40+ Times Throughout History People Tried to Do Kind Things Only to Have Them Backfire Massively

I feel like stories about people being broken down by the side of the road and needing a ride into town were a lot more common back in the day before cell phones, back when if you were stranded in the middle of nowhere, you might actually die if someone didn’t stop to help you.

I’ve heard enough of those stories to feel like stopping to help someone on the side of the road is a good idea if you possibly can. But what we learned from this particular incident is that if you don’t have a lot of money, you should go inside the gas station and prepay a set amount on your pump so that this kind of thing can’t happen.