Helping potentially stranded people.

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Yeah, actually that went through my head too (not you specifically Royd...lol).
But now days it's even scary accepting help from strangers, especially if you're a woman and a man stops to help you when it's really early or late, or you're in an isolated area. And often (sadly), we do judge by looks. So if the man isn't clean cut looking (ie looks "safer") we worry more. Of course the clean cut guys generally don't change their own tires or know a carburetor from their butt (just generalizing - no offense to any clean cut mechanically inclined out there).
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Ted Bundy was very clean cut. I saw him once; I didn't know who he was until I saw him on TV years later; it was about 1974. He was in town to probably try to murder another coed.

Since you are name dropping, I was doing some contract work in Raiford prison, the day that Bundy was executed next door at the Florida State Pen. Talk about a media circus.
 
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Yeah, actually that went through my head too (not you specifically Royd...lol).
But now days it's even scary accepting help from strangers, especially if you're a woman and a man stops to help you when it's really early or late, or you're in an isolated area. And often (sadly), we do judge by looks. So if the man isn't clean cut looking (ie looks "safer") we worry more. Of course the clean cut guys generally don't change their own tires or know a carburetor from their butt (just generalizing - no offense to any clean cut mechanically inclined out there).
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Ted Bundy was a clean cut guy; apparently his victims suspicions were lulled by the young businessman look. He abducted a girl from OSU, as well as others from UW, CWSC, Evergreen, and several western and eastern states. Fortunately for American women, he committed his final outrages in Florida which was probably the only state where he had murder charges that knew what to do with him. We lived in terror of the mystery man in the Volkswagen in the Pacific Northwest.

I suggest we women not stop unless we are accompanied by Mr. Ruger or Mr. Colt - wheel guns aren't as likely to jam.
 
Since you are name dropping, I was doing some contract work in Raiford prison, the day that Bundy was executed next door at the Florida State Pen. Talk about a media circus.

Not name dropping. Being a young woman in a Pacific Northwest college town I was among the thousands of young women who lived in terror of the mystery man in the VW. All over Oregon and Washington, we ran screaming anytime a VW swept up to a curb.

Oregon State University had finally gotten over Jerry Brudos when Ted Bundy came on the scene and abducted Roberta Parks from near the MU. This was in addition to the all of the other campuses and other gathering places of young women he used as hunting grounds. Until the police noted that a mystery man in a VW was possibly responsible, all we knew was that girls our age were vanishing from supposedly safe places, and no one knew where they went. Until someone on Taylor Mountain found the bones. You have no idea of the impact that this had on me, my friends, and hundreds, if not thousands of coeds all over the PNW. One day someone is on campus and then she is gone, and no one knows how or why and the police are everywhere and we are advised to be careful and alert - but careful of whom and alert for what?

I knew someone who had lost a loved on to Ted. On the day Ted was executed he had a sign posted where everyone could see it - "Special Today: Southern Fried Bundy." No one I knew objected.
 
I usually stop for car wrecks if there is no one else on scene yet (police or ambulance). I will usually drive by an accident and ask police if anyone involved needs medical assistance. However if there is an ambulance on scene and everything is handled I won't stop.

I will not stop for people pulled over on the side of the side though unless it is an an accident. Even if its an accident and I'm not sure about something on scene, I will call 911 and wait for police to arrive to declare the scene is safe before I go in with my first aid kit. I've seen too many things happen to first responders who ran into accidents without being sure things were safe!

I don't really know anything about cars so I wouldn't be much help stopping for someone with car trouble. I wouldn't in our area anyway unless it was someone I knew!

I will, however, stop for someone having horse trouble! Lol
 
The last car wreck that I stopped for caused me to be issued a subpoena, caused me 48 miles of travel round trip and cost me 3 hours of lost wages. To date I despise all lawyers.

I don't stop for accidents any longer.
 

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