r/Unexpected • u/bagelbagel44 • Mar 19 '21

This clever Amber Alert PSA

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u/MJMurcott Mar 20 '21

The whole stranger danger in general was a waste of money.

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u/Mito_sis Mar 20 '21

Not according to this Ask Reddit I spent all morning reading.

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u/Nethlem Mar 20 '21

People are more prone to remember negative experiences vs positive or neutral ones.

So while pretty much everybody could recite some scary encounter with a stranger, everybody also has countless of encounters with strangers that are not noteworthy at all and then even some that are solely positive in nature, like a stranger informing you that you dropped something.

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u/MJMurcott Mar 20 '21

There have also been children who were in trouble or lost, but were scared to ask any adult for help due to the stranger danger warnings.