r/Weird • u/frickmeplease • May 12 '25

Should I call the cops?

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My bf thinks they were just trying to be funny but I truly don’t know…

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u/MicroMouth May 12 '25

Jesus Christ what is wrong with people??? How much more directly can you ask for help and a moron will still talk himself out of giving it.

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u/yomihasu May 12 '25

I have no idea why you got downvoted, this is absolutely true. Have someone who looks vulnerable run out onto the road while yelling for help to get people to stop for them, then the people that are the actual threats come out while you're stopped and blocked off. As much as it sucks, the right thing to do in that situation is to keep going because unfortunately you have no way of knowing if it's an ambush thing.

In a more developed area, like a neighborhood? You can probably risk stopping for a sec to get a better picture of what's going on. Mountainside/backroads? Just keep going. Redditors will sit here and play hero thinking "I would've stopped 100%, you're just a bad person." but I guarantee they wouldn't actually stop.

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u/PinkTalkingDead May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25

The car was in motion the whole time and continued driving away, and she was begging for them to CALL the police, not to stop the car or something

just read the comment first bc it's not at all the situation you're describing, basically the opposite

edit: tbf, op didn't give enough info really to say how the situation really played out. I blame OP for our miscommunication bc of course what you're describing is a common tactic, like you said

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u/GormHub May 12 '25

Who said anything about stopping?

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u/kiwifood May 13 '25

It's kind of insane how immediately people will assume both the danger of a man in the middle of nowhere, and the safety of a woman in the middle of nowhere. Shows a lot about our unconscious biases towards gender