Is it common for kids to hitchhike these days?
 

You see much of it?

Not where I live,but I used to when I was a kid.

No, I don't see it at all these days. Used to see it all the time really, but not any more. Never.

I still see teenagers hitch hiking around where I live. Santa Cruz, CA.

Only in pornos and horror movies. :winkwink:

there is fearmongers who talk about criminals all the time, so no
Oh yes, if you are a woman and if you run, you gonna get killed then raped.

Lots of traveler kids will hitchhike. They tend to smell bad, but they're good people.

Not much, but there are some :)

I wouldn't say just hitch hike, but there is a pretty large growing trend of train hoppers and street kids that are street kids by choice.

It's come from the entire lost cause mentality where these kids go to college and had no jobs waiting for them over the last 6 years and so on, so they sort of drop out from the norm. I'd suspect with the economy coming back and jobs being much easier to find the trend is likely to fall off.

I think many of the kids have just said fuck it they are doing their own thing. It's pretty popular trend in many parts of the country. Think Seattle, Portland, New Orleans, Austin, Bolder ect..ect.. Any of the more popular and trendy cities.

Sites like LATFO or Squat the Planet have kinda created a sub culture for these kids. I guess they are modern day hippies and hipsters wrapped into one..

I never stop to them, druged hell raisers

Yeah, but Santa Cruz is a hippie/college town
(I say this because I also live there)

With the ultra-paranoid society we live in these days, I don't think it's practiced much anymore. I remember hitchhiking with friends from Roseville California to Reno, then to Vegas, and back to Roseville. It would be damn near impossible to pull that off these days. Especially a group of people hitchhiking.

Rarely these days.

And usually when I do...they look like Charlie Manson wannabes.

Yeah it seems to have disappeared.

I hitchhiked everywhere until I got my drivers license, just stick your thumb out and really not much trouble getting rides, different world - my parents knew I was doing it and they never said not to.

The punks just jack your ride if they need a lift

If you are armed I would suggest it and as long as everyone keeps a distance of say 10 meters

i enjoy geting a free ride, and then taking a shit in my pants, while in the ve-hic-cull...

Not really. I see teenagers and grownups mostly.

Ahahahahahhahaha, fantastic... :) ahahahahah :thumbsup

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There are FB groups now, where people offer / request rides :)