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Ken, I am getting in on this conversation without knowing what preceeded it but I must say this. Knowing that you live in a large city, and I come from Los Angeles originally, I think you tend to see it all in a place like that and you do become cynical and skeptical, for safety sake. I now live in a small rural area and we don't think about things like that as much, but a person cannot be unaware that even here, demons do appear and strange things happen. Being kind to strangers is a way of life here, but being from the city, I always have a reflex that seems ready to spring. I hope this isn't totally off course since I missed some of this but just an observation. Jennifer Smith KEn Becker wrote: > Thanks for the correction, Janet, it came from a usually reliable source. On > the other hand it is something that COULD happen, so it is better to be safe > than sorry.Too many people have been injured or killed becasue they were just > being nice...The following is true, I witnessed it myself: A young man was > standing in the middle of a large intersection, holding a small gasoline > can, asking everyone who stopped for $2, as he had run out of gas on the > highway. I had a few questions in my mind: 1 Why was he there three days in > a row? 2 How unlucky would one be to not only run out of gas, but to not have > $2 to buy some from the filling station located 3 blocks away? 3 > Conveniently he had a nice new container for gas, but after getting a > donation he did not go to get it filled, but kept asking for donations, Why? > 4 How often does a nicely dressed person leave the house without any money or > even a credit card, when driving on the highway? 5 Why was he not near his > car? Call me Mr. Cynical, but I believe it was a scam! True, he wasn't > hurting anyone except for slowing traffic through the intersection, but he > was stealing money from anyone willing to give it. Truth is stranger than > fiction! > Ken B