Would you help someone jump their car?

[gummybear]

That sounds shady.
I would not help a rando in a rent a van.

[polarbearfans]

No, I wouldn't help someone I didn't know. I would offer to call someone for them like the police or a tow truck but not linger or go into an alley.

[Deleted]

Vans in alleyways = stranger danger

[Deleted]

No. Not in that case. SHADY.

Someone in a parking lot in general viewing of the rest of the world and where I already was?. I'd consider moreso.

[youhadmycuriosity]

I've helped people jump their cars numerous times before, but I wouldn't have in the situation you described, either.

[sweetday]

Not in that situation.

He should be able to call his office or something.

Sounds shady too so I wouldnt feel bad saying no.

[Nonny]

In that scenario, hell no.

The dude in the car adjacent to mine in the parking garage at work, yes.

[Deleted]

There is absolutely no way I would help him.

[Deleted]

if it wasnt some weirdo with a van in an alley and i wasnt running late..sure...but not that stranger. heck no techno

[PeonyParty]

That's sounds creepy. If he was in the same parking lot, I probably would. But no, I would not follow him to another location to give him a jump.

[1confused1]

Jul 29, 2015 12:55:33 GMT -5 kooshball said:

No.


You seriously called the police? People do that when someone needs to be jumped?

In this situation, no.  I'm also curious why you called the police?  That seems a bit extreme.

[jenny1223]

I've done it before for strangers, but I think they've all been women. I'd do it in certain situations. A van in a creepy alley - nope.


ETA: LOL at my post, depending on what "it" is!

[Deleted]

BREAK THE WINDOW
PULL HIS HAIR
GODDAMNIT STEPHANIE

[partiallysunny]

I have.

In your case, no I wouldn' t have. I also wouldn't have called the police?

[Dezi]

Normally I would but this situation seems shady and I would have avoided it like the plague.

[Alyssa]

I've helped people in the past....but I would not help a guy who had a van parked in an alley.

[AuntFlo]

Jul 29, 2015 12:56:14 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

No. Not in that case. SHADY.

Someone in a parking lot in general viewing of the rest of the world and where I already was?. I'd consider moreso.

This. I've actually needed a jump before when I was sitting in a parking lot, and someone helped me right away. But we were out in the open in a huge lot in front of Hobby Lobby. I so would not help someone in an alley or anywhere 500 other people couldn't see me.

[revolution]

In that situation, no, I would've told him about the same thing.

But, yes, I will help people jump their car in a normal parking lot. I've even offered my cables if they don't have any.

[sonrisa]

Yes, I've helped people jump their car before.

But no, I don't go and hang out with men who have weird vans parked in alleys. To get my help, there would need to be a baby (that I can see) locked in the van, or something. (Not to jump the van, off course, but to help get the police, or break the window or whatever).

[Rainyday]

Van+alley = NOPE

[gummybear]

Jul 29, 2015 13:00:24 GMT -5 revolution said:

In that situation, no, I would've told him about the same thing.

But, yes, I will help people jump their car in a normal parking lot. I've even offered my cables if they don't have any. 

Once, when I was 16, some dude came into my Pizza Hut and asked us if we could give him a jump. I went out to the (broad daylight, crowded) lot with him and gave him my cables. He never came in and gave them back. Sad trombone.

[ninjabridemom]

I'd only do it if their car was right by mine. Like PP said -- a parking lot, etc. I would not follow someone somewhere to jump their car.

If I didn't have the kids with me etc I might call AAA and have them jump the car for them, but that would require that I stick around.

[Kit]

In that situation no, I would not.

[sparkythelawyer]

I can and I have, but only in locations i feel safe in, and what you described ain't one of them.

[gummybear]

Jul 29, 2015 13:06:27 GMT -5 liteningme said:

Jul 29, 2015 13:02:51 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Once, when I was 16, some dude came into my Pizza Hut and asked us if we could give him a jump. I went out to the (broad daylight, crowded) lot with him and gave him my cables. He never came in and gave them back. Sad trombone.

............Didn't he need another car to clip the cables to?

Yeah that would make sense right? Maybe he just needed the cables, I don't remember (20 years ago). The whole thing was shady. In my paranoid head, he came in looking for a jump bc he was hoping one of the delivery guys would take him out and he could hold him up for tip money, and then he got young, stupid, phone answering me and abandon the plan. But that's me being crazy.

All I know is I went out to my car with this dude, gave him my cables, and never heard from him again, and got in trouble bc it was my dad's car (and cables). Also for going out to the parking lot alone. 

[jinkies]

Normally, yes.

Shady rental van in a different location? No.

[sterl724]

In an open lot in front of a store with other people around? Sure, if I had jumper cables.

A man who is parked in an alley down the street in a rented van? Hell to the no.

[Champagne Supernova]

Van + alley = Nope.

Sorry! Call 1-800-AAA-HELP!

[pumpkin]

I have in the past and would again; I've even given away my jumper cables when I couldn't stay to help (I figure if you have cables you can usually find someone to help)

But in this situation? NO, this was too shady

[cabbagecabbage]

I would help someone but I wouldn't help that guy. Any man who asks a woman and kids to please come into this dark alley is, at best, delusional.