{"id":7678,"date":"2025-05-30T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:09:24","slug":"the-night-we-were-saved-by-a-future-criminal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7678","title":{"rendered":"The Night We Were Saved by a Future Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car died in a remote area. There were no mobiles then, so we waited.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, a college student passed by and drove us to town. We offered money but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Years later, my wife called in tears. With a shaky voice she told me to open the news.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that student was actually a 35-year-old man who had<\/p>\n<p>robbed over 30 people in forests and abandoned areas, targeting drivers late at night.<\/p>\n<p>I had chills when I saw that he had been wanted by the police in several states. His methods were chillingly<\/p>\n<p>clever\u2014he\u2019d either pretend to be a lost hiker to hitch a ride or pick people up in his own car. After gaining<\/p>\n<p>their trust, he\u2019d rob them of everything and leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, we don\u2019t know why he didn\u2019t rob us. Maybe it was because there were two of us, or perhaps because<\/p>\n<p>I was tall and muscular, which might have intimidated him. Whatever the reason, we were incredibly lucky to have walked away unharmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car died in a remote area. There were no mobiles then, so we&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7680,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions\/7680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}