Why does his Google history show he was at an industrial estate at night

[Nachosanddips]

Last night I was on Dh’s phone-not snooping…initially at least. I was turning lullaby music off that he and our dc had fallen asleep to.
It showed the travel history of where he’d been/been driving etc. I just thought it was quite interesting at first, don’t think I have it on my phone or if I do, no idea how to access it! I started looking and it was all pretty boring-travel to work, certain shops, cafes etc, a friends house. One entry from last Sunday shows him going out in the evening driving for 30 minutes, it says here no location/location not shown. Then from around 10.30-11.30 pm, it shows a location and when I looked at it, it’s an industrial estate. This is really strange isn’t it?! Making me so paranoid, what would you make of it?

"Kindly", I think you missed my point. I wasn't suggesting that OP's DH was trafficking women himself (which would indeed be unusual for an ordinary family man), just that industrial zones are very common areas for trafficked women to be made to work, often in extremely seedy environments, such as vans or shipping containers, with an equally seedy line of men (undoubtedly including lots of husbands and fathers) queuing up outside to be serviced. OP is not in the UK, but certainly this is a common sight in European towns and cities at night, and has been for decades (it escalated after Schengen but is also rife in the UK and ROI now). If you really are experienced in this field, it's strange to have made a sarcastic comment about crime fiction when you must know this is very much a fact.

There was nothing whatever in the OP that suggested the DH had come home with an unexplained quantity of scrap metal or a random catalytic converter, however common in general such crime may be.

Maybe just accept you were unnecessarily rude?

Cheeky spliff

I’m also experienced in this field and although people trafficking is more prevalent than people acknowledge (nail bars and car washes anyone…?), it isn’t a daily event for people to ‘deal’ in trafficked people in industrial estates. Likewise, keep them captive in said containers, thankfully.

YouTube shorts very kindly showed me a clip of an American hospital drama last night, in which an ER doctor (correctly!) identified that a patient was being trafficked by the subtle clue of a barcode tattooed on her neck.

Popular culture has fully embraced some very literal visions of people trafficking.

@OldCrocks

Sex trafficking and schengan... Abuser dream

Boy I thought I was streetwise until I read some of these posts!

OP all things considered that is a relief. Happy for you.

Again, your head is in your work. I’m grateful that what you speak about is not half as common as you make it out to be. Your experience must be very localised (and I do wonder why this apparent hotbed of serious criminality hasn’t been shut down my law enforcement if it’s as well known as you suggest).

You certainly did insinuate that OP’s DH was involved in this, but nice attempt to backtrack.

I’m confident that I’m not the rude one in this dialogue. Sorry that you couldn’t see the genuine, tongue in cheek comment in my first post and took it extremely seriously (whilst also being wildly inaccurate).