Posted on 04/20/2014 10:35:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An Ohio woman has recounted the moment an act of kindness in helping a perceived pair of broken-down strangers left her being dragged, beaten and robbed on the side of a road.
"Before I could finish asking him if they were OK he grabbed me by the hair and said, 'if you scream I'll hit you even harder,'" 19-year-old Caleigh Roelfs recalled to the Daily News Thursday.
It was 2 p.m. Monday along Napoleon's Route 6 when the engaged criminal psychology student spotted a van with its emergency lights flashing on the side of the road.
"My dad and brothers, even my mom, have always stopped. That's how I was raised," she said of her immediate impulse to help.
But within seconds of the van's passenger stepping out of his vehicle, she lost all control.
The man, she described as a 6-foot black male with a shaved head, face and spider web tattoo on his left hand, violently grabbed her while she was still seated in her car....
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Eh, who knows? People make up all kinds of these stories, from the truly horrific (like Susan Smith who killed her own kids and said some black guy car-jacked her) to the amazingly stupid, like those stupid waitresses who said people stiffed them on tips and wrote mean notes on their receipts (because they are gay or whatever).
Some people have a very demented craving for attention that I will never understand.
I don’t know, and I’m not saying this woman is a liar, but the more I thought about it, well it just sounds a little odd.
I *might* stop and help someone, but I wouldn’t stop and offer my help to men, unless they were about 80 years old. And how many people are out doing crime in broad daylight, and really, they just robbed her, they didn’t rape her, kill her or even steal her car?
After reading the story again, my guess would be (if she is not telling the truth) that she lost her engagement ring and doesn’t want to admit that.
Then she got her friends to knock her about?
Her story is plausible, because I’ve done things like that against my better judgment. I have, in the past, put myself in stupid situations to help somebody and it could have gone very wrong for me. I’m betting at least half the board here can testify of, at least, one such act in their life.
This wasn’t a local ride.
I was returning from WA State on I-5 heading South, an hour from San Luis Obispo.
They had aborted a ride to San Fran, as their open crank configuration wasn’t up to the ride from L.A.
The smart Pharisee and the Levite knew enough to pass by his body without touching him.
The idiot Samaritan was a little more like you.............
It may have been dark out that night, but somebody saw, and He will remember........
That would no doubt be a different paradigm.
:)
“Here’s an “invisible” one.”
Where?
See how well it works?
:)
Looks Like John Derbyshire’s advice wasn’t so outrageous after all.
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