{"id":56644,"date":"2025-03-25T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56644"},"modified":"2025-03-25T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:58:53","slug":"the-night-we-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56644","title":{"rendered":"The Night We&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1097.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1097.png 395w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1097-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car died in a remote area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no mobiles then, so we waited. An hour later, a college student passed by and drove us to town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We offered money but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years later, my wife called in tears. With a shaky voice she told me to open the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>I had chills when I saw that he had been wanted by the police in several states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After gaining their trust, he\u2019d rob them of everything and leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this day, we don\u2019t know why he didn\u2019t rob us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it was because there were two of us, or perhaps because I was tall and muscular,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which might have intimidated him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever the reason, we were incredibly lucky to have walked away unharmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56629\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56646,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56644\/revisions\/56646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}