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3 True Winter Night Drive Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear the Road · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I've been a taxi driver in the big city for
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  Speaker 1: over fifteen years, specifically Chicago, but I used to live
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas and worked as a driver there as well. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of new methods of getting around
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  Speaker 1: have been coming up, like Uber, but this happened to
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  Speaker 1: me years ago before that even existed, or at least
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  Speaker 1: before it was commonly used. For context to those who
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  Speaker 1: aren't familiar, Chicago has cold, nasty winters and the temperatures
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  Speaker 1: dropped to freezing all the time. The taxi service I
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  Speaker 1: worked for wasn't the typical yellow taxi car type job
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  Speaker 1: you used to see all the time. This, at the
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  Speaker 1: time was a more modern type of job where you
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  Speaker 1: use your own car and put a sign on top
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  Speaker 1: whenever you're working so that people know that you're a taxi.
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  Speaker 1: In return, the company takes a portion of your earnings,
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  Speaker 1: but this way you can work whatever shifts you want
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  Speaker 1: and can charge what you feel is necessary. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: this felt like a luxury I never wanted to end,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't last forever. I never set a schedule
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  Speaker 1: for myself, so I would just go out and drive
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  Speaker 1: whenever I decided on any given day. During the holidays,
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  Speaker 1: I worked more hours, though since more people are out
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  Speaker 1: and about. I didn't have any family nearby at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I lived alone, so holidays were just like any
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  Speaker 1: other day for me. This unfortunate event took place on
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. I began driving at ten am and was
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  Speaker 1: very pleased with the amount of business I was getting.
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  Speaker 1: There was almost no downtime between customers, and they were
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  Speaker 1: willing to pay more due to how busy it was,
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  Speaker 1: which meant I was making nearly eighty dollars an hour,
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  Speaker 1: which was really good for me. By the time eight
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  Speaker 1: o'clock came, I had been working ten hours but was
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  Speaker 1: still making great money. However, snow started falling. It was
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  Speaker 1: light still, but I figured I still had time before
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  Speaker 1: it got worse. I took a quick stop at a
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  Speaker 1: fast food place to grab a bite to eat, then
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  Speaker 1: headed back out to work as much as possible while
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  Speaker 1: I could. The crowds were dying down, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other taxi drivers had gone home as well, which
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  Speaker 1: meant I had less competition. I picked up a small
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  Speaker 1: group from a large road and took them home. They
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  Speaker 1: lived in a relatively low quality neighborhood with very close
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  Speaker 1: together old homes. The group was nice, though, and left
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  Speaker 1: a good tip. As I was pulling away from the
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  Speaker 1: side of the road, though, a man came from behind
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  Speaker 1: a parked car and held his hand out as if
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  Speaker 1: wanting a ride. It was hard to see him through
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  Speaker 1: the snow and darkness, but he had a dark hoodie on,
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  Speaker 1: and as I got closer he almost looked nervous. But honestly,
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  Speaker 1: this wasn't uncommon around here. I pulled up next to
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  Speaker 1: him and he got inside. Where you headn't I asked,
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  Speaker 1: continuing forward again as I rolled down the street for
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  Speaker 1: a few seconds, though I realized he still hadn't answered.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke again, more punctual, this time asking where he
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  Speaker 1: needed me to take him. I looked in the rear
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  Speaker 1: view mirror as I asked, and the man made eye
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  Speaker 1: contact for a second before looking away. Then he spoke, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just take me here, he said, pulling a small piece
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  Speaker 1: of ripped paper from his hoodie pocket and handing it
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  Speaker 1: to me. On the paper was a poorly written address
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  Speaker 1: on a street I was unfamiliar with. Having driven in
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  Speaker 1: the city for years, I'd at least heard of almost
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  Speaker 1: all the road and street names, so this made me
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  Speaker 1: pretty confused. My initial thought was that it may be
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  Speaker 1: a far drive outside the city, and in that case,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if I could do it. At an
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  Speaker 1: empty stop sign, I reached over to my rarely used
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  Speaker 1: GPS and typed in the address. Nothing came up. I
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  Speaker 1: started to get nervous, looking back at the paper in
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  Speaker 1: GPS to make sure I typed it in right. Uh, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where this address is, I said, as
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  Speaker 1: I turned my body to face his Yeah, just pull
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  Speaker 1: over here, he said, in a surprisingly strict tone. I
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  Speaker 1: was pretty sure what was happening, but I remained calm
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  Speaker 1: and pulled over on the side of the road. This
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  Speaker 1: street was pretty much empty, no cars, no people, no lights.
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  Speaker 1: I put the car in park and just sat there
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  Speaker 1: looking forward. The man turned around for a second looking
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  Speaker 1: out the side window, then immediately lunged his body between
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  Speaker 1: the front seats and grabbed my head, pressing a small
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  Speaker 1: gun to it. He was screaming things at me, asking
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  Speaker 1: for my wallet and keys and everything, but I was
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  Speaker 1: in so much shock and all I could focus on
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  Speaker 1: was the pain due to how the man was aggressively
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  Speaker 1: digging the barrel of his gun into my skull. This
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  Speaker 1: only angered the man further, and he continued yelling. As
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  Speaker 1: I tried I do grab my wallet, but I guess
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't fast enough. He pistol whipped me in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the head, making my vision blurry and sending
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  Speaker 1: a rush of pain through my head as if I
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  Speaker 1: suddenly had the worst headache imaginable. Dazed and barely conscious,
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  Speaker 1: I tossed my wallet on the passenger seat. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what I did wrong this time, but he
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  Speaker 1: hit me again, worsening everything. I'm assuming the man noticed
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  Speaker 1: my condition though, as he took the opportunity to get
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  Speaker 1: out of the car, but that was the last thing
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  Speaker 1: I remembered. I woke up on the side of the street,
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  Speaker 1: which seemed like just a few minutes after the attack.
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  Speaker 1: I was covered in snow and was freezing. My car
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  Speaker 1: was gone, as well as my wallet, keys, and phone.
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  Speaker 1: My head was killing me and I could barely manage
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  Speaker 1: to walk. Shivering and in pain, I made my way
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  Speaker 1: through the snow covered sidewalks to a nearby gas station
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  Speaker 1: and got help. In short my car was found a
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  Speaker 1: week later further outside the city, abandoned on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road. Thankfully, I had no lasting injuries, but
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  Speaker 1: getting a new phone, license, bank card, everything was just
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  Speaker 1: a hassle. Without my car, I couldn't work either. The
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  Speaker 1: whole thing was just awful. Not to mention the terror
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  Speaker 1: I felt in the moment, what really bothers me was
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  Speaker 1: how aggressive the guy was for no reason. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if the guy just asked me for my shit, I
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  Speaker 1: would have given him no trouble. I just don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why it had to go down the way it did.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly his goal wasn't to kill me, so why did
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  Speaker 1: he have to hurt me so badly if I was complying.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, I started working for a larger taxi company
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  Speaker 1: run by the city, where they give you a car
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  Speaker 1: and everything. It makes me feel safer, but I still
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  Speaker 1: find myself getting uneasy around certain people. Luckily I can
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  Speaker 1: choose to not work nights though, and on holiday I
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  Speaker 1: make sure to be much more careful because I found
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  Speaker 1: out the hard way that just because it's Christmas doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean all the horrible people take the day off too.
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  Speaker 1: I was on the road during a small snowstorm and
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  Speaker 1: had been driving for about eight or nine hours already.
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  Speaker 1: I say small snowstorm because it was much more snow
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  Speaker 1: than a regular snowfall, but not as much as a
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  Speaker 1: typical blizzard you'd probably imagine of a normal snowstorm. I
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  Speaker 1: was delivering a few palettes to a warehouse for the
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  Speaker 1: company I worked for, but I was ahead on time,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't feel any need to go quickly, especially
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  Speaker 1: not with the snowfall. I was on a dimly lit
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  Speaker 1: highway and had my brights on. When I could see
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  Speaker 1: in the distance of flashing and flickering light. Getting closer,
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  Speaker 1: I realized it was much larger and brighter. It was
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  Speaker 1: a deep red, and that's when I realized it was
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  Speaker 1: a fire. The snow falling down made it too difficult
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  Speaker 1: to tell if it was on the highway or off
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  Speaker 1: to the side, but either way I was gaining on
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  Speaker 1: it fast. I tried to break slowly, but I had
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  Speaker 1: completely misjudged how close I was, so I pressed down harder.
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  Speaker 1: I could feel the back trailer starting to slide behind me,
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  Speaker 1: and I immediately let go of the brakes, causing it
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  Speaker 1: to straighten but jolt back and shake the whole truck.
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  Speaker 1: It was terrifying trying to keep the truck from tipping
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  Speaker 1: over and not slide into the fire. Closing in on it,
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  Speaker 1: though I realized it was off the side of the road,
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  Speaker 1: and while it was a relatively large flame, it seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be centered in a single spot. I was able
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  Speaker 1: to get the truck to stop safely on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the highway. As I leaned over and looked out
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  Speaker 1: the passenger window at the tree line next to the road,
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  Speaker 1: I could barely make out a small car at the
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  Speaker 1: center of the flames. I was in awe at the sight,
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  Speaker 1: never having seen anything like it. I quickly did my
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  Speaker 1: seatbelt and got out to see if anyone was hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Staying a safe distance away, I tried to look around
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  Speaker 1: the scene for anyone. I didn't know how it could
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  Speaker 1: have caught on fire, and the car seemed pretty normal
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  Speaker 1: aside from the burn marks, it kind of looked like
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  Speaker 1: a regular parked car, not damaged or anything from any
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  Speaker 1: sort of crash. Not seeing anyone nearby, though I feared
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  Speaker 1: the worst that some one may be inside the car,
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  Speaker 1: I pulled my phone out and called the police. I
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  Speaker 1: was thankful to have enough service to get a hold
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  Speaker 1: of them, but they were fifteen minutes out, and firefighters
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  Speaker 1: and ambulances were even further out. The more I stood
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  Speaker 1: there in the cold, waiting for the police, looking at
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  Speaker 1: this huge flame coming from what seemed like any other car.
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  Speaker 1: I started wondering if it was intentional. Now I'm no detective,
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  Speaker 1: but it just didn't look like an accident in any way.
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  Speaker 1: My body shook at the thought, and I turned around
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  Speaker 1: to get back my truck. Hey, hold up, A man
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  Speaker 1: called out from beside me, maybe thirty feet away, but
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  Speaker 1: was masked by the falling snow. I looked in that direction,
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  Speaker 1: part starting to race as two men walked up to me.
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  Speaker 1: They were wearing face masks, covering their mouth a nose.
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  Speaker 1: I greeted them and asked if they knew about what
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  Speaker 1: happened here, and they both shook their heads, which was
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  Speaker 1: really odd considering I didn't see or hear them pull
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  Speaker 1: up in any car. There was no way they walked
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  Speaker 1: here in the middle of nowhere on a highway, so
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  Speaker 1: I obviously started getting a really bad feeling in my gut.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back my truck and get going. Have
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  Speaker 1: a good night, guys, I said, beginning to walk, trying
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  Speaker 1: not to seem afraid. No one of the men said strictly.
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  Speaker 1: I turned back around and in that moment, I faced
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  Speaker 1: the most terrifying thing in my life. The man had
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  Speaker 1: a handgun pointed right at me. I told him I
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  Speaker 1: would comply with whatever he wanted, and then he told
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  Speaker 1: me to move and stand against the trailer. He aggressively
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  Speaker 1: patted me down, taking my wallet and phone, while the
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  Speaker 1: other man robbed whatever he could find in the front
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  Speaker 1: of the truck. I was trying to hold in tears
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  Speaker 1: as I was thinking about my family and how this
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  Speaker 1: might be it for me. I was almost sure that
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  Speaker 1: they had lit that car on fire now, meaning they
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  Speaker 1: likely robbed someone just like me, and I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: anyone else around, so we all know what that probably meant.
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  Speaker 1: After a minute, the second man reapproached us. He put
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  Speaker 1: his hand on the man's shoulder who was holding the gun,
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  Speaker 1: and leaned in, whispering something in his ear. Then, just
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  Speaker 1: like they came, they both rushed into the dark, disappearing
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  Speaker 1: through the thick snow. I was in shock, still standing
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  Speaker 1: against the truck before running inside and locking the doors.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have my phone or wallet, so I just
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  Speaker 1: stayed and waited for the police to arrise. This whole
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  Speaker 1: thing was a big deal in the area for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Though it happened many years ago. The car was set
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  Speaker 1: on fire by the two men, and unfortunately I was right.
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  Speaker 1: They robbed an old lady who was pulled over, and
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  Speaker 1: burned the car to make sure no evidence of them
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  Speaker 1: was left. They were caught not long after, eventually giving
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  Speaker 1: details on where the body was, but they never gave
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  Speaker 1: an explanation to why they went back to the scene
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  Speaker 1: when they saw me. It could have been to rob me,
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  Speaker 1: just as they had done, but it seemed like a
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  Speaker 1: big risk for little reward. Most of all, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why they chose to let me live considering what
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  Speaker 1: they had just done to the previous victim. I am grateful, though,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope nobody else has to go through something
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  Speaker 1: like that. My advice is that if you see something,
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  Speaker 1: just stay in your car, lock the doors, and call
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  Speaker 1: the police. Don't go trying to help, because there's always
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  Speaker 1: a chance that it it's going to end up being
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  Speaker 1: you who needs help. I was a normal pizza delivery
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  Speaker 1: driver for Dominoes in high school. I also worked part
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  Speaker 1: time at a Jimmy John's on the weekends, but that
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  Speaker 1: was just a side job anyway. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: put that out there so that you know I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just some random guy doing his first delivery. I was
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  Speaker 1: very familiar with making food deliveries, and what happened on
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  Speaker 1: this night was not normal at all. Ninety percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time, I don't take the phone calls. Usually there's
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  Speaker 1: someone in the restaurant that takes the orders and gets
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  Speaker 1: the pizza ready. Then I just run inside, grab it
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  Speaker 1: and go. This time was no different. I just finished
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  Speaker 1: with a previous order and ran inside the shop to
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  Speaker 1: pick up the next order. As I grabbed it, though,
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  Speaker 1: my coworker told me to make sure the guy pays
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  Speaker 1: him full. It was an obvious statement, so the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he felt the need to say that was weird.
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  Speaker 1: I was in a rush because of the snowy roads, though,
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  Speaker 1: so I just said okay. As I walked out, getting
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  Speaker 1: in my car and situating myself, I thought about it
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  Speaker 1: a bit more and then actually wondered why he said that.
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  Speaker 1: I settled on the idea that it was probably just
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  Speaker 1: some upright guy that was trying to get discounts. I
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  Speaker 1: began the drive, and if I remember correctly, it was
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  Speaker 1: just ten minutes away from the shop. I should mention
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  Speaker 1: it was just past ten pm, so the roads were
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  Speaker 1: mostly empty. But as soon as I pulled out of
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot, I noticed a car speeding up behind
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  Speaker 1: me until he got close. Then he eased off and
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  Speaker 1: matched my speed. I couldn't tell what type of car
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  Speaker 1: it was, but it isn't uncommon for people around here
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  Speaker 1: to go crazy fast at night when no one else
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  Speaker 1: is on the roads. That being said, the snow was
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  Speaker 1: falling a good amount, so going fast probably wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: best idea. I kept my speed and just casually drove,
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  Speaker 1: hoping he'd just go around me or turn off somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: but he stayed. It wasn't until we reached a traffic
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  Speaker 1: light that the person pulled into the lane next to mine.
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  Speaker 1: I always just stare ahead at traffic lights so that
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  Speaker 1: I don't make awkward eye contact, but someone started yelling
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  Speaker 1: from the car next to me. I looked over, seeing
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  Speaker 1: a man staring right at me with his window rolled down.
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  Speaker 1: I quickly broke eye contact and looked forward again, but
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  Speaker 1: the guy started yelling again, asking me to roll the
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  Speaker 1: window down. I pretended not to hear him and started
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: fiddling with the pizza bag next to me, as if
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  Speaker 1: I were searching through it. I kept the traffic lights
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of my eye, though, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as it turned green, I quickly sped down the road.
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  Speaker 1: The man didn't stop, though, he continued next to me,
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  Speaker 1: driving erratically and swerving all around. His window was still
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  Speaker 1: down and I could see he was constantly trying to
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: stare at me and get my attention. The man looked angry, though,
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  Speaker 1: so there was no way I was stopping to talk
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  Speaker 1: to this guy. But I was getting really annoyed. I
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  Speaker 1: was even scared, just bothered by this guy. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take a side road or something to try and
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  Speaker 1: lose him, but the snowy conditions made me question whether
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: or not the side roads would be plowed. Yet I
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  Speaker 1: was not in the mood to get stuck in the
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  Speaker 1: snow with this crazy dude, so I just took my
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  Speaker 1: chances and stayed on the main road. Only one to
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  Speaker 1: two minutes away from the house, the guy still beside
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  Speaker 1: me sped up and immediately swerved into my lane in
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  Speaker 1: front of me. I slammed on the brakes, but it
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  Speaker 1: only slowed my car slightly before it began to slide.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily for me, the other guy had the same problem.
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  Speaker 1: His car continued sliding all the way off the road
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  Speaker 1: and into the thick snow. His car had almost completely
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  Speaker 1: turned one hundred eighty degrees too. My adrenaline was making
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  Speaker 1: me shake as I rolled down the road slowly, looking
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  Speaker 1: in my mirrors at the guy's car. I then picked
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  Speaker 1: up some more speed so I could put some distance
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  Speaker 1: between us, though I didn't think he'd be able to
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  Speaker 1: get out of there for a while anyway. I felt
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  Speaker 1: bad for leaving him like that, but he clearly had
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  Speaker 1: bad intentions, and I was not going to stay there
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  Speaker 1: to find out what they were. I pulled him to
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  Speaker 1: the driveway of the customer's home and walked up to
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  Speaker 1: the front door, knocking several times. After a minute of
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  Speaker 1: no answer, I called my boss, who then called back
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  Speaker 1: the number to tell them I was there, still knocking
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  Speaker 1: and ringing the doorbell. My boss called me a minute
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  Speaker 1: later to tell me that he didn't pick up. I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: stood there, confused, looking at the lights that were left
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  Speaker 1: on in the house. Then I started to put the
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  Speaker 1: pieces together. I ran back to my car and drove
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  Speaker 1: out of the neighborhood. I took a different route to
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  Speaker 1: the shop, just to make sure I avoided that car
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: then told my boss what had happened. I believe the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: customer was the guy in the car. My boss said
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: he gave him a bad feeling on the phone, making
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  Speaker 1: him think that he wasn't going to pay. I think
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  Speaker 1: the guy's plan was to follow me out of the shop,
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  Speaker 1: then get me to pull over so he could rob
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  Speaker 1: me either of the pizza, my wallet, or both. It
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  Speaker 1: made sense that the man wasn't at home too, because
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: he had gotten stuck in the snow. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: for sure. I could just be overthinking all of it,
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  Speaker 1: but my boss agreed with my theory. He said he
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  Speaker 1: would notify the police and give them the guy's number
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  Speaker 1: and address, although he never updated me about it, so
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if he actually did. But as
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: far as we know, that guy hasn't called the shop
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: since