Genius...
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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I wouldn’t have expected it there. Napoleon, OH is small town. It’s between Fort Wayne and Toledo, about 30 miles from Toledo.
Black doesn't necessarily mean ghetto. If I run across two black guys in a small town in the Midwest, my guard's at a different level than it would be if I'm in Pontiac, Flint, or Detroit, or even Lansing which isn't as bad. Even the white areas of Pontiac or Flint are "feral mob" territory. If I'm at or near those three areas, I ain't stopping for nothing.
Now I don't recommend that a 19 year old woman alone stops for anybody period, but that's a different matter.
Likelihood in order. 1. Toledo. 2. Fort Wayne. 3. Detroit. 4. Inkster 5. Ypsi.
White or black... unfortunately, we have come to a part in our society where we have to be careful no matter what. For example, Ted Bundy was white. From all reports, he was clean cut and good looking. He used fake leg casts in order to get assistance from young women to help him with boxes/books/etc.. My kids are much more “street smart” than in some areas. They have to be. Sounds to me like this girl was from a small town and people help others. (Not from a small town so that is just as assumption on my part). I feel sorry for her in a way... the world that she thought existed (or was told existed) doesn’t. That being said, this trauma will keep her more wary in the future. IMHO.
> “The next time you are out at night in the dark and see two black males tell me how much you van see.”
It was 2pm, daylight
You can still have 20 people witness a crime and get 20 different versions of wht happened when you interview them...: )
Back when I was at undergrad, a friend of mine and I left a test review session and went back to our homes. I walked and my friend drove to the session. One woman whom we never met and wasn't in our classes asked my friend for a ride back to her place.
My friend obliged, but told her she was crazy since he was a total stranger. The next one might not have been a nice guy .
I am constantly teaching (er, preaching) about safety to my girls. Don’t think someone is “nice” because they dress nicely, or look nice. Don’t trust a stranger period. When walking in a parking lot... look at the cars. Are they occupied? If so, walk away from it. Walk quickly. In a city.. don’t walk near the wall. Walk in the center. Look a head of you, behind you and to your side. It is the world we live in and no matter how sad.. it is what it is.
Someone needs to send her the John Derbyshire rules.
You beat me to it.
She may have parked just behind him and didn’t have time to back,up. These kinds of attacks are usually pretty swift.
If I’d been there, I would have tried to hit him with my vehicle.
You have an interesting screen name.
I was once in another situation where my instincts (or maybe my guardian angel) were screaming at me that something was dangerously wrong and to get out of there fast. I’ve thought it through many times after and due to the circumstances, before and after I got back into my car and drove away, I’m pretty dang sure I was right.
You’ve got to listen to your gut. Seems to me there was a book written about that.
I always stop to help women if I can.
I carry multiple defense including 150 pounds and still growing black and mahogany can of flesh tearing whupass on back seat of my truck.....and he loves his daddy....just try something with me...be lucky if I can call him down
You have to think about it and the risk...if my youngest are with me etc...then no unless a dire circumstance
But I would never leave say an old white woman on the side of the road in a high crime area
Sometimes you just do it...but that’s just me
Most here are a mite risk averse
Genius...
Thank goodness she has a beautiful mind /s
No...but the poor little dummies think that if they “ball up” [hence, their name] with their heads under themselves, you can’t see them.
Bless their hearts, they’re the village idjits of the snake world.
:)
:D
Really?
We still have lots of them “looking out for us” because of a kindness shown to one particular stranded rider back in the mid-90s.
That biker has since passed away but his brothers *still* watch over us like dark angels.
Prior to that, one rainy, cold night, I stopped and gave my cell to a clubber who’d broken down so he could call for a trailer.
That was back in the days when everybody and his dog did ~not~ automatically have a cell phone.
Maybe it depends on the club or it’s different because we’re sort of locally ‘famous’ because of the trike kit business.
We know quite a few of them personally and they know who we are, just in general.
Nonetheless, here, we all stop for each other, regardless.
:)
Back in 1980, a drunk guy was trying to get in my car while his son “pushed against” the back of it to keep me immobilized.
The guy assumed I would not back over his son.
Guess what.
:)
I discovered I was going to be overdrawn at the bank the next day because I had forgotten to deposit a check. At 11pm I got in the P/U truck and at the last minute decided to take my 2 Rhodesian Ridgeback with me.
I was at a red light by the freeway when a black kid pushing his bike approached my truck. He said he was lost and could I tell him how to get to Sugarland.
He was about 20 miles from there and I told him to put his bike in the back of the P/U and get in there with it. My dogs would not have taken kindly to him getting into the cab with us.
I took him home and he thanked my profusely. I have thought about this often and if I had not taken the P/U and the dogs, this kid may not have ever made it home without being run over. He as a black kid, dressed in black clothes and riding a a black bike in the middle of the night on a busy freeway. BTW I am a white female.
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