{"id":2241,"date":"2025-03-10T13:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:54:17","slug":"the-night-we-were-saved-by-a-future-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"The Night We Were Saved by a Future Criminal\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car died in a remote area. There were no mobiles then, so we waited. An hour later, a college student passed by and drove us to town. We offered money but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Years later, my wife called in tears. With a shaky voice she told me to open the news. Turns out that student was actually a 35-year-old man who had robbed over 30 people in forests and abandoned areas, targeting drivers late at night.<\/p>\n<div id=\"quads-ad1350\" class=\"quads-location quads-ad1350 \" data-lazydelay=\"3000\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1667039\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I had chills when I saw that he had been wanted by the police in several states. His methods were chillingly clever\u2014he\u2019d either pretend to be a lost hiker to hitch a ride or pick people up in his own car. After gaining their trust, he\u2019d rob them of everything and leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, we don\u2019t know why he didn\u2019t rob us. Maybe it was because there were two of us, or perhaps because I was tall and muscular, which might have intimidated him. Whatever the reason, we were incredibly lucky to have walked away unharmed<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-views content-post post-5193 entry-meta load-static\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car died in a remote area. There were no mobiles then, so we waited. An hour later, a college student passed by and drove us to town. We offered money but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d Years later, my wife called &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}