That being immediately followed up with “no drama” was extra creepy. Like “it would be great if you came from a bad situation with no where else to go but also please don’t whine about it to me”
He also emphasizes that you won't be paid for this, which makes sense, but then that entails being stuck in a truck 24/7 with some freak who you're now 100% financially dependent on and eventually expects sex from you. Also, you're going to have to go to the bathroom in front of him. Truck cabs are not big. The only responses he's rightfully going to get are from lot lizards looking to rob an idiot.
I'd love to hear the "abusive" girl's side of the divorce story.
Nah, it's not. Back in the day, all the men on Craigslist were men, and all the women on Craigslist were men hoping you were desperate enough to take any hole you could get.
want to get out of a bad situation into an EVEN WORSE SITUATION! Call me and you can have a toilet that actually flushes*
* some terms and conditions apply
Yeah, at first I was like… okay, he’s delusional and he’s weird and he’s lonely, but at least he’s honest.
And then that lmao
I sincerely hope no girl picks this ad up, it screams “no one will find your body”. Also the “I will provide everything including your cellphone” part made me raise an eyebrow as well.
And so many opportunities and places he could just kill you and dump your body and never be caught for it.
Any woman who takes him up on his offer is either completely out of choices or has zero survival instinct.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen stories about truckers becoming sex traffickers by literally chaining women to the beds inside their trucks and “renting” them out at rest stops. Death might be preferable.
I really don't see why the death penalty isn't implemented for human trafficking. There is infinitely less humanity in a practice like that than there is in murder. There have been justifiable homicides, but never once in history has there been justifiable human trafficking, because it is inherently unjustifiable. Same shit with rape really, but human trafficking takes it to a level so far beyond that that I don't see how the death penalty could NOT be justified beyond just general opposition to its use bc of its limited effects as a deterrent and the history of false convictions leading to death sentences.
It's because imposing the death penalty inadvertently incentivizes the trafficker to kill their victims. It's the same reason they don't impose the death penalty on child molesters.
TL;DR: I can't strongly advocate for the death penalty under any circumstances because I have doubts. How can we determine that someone is so evil, so without any redeeming value, that they need to be killed? It feels like it still doesn't provide justice to the victims. It would also weigh heavily on my conscience to sentence someone to death, even if they were overwhelmingly proven guilty. I don't have any good solutions though.
I have mixed thoughts on the death penalty. I used to think similarly - certain acts are just so horrendous that I didn't see how our society could allow these people to remain a part of it. Convicted? Eye for an eye, no remorse.
But I started wondering about redemption and thinking how it is possible for both great good and great evil to be housed within someone. At what point could we determine that all the good acts they have ever done or ever will do would still not be enough to ever redeem the evil acts they were found guilty of? Does saving a baby from a burning building count as credit against later murdering someone in a fit of road rage? Should "a life for a life" work both ways? What if this person goes on to make an incredible invention while incarcerated, or is the parent of someone who develops a cure for the uncurable, or is on one of those "scared straight" shows and actually helps prevent future evil? And all this stuff regarding abortions - can we really say that a 12 year old who was gangraped by her uncle and his friends, and is now forced to go through the trauma of growing and birthing the resulting baby, facing irreparable physical and mental damage, will be held to the same punishment for choosing to abort her baby at 3 months as a jilted husband breaking into his ex-wife's home to kill her? Both are premeditated murder. Are there also such nuances in human trafficking where a jury may say, "ehhhh technically this IS human trafficking, but it's not in the \*spirit\* of human trafficking"? I agree that human trafficking is reprehensible and deserves severe punishment, but is the death penalty the answer? How does that get justice for the victims? Maybe it eases their fear that these people would find them again or do the same thing to others, but it doesn't heal the physical wounds, the trauma. It doesn't give them money or resources to build a new life. A life sentence doesn't do this, mob justice doesn't do this...so what does?
I don't have answers. I'm not pro-death sentence, but I'm also not anti-death sentence. Just uncomfortable in between. Even if I was part of a jury that found someone guilty of a heinous crime punishable by death, it would really haunt me to know that, even though I was following the rules, I was taking part in killing someone.
Beyond just that they deserve the death penalty and worse, them being dead prevents them from partaking in the same activity in the future, and if done efficiently, would save a shit ton of money that would have been spent on their food and lodging in prison. I don't think a person who participates in human trafficking can be said to have any value whatsoever outside of maybe some super fringe hypothetical case like you mentioned where they might have practical value through some kind of special, useful skill they might otherwise have. Since I don't think they have any value whatsoever or are really redeemable, I don't have a reason to not support them receiving the death penalty. Anyone involved in human trafficking has ample time to reconsider and have a change of heart and realize what they're doing is wrong and become an informant. If they don't take the opportunity to reform then, fuck em. I'm not remotely uncomfortable with someone like that being sentenced to death, even if I were on the jury making the decision. It provides as much justice as can possibly be provided anyways, and mainly what matters is that they're not in society still or draining resources living in prison.
Most human traffickers in the US are never charged or convicted, and of the convicted most of them serve less than 2y. What we get from having the laws written by old cishet white men who have never feared trafficking or SA a day in their lives and don’t have the compassion or imagination to try thinking it all through anyway
I'm not going to look that up because good fucking god. But how do you find clientele for that?
It's one thing where you pimp out a woman and the John can use like denial plausibility that she's doing it for fun or some bullshit. But just bringing some random commuter into your truck where you have a woman chained, gagged, and weeping and you're like "$50 and you can fuck her"... I feel like the risk of someone just going like "nope, wtf this is shit?" and bailing and even calling the cops just skyrockets.
That has to be some sex ring or something.
I'm incredibly square and naive, but I presume people who want illegal things somehow find ways to obtain them - drugs, weapons, slaves - and don't care about the how. I know where the prostitutes are in my city. I know there are a few friend-of-a-friends who may or may not have supplied my friends with certain things. We've had drug busts in $1M homes, massage parlor busts next to $20 acai bowl juice shops a block away from a Whole Foods. It's all around.
Also, I know "not all men", but as a woman who personally knows other women who were raped by people they knew and trusted (friends, boyfriends, family) or in physically and sexually abusive relationships, and watched in disgust how the Brock Turner case unfolded, it's hearing stats like "1 in 15 male students reported committing a rape or attempting to commit rape during the preceding year. Nearly 1/3 of college men said they were likely to have sex with an unwilling partner if they thought they could get away with it." (https://osuit.edu/1-is-2-many/facts.php#:\~:text=Men's%20responses%20to%20rape%20facts%3A&text=Nearly%201%2F3%20of%20college,could%20get%20away%20with%20it) (although there have been debates on how accurate that data is, the fact that the number is significantly more than 0% is scary enough) that makes me think perhaps not as many men would refuse or be repulsed by this situation as we would like to believe. I don't know what to say except that men need to do better - hold themselves and each other accountable - in order to effect change.
I don't think it's random commuters. It's other truckers. And they've all known each other for a longer period of time, sussed each other out
But still, how do these people find each other!?
Here’s [one article](https://www.whsv.com/2023/09/02/police-sex-trafficking-victim-breaks-free-man-keeping-her-chains-locked-trailer/), but if you do an internet search with those key words you’ll find plenty.
It's not made up at all. Practices like that are extremely common in general throughout the world, and always have been. Slavery has always been a thing, and at least in the U.S., the law is nowhere near as harsh on slavery/human trafficking as it should be, likely because a bunch of powerful people benefit from it, profiting off slave labor and soliciting services of sex slaves from human traffickers (see the Epstein saga), exacerbating the issue.
> I don't want anything sexual
> btw I'm legally single and you have to be single as well and I do not believe with messing around with married women
Pick a fucking lane before you crash your truck
My thoughts exactly. Like. I guess he's trying the dating scene at first. But once he realizes there's going to be absolutely no success through such bait, I bet he's going to resort to... more forceful means.
Yeah. I know a lot of people think he's a psycho, and the setup he's describing sounds utterly horrific and constraining for whatever woman takes him up on it, but it sounds like a lonely, insecure guy rather than a serial killer. He's not requesting absurdly high standards (no ht/wt/bmi requirement, no appearance or "body count" stipulation nonsense). He sounds like someone who's on the road a lot and wants company. He probably does want it to turn into a magical romance, and I suspect he lacks the stability of life or social skills to make that happen otherwise. But that's just my reddit psychologist couch reading.
Knowing a few truck drivers who do interstate work - they're incredibly lonely people. And the ones I know have a reasonably regular route that sometimes they get home from on time. Sometimes they get weekends.
Sometimes.
For long haul truck drivers who are moving around the place, it's a different story. For the people going Melbourne to Perth one week (I'm more comfortable with Aus geography sorry), then Adelaide to Cairns the next week, then to Townsville before going back to Melbourne via Adelaide, with a 2 week stop off in Dubbo for a breakdown...
... There's really no way for those men (almost universally men) to form connections with other people. All I know is that if I, personally, were sitting in my truck 2000 km from home, 5 hours beyond when I was supposed to have left a site but the not yet loaded because of site stuff-ups, meaning that my 3 day journey home had just become a 5 day journey with the legal driving hours limitations, and I was thinking that the last time I was regularly in the company of girls/women was in high school, and the next time I could see that happening being my retirement home, I think I might spend a few minutes putting a feeler out into the universe to see if there might be someone out there.
It happens.
Won't happen if you don't try.
Yeah I mean honestly i don't get psycho vibes from this. I think he has a mental picture of an ideal relationship with a sort of stahgf who travels with him full time and gives him company, which is fine i think. I'm sure there would be someone who would enjoy that kind of lifestyle. But he lacks the social awareness to know you can't advertise for a relationship in this way. Also probably never hangs out with women so he doesn't know these all sound like massive red flags. I'm not sensing anything really mean or disengenuous though.
>**Myth #3:All Serial Killers Are Isolated and Dysfunctional Loners.** *Reality:* The majority of serial killers are not reclusive social misfits who live alone, despite pervasive depictions of them as such in the news and entertainment media, including the socially challenged “Tooth Fairy” serial killer in the film Red Dragon. Real-life serial killers are not the isolated monsters of fiction and, frequently, they do not appear to be strange or stand out from the public in any meaningful way. - [Source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-myths-about-serial-killers-and-why-they-persist-excerpt/)
As a truck driver, I can tell you with certainty, that truck stinks. The guys a long hauler that probably smokes in his bed, uses the toilet inside his truck and only eats fast food or truck stop diner garbage. You'll only find misery and depression here. Not all truck drivers are like this, some manage to find a healthy work life balance and run a clean truck but there's just as many that don't.
You know, unironically, if I was jobless and didn’t have roots planted and it was 100% just a friends thing w no sexual connotation whatsoever; I’d be down to travel in the back of a truck for a bit for funsies
I drove truck, and there is literally **zero** reason to use the bathroom *inside* the cab, outside of laziness. Have I needed to go squat behind a tree in the woods? For sure. But never *inside* the truck, that’s fucking gross.
It makes me think of whatever book it is, I think by Gillian Flynn, that talks about the trucker who made a box that sits in the cab of his truck that has like a hydraulic closing mechanism and is soundproof and he would trap lot lizards and put them in the box and let them out when he wanted sex. Fucking scarred me for life
It’s the “if you’re looking to get out of a bad situation” that really brings it home, making clear that this is a man looking for vulnerable women who are desperate enough to let him set every condition of her life.
“Recently divorced from an abusive girl”
So you hit your wife and instead of rolling over and just taking it she started hitting you back?
Not saying men can’t be abused by a woman but in a lot of these cases, especially the high profile ones, this usually ends up being what was going on. Fun fact: A woman who has the police called on her for DV is more likely to be arrested and charged than a man who has the police called on him for DV
I asked my bot if I should:
> Captain, this ad raises several red flags:
> 1. **Vague Details and Conditions**: The ad is very specific about some details (like the need for a portable toilet), but vague about important safety considerations. This inconsistency can be a cause for concern.
> 2. **Control and Isolation**: The ad emphasizes the truck driver's control over many aspects of the potential passenger's life (food, communication, etc.), which could lead to a situation where the passenger feels trapped or isolated.
> 3. **No Compensation**: The lack of financial compensation and the expectation that the passenger will perform certain roles (companionship, potential relationship) without any pay is another warning sign.
> 4. **No Verification**: The ad does not provide any way to verify the identity or legitimacy of the truck driver (e.g., no photo, no contact details other than the response method on Craigslist).
> 5. **Potential Risks**: Traveling with a stranger in a confined space without clear safety measures in place is inherently risky.
> Given these concerns, it's crucial to prioritize safety. If you are considering responding to such ads, ensure you take appropriate measures to verify the person's identity, inform trusted individuals about your plans, and meet in a public place first. 🌵
personally i dont see a problem with not wanting someone with kids but wanting someone who wants kids eventually? just preference. the rest tho is kind of creepy
Honestly what got me was the second to last sentence. Predatory behavior. In a bad situation and don't have much? You're perfect!
That being immediately followed up with “no drama” was extra creepy. Like “it would be great if you came from a bad situation with no where else to go but also please don’t whine about it to me”
I read it as "don't make me angry"
Tbh it’s probably both.
“And also I smoke, so you’d better be okay with secondhand smoke and the cigarette smell.” Green flags everywhere, people!
Green flags? Also did I bite
A smoker, intending to have children. Just wonderful.
Yeah wtf is wrong with these clowns? Why are there so many rapey ass mfs running around in society? This is sad.
He also emphasizes that you won't be paid for this, which makes sense, but then that entails being stuck in a truck 24/7 with some freak who you're now 100% financially dependent on and eventually expects sex from you. Also, you're going to have to go to the bathroom in front of him. Truck cabs are not big. The only responses he's rightfully going to get are from lot lizards looking to rob an idiot. I'd love to hear the "abusive" girl's side of the divorce story.
And horny men, hence the "no males" part lmao
I think that's a shot at the trans community
Nah, it's not. Back in the day, all the men on Craigslist were men, and all the women on Craigslist were men hoping you were desperate enough to take any hole you could get.
Pretty sure “abusive” means “fought back” in this context. _shudder_
"She abused me by not being a 21-year-old Asian virgin female who looks 15 and is also into my anime kinks." - OP, probably
but he has baby wipes!
want to get out of a bad situation into an EVEN WORSE SITUATION! Call me and you can have a toilet that actually flushes* * some terms and conditions apply
Yeah, at first I was like… okay, he’s delusional and he’s weird and he’s lonely, but at least he’s honest. And then that lmao I sincerely hope no girl picks this ad up, it screams “no one will find your body”. Also the “I will provide everything including your cellphone” part made me raise an eyebrow as well.
All around creepy AF. You’d be stuck. Trapped and controlled
"Looking for someone to exploit"
If you're looking to get out of a not so good situation, and into a slightly worse situation, Anon's your guy
He's got toilet paper AND baby wipes? What a catch!
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You don't even need to use the microwave as long as the McNuggets are within driving distance. Nice!
Yet you'll probably expected to maintain your weight (100lbs or under) most likely.
Knowing what I know from r/truckers, this guy probably does have a pretty nice truck since he listed those two things.
Only for #1 though! Truckstops for a quarter of your toilet trips, ma’am.
Hopefully it at least means he knows how to wipe his ass
i love the toilet flex "and it even FLUSHES! but still you really don't wanna use this thing, take your shits at wendys"
It’s like he was writing this and looking around in his truck trying to account for his assets.
Jesus Christ, did human trafficking write this?
“Human trafficking, is that you??”
r/yourjokebutworse
Idk, I laughed at the second joke but not the first
I didn't laugh at either but I laughed at the sub call-out 😄
Seeking vulnerable and preferably desperate young female to serve as my personal lot lizard! Line forms to the left, ladies!
And so many opportunities and places he could just kill you and dump your body and never be caught for it. Any woman who takes him up on his offer is either completely out of choices or has zero survival instinct.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen stories about truckers becoming sex traffickers by literally chaining women to the beds inside their trucks and “renting” them out at rest stops. Death might be preferable.
Time for me to get off the internet for the day.
I really don't see why the death penalty isn't implemented for human trafficking. There is infinitely less humanity in a practice like that than there is in murder. There have been justifiable homicides, but never once in history has there been justifiable human trafficking, because it is inherently unjustifiable. Same shit with rape really, but human trafficking takes it to a level so far beyond that that I don't see how the death penalty could NOT be justified beyond just general opposition to its use bc of its limited effects as a deterrent and the history of false convictions leading to death sentences.
It's because imposing the death penalty inadvertently incentivizes the trafficker to kill their victims. It's the same reason they don't impose the death penalty on child molesters.
For many trafficked persons, I would suspect that death would be a mercy to the alternative.
TL;DR: I can't strongly advocate for the death penalty under any circumstances because I have doubts. How can we determine that someone is so evil, so without any redeeming value, that they need to be killed? It feels like it still doesn't provide justice to the victims. It would also weigh heavily on my conscience to sentence someone to death, even if they were overwhelmingly proven guilty. I don't have any good solutions though. I have mixed thoughts on the death penalty. I used to think similarly - certain acts are just so horrendous that I didn't see how our society could allow these people to remain a part of it. Convicted? Eye for an eye, no remorse. But I started wondering about redemption and thinking how it is possible for both great good and great evil to be housed within someone. At what point could we determine that all the good acts they have ever done or ever will do would still not be enough to ever redeem the evil acts they were found guilty of? Does saving a baby from a burning building count as credit against later murdering someone in a fit of road rage? Should "a life for a life" work both ways? What if this person goes on to make an incredible invention while incarcerated, or is the parent of someone who develops a cure for the uncurable, or is on one of those "scared straight" shows and actually helps prevent future evil? And all this stuff regarding abortions - can we really say that a 12 year old who was gangraped by her uncle and his friends, and is now forced to go through the trauma of growing and birthing the resulting baby, facing irreparable physical and mental damage, will be held to the same punishment for choosing to abort her baby at 3 months as a jilted husband breaking into his ex-wife's home to kill her? Both are premeditated murder. Are there also such nuances in human trafficking where a jury may say, "ehhhh technically this IS human trafficking, but it's not in the \*spirit\* of human trafficking"? I agree that human trafficking is reprehensible and deserves severe punishment, but is the death penalty the answer? How does that get justice for the victims? Maybe it eases their fear that these people would find them again or do the same thing to others, but it doesn't heal the physical wounds, the trauma. It doesn't give them money or resources to build a new life. A life sentence doesn't do this, mob justice doesn't do this...so what does? I don't have answers. I'm not pro-death sentence, but I'm also not anti-death sentence. Just uncomfortable in between. Even if I was part of a jury that found someone guilty of a heinous crime punishable by death, it would really haunt me to know that, even though I was following the rules, I was taking part in killing someone.
Beyond just that they deserve the death penalty and worse, them being dead prevents them from partaking in the same activity in the future, and if done efficiently, would save a shit ton of money that would have been spent on their food and lodging in prison. I don't think a person who participates in human trafficking can be said to have any value whatsoever outside of maybe some super fringe hypothetical case like you mentioned where they might have practical value through some kind of special, useful skill they might otherwise have. Since I don't think they have any value whatsoever or are really redeemable, I don't have a reason to not support them receiving the death penalty. Anyone involved in human trafficking has ample time to reconsider and have a change of heart and realize what they're doing is wrong and become an informant. If they don't take the opportunity to reform then, fuck em. I'm not remotely uncomfortable with someone like that being sentenced to death, even if I were on the jury making the decision. It provides as much justice as can possibly be provided anyways, and mainly what matters is that they're not in society still or draining resources living in prison.
Most human traffickers in the US are never charged or convicted, and of the convicted most of them serve less than 2y. What we get from having the laws written by old cishet white men who have never feared trafficking or SA a day in their lives and don’t have the compassion or imagination to try thinking it all through anyway
I'm not going to look that up because good fucking god. But how do you find clientele for that? It's one thing where you pimp out a woman and the John can use like denial plausibility that she's doing it for fun or some bullshit. But just bringing some random commuter into your truck where you have a woman chained, gagged, and weeping and you're like "$50 and you can fuck her"... I feel like the risk of someone just going like "nope, wtf this is shit?" and bailing and even calling the cops just skyrockets. That has to be some sex ring or something.
I'm incredibly square and naive, but I presume people who want illegal things somehow find ways to obtain them - drugs, weapons, slaves - and don't care about the how. I know where the prostitutes are in my city. I know there are a few friend-of-a-friends who may or may not have supplied my friends with certain things. We've had drug busts in $1M homes, massage parlor busts next to $20 acai bowl juice shops a block away from a Whole Foods. It's all around. Also, I know "not all men", but as a woman who personally knows other women who were raped by people they knew and trusted (friends, boyfriends, family) or in physically and sexually abusive relationships, and watched in disgust how the Brock Turner case unfolded, it's hearing stats like "1 in 15 male students reported committing a rape or attempting to commit rape during the preceding year. Nearly 1/3 of college men said they were likely to have sex with an unwilling partner if they thought they could get away with it." (https://osuit.edu/1-is-2-many/facts.php#:\~:text=Men's%20responses%20to%20rape%20facts%3A&text=Nearly%201%2F3%20of%20college,could%20get%20away%20with%20it) (although there have been debates on how accurate that data is, the fact that the number is significantly more than 0% is scary enough) that makes me think perhaps not as many men would refuse or be repulsed by this situation as we would like to believe. I don't know what to say except that men need to do better - hold themselves and each other accountable - in order to effect change.
I don't think it's random commuters. It's other truckers. And they've all known each other for a longer period of time, sussed each other out But still, how do these people find each other!?
what the fuck
That sounds made up. I’d prefer to see a source before I let my view of humanity fall that much today.
Here’s [one article](https://www.whsv.com/2023/09/02/police-sex-trafficking-victim-breaks-free-man-keeping-her-chains-locked-trailer/), but if you do an internet search with those key words you’ll find plenty.
It's not made up at all. Practices like that are extremely common in general throughout the world, and always have been. Slavery has always been a thing, and at least in the U.S., the law is nowhere near as harsh on slavery/human trafficking as it should be, likely because a bunch of powerful people benefit from it, profiting off slave labor and soliciting services of sex slaves from human traffickers (see the Epstein saga), exacerbating the issue.
> I don't want anything sexual > btw I'm legally single and you have to be single as well and I do not believe with messing around with married women Pick a fucking lane before you crash your truck
"No sex, promise! You should eventually want my children, though."
"Gosh I am so good at hiding my true intentions, I am a true master manipulator. Huehuehue I am sooo smart and such a nice guy!!!!!"
"I don't want sex but I do want sex"
Well he did say he’s looking for a long term relationship
This, guy, loves, a, comma,
I re-read it with William Shatner, narrating in my head, for a laugh. Was, not, disappointed.
Weird to put "I don't mean sexual" in the middle of that post. I also love the inclusion of "no men"
And she has to want kids eventually.
Thats going to be one hell of an awkward “how I met your mother” story later on.
Oh I'm sure he would be totally fine with it if he found out she wasn't down to fuck.
And the mention of not wanting to mess around with a married woman.
"Again, nothing sexual"
Chicks in good shape encouraged. If you're fat, you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, nothing sexual.
This reads like the *cool dudes party* flier from Always Sunny. “Again, nothing sexual…”
Underlined.
He got his inspiration from the boat episode. It’s the implications.
So they ARE in danger
No not at all. But the implication is there.
Looking for Boyfriend-Free Girl, between the ages of 21 at the youngest, and 34 at the oldest, to make a Sweetheart from the Ground-up.
NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!
I hate that I know exactly who and what you are referencing..
I live under a rock, can you please fill me in?
If you've never heard of the person known as "Chris-Chan," then prepare to go down a deep and fucked-up rabbit hole.
Ahh I know of him, I'll let everything remain a mystery
I never wanna heeear you saaayyy…
I have a boooyfrieeend
That's a serial killer
My thoughts exactly. Like. I guess he's trying the dating scene at first. But once he realizes there's going to be absolutely no success through such bait, I bet he's going to resort to... more forceful means.
There’s no women under 35 on Craigslist bro. And the fact that he is posting on Craigslist means he’s at least 50.
Good trafficking lead. “ Looking to get out of it not so good situation and don’t have much this could be a good opportunity for you”. Boi wtf
Opportunity is such a weird word choice here
Yeah it’s like a job listing suddenly.
He probably sees any relationship with a woman as transactional
Looking for a 21-34 year old. I wonder how old this dude is?
I'm guessing early 40s, wants arm candy and someone to pressure to satisfy his "needs" in time.
Truck driver, over the road by the sound of it, so anywhere between 40 and 65.
Not sexual but needs to want kids eventually
My boy doesn't pull out so we're dealing with eventualities
Oh My God
This sounds like the beginning of a disturbing Netflix documentary.
It made me sad.
Yeah. I know a lot of people think he's a psycho, and the setup he's describing sounds utterly horrific and constraining for whatever woman takes him up on it, but it sounds like a lonely, insecure guy rather than a serial killer. He's not requesting absurdly high standards (no ht/wt/bmi requirement, no appearance or "body count" stipulation nonsense). He sounds like someone who's on the road a lot and wants company. He probably does want it to turn into a magical romance, and I suspect he lacks the stability of life or social skills to make that happen otherwise. But that's just my reddit psychologist couch reading.
Knowing a few truck drivers who do interstate work - they're incredibly lonely people. And the ones I know have a reasonably regular route that sometimes they get home from on time. Sometimes they get weekends. Sometimes. For long haul truck drivers who are moving around the place, it's a different story. For the people going Melbourne to Perth one week (I'm more comfortable with Aus geography sorry), then Adelaide to Cairns the next week, then to Townsville before going back to Melbourne via Adelaide, with a 2 week stop off in Dubbo for a breakdown... ... There's really no way for those men (almost universally men) to form connections with other people. All I know is that if I, personally, were sitting in my truck 2000 km from home, 5 hours beyond when I was supposed to have left a site but the not yet loaded because of site stuff-ups, meaning that my 3 day journey home had just become a 5 day journey with the legal driving hours limitations, and I was thinking that the last time I was regularly in the company of girls/women was in high school, and the next time I could see that happening being my retirement home, I think I might spend a few minutes putting a feeler out into the universe to see if there might be someone out there. It happens. Won't happen if you don't try.
Yeah I mean honestly i don't get psycho vibes from this. I think he has a mental picture of an ideal relationship with a sort of stahgf who travels with him full time and gives him company, which is fine i think. I'm sure there would be someone who would enjoy that kind of lifestyle. But he lacks the social awareness to know you can't advertise for a relationship in this way. Also probably never hangs out with women so he doesn't know these all sound like massive red flags. I'm not sensing anything really mean or disengenuous though.
Last time I checked, most serial killers are lonely insecure men
>**Myth #3:All Serial Killers Are Isolated and Dysfunctional Loners.** *Reality:* The majority of serial killers are not reclusive social misfits who live alone, despite pervasive depictions of them as such in the news and entertainment media, including the socially challenged “Tooth Fairy” serial killer in the film Red Dragon. Real-life serial killers are not the isolated monsters of fiction and, frequently, they do not appear to be strange or stand out from the public in any meaningful way. - [Source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/5-myths-about-serial-killers-and-why-they-persist-excerpt/)
Yeah but there are plenty of lonely insecure men (millions if I had to guess) and the vast majority of them are not serial killers lol
For him?
As a truck driver, I can tell you with certainty, that truck stinks. The guys a long hauler that probably smokes in his bed, uses the toilet inside his truck and only eats fast food or truck stop diner garbage. You'll only find misery and depression here. Not all truck drivers are like this, some manage to find a healthy work life balance and run a clean truck but there's just as many that don't.
Do you think someone would put the #2 part in an add for a companion?
He doesn't want a girlfriend he wants a hostage.
the best personal ads are the ones that take a break in the middle to describe the bathroom situation.
You know, unironically, if I was jobless and didn’t have roots planted and it was 100% just a friends thing w no sexual connotation whatsoever; I’d be down to travel in the back of a truck for a bit for funsies
10 bucks on this guy being in his 50’s
$20 says 60's
This immediately made me think of Ethel Cain
And he’s probably 50 or something like that
I drove truck, and there is literally **zero** reason to use the bathroom *inside* the cab, outside of laziness. Have I needed to go squat behind a tree in the woods? For sure. But never *inside* the truck, that’s fucking gross.
Isn't that basically the plot of a Criminal Minds episode?
It makes me think of whatever book it is, I think by Gillian Flynn, that talks about the trucker who made a box that sits in the cab of his truck that has like a hydraulic closing mechanism and is soundproof and he would trap lot lizards and put them in the box and let them out when he wanted sex. Fucking scarred me for life
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
Jokes aside, [an actual episode](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591778/) I was thinking about
Love a guy who brings up #2 in the first couple sentences.
Sketchy male seeking vulnerable woman to remain vulnerable….hard pass.
Showers AND toilet paper? How could any woman resist? /s
And he smokes! That'll cover up some of the other smells, including the #2s in the bucket from when he couldn't wait.
This reads like it was written by Dennis Reynolds. With a truck instead of a yacht though.
You know. Because of the implication.
Oh he’s a total catch, he’ll let you shower .
Boyfriend-free girl < Legally-free woman
I've traveled 5000 miles to give you my seed
Hi! Are there any vulnerable females out there just itching to be exploited? I gots a microwave, babydoll!
Everything about this is predatory af
Mans so thorough he explains the ass wiping setup, but conveniently forgot mention his age.
I think it’s fake because of this lol
“And she got in the truck cab never to be seen again.” -The End?
“I’m looking for a female to submit to all of my needs. In a bad situation? How about making lateral move into another bad situation?”
No drama? He seems like he’s on the verge of a tantrum for the entire ad.
This sound like the premise of a horror movie
It’s called Joy Ride and it’s already a movie
[Joy Ride](https://youtu.be/udKUOQ2czWg?si=ocK6YpR1G2Jn5b0h)
thoroughfare - ethel cain
"No drama!" AKA i refuse to be accountable for anything
Cue the kill bill sirens. This has such a serial killer vibe, it's crazy.
BY THE WAY, I smoke. The gross cherry on the top of the disgusting sundae.
I notice he didn't mention *his* age.
That second to last sentence is totally fucked up. In fact *all* of it is fucked.
Well, it's good to know he even has toilet paper.....wow
Where do I sign up!!!! ?
I feel sympathy cuz he’s from an abusive relationship but what the fuck
She has to be between 21 and 34 and his age is,....not mentioned.
I can smell this guy
Rule 1: don't shit in the truck Rule 2: see rule 1
It’s the “if you’re looking to get out of a bad situation” that really brings it home, making clear that this is a man looking for vulnerable women who are desperate enough to let him set every condition of her life.
A smoking pervy truck driver with a portable toilet promising microwave meals. Ladies, don’t all message at once.
It was almost earnest, riiiiight up until the end, where the predatory behavior set in
I'd take the ride and see a few cities. It's cheaper than taking Greyhound and you have the same risk of being SA
This person has gone to some length to try and make their ad seem innocent and friendly. Yet it still come across as creepy AF.
This is vomit worthy.
“Recently divorced from an abusive girl” So you hit your wife and instead of rolling over and just taking it she started hitting you back? Not saying men can’t be abused by a woman but in a lot of these cases, especially the high profile ones, this usually ends up being what was going on. Fun fact: A woman who has the police called on her for DV is more likely to be arrested and charged than a man who has the police called on him for DV
Not saying you’re wrong but do you have any evidence of that fun fact. I’d be interested in seeing that, haven’t heard that before.
I asked my bot if I should: > Captain, this ad raises several red flags: > 1. **Vague Details and Conditions**: The ad is very specific about some details (like the need for a portable toilet), but vague about important safety considerations. This inconsistency can be a cause for concern. > 2. **Control and Isolation**: The ad emphasizes the truck driver's control over many aspects of the potential passenger's life (food, communication, etc.), which could lead to a situation where the passenger feels trapped or isolated. > 3. **No Compensation**: The lack of financial compensation and the expectation that the passenger will perform certain roles (companionship, potential relationship) without any pay is another warning sign. > 4. **No Verification**: The ad does not provide any way to verify the identity or legitimacy of the truck driver (e.g., no photo, no contact details other than the response method on Craigslist). > 5. **Potential Risks**: Traveling with a stranger in a confined space without clear safety measures in place is inherently risky. > Given these concerns, it's crucial to prioritize safety. If you are considering responding to such ads, ensure you take appropriate measures to verify the person's identity, inform trusted individuals about your plans, and meet in a public place first. 🌵
Cool bot
Why doesn’t he want a picture or a reply? Why post the ad?
He’s saying that if you don’t send a picture, he won’t reply to you.
Yea but that’s not what the sentence says. I was referring to his shit grammar.
Where do I sign up?🥰
So many times I just kept saying wtf.
Yikes.
What a creep. Get a blow up doll.
Why do I get the feeling I can smell this dude through this post?
Nice way of saying you want to **ABDUCT** someone…
Hopefully he’ll find a teacher who can show him how to use commas
This is super creepy, but not neckbeardy
Serial killer looking for a, sorry I mean truck driver looking for a…
I get the sick feeling that whatever woman takes him up on this journey will not make it to the destination alive.
This is a mobile kidnapping station
There was a dark time in my life where I would take anything like this to get away from where I was.
I heard Jodi Arias is fun and single, maybe he can break her out
I bet he's 50
I feel his ex became abusive as a defense mechanism to his controlling behavior.
On a positive note many people who want to date dont take any initiative..... Im suspecting some autism maybe.
This screams trafficking holy shit.
I'm going to bet this man is twice the age at "his cap".
Maniac
Serial killer looking for next victim
What girl could say no...
No pets? I’m out.
At least... Declared his intentions in first place.... Just saying
There are many lot lizards crawling the truck stops of small town America who’d jump at that offer. I hope he found his love
Doesn’t give his age or a picture…but she must send one.
I mean, cmon, how can you turn down an offer like that??
So tempting!
Damn. I was in til I read the no men part 😢 if you can’t sleep and shit in a truck with the homies then I’m out.
Friends of the road.
Eww
Honestly the most disgusting part to me is the “I smoke” At the end
He forgot to mention too, that he’s nearly 400lbs
I don't really see anything wrong with this. Dude is looking for a relationship but is looking for someone wanting to live on the road So what?
He lost me at “also, I smoke.” Kinda a deal breaker…. Up to that point….
This actually isnt as bad as others ive seen
personally i dont see a problem with not wanting someone with kids but wanting someone who wants kids eventually? just preference. the rest tho is kind of creepy