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What's the matter with canadians today (hitch hiking beef)
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alright, so what's the deal with people today? I am a poor skier who can't afford a car, and doesn't like paying for the greyhound (can't there be a cheaper way?)...
i've been relying on hitch hiking for my main mode of transporation for the past 6 years, and it's been getting harder and harder to have hitching a practicle way of getting around.
yesterday my gf and I were trying to get to rossland from vancouver. we got a friend to give us a ride to chilliwack so we didn't have to start hitching in the city, and eventually we got a ride out to hope. and that's as far as we got. we had old people shaking their heads at us and everyone else just straight up ignoring us. i mean fuck - i thought we lived in a friendly country with friendly people and here I am having old people trying to make me feel bad for not having a car?
damn murderers, ruin it for everybody.
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that sucks buy/steal a bike
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heres a good trick thats bound to work. if your gf is quite the looker then just have her stand alongside the road while your off in the ditch doing something or laying down, whatever. most of the time people will stop for a good looking girl then all she has to do is say oh well my bf is with me bla bla bla but be careful, have you ever been to teenhitchhikers.com?
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i hear that...me and dave were trying to hitch from whistler to van last time i was there.....and we couldnt get a ride, we stood there for like 2 hours, and no one picked us up...finally we had to just take the greyhound. but i mean..i was a poor college student who did not have a lot of money.
usually its really easy to hitch hike in whistler. especially to vancouver.
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Hitchhiking is so ghetto, just suck it up and buy a shitty car or a bike or something.
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How the heck are you going to bike to rossland from vancouver?
You'd be biking for like 2 weeks non stop.
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a buddy of mine biked from vancouver to st john's newfoundland this summer with the bike across canada team. so ya, it's possible to bike to rossland.
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the main reason i would never pick somebody up is maybe they have a knife and force me outa the car. its just an unnessicary risk, but it sucks for somebody on the other end of the deal, your probly a really nice guy. but its to hard to know which ones are nice and which want inside your ass.
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yah man get karen to flash a little boobie, ha, I never pick up hitchers on the highway, usually I'll pick up a person or two if I'm coming down from the hill, but never on the highway.
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sorry I dont know the geography of Canadaland, they don't teach us about third world countries in school here in the States.
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I don't pick them up... I don't know why. This other time there were two hot chicks hitchhiking out in the rain and they looked really desperate but I actually thought "Fuck that they'll get all the seats wet". I had a feeling some dude was hiding in the gutter like Lat said. At night I always feel some dude hitchhiking alone is a killer too. Since I have a car I've become the dick that never picks up anyone. Ah well.
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I never said it wasn't possible, just takes forever.
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i think hitch hiking between whistler and vancouver is probally the safest hitchhike you can do. I mean most of the people coming and going are rich anyone.. At least rich enough to afford a car. Its hitchhiking on the trans can.... or somewhere in manitoba, where everyone is lonely and depressed. lol.
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yeah, its way too sketchy to pick up hitch hikers, if and when i ever get a car, im not pickin anybody up, unless you have a big cardboard sign with your ns screen name and post count on it.
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It's not sketchy to pick up hitchhikers. How many people in the world hitchhike and how often do you actually here of a hichhike pick up gone bad.
The ONLY one i can ever remember happened in australia, and it was the person doing the picking up that was doing the killing.
Chill out, most hitch hikers are just trying to get somewhere, not kill you. I pick them up regularily. Couples i'm more comfortable with, being a couple says 'stable' to me. A guy alone or girl alone feels sketchier but i know, they're just trying to get around.
I hitched from sydney australia up to the whitsunday's with my gf, i met the most incredible people along the way and was by far, the best way to get around.
Good for you for hitching to where you want to go...carpooling saves fuel and money. For everyone out there, don't be paranoid. You're probably going to die in a crash before you run into that one in a million hitchhiker with bad intentions.
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well might have picked you up but i wasn't there that day. sorry!
my rule of thumb is you have to:
have skis/snoboard
a bike
be a hot chick
ba a dirtbag hippy couple
or be kristy leskinen holding a sign that says take me!
other than that yeah, ns member name with post count.
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hitchiking in europe is way easier, i was in ireland a while ago with my brother and, and we had basically no trouble getting around
it helps though that ireland is a pocket size country, we stopped worrying about hitchikng when we realized we could literally walk from on city to another in an afternoon.
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it's like gettin struck by lightning.
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I bet you could get a moped for really cheap. Great gas milage on those too.
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Picking up hitchhikers is illegal. That may have had something to do with it.
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then shouldnt it be illegal to hitch hike? yet noone stops them
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It's not illegal to hitchhike on the sea to sky unless there's no room to pull over. If there's room, it's fair game.
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I've picked up hitchhikers before.. but they had to be carrying a sign that has a university as a destination and look the part.
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Yeah, you're right for the most part, but bad stuff does happen sometimes and that why most people are freaked out about it. My dad was hitch hiking one time and when he wanted to get out the guy wouldn't slow down to let him out, so my dad had to jump out of the car. I guess the guy was crazy homo.
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this is what i would do...
sell the computer that you're on right now, get a job, save up and buy a car
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the only reason i dont is because they always want to go like 30 miles out of y way or in a completley different way
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i was once hitch hiking a long ways... and some scary native dude picked me up and he was telling me how he would get so angry that he would almost kill his son.
seriously, think about that.
i was so scared i didn't know what to say....
"i would just get so angry and i'd come so CLOSE TO KILLING HIM!!! .... but now i'm OK cause... blah blah"
meanwhile i'm shitting myself....
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yea, 'cause i own this computer.
anyways - i heard of a hitch hike gone wrong in wawa, ontario once... the guy picked up a hitch hiker and was killed... but i mean, that's the only one i've ever heard...
we picked up this one dude in southern ontario once - he moved there from newfoundland, dropped out of highschool and came to ontario to work at some factory, buddy could barly speak english... good times.
and in canada it is not illigal to hitch hike, or to pick them up. now, saying that (as the person above mentioned) it is illigal to hitch in an unsafe spot... like, don't hitch on the 400 series highways in ontario, don't hitch from a sidewalk, there needs to be a shoulder, after (not before) any intersection, in plain view (for everyones safety) and so on and so forth...
i got picked up by a cop once... it was 4am, i was 17 and drunk, i got kicked out of a party 'cause i got in a fight... the cop took me home.
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So if it isn't illegal, explain the signs all over British Columbia Highways that say "No Hitchhiking, Pick Up is Illegal" I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal to pick up a hitchhiker on any highway in BC. (ie Highway 1 that runs through Chilliwack, where you were looking to get a ride.)
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lol sorry Darryl, but thats classic!!!
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here at Fort Lewis college, everyone hitched up and down the mesa the college is on. i pick up people all the time. there are alot more people around though so if someone tries something shitty other people would see.
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geez i thaught vancouver was in the states?
sorry im american
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That's emberassing, even for an American.
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haha no man im canadian and im well aware of our where vancouver is, i was making fun of him cause he called our country a third world country and hes from the states
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oh ok, good. You scared me for a minute there.
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yea, as i said before - hitching on major highways is illigal... hell, it's illigal to even walk on the shoulder of highway 1 in the lower mainland... you are to hitch from the on ramps.
i've never seen signs anywhere in canada stating that hitching is straight up illigal, and i have never had problems with the police while in the act of hitching...
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daryl you shoulde have hung out for a couple days i am heading to van tomorrow with heim for jeffys premiere i prolly could have squeezed you in on the way home
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the only way i would pick up a hitch hiker is if i had a armored vehicle and the hitch hiker was held at gunpoint by a loaded 12 guage the entire time. orrr, if the chick was really fuckin hot.
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most people dislike picking up hitchhikers becuase the conversation (or lack thereof) can be kind of awkward, especially for long distnaces. i have no problem with it, since i used to hitchhike almost every day in middle school. gotta keep the karma flowin'.
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i don't have a car yet, but if i did i would definetly pick ppl up, because i hitch al the time short distances atleast, i mean what are the chances you'll get a murderer? most ppl are cool.
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im getting my license in a month, i'll pick up anyone with skis or a board on my way to the hill
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If you're driving to the mountain, see someone waiting to get a ride there, and don't pick them up knowing you have some room for them, or have even a slight possibility of squezing them in, you'll have a bad day almost definitely.
Karma will ruin your ski season, so pick up hitchers.
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The problem is that a few instances of bastard people picking hitch hikers up and raping them or killing them, scare off the majority of people to pick up. I for one will pick up a hitch hiker when i have the right feel for the person. I think also, people may be car-pooling more and not have as much room for hitch hikers...i don't know. I know everytime i go to whistler the car is full so...
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haha i was fuckin serious, it would be great for short to medium distances. and you could put some badass tires on it, strap your skis onto a back pack, and ride it up to the mountain
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ya i guess you are right. well Mr. Hunt...mabe you should listen to the man
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whats the matter with canadians? theyre canadian
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wow you've really got us there ^
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