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To find this man in park suspicious

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HammerTimeNC · 07/04/2024 00:53

NC but long time regular, since Pom Bear days.

Packing up my car whilst leaving a park today, I was aware of a man, aged around 30, sitting nearby with what I think were walking poles, looking in our direction.

After I said goodbye to my sister who was in a car in front, the man said to me he had an odd request...he asked that I drive him to his car which we could see, less than a 20-second walk away, because he was limping. I had my teenage daughter with me so I asked her to move to the back seat and he sat in the front passenger seat.

He mentioned this was the first time he had been to this park and his girlfriend had taken the dog for a walk and was annoyed with him as he couldn't walk.

He then struggled out of my car and sat in the driver seat of his own car.

I am now wondering why he didn't wait for his gf to drive him, and how he was going to drive with poor mobility. And I feel very irresponsible for putting my daughter at risk (so please be gentle with me).

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KoolKookaburra · 07/04/2024 08:25

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Start your own thread but what the hell of course you leave him. Why do you think that's unreasonable

Noyesnoyes · 07/04/2024 08:23

DragonGypsyDoris · 07/04/2024 07:37

Ooh, I've been waiting ages to give a classic MN response. Call 101 and log it, you never know when they might need this seemingly irrelevant piece of a jigsaw.🤔

Correct answer.....

I mean you just don't know....

Original poster
HammerTimeNC · 07/04/2024 08:20

I told my sister what was happening as I just managed to catch her before she drove off. She then watched us but thought it was odd and said I shouldn't have let a stranger in the car.

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cuckyplunt · 07/04/2024 08:16

Was it Ted Bundy that used to fake a broken arm and ask people to help him put things in his car?

Luckycloverz · 07/04/2024 08:10

I'd be checking no airtag etc was dropped in your car...

Keepingongoing · 07/04/2024 08:06

The story as you’ve told it sounds like someone with mobility problems. Perhaps problems which fluctuate or he has a new illness which he is just getting used to. He may have been staring at you because he felt diffident about asking for help. He may have known that it would sound like an odd request, to be driven such a short distance . Perhaps he was feeling cold and didn’t want to wait for his girlfriend to get him back to the car, or he needed the greater support of the car seat. Perhaps he’d been on a walk with his gf but misjudged his capacity and had struggled to get back to the car park.
It doesn’t sound like you put your daughter at risk.

DragonGypsyDoris · 07/04/2024 07:37

Ooh, I've been waiting ages to give a classic MN response. Call 101 and log it, you never know when they might need this seemingly irrelevant piece of a jigsaw.🤔

HannaMaddie · 07/04/2024 07:32

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Yoe · 07/04/2024 00:58

Look it may have been really benign but the way things are in relation too safety please
dont do it again …. I know I know we all like to help but unfortunately we have a lot of bad people in our world . But don’t think too long or hard about it nothing happened and you went on it merry way

theduchessofspork · 07/04/2024 00:57

You’re being a bit paranoid I think, there were two of you. Also he didn’t do anything.. so the evidence suggests he wanted a lift like he said.