++ [ originally posted by swag
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Uh oh...
Gah, I'm perfectly harmless
I've got some stories from the family. Just a while ago my sister and her boyfriend were going home from having visited my parents. It was 11 in the evening and my parents live on the countryside so they had to drive quite far to reach the highway.
At some given moment, in the middle of nowhere off the side of the road, they see a man lying down and another man standing next to him, kicking the shit out of him. Of course it was all very dark but that's what they thought they could make out.
My sister's boyfriend wanted to stop the car, get out and help but my sister (she has the most incredibly strong insticts) locked the car doors and told him to drive on and they would call the police with their cellphone.
The police officer on the other end of the line, upon hearing the story, tells my sister to go back and check if the two men are still there. When they drive back, both have disappeared.
"You're very lucky", the policeman continued, "That is a famous trick we've been hearing a lot recently. If you had gotten out of the car, you would both have been murdered and the car would have been stolen."
I myself always have dumb little things. Like I bought this long black overcoat that goes with a suit I own because I was starting a new job the next week (dresscode). I went to watch "Scream" with my friends late afternoon, during the movie it gets dark outside but we don't switch on the lights. After the movie, I walk onto the hallway in near total darkness, see my own black overcoat from the corner of my eye and nearly have a heart-attack.
See, I'm just dumb rather than scared
