Hitchhiking

I don't buy that there is the same percentage of crazy people out there today as there was 30-40 years ago. I think there has been a huge increase in people becoming "dehumanized" in this country. You see it everywhere anymore. 40 years ago if kids had issues in school they had fist fights. These days they go nuts and kill classmates. I used to hitchhike all over in my home county as a young teenager without worry. My buddy and I even hitched from NYS out to the west coast right after high school. The only incident that I can ever recall was getting picked up by a dude in a PU and sitting in the middle and having him grabing me on my leg - which didn't last for long... The country is much more dangerous today than it was 40 years ago and it is not just because we have more people..