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“U may think I am crazy but I feel if i want to do something good H-shem will help.”
A couple of years ago there were a two women in Williamsburg who were given rides by a chasidish-looking man who then attacked them.
In Eretz Yisroel, Arab terrorists sometimes get dressed as frum people – sometimes as chasidim – to lure victimes.
We have all heard of stories – possibly urban legends – about nochrim who travel in the catskills with a yarmulka because they know that free roadside assistance is available if they put it on.
I once had a couple of young frum boys, about 11 or 12, approach me while I was fueling at a gas station and ask for a ride. I gave them a quarter (I didn’t have a cell phone) and told them to call their parents and get their OK before I would do so, because 1) I wanted their parents to know that they approached a stranger for a ride and 2) I would not give them a ride without their parent’s haskama.
I implore you in the strongest possible terms NOT to give rides to people you don’t know.
Unless you know me…
-If you see me standing and waiting at a bus stop, please pass me by.
-If you see my children waiting at a city bus stop you do NOT have my permission to offer them a ride.
Chas v’sholom that with your good-hearted intentions you are taken advantage of by an evil individual in a way that can cause you and your family anguish for years to come.