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Articles: Unexpected Passenger |
Posted by
Rae on Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 04:01 PM PST
I came along this story...food for thought..
One night a woman went out for drinks with her girlfriends. She left the bar fairly late at night, got in her car and on to the deserted highway. She noticed a lone pair of headlights in her rear-view mirror, approaching at a pace just slightly quicker than hers. As the car pulled up behind her she glanced and saw the turn signal on – the car was going to pass – when suddenly it swerved back behind her, pulled up dangerously close to her tailgate and the brights flashed.
Now she was getting nervous. The lights dimmed for a moment and then the brights came back on and the car behind her surged forward. The frightened woman struggled to keep her eyes on the road and fought the urge to look at the car behind her. Finally, her exit approached but the car continued to follow, flashing the brights periodically.
Through every stoplight and turn it followed her until she pulled into her driveway. She figured her only hope was to make a mad dash into the house and call the police. As she flew from the car so did the driver in the car behind her – and he screamed, "Lock the door and call the police! Call 911!"
When the police arrived the horrible truth was finally revealed to the woman. The man in the car had been trying to save her. As he pulled up behind her and his headlights illuminated her car, he saw the silhouette of a man with a butcher knife rising up from the back seat to stab her, so he flashed his brights and the figure crouched back down.
The moral of the story: check the back seat!
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Re: Unexpected Passenger
by Devin (devin-at-vibechild-dot-com)
on Jul 26, 2001 - 04:36 PM
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Urban legends are interesting. What do you think it is that makes so many people believe something with no evidence whatsoever? I've noticed they all have an element of Irony - She thought the car was trying to hurt her but they were trying to save her - Flush the alligator down the sewer to kill it and it grows and starts killing people. I suppose you can't have anything supernatural in them - since half of the people will just blow it off as a ghost story. What else?
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Re: Unexpected Passenger
by Maranda (saboneta@aol.com)
on Jul 27, 2001 - 05:41 AM
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This story may be an urban legend, but like most urban legends, it contains an element of truth.
Back in the late 1980s, I was living in Detroit when a story appeared in the Detroit Free Press about a gas-station attendant who noticed a boy with a gun in the back seat of a customer's car. Turned out that the boy was running from police and had taken refuge in her unlocked car to hide out and surreptitiously escape the crime scene. The station attendant recieved a police citation for his actions, which was why the story made the paper.
The urban-legend version of this story eventually became an indie film called "Suspicious", starring a bleached-blonde Jeanine Garofolo.
The moral of this story: Lock your car doors!
People do crawl into back seats of others' cars. Once, after a midnight shift at a job in a college town, I came out of work to find a drunken frat boy sleeping it off in the back of my car. (That car had doors that wouldn't open if you locked them, so I often left them unlocked.) He clearly meant no harm, but it was a good lesson anyway.
The real moral: Don't believe everything you hear. Oh, and lock your car doors.
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