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Two women in South Carolina mistakenly got into a car over the weekend they believed was an Uber only to be driven down a dirt road by a man police have yet to locate. Early Friday morning, two women were waiting outside a Hilton Head Island restaurant in Reilley’s Plaza when a dark-colored SUV pulled up. According to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, the pair had called an Uber to take them back to their vacation rental and believed that the car that approached them was at least a driver for the ride-sharing app. “Although the women were aware that...

MESA, AZ - A woman who says she was just looking for a ride home was zip tied and sexually assaulted. Mesa Police report that on January 5 a woman was walking near Broadway and Alma School roads when a man offered her a ride home. The man, later identified as 27-year-old Fonseca Roman Orozco, took her to an apartment near Center Street and Southern Avenue. Orozco allegedly zip-tied her hands and and feet and sexually assaulted her several times before taking her outside and cutting her loose.

What's the difference between a charitable transaction (like giving a hitchhiker a ride or giving a beggar your spare change) and an ordinary market transaction (such as paying for a bus ride or paying a kid to shine your shoes)?

<p>First things first. “HitchBOT,” for all practical purposes, was a garbage can with an iPhone in it.</p>

People don’t hitchhike anymore. At least not like the glory days of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s when hitchhiking was a popular, fun and even a safe thing to do. But it went away. Colin Flaherty wondered where it went. So this San Diego writer set out on three-month adventure with a pack and an extended thumb to try and find out.

Rabbis Forbid Hitchhiking at This Time 16:11 Jun 29, '06 / 3 Tammuz 5766 by Hillel Fendel "One who takes a dangerous chance at this time endangers the entire public," leading religious-Zionist rabbis ruled. Hamas terrorists threaten to kidnap more Israelis. A ruling issued today by Rabbis Avraham Shapira, Dov Lior and others states that one may not stand in dangerous places to wait for rides. "One who takes an unreasonable chance in this matter," the ruling states, "endangers the entire public - because the government is liable to be forced to release terrorists." The rabbis also place the onus...

Fears mount over fate of missing soldier Hopes of finding missing soldier Oleg Shaikhet, 20, of Upper Nazareth, alive and well are fading, security sources said on Thursday after a third day of searches ended without any concrete information over his whereabouts. Police did receive one lead from a woman IDF officer who said she had hitched a ride with Shaikhet from the Amiad junction, north of Tiberias, where he had alighted from a bus on Monday evening. The officer said she got off at the Golani junction, but understood that Shaikhet went on with the lift as far as...