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.