woman up and she refused to get in the car with me.. She said to the controller..and I quote ' he looked like a murderer'. Charming... Awesome! I wouldn't get in a taxi with you either but only coz you might start talking about poker. Had a job for a while dropping cars off and hitching back. Best job ever. I'd never pick up anyone not carrying the numberplate though. should start a thread for best job ever...mine..delivering sunbeds..half the birds were in bikinis waiting excitedly..and requested instructions on how to use the equipment..errrrr turn the dial love... |