Timeline for Is riding with strangers unsafe?
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| Jun 18, 2019 at 17:18 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | "... people are generally good", sure, but also, people generally don't approach children they don't know and ask them to get into their car. What matters is, the % of the small number who do who have bad intentions. | |
| Jun 14, 2019 at 2:24 | comment | added | Mark | Almost all of the non-family-abduction missing persons cases are runaways, not stranger abductions. | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | DJClayworth | But to put facts on this, the number of children who are classed as missing because of an accident is about the same as the number kidnapped by non-parents i.e. very low. The number who run away is hundreds of times higher. | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 16:44 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Selection bias kicks in here. Sure, most people will not harm a child. But those people will also not offer rides to random children. The question is whether most people who offer rides to children are going to harm them. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 21:22 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 12, 2012 at 14:00 | history | notice removed | Sklivvz | ||
| Mar 12, 2012 at 12:57 | comment | added | Chad | Sure pick on my first post here :) | |
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| Mar 12, 2012 at 12:57 | history | edited | Chad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2012 at 17:39 | history | notice added | Sklivvz | Needs citation | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 4:07 | comment | added | Randolf Richardson | Wearing the wrong colours at night definitely can be a factor, but in my experience body language plays a much stronger role. Are you walking like a victim, or with confidence? Are you paying enough attention to what's going on in the local area, and can you be astute enough to realize when something's out of place (it may be very subtle)? | |
| May 27, 2011 at 7:04 | comment | added | Dan Brumleve | It seems that I compared apples and oranges! The point is still valid because there are orders of magnitude involved. | |
| May 27, 2011 at 3:55 | comment | added | Dan Brumleve | Driving fatalities vastly outweigh the number of non-parental kidnappings given by the other answer infoplease.com/ipa/A0908129.html. Lagerbaer's sample bias argument should also be taken into consideration, but considering DJClayworth's statistics in conjunction, I agree with Chad that unsafe driving is certainly the largest risk at least in the most likely situations where a ride from a stranger would be offered or requested. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 21:07 | comment | added | Lagerbaer | While providing interesting input to the question at hand, your answer is not properly referenced as required for this site. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 21:05 | comment | added | MrHen | Interesting point about bad driving. That would be a fun one to pull out at a PTA: "Did you know that if your child accepts a ride from a stranger, they are more likely to be injured in a subsequent car crash than get kidnapped?" | |
| May 26, 2011 at 21:00 | history | answered | Chad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |