NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.
Well, in the usa, I think I would have my doubts myself, but I come from small city in Canada
Now, I was a freshman at university...immagine a strange human being, that looks like a big woman and talks like a man and keeps looking you like hannibal lecter would (with a psycho smile) and is pointing at you something in his bag. And moreover you are driving on a secondary road through fields of corn at night. I was fuc*in scared . The sucker could have killed us both...If I knew that he had only a butterfly knife I would smashed his head on the dashboard when he started behaving like a psycho. But we thought he had a gun.
Things have changed; only rarely do I see a hitchhiker these days. I have picked up mostly students and military guys
After giving rutger hauer a lift i said never again...