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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. [b] 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) [/b]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.

I agree...can not ever imagine accepting ride from older townie either.  I also can't imagine I would have been cool with aforementioned townie just coming up to me and putting his arm around me (no matter how drunk I was...one thing if it was hot college guy but now sketchy dreads dude -- yes, call me a racist, but that's what my 19 year old self would have thought).   I wonder if she was just being "nice."  That's what gets so many girls in trouble.

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There is something odd about it.  I don't think it's a racial thing at all - lots of inter racial dating on campus these days.  It's simply a matter of that big, physically imposing man coming up behind her and throwing his arm around her like that and she doesn't reflexively pull away to at least see who the he** he is.  Granted she was pretty drunk and used to being around friendly drunk college guys. But JM was not only big/friendly/drunk, he was nearly twice her age and he LOOKS like an older guy.   And she was in a strange part of town away from familiar faces...

I'm not sure what to make of it.[/quote]

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