you should watch "apocalypse man" with rudy reyes. interesting show, he talks a lot about the reality of those kind of scenarios, basically the nice guys all get mugged, raped and murdered first. situational awareness, observe the situation, weigh the odds, create an escape plan and THEN if you still feel some compulsion to be the good samaritan, go help someone. but ALWAYS assume they are out to get you. don't just walk in unarmed and unaware and expect to talk your way out.
Yes, I'm South Africa.
I cringe when I see how naive some of the tourists are....they are from a different world.
Also traveled with Europeans to third world countries and they believe everyone is as good natured as their homelands haha
They even get pissed off at my alertness and precautions, but then again I used to hear daily stories of people dying horrifically so it was ingrained in my mind. I KNOW what people are capable of and don't trust any stranger. They everyone is automatically 'good'.
You ALWAYS have to keep looking over your shoulder and make eye-contact and acknowledge everyone. What the other people doing around you? Take note, think.
Eventually, you learn to do it without even thinking.
Know a story where a policeman detective picked up an English girl who was hitchhiking, he told her she is lucky she was not dead and to never ever do this again......she shrugged at him as if he didn't know anything.
A few days later he investigated her BODY lying like trash.
Gang raped to DEATH.
I try explain this stuff to English and European people but they are oblivious, their liberal propaganda has given them an illusion of the reality outside their sheltered borders.