{"id":5161,"date":"2025-02-28T08:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2025-02-28T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:13:49","slug":"they-were-shocked-to-learn-that-a-criminal-had-saved-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5161","title":{"rendered":"They Were Shocked To Learn That A Criminal Had Saved Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You never quite know what life is going to hand you and sometimes, the worst situation may turn into the best thing that ever happened. That is what happened in the following story.<\/p>\n

The two people in the story were stranded and they were helped out by somebody they didn\u2019t know. This is a situation that we may find ourselves in from time to time, but the story has an unusual and frightening twist.<\/p>\n

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As you read what happened to the couple, you will feel the stress that they felt. It\u2019s something to consider, just in case you ever find yourself in this situation.<\/p>\n

My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car died in a remote area.<\/p>\n

There were no mobiles then, so we waited. An hour later, a college student passed by and drove us to town.<\/p>\n

We offered money but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, my wife called in tears. With a shaky voice she told me to open the news.<\/p>\n

Turns out that the 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

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I had chills when I saw that he had been wanted by the police in several states.<\/p>\n

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

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After gaining their trust, he\u2019d rob them of everything and leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n

To this day, we don\u2019t know why he didn\u2019t rob us.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was because there were two of us, or perhaps because I was tall and muscular, which might have intimidated him.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, we were incredibly lucky to have walked away unharmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You never quite know what life is going to hand you and sometimes, the worst situation may turn into the best thing that ever happened. That is what happened in the following story. The two people in the story were stranded and they were helped out by somebody they didn\u2019t know. This is a situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}