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Anonymous
there was a book released about a woman who hitchhiked from the eastcoast to the westcoast. She got into a car driven by a man, in the passenger seat was his young wife and infant child. She figured it was safe because it looked like a wholesome family, but she got kidnapped for about a decade, brainwashed into believing she was a registered slave, and was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused the entire time.
Not to say this would happen to you, but it's a very big risk. If you're going alone, that's even more dangerous. I wouldn't recommend doing this even for a guy with self defense skills.
Anyway, if you're hellbent on doing this, buy one of those hand held stungun thingies.
It might be hard to get picked up these days by normal people, because normal people are usually wary of hitchhikers (they can kill/rob/rape/etc you) so the only people you'd have picking you up are those rare extremely kind hearted and naive people or people who will or want to kill/rob/rape/etc you.
this also depends on where you're going. in the US it's a bad idea. i've seen plenty of girls hitchhike in norway and belgium... Don't know what happened to them though
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