When I was a teenager back in the 1970’s, my dad used to cut out every article from the newspaper about hitch-hiking where someone had wound up dead or raped or both. I would laugh at him because, seriously, there were plenty of bad things about living in the Bronx in the '70’s but lack of public transportation wasn’t one of them. The concept of hitch-hiking never crossed my mind. About 10 years later, all of those stories melded into one - Ted Bundy!
I agree 100% with Dustyfeathers that hitch-hiking is dangerous no matter where you do it. I have turned into my father…