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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really understand how having Uber in Charlottesville would help anything.  The perpetrator/murderer/rapist had a taxi driver's license!  He could have been an uber driver (had it existed at the time and/or had HG used Uber).

The fact of the matter is that HG was in the wrong place in the wrong state of mind.  JM got lucky that HG crossed his path.  If HG had wanted a taxi, I'm sure she could have asked the bar tender or bouncer or anyone at a restaurant on the mall to call one for her.  She must have trusted JM based on the way he acted and what he said to her.  She didn't know he was a rapist/killer in disguise -- who would think that?  He may have shown her his hospital ID card and told her "I'll take you home."

I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that 99% of women today have made a bad choice or two about accepting a ride.... it's just that luck was on our side and nothing catastrophic happened.

This whole situation is sickening b/c most of us are thinking "it could have been me" or "it could have been my daughter."  It's horrifying to see someone so innocent and so full of talent and potential be slaughtered.  It's like a human version of the predator nature shows... except it's not the circle of life.  It's the circle of selfishness and hate. :(  
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I could have written this same post.  I was an idiot in my 20s...got too drunk, hated to go home, would go to parties and bars by myself after my friends went home, too trusting of strangers, preferred to walk than take a cab, etc., etc.  I even did all of this nonsense in Charlottesville for three years.  I am very grateful that I never came across the wrong person in all of my ridiculous and (I now understand them to be) dangerous shenanigans.  I really feel for her parents and regret the stress I must have put my own mom through back then.  I have three little boys now and, up until this story struck so close to home, always thought I wanted a girl.  Not anymore...I am at peace with my little boys and the (likely very naive) hope that this scenario, at least, is off the table for our family.[/quote]

Boys get raped and murdered, too.  I am not wishing this on anyone - I am stating this because no one can be too careful, like it or not.  Plenty of people thought the campus was safe.  
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I lived it up and sometimes (often) engaged in drunken shenanigans when I was in college.  Accepting rides, going places with people I didn't know but they were all other college kids.  I don't see myself (or one of my college friends) accepting a ride from an older townie like JM UNLESS I had seen him around before (maybe at the hospital or walking to/from the hospital) and I let my guard down because I was intoxicated...or unless he had fed me a line about being a cab driver and showed me one of his old IDs.  I also think it's a little odd that a second year student was lost in downtown Charlottesville.  I wonder if it's possible that Hannah KNEW that she was drunk when she got turned away from the one bar and then decided to take a little jog/walk in an attempt to sober herself up a little bit so that she could continue to stay out partying.  Maybe she knew that her friends would give her a hard time if she was too toasted and that they would insist on escorting her home. I'm just trying to imagine how she ended up doing what she did that night.  How she crossed paths with that monster and willingly got into his car....

But, yes, I can see how I could have EASILY wound up the same way that Hannah did.  JM was a predator on the hunt and Hannah was just such an easy, innocent and unsuspecting target.  You can see it in the surveillance videos.  Hannah has really struck a nerve with so many of us.  Such a beautiful, cherished life gone forever.

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