# In the event you're being abducted...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-event-youre-being-abducted/216487>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 2, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-event-youre-being-abducted/216487 "2003-12-02T14:02:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sat_on_Cookie)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-event-youre-being-abducted/216487/1 "2003-12-02T14:02:57Z")

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This is obviously inspired by the case in North Dakota. However, it’s also it’s also of interest because I was in the grocery store last week and a very creepy person was following me to the extent that I opted for bag-boy-to-car service despite two bags of food. (It was one of those things that at the time, I thought I was being paranoid…after thinking about it, I should have reported the guy to someone in the store).

Anyway, I believe it’s my thinking that if someone tried to abduct me with a weapon, they would have to kill me in the parking lot before I would go with them. Who knows if that’s how I’d really react, but I _think_ I’ve done enough pondering to firmly believe that I have more of a chance if I resisted during the actual abduction.

Of course, there is no right answer to this, but is there a general feeling about the “right” way to handle something so horrific?

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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-event-youre-being-abducted/216487/2 "2003-12-02T14:38:58Z")

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Knowing me, I’d probably just freeze out of fear. And they wouldn’t be able to move me anyway!