Hikehitching

Quebec hitchhiker hanging on back of truck left with hypothermia and possible $1,000 fine . . .

 

Another hitchhiker from Quebec was beaten to death with a baseball bat, and his killer was recently paroled. So I guess these hapless hitchhikers have to take a chance at cheating death either way.

Then there's the twisted tale of a Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker from Canada, who maybe should have quit while he was ahead... coincidentally, I'd wondered about this a long time ago: what if a crazy driver picked up a crazy hitcher? Something like that (or I thought familiarity bred contempt).

The devil's in the details. "In 2009 the feds went public with a program called the Highway Serial Killings Initiative in response to a rising number of dead bodies found along the interstates. Some of these were women left in dumpsters. Narrowing the field to those last seen around truck stops and rest areas, the bureau counted over 500 bodies, almost all women. Of the 200 people on a suspect list, almost all of them were long-haul truckers."

Go figure. "When Tremblay stopped to check things out, he found the hitchhiker, covered in snow and frozen". "The hitchhiker, a 38-year-old man from Alma, declined Tremblay's invitation to get into the cab" . . .