Gun laws?

[Mark Sedenquist]

Great -- pepper spray and now clubbing advice.

I stand with -- a good stare. It has always worked for me.

Since I still pick up hitch-hikers (as a matter of policy) I find the stare is an appropriate and effective technique for aberrant or otherwise unacceptable behavior.

Mark

[The San Diego Highwayman]

Are you a fan of the "Drabble" comic strip Mark?

The father character has the "stare" also :)

this is the same stare, perhaps, that I employed with my daughter's boyfriends?

[The San Diego Highwayman]

I usually don't have room for hitchhikers due to small SAR rig being pretty well packed w gear and my pooch Shela riding shotgun but I DID manage to squeeze in two souls who were shivering in their broken down car up on the I-8 in the local mountains during a storm here recently -- took them up to Pine Valley where they could get a room for the night.

[Mark Sedenquist]

Hooray for those intrepid roadtrippers who will still pick up hitch-hikers. Usually, when I post a comment with respect to my proclivity for picking up folks in out-of-the-way places, other roadtrippers lambast the policy. I have met some real characters -- people I would never have an opportunity to have a conversation with.

For me, picking up hitchers is an acceptable level of risk...(most of the time).

Mark

[The San Diego Highwayman]

Hey Mark,

Go to mammothmountain.com and click on forums then click on Mammoth Mountain "message" forum and scroll down to "trickster" thread.

I think you'll enjoy what I had fun doing on one of my "search loops" this week. :)

Although I'm sure that a majority of the people out there are decent people just looking for a ride, picking up strangers standing on the side of the road doesn't seems like a good idea to me. I guess it all depends on the situation and common sense. But since I would never willingly jump into the car of a complete stranger driving by, I can't understand the mentality of people who do, so maybe that's why I won't pick them up. To me, you'd have to be insane to do that, and I don't want to be riding with a crazy person. I am just too paranoid, that's what living in a big city will do to you. But I'm pretty sure really_cool_mom probably feels the same way after her experience. And in some places a really good stare will get you some drugs.....or shot in the head. I've seen fights break out over a stare.