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===1. Befor you enter the car?===
 
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We dont want to give you here tricks about how hitch hiking is function and how to do. This would be to much. There is a lot of information even written, mostly you can find it in the internet. Here is a list of some useful pages:  
 
We dont want to give you here tricks about how hitch hiking is function and how to do. This would be to much. There is a lot of information even written, mostly you can find it in the internet. Here is a list of some useful pages:  
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vom prinzip sollte man das hier noch erweitern. prinzipielles trampen über tankstellen vorteilhaft erwähnen.
  
 
* hitchbase.com
 
* hitchbase.com

Revision as of 08:15, 28 April 2008

Info

Hi, this should be a project page to collect and save content for safe hitchhiking. The Aim of this project is to collect tips about safety by hitch hiking am produce a printable, good readable, not boring pdf-file. Please feel free to edit and collect tips. - mabe

See also Safety, and please do copy stuff back and forth.

How to

Structure

  • Introduction
    • I think it makes no sense to deny that hitchhiking is in all situations safe. as earlier people know that and think about it as better they can react in bad situations. so in this paper we should mention this fact. link
    • I think there are 3 steps of situations which are dependent on the driver actions and your reactions:
  1. Before you enter the car, how to know to enter, why not enter, driver might be very kind to you so no reason why not to enter
  2. Leave a driving car because you get a bad feeling and have recognized that the driver wants more that just give you a lift. link
  3. I think the 3rd step is the most worst case, what can I do when really somebody wants to kill me/ to rape me/ to steal my money! I am sure that in the most cases you will not recognize this situations so fast, because the driver was all the time very kind and funny to you. He builds up a friendly relationship to you. So I even believe that to get raped must not be in a car (you know the stories about raped family members).
    • Seems to be prostitute, get out information from [1]

Introduction

Just to remember, I think there is a double of more actions which are not in the news. These are just facts and make me really sad:

Some Idea of Introduction:

On earth there are actually more than 6 Mrd. People living. It is not countable how many people still at the moment are active hitchhiking on the earth. Maybe it is 100, maybe it is an amount of about 2000 hitchhikers. How know, how cares, why should I be intrested in it? You should be interested because it is for your safety. It is a fact that a hitchhiking lift could not be all the time that nice as you remember them. There is a small possibility to get in a Situation where you have to handle and to act. In the following paper we have tried to collect tips/informations and usefull stuff for Situations like that. We dont want to make you scary. Hitchhiking is in the most Situations the wonderfullst way of traveling. We want to make you strong and give you the power to handle in bad situations. So pleace take the time to read it carefully and in let us know if you have more tipps ore ideas.


1. Befor you enter the car?

We dont want to give you here tricks about how hitch hiking is function and how to do. This would be to much. There is a lot of information even written, mostly you can find it in the internet. Here is a list of some useful pages:

vom prinzip sollte man das hier noch erweitern. prinzipielles trampen über tankstellen vorteilhaft erwähnen.

  • hitchbase.com
  • abgefahren.hitchbase.com
  • digichitch.com
  • hitchwiki.org
  • liftershalte.info

We want to give you here reasons why not to enter a car even than when it is raining, you have standed 2 hours on one place and your are pissed of because all the drivers before dont wanted to take you and just a car has stopped in front of you. The First talk with the driver is very important and shows you a lot if the driver wants you to take for some way with the car. You should never just jump into the car without making a little talk with the driver. During the talk you should go trough your checklist in your head like that: Where is the driver going? Which way he will he go trough? Where you can leave the car to get maybe a second lift on a good place? Is the driver drunken? Are there more than 1 person in the car? Where can I put my stuff? Is the driver kindly and helpful? Make it really sense to go with the driver or maybe its better just to stay? Should I write down the number plate from the car?

At the first time it is good to be at distance to the driver. You are in a better position. You have not to take the first lift. When you feel not good about going with the driver just say NO. Next car will surely come. You can try to say NO in situations where you are sure to get in the next time a lift.

These all sounds really easy when you remember these hectic situations where you just jumped in because there have been a lot of cars around and the driver wants to start the car again. You should realy learn to get cool and easy. There is no reason why to stress. The realy best way for cool hitch hiking is to start from a petrol station or to get a lift as fast as possible to such a start point. On a petrol station the drivers are more relaxter and you can get really easy an overview...puhh keinen bock mehr.

2. Leaving a car?

The Situation is there that you feel not comfortable anymore with the driver. The feeling says you better to leave the car. For leaving a car there could be different reasons like, the driver is drunken, the driver is not driving this direction he wanted to go, the driver is driving realy fast and scary, the driver wants more than just give you a lift. In any way the reasion why you have a strange feeling is not that important. Important is that you hear at that feeling and try to get out of the car.

das passiert natürlich auch in stufen von dem einfachen fragen bitte anhalten bis zu dem punkt wo man merkt das der fahrer gar nicht anhalten will.

3. What to do in the worst case?

  • push in the front window with your feet (in a standing car) (it works on top in the middle. and no car driver wants this to happen)
  • lighter and deo-spray...
  • throwing things out of the car
  • grab the steering wheel
  • pull the handbrake
  • have with you a "Help"-sign and hold it to the window
  • let out a guffaw, use the element of surprise
  • pretend having an epileptic fit
  • open the door during the ride and try to brake the door with your feeds (only belted up)
  • turn on the hazard lights /the flashing light/ honk
  • be careful by jumping out of a truck. Be aware of the altitude.