Well, last time I tried to help someone out I got a knife in the ribs and robed for my trouble. I'll pull someone out of a ditch or change their tire, but no rides no more.

 

About a year and a half ago I went to lunch with my dad and girlfriend in a high traffic area right of i75. We were leaving in my truck and I noticed a truck pulling a airstream coming off the highway going real slow, well guy pulled off into the parking lot I was in and he had a flat tire on his trailer. It was an older couple probably 70 and they were from arizona, I stopped and ask if he needed help he was very happy, turns out it was his second flat on his trip and was worried about making it to a tire shop, so I changed his tire for him because I felt bad making him, followed him to the walmart and he tried giving ms a hundred dollars and I said no sir, it felt good to be able to help, I'm an eagle scout and was raised to always help when ever you can. If I ever do get into a situation I have my trusty conceal carry, but like others gave said I won't just stop for a white trash thug with his pants hanging off his as*


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I stop 5 times out of 10... depends on the situation.

Broke down, I'm more then likely going to stop.

Out of gas? Your on your own... I carry 100 gallons with me 95% of the time. Go prepared.

 

I try and help older people and thats about it. I don't bother with girls anymore because most of them have an attitude around here. They seem to think they're better than me because I have an older truck even though their new car isn't running at the moment. You also never get a thank you or anything from them. The older people are thrilled you helped them and want to pay you back somehow.

 

FWIW, my buddy had an 05 F350 that the fuel level gauge had a mind of it's own. The first time he ran out of fuel, his dash read (40 miles to empty), boom, truck shuts off. Second time, the dash read 115 miles to empty, truck died. It was out of fuel. So it's not always the owners fault.

Just read this article this morning, and made me think of this thread, yes people still care: Woman in critical condition after passers-by pull her from fiery car | NBC-WKTV News Channel 2 - Utica News, Weather, Sports - | Local News

My gf subscribes to Rolling Stone magazine. There was a write-up on John Stewart (of the daily show) a month or two back, GREAT article, and there was some comments in there about people that this thread reminded me of. He said something along the lines of ...yes we all have different views, but at the end of the day people are still good. The guy in the pickup truck with the NRA sticker is still going to pull over and help the guy in the Prius with the "anti-gun" stickers, because he believes people are still good. I'll look the article up this weekend and get the actual quote, but I believe it.

 

1st gen Dodges are notorious for having a bad sending unit in the tank. I never trusted that gauge in my old heap, and went by my trip meter instead. I'd reset it every time I filled up.



I have a subscription to RS too, and that was a great article. Jon Stewart is hilarious, but he has a bigger view of the world than just what he himself believes. Unlike countless other 'talking heads'...

 

I will stop to help the elderly always and have changed more than my share of tires for them and women broke down along side the road. I will not give rides but will call for LE or a tow if that is needed. I carry fuel, gas and anti-freeze mix on the truck at all times and will give it to people in distress.
I would have to say that most people are very grateful and try to force money on you but I always refuse. I refuse to stop for anyone that looks like a gang banger or thug (male or female).

 

I grew up in a small town in Texas and would stop in a heartbeat to help someone out when I was younger. I went into the Navy and went overseas for 4 years and came back to Pensacola FL. Seen an old guy walking past me in the parking lot and he asked me for a ride to such and such to go pick up his car. I said no problem, he get's in the truck and asked me for money to fill up his truck I told him I could spare 5 bucks. Now that I am in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia I will RARELY stop and help. If it's another diesel or old people I will. Other than that, it's windows up and doors locked. I agree with some of the other posters, I really wish it was like the old days with doors unlocked and windows down all night.

 

I'll try to stop more often than not as long as I'm by myself. If I've got the wife and kids in the truck, chances are, I'm not going to pull over-like others have said, my family and their safety comes first. I don't mess around with them. But, if I'm alone, and I can see it soon enough to be able to safely pull over behind/in front of them, more than likely I will.
I've been on the side of the road myself more than enough times-hell the first 4 cars I owned should have been in a junkyard...that I know the feeling of sitting there on the side of the road, not able to do anything, and watching everyone blow by you like you're not even there.
I laid my bike down a couple years ago-it was raining, my truck was broken, so I had to to ride it to work and back that day. I had plenty of room-I thought- until the car ahead of me slammed on their brakes. I locked mine up, skidded, then highsided the bike. Luckily, neither I nor the bike was seriously injured/damaged...I always wear a full face, and had my leathers on that day, because of the rain.
It was a 2 lane road, and my bike slid off the road into the ditch. So, as I'm struggling to get the bike out of the wet ditch back onto the shoulder, to see if it'll start again, the 6 cars behind me pass me, the 7th, a lady at least rolled down her window to ask if I was ok, before she continued on. No one stopped, to offer to help/check on me.

I've seen a guy pushing his 1970s Harley down the road, and knowing the nearest gas station was 6 miles down the road, I pulled over, loaded his bike into the back of my truck, and drove him to the station. I've come up on a car dead in the middle of the road, at 10 at night, mexican girl and her boyfriend/husband whatever, out of gas. I had just come back from wheeling, and I always used to take 20 gallons of gas extra with me when I did, and hadn't used any of it, so I tossed 5 gallons into their tank, and let them go. The cops who pulled up behind us were shocked that I'd done it...to me, it's just the right thing to do, if you can.

 

I stop often, but I moved to/live in the MidWest where doors still go unlocked and many vehicles seldom remove the keys from the ignition.

But here's an entertaining story, My biz partner is a genius, Mastermind of extreme calculations computer programmer, but all his understanding is there, vehicles has been a tough road of teaching him what I think of as Common Knowledge and Common Sense. He ran out of fuel on the elevated Xpressway in a Big City, coasts down the off ramp into the burned out section of the hood, starts walking to a gas station. As he walked, the innercity people kept shaking their heads and yelling, U aint from round here Boy! In a short while a Drug Dealer/Pimp in his ghetto Escalade gold plated everything pulls up and suggests he get in the SUV, it aint safe for a white boy in a suit here, LOL. The guy flips out a gargantuan role of 100's and peels one off at the nearest gas station and buys fuel and a gas can and drops him back to his vehicle where it was being hooked to a wrecker and ticketed. Mr Gold plated, was certain he would not have made it back to the car alive. I'm just thankful we get to share a good story, and it goes to show, you never can guess who will dish out random acts of kindness.