Hitchhiker

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Would you pick this guy up? What could possibly go wrong?

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A17 said:
If I had a 9mm or an axe of my own, yeah I'd pick him up. Then I'd make whichever of you guys it was give me the axe and explain why you were carless.
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Correct answer.

Release the safety on the 9mm and have it handy in the door pocket. Ask the rider to begim by tossing the axe behind the seat. Ask him to throw his knife back there, too. (You all saw the knife, right?)

Then let him jump in and give him a ride.

One time I arranged to meet a woman (sort of co-worker) I didn't know well at a trailhead for a day hike. She knew I was an avid outdoorsman, a naturalist and an expert on local flora. At the trailhead I asked if she would be comfortable if I brought a hatchet. I explained that knew of a rich deposit of fatwood I wanted to get into. That was enough explanation that she was OK with the hatchet and she was even intrigued by the idea of harvesting fatwood. We had a great time and brought home 2 bags of fatwood.

Nice gal but I learned she was married and didn't persue her further. Still friends. I admired her courage to go into the woods with a strange man carrying an hatchet. But I have a trustworthy demeanor. :D
 
Yeah, and I could stick the knife you didn't see into your chest before you could even think about reaching for the 9mm. You boys watch too many movies.
 
I walked a hell of a long ways once with a muzzle loading rifle that I refused to leave behind when my rig broke down on a hunting trip. Not like it was a busy stretch of rural road. I thought them country folks would be more understanding. Nope.
 
BTW I have long had the motto "no tits no ride". Never seen anything like the two gals hitchhiking down Colfax blvd in Denver back in the day. Me and my buddy were way out of our element in the big city. Things ain't always as they seem and them girls in high heels and mini skirts were ready to party, but I knew things were amiss as soon as they started talking. He was a lot slower to put the pieces together. :eek:
Be careful out there...
 
Many years ago (nearly 40) I was calling foxes at night . I got back to the truck and it wouldn't start. I wasn't going to leave my guns there so I figured it was going to be an 8 mile walk home. I was 18 it was 3:00 am I was in Vietnam era camo, hunting light and a Ruger Mark 1 on my belt and a pump shotgun over my shoulder. I walked about a quarter mile before an old farmer picked me up and took me to the house . That was around 1980 things are different nowadays
 
Where I live it wouldn't be a stretch to see a guy doing that, I see guys carrying guns along the hwy frequently during hunting season as the hwy is 'in the woods'. Lot's of loggers/wood workers around here. Whether I'd pick him up would depend on how I'm feeling that day and how I'm prepped, chances are I'd probably know him :)

What's worse is the peeps who can't keep between the lanes from their breakfast beers. Followed a guy into town this morning who obviously shouldn't have been on the road. Mostly they end up in the ditches but not always.
 
  1. Mistman- you just hit a cord with me. People have asked me my whole life about all the time I have spent in the wilderness or swimming open ocean. "Aren't you afraid of being killed by Grizz or by a Shark" I have always responded by telling them I would rather be taken out by Grizz or the Tiger Shark than some drunk fool driving. Which do you think is more likely to happen?
 
Looks like some kind of Jersey with a slimmer haft than you might get today so why not ?
Hell I woke up this morning with 3 folders in my pockets and a fixed blade on my belt, you call it crazy I call it tired :D

Seriously though I don't think I'd pick up any hitchhiker regardless,
But Axe and belt knife aside I think if he had something he wanted to stick me with it would probably be hidden in his sleeve or something and not a openly advertised on his side.
 
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