# I saw the ultimate rape van today, what was inside of it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812 "2015-05-11T21:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/21 "2015-05-12T10:20:13Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > I’m not sure why you think this is rare. That’s just what vans look like if they’re meant to carry things instead of people. I mean, it’s not like they don’t [come from the factory that way.](http://www.ford.com/trucks/transitvanwagon/trim/vanxl/) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/22 "2015-05-12T12:19:00Z")
Agree and the plain-white look is probably to not bring attention to the valuable content. Now, if it were plain black or grey, and the windows heavily tinted (or with rear windows with one-way reflective finish), that would be a rape van ;)… > [@Miller](#): > > Yeah, that’s just a white van. I’ve seen the ultimate rape van. It’s got a picture of pedobear painted on the side, above a series of tally marks. > > I’m not even kidding. OTOH one would have to acknowledge the owner’s sheer chutzpah in trolling the public roads in that way… ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/23 "2015-05-13T00:11:13Z")
Liquor distributor. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/24 "2015-05-13T00:42:52Z")
BTW, wouldn’t a rape van have the locks on the inside? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/25 "2015-05-13T01:50:35Z")
I see vans like this all the time, my neighbor down the street has one. He’s a contractor and he keeps his tools and equipment in it. It doesn’t have any logo on it. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/26 "2015-05-13T01:56:12Z")
Missed the edit, but if you google contractor van locks, you get plenty of pics of white vans with the type of locks you describe. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/27 "2015-05-13T02:38:24Z")
What the hell is a rape van anyway? The only thing I can think of is the stereotype of child molesters driving vans. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/28 "2015-05-14T20:35:19Z")
It’s just like a child molesters van but with chloroform instead of candy. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/29 "2015-05-14T20:59:23Z")
> [@grude](#): > > What the hell is a rape van anyway? … It’s a thing that appears in all the glurgy email forwards warning women to not ever park their car in a parking lot nor walk though a parking lot, lest they disappear inside one, never to be seen again. In glurge-world, about half the men in the USA drive one. In the real world they’re pretty much non-existent. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/30 "2015-05-14T21:53:24Z")
> [@grude](#): > > What the hell is a rape van anyway? > > The only thing I can think of is the stereotype of child molesters driving vans. [![](http://www.lolroflmao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/best-rape-van-ever.jpg) ](http://www.lolroflmao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/best-rape-van-ever.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/31 "2015-05-14T22:31:08Z")
Having just read the first of the Nursery Crimes series by Jasper Fforde, I have a totally differnet idea of what it means. Mengelevian murder!!!. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/32 "2015-05-14T22:43:36Z")
I’m just glad the OP got away alive and unmolested. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/33 "2015-05-15T00:39:41Z")
My company buys vans like that. We have four we just put on the road that do not have the company logo wraps installed yet. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/34 "2015-05-16T04:14:20Z")
> [@grude](#): > > What the hell is a rape van anyway? > > The only thing I can think of is the stereotype of child molesters driving vans. It’s a slang term for a windowless van (usually in shitty condition, though.) Yes, like the child molester stereotype, or the “speaker van” stereotype. Just Google image search “rape van” for many examples. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-the-ultimate-rape-van-today-what-was-inside-of-it/719812/35 "2015-05-16T10:05:52Z")
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