Veteran tries to hitchhike on July 4 using patriotic sign-results not surprising

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
  • On Independence Day, coast guard vet Stobe The Hobo tries to discern if most motorists give enuff of a sh%$ about freedom and patriotic feeling to pick up a veteran trying to get home for the holiday. Not surprisingly, the answer is a negative

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  • @cityslickeroutdoors8306
    @cityslickeroutdoors8306 4 года назад +8

    That serial killer penmanship on the sign was a marketing disaster.

    • @pacificule
      @pacificule 3 года назад +2

      Hahaha! The only way it could've been worse was if he'd cut each letter out of a magazine. RIP Stobe! You get an "A" for the idea but double-Fs for effort

  • @andrewmacpherson733
    @andrewmacpherson733 2 года назад +12

    As a veteran hitchhiker myself, I have to say that the quality of the sign you fly is of utmost importance. In my experience, it is best to have a large cardboard sign with large, clean, and legible writing. And it is important to make a sign that is neat in appearance. The driver has only mere seconds as they approach you to decide whether or not you are okay to pick up. Neatness matters, in my opinion...

  • @ivyandroses4373
    @ivyandroses4373 6 лет назад +23

    I've been picking up hitch hikers for 52 years and have never had one issue.

    • @jcraigshelton
      @jcraigshelton 4 года назад +2

      Good for you.

    • @dennisfetterman1644
      @dennisfetterman1644 3 года назад +1

      Me too buddy I’m 64 I picked up my share of hitchhikers went out of my way to take them places cell phones fucked everything up pardon my English.

    • @herrbrahms
      @herrbrahms 5 месяцев назад

      Yet.

  • @oaktadopbok665
    @oaktadopbok665 7 лет назад +33

    Back in 1972, my buddy and I hitchhiked from Chicago to San Francisco in 3 days. We went up into Oregon and then back to Chicago, 4 weeks in all, hitchhiking all the way. I spent $75.00 the whole time. It was a different country back then. There were groups of people hitching all over the country - at some places we had to stand in line!

    • @DestroyAllLinesOne
      @DestroyAllLinesOne 6 лет назад +1

      I'd have loved of lived here then!

    • @michaelmccarthy4615
      @michaelmccarthy4615 6 лет назад +1

      Wow, a different place and time altogether.
      Its actually against the law to hitchhike in some places, or not be on the roadway.

    • @michaelmccarthy4615
      @michaelmccarthy4615 6 лет назад +4

      I use to occasionally stop to help obviously stranded motorists. Most people are not too accepting of anyone just stopping to check on you...
      It scares people. I guess the media has done its job.

    • @dbeaus
      @dbeaus 5 лет назад +4

      In 72 got stranded in southern Illinois at night. Myself and my Army buddy on a sort of legal 4 day pass from Ft. Hood, Texas. Mainly the Captain didn't care as long as we made it back in 4 days, or maybe 5. We were heading to Chicago, where I am from. At 11 PM, in the dark on a highway with no lights, we decided to thumb. Today, that wouldn't have been attempted, no one would stop. Not many cars went by and a fellow stopped. He was going to Niles, Illinois, just north of Chi. He took us all the way to my house. I know people who spent years in those days hitching all over the country. I picked up a few myself and never had a problem. Actually met some pretty interesting people. I don't know if I would pick up anyone now, there are a lot of idiots our there. Those who have the courage to hit the road and follow their dreams have my respect.

    • @sammyvh11
      @sammyvh11 4 года назад +1

      Drugs and social media wrecked the USA

  • @hobo1452
    @hobo1452 5 лет назад +7

    Stobe was one of a kind. Like many others, I didn't discover him until after he had passed, but I enjoyed all his videos. RIP. As to the subject of this video, I have to agree with most other posters. Holding up a sign that says you're a vet isn't enough. Lots of people do it and many of them aren't. In this day and age, human compassion can get you killed.

  • @pacificule
    @pacificule 3 года назад +6

    My dad was a career officer in the Coast Guard and deployed to Nam. Some of the shit he saw and did... def changed my perspective of the CG when he started sharing stories. Coasties are a legit part of the armed forces - unsung heroes - and should be given their due as such. Full respect to all service members...except Space Force, which, is that even really a thing? Anyway. Beer's up for Stobie!

  • @blueskytotempole
    @blueskytotempole 5 лет назад +4

    The more i watch the more i know you're looking down sitting at the right hand of God.
    I wish i could had commented directly to you.
    Lord thank you for keeping us and loving us thank you for our brother Stobe!

  • @stuartthat30atgmail88
    @stuartthat30atgmail88 6 лет назад +6

    Man. Rest in peace, Mr Attacks. I still cant believe it. Your vids always brighten my day. I hope youre haunting, in a nice way, all the rails in N.America.

  • @ShlomoZOGelstein
    @ShlomoZOGelstein 5 лет назад +2

    Good ol Stobie. He still lives on inside me. Thank you for your service from one vet to another.

  • @robalan3217
    @robalan3217 7 лет назад +58

    Probably hard for people to read that sign going highway speeds.

    • @bonson9156
      @bonson9156 6 лет назад +2

      that makes sense

    • @kyleb06
      @kyleb06 4 года назад +2

      If one could see it and call the cops on it then those people could have easily saw it.

    • @BlGGESTBROTHER
      @BlGGESTBROTHER 4 года назад +5

      @@kyleb06 You're assuming the person who called read the sign. They probably just saw some dude trying to hitchhike and called because they are assholes.

    • @The_Conspiracy_Analyst
      @The_Conspiracy_Analyst 2 года назад

      Yeah stobe was a real idiot and jerk, nothing like the nice guy you see in the videos

  • @MaidensWorldOfWax
    @MaidensWorldOfWax 2 года назад +1

    Happy Veterans Day to all of those that served and continue to serve. Thank you.

  • @Ch1n4Sailor
    @Ch1n4Sailor 8 лет назад +36

    Thanks for your Service Stobe!
    Didn't know you were a vet...!
    Your lack of interested drivers is probably because they're more worried about being held at gunpoint or pistol whipped & rapped or all of the above...Granted you don't look anything like one of those types, but these days you really can't be too sure...
    After all, just look at Ted Bundy, that guy could have been your next door neighbor, as friendly and congenial as he looked.
    I've been out of the states for a quite a while (Detroit native) and I would hard pressed to pick anyone up on the free-way short of an immediate family member...
    But God Bless Stobe, Hope your 4th worked out!

    • @twiztidbrainkiller2977
      @twiztidbrainkiller2977 8 лет назад +1

      dude he never said he is a vet. the sign says thank a vet. give me a ride... how did that send him to the field?

    • @jaimhaas5170
      @jaimhaas5170 7 лет назад +1

      I have been rapped twice and I gotta say it aint bad!

    • @user-tb2jy9lu3d
      @user-tb2jy9lu3d 7 лет назад +3

      He was in the coast guard...

    • @brianseifer9744
      @brianseifer9744 5 лет назад +5

      @TRAILER PARK MESSIAH Sure the Fuck hope a train dices yo you thought less piece of CRAP

    • @brianseifer9744
      @brianseifer9744 5 лет назад +1

      Unfortunately true, not 60'sor 70 anymore ,in most places!!!

  • @SkittlesRevenge
    @SkittlesRevenge 6 лет назад +6

    WE MISS YOU JIM STOBE!!!!

  • @mhn3773
    @mhn3773 7 лет назад +7

    rip stobe. miss you man.

  • @Hercules718
    @Hercules718 4 года назад +3

    Stobe played beautiful music that everyone knows, including God Bless The USA.

  • @MooseKicks1066
    @MooseKicks1066 7 лет назад +13

    To be honest here, it's because most hitchhikers and beggars who claim to be vets either aren't, or are a bit whack. I don't think them not giving you a ride was in any way related to you being a vet. That being said, thanks for your service Stobe.

  • @michaelmccormack4137
    @michaelmccormack4137 8 лет назад +5

    Best channel on you tube. beer travelling on trains.. fantastic. keep up the good work. travel safe brother

    • @CANControlGRAFFITI
      @CANControlGRAFFITI 8 лет назад +1

      You must have low expectations

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад +3

      working on a batch of new ones, thanks for the moral support it will speed up the process

    • @RollingSteal21
      @RollingSteal21 8 лет назад

      +hobestobe aye man I'm about to train hop in about a week or 2...are you down to go?...I got the money for both of us brother

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад +1

      where you planning to go?

    • @RollingSteal21
      @RollingSteal21 8 лет назад

      +hobestobe I'm planning to go to maybe Florida, somewhere down in Florida

  • @_NDT_5451
    @_NDT_5451 8 лет назад +3

    Your my hero Stobe! I would be honored give you a ride.

  • @garethleitner9547
    @garethleitner9547 4 года назад +7

    I know Stobe is gone and I miss him, but as an ex-Albuquerquean I can say he was at one of the worst possible spots to hitchhike from. Just a mile or less north would have been much better.

  • @Mr.T-BAGGIN-UR-MOM
    @Mr.T-BAGGIN-UR-MOM 5 лет назад

    Thank you for your service and for the vids you made. RIP buddy. My birthday is the 22nd of October (1986) so from here on I'll save a piece of cake for the 23rd for you.

  • @amora3748
    @amora3748 8 лет назад +2

    "THANK A FUCKTARD " HAHA thats my sence of humor

  • @Manofpeasable
    @Manofpeasable 7 лет назад +37

    Hey friends, it is with heavy heart that I report here and on other videos that Stobe the Hobo (Jim) was killed in Baltimore on Wednesday 11/8/17 when god's hand reached out from a passing Amtrak (of all things) on a bridge, grabbing his back-pack and him along with it. He was my friend and his father called me last Sunday 11/12/17 to tell me. Though I sat enjoying his wonderful work on you tube from a basement in Seattle, I spent countless hours "in the darkest hours of the night" as he conquered the U.S. on rail with poetic comments, brilliant editing, piano self accompaniment, humor, love, and beer all the while with a solid devotion to his fine authoratative art of travel. R.I.P. I'm really pissed off and sad right now. Be well folks. I'm sorry.

    • @Stephtones-75
      @Stephtones-75 5 лет назад

      bjfdog God rides Amtrak????? 😱

    • @charliebeagle3220
      @charliebeagle3220 4 года назад

      If there is an afterlife I hope it's full of good rides and cold beer and there's not a bull in sight. I'm going to miss hearing his perspectives on this country, he truly saw things for what they were and I have to say I agree with him. Hopping trains is such a romantic notion but his life seemed kind of sad and lonely much of the time, I hope it was better than it seemed.

    • @sammyvh11
      @sammyvh11 4 года назад

      @ Same here just a few weeks ago....

    • @derekrohan9619
      @derekrohan9619 4 года назад

      @@charliebeagle3220 how can you judge his life based on short videos of him train hopping?? He has videos where his mom picks him up and where his dad drops him off, videos traveling with friends. I don’t understand how you can make assumptions based on a few dozen short videos of one aspect of his life. Just sayin

  • @southgatetrain
    @southgatetrain 5 лет назад +2

    RIP James William "Stobe the Hobo" Stobie October 23, 1984-November 8, 2017, you live on in your videos!

  • @chrisknox3325
    @chrisknox3325 8 лет назад +1

    Good to see a video from you ! Could watch your stuff all day man

  • @agasd67654asdga
    @agasd67654asdga 3 года назад +1

    I picked up a hitchhiker back in 1984, he seemed nice enough, but then ended up killing me with a ice pick when I turned my back

    • @nitetrekker
      @nitetrekker 3 года назад

      Sorry to hear about your demise, but at least you were able to recover. Most don't.

    • @KQwest98
      @KQwest98 2 года назад

      What an ice hole

    • @agasd67654asdga
      @agasd67654asdga 2 года назад

      @@nitetrekker No....I died....my remains are in a ditch off of I-80 somewhere in Nebraska

  • @Darryl603
    @Darryl603 6 лет назад +12

    I get the point but the location he chose to do the test was flawed because a pedestrian is not allowed on the interstate. Not only that, when a vehicle is moving at 70mph it would be pretty difficult to read the sign he had. RIP Stobe...

  • @GEAUXFRUGAL
    @GEAUXFRUGAL 8 лет назад +9

    That is a VERY SMALL SIGN ! Your sign should say LONESTAR CONCERT !

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад +9

      whats the diff they are all fucktards

    • @calebmarek
      @calebmarek 4 года назад +1

      Woosh! Stobe may not have got the joke, but I got a good laugh.

  • @jimbojet8728
    @jimbojet8728 6 лет назад +2

    Good old Stobe, I’ll miss you pal.

  • @skeetjeffcitysub86
    @skeetjeffcitysub86 4 года назад

    Thank you for your service Jim stobe

  • @fritzburbank935
    @fritzburbank935 4 года назад +1

    Stobe you were indeed a veteran.
    RIP sorry I never got to meet you ir send you some $$$.

  • @Stratboy999
    @Stratboy999 2 года назад

    When I was a young man I did a lot of hitch hiking. I used to love meeting all kinds of people, hearing their stories and finding out what they did for a living etc. And when I say a lot of hitching I mean, a LOT. Downside is it's miserable when you can't get a ride or get marooned in a bad spot. Of course, these days I have no need to hitch but instead I am always on the lookout for hitchers to pay it back.

  • @coyle69
    @coyle69 4 года назад +1

    Love you .. Veterans matter

  • @shaney3116
    @shaney3116 6 лет назад +1

    Dude was a legend!

  • @darkesthoursofthenight8816
    @darkesthoursofthenight8816 6 лет назад +1

    Miss you Stobe!!!!!

  • @tuledude89
    @tuledude89 7 лет назад

    Thanks for service bro...RIP

  • @tweezerjam
    @tweezerjam 4 года назад +3

    I look pretty good. I mean I got this shirt on. 😂

  • @OnefastAZfarmtruck
    @OnefastAZfarmtruck 7 лет назад

    Thanks for your service. If I see you on the hwy, you got a ride the way I'm going

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  7 лет назад

      sweet. where do you usually drive?

  • @gordslater
    @gordslater 8 лет назад +7

    Man that sucks, at least one guy has has your back even if hundreds of other don't. The states wasn't like that 20 years ago man, trust me. Fear is king now, obviously. So much for the home of the brave
    :(

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад +11

      when i hang out w people watching "the walking dead" i am afraid my side of the screen has more zombies

    • @tacoblend3246
      @tacoblend3246 8 лет назад +1

      Are there any more train hopping videos on the way?

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад

      there might be

    • @tacoblend3246
      @tacoblend3246 8 лет назад

      awesome, can't wait

  • @HotRockCollective
    @HotRockCollective 5 лет назад +1

    Man...I miss this guy!

  • @grandtetons2
    @grandtetons2 8 лет назад +2

    That's shitty man, for sure. Thanks for your service though. Keep the vids going! I can't get enough

  • @seandalavis
    @seandalavis 6 лет назад +1

    Miss you buddy. R.i.p

  • @thomasjg2120
    @thomasjg2120 5 лет назад

    Well said Stobe well said Brother. R.I.P.

  • @meandthemrs7403
    @meandthemrs7403 4 года назад +2

    I usually think the sign is just a lie. I am more likely to pick them up if they are actually walking.

  • @warhamsterful
    @warhamsterful 7 лет назад

    This was the first video of Stobes I saw, never worked out why it was on my feed. :( RiP stobe, i'll be having a couple of cold ones for you later.

  • @RubenFletcher
    @RubenFletcher 7 лет назад +5

    That's was an awesome video!!!
    Rangers Lead the Way!!!
    96-11

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  7 лет назад +8

      my cousin was marine force recon. long live pat tillman

  • @marcinna8553
    @marcinna8553 5 лет назад +1

    People are reluctant to pick up any hitchhiker because they are worried about their own safety. There is no guarantee that just because someone is a vet that they are going to be a stable individual. That doesn't have anything to do with patriotism. Also, speaking from personal experience, the place to get a ride is at the on ramps, not on the highway itself.

  • @seconds-kr5uj
    @seconds-kr5uj 5 лет назад +1

    2:50 Unorthodoxy MUST be reported!! Joke's on you, the cop gave Stobe a 5 mile ride! Ebbic!!

  • @FlippyHambone
    @FlippyHambone 5 лет назад +1

    ALWAYS ask IMMEDIATELY: 'What was your MOS and BILLET?'. If they look like a deer in headlights, they are lying.

  • @TravisHeinze
    @TravisHeinze 8 лет назад +8

    When I had to walk 20 miles back to my car, after I was arrested and it was impounded, a few people called the cops on me and I got a ride for my last 10 miles.

    • @bigdog2618
      @bigdog2618 4 года назад

      That's because you are a f***king fruitloop..Now get your a*** back to your channels and stay there🐢🐢..

  • @bassethoundguy3545
    @bassethoundguy3545 7 лет назад +4

    i would've picked you up, stopped got you a tall boy and some fried chicken brother! rip stobe

  • @RollingSteal21
    @RollingSteal21 8 лет назад +2

    yessss your backkkk....dude I freaking love your vids man....Are u gonna do any more train hopping vids man

  • @richardhelliwell1210
    @richardhelliwell1210 4 года назад +2

    Who can read the sign at 60 mph?! RIP.

  • @douglasholden3169
    @douglasholden3169 3 года назад

    Crossed over to the other's side.
    Stobe didn't know you served, COAST GUARD. serviced bye admiral greek navy bend knee no over rog get out brrt. Love Stobe The Hobe. Chill in Peace or well no death, on the next level up, see y everyuwere in the fifth doo do doo do doo doo ..dodododoododooo

  • @jebediahspringfield8733
    @jebediahspringfield8733 5 лет назад

    I´ve hitch-hiked all around Europe and parts of the USA, and besides also being hassled countless times by police, I too have been picked up many times by ex-servicemen.
    Especially in the UK during WWII, there existed a cameraderie and a community war effort that included picking up hitch-hikers in order to conserve precious fuel. Soldiers would routinely hitch in uniform and it would be unusual for the first car to come along not to stop and give them a lift. This is all information gleaned from many journeys with older, ex-servicemen during my hitch-hiking career. I recall once being picked up by a submariner that had a passion for golf. This seemed like a bit of a rediculous combination but the man was extremely helpful and got me down that yellow brick road a ways when I was a poor young man.
    The South of England, especially the South West (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, etc.) are good places for hitching. Generally speaking, if you look cleanish, and make a good sign, you can often beat the coaches which are awefully slow. Also, you avoid either paying exorbitant train fares or having to stay vigilant and avoid the guard in order to bunk the journey without a ticket. Also, the ever increasing frequency of ticket barriers at stations means once trivial ticketless train hopping across country has become a more considered effort. Knowledge of stations with and without ticket barriers essential as escaping a ticket controlled station may be as simple as changing to a local train and riding one or two stops to a small and underused local station without barriers. Freight train riding in the UK is relatively uncommon, but unpaid travel on passenger trains is an art form, practiced by teenagers and itinerant tramps alike.
    Once one reaches the West Midlands, Hitch-Hiking becomes less pleasant, less productive, and more dangerous. On a trip from Somerset to Warwick/Coventry, immediately after crossing the Cotswolds and through Gloucestershire, drivers became increasingly aggressive and downright hostile. One boy racer type in some tacky faux-sportscar with oversized exhaust actually swerved to hit me as I stood on the side of a sliproad with my sign. I would have been hit by a Subaru or whatever doing 60mph+ had I not leaped out of the way. A plethora of rude gestures and verbal abuse of the ear´ole also occured, but far more hostile and frustrated than anything I´d previously encountered.
    Belgium is great. I´ve had the most hospitable lifts from Belgian drivers, including being invited to stay the night at a kind person´s house. And no, it wasn´t weird, just a kind man lending a hand to a young man without much cash, although I was extremely suscpicious, which is quite sad really. Once one enters France, however, the frequency of lifts usually decreases dramatically. Also, Dutch and German drivers are not nearly as friendly and accommodating than the Belgians, especially the Flemish. Hitching in Spain and Italy, YMMV. Sardinia was quite good, but I´ve heard bad things about mainland Italy.
    Eastern Europe is more hitch friendly, generally. I recall seeing 5 separate groups of hich-hikers on one slip road leaving Prague. In fact, on a mission across Europe, a friend and myself made 1000km in one night from Prague to Strasbourg via the Autobahn in the rain with a mad industrial yoghurt machine sales rep Frenchman driving a Renault or Peugot like a maniac. Once in France, however, it took another 3 days (at least) to get from Strasbourg to Paris, including camping in the pissing down rain in Reims only to be awakened by dogs and shotguns; we´d camped in a hunting park of some kind. Still soaking, we quietly packed the wet tent and climbed back over the fence and out of the game park.
    Anyway, sorry for the rambling, I just wanted to share my experiences hitching and the propensity for ex-servicemen to pick me up. This will probably become a thing of the past as the WWII veterans are now becoming quite old. 20+ years ago when I was hitching the most, something like 30% ex-military and 20% lorry drivers was about average, with the remaining 50% coming from a quite wide range of people. Middle aged men by far being the most common lifts, mainly people who hitched themselves in the past. However, I have had some lifts with some very lovely women, some taking a maternal interest in me, some perhaps more sexual ;) The VW camper, however, contrary to expectation, has only stopped for me perhaps twice! I´ve had more lifts in Range Rovers, Mercedes, BMWs, and Audis than VW campers, I guess the fake hippies that drive VW campers are too worried about their vintage split screen remaining unscathed to pick up a drifter.
    Anyone else with experiences of being picked up by ex-military types when hitch-hiking, please chime in. Or don´t. One thing is certain, hiching is becomig more of an eccentric and uncommon thing to do. Many people simply don´t understand the concept and culture, and have been frightened stiff of hich-hiking and hitch-hikers by the tabloid media. I´ve not tried the new lift sharing schemes and mobile apps, but I remember thinking of similar concepts on the side of a motorway somewhere. Nothing beats just taking ones chances, packing light but taking enough to be able to bivvy down for a while if needed.
    Of course, the most important thing when hitching, it´s all about the lifts you *don´t* take! Hold out for longer lifts and/or lifts whereby the driver is willing to travel via a good hitching spot so one does not end up stranded in a terrible location waiting days for a lift. Paper maps are also recommended as backup, it´s sad how few young people seem to be able to even comprehend paper maps. On good maps, it may be possible to locate promising hitching spots. New technology, however, make this planning step even simpler, as street level views may be consulted to see if good hitching spots are indeed as good as they may seem on the map. Practical considerations, such as visibility and a good place for drivers to stop with minimal risk. Some drivers even take tremendous risks stopping in far-from-ideal locations on motorway sliproads, even on motorway shoulders (illegal in many places), just to give a hitcher a lift. I think that anyone who has hitched extensively as a younger person feels a certain obligation to pick up people thumbing lifts as it completes the cycle and repays the Universe in some way (at least in their imagination :0 ), and the military men of yesteryear feel this obligation too. Perhaps not in such a karmic way as the artists and musicians that may pick up hitchers, but in all honesty, WWII veterans have far more intersting stories most of the time!

  • @WildernessRocks
    @WildernessRocks 7 лет назад +1

    Yep I care buddy. I've gotten rides from old ladies with grandkids while I was wearing a red kilt on the side of the road smelling like the Appalachian trail lol then another day nothing and sleeping in the ditch til I caught a ride in he morning. That cop was awesome

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  7 лет назад +2

      the cops are generally good guys

  • @olafjensen4508
    @olafjensen4508 8 лет назад +3

    Yeah nice to see Vets helping you out fella. I,m a Vet and luv my bro warriors. The rest are Snowflakes mate. GJ from the UK. BTW get more longer train hopping vids. You are the best

    • @olafjensen4508
      @olafjensen4508 8 лет назад +2

      Served in 5 Airborne Brigade now called 16th Air Assault. My regiment was 7 RHA

  • @dustymcdowell5446
    @dustymcdowell5446 8 лет назад +1

    my bro and i were passing thru ABQ that day headed east - we woulda totally picked u up stobe

  • @TheIronweed-vx5lg
    @TheIronweed-vx5lg 8 лет назад

    Better to stick with the rails Bo, but trying to go north from Albequacky to Denver is a tough go.

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад

      have to go belen-amarillo and then from there north. major drag raton pass is basically kaput

    • @TheIronweed-vx5lg
      @TheIronweed-vx5lg 8 лет назад

      yep, only scamtrack goes through there right now.

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад

      i dont understand why because I think theres a barstow-denver gm train as well as coal empties but they all go via amarillo which is almost 400 miles extra

    • @TheIronweed-vx5lg
      @TheIronweed-vx5lg 8 лет назад

      Not sure. Than line has been dead to freight traffic for ever. If you could wait in the yard for ever, you might get a local.

    • @RollingSteal21
      @RollingSteal21 8 лет назад

      +hobestobe You gonna tag along or no, not trying to be pushy man, just needa know now

  • @jackstraw262
    @jackstraw262 6 лет назад +2

    Zero chance anyone could read that sign and poor Stobe was flying it in fast traffic. If he had been at an area just before the freeway where people are forced to stop (like at a light before the freeway) he probably would have gotten on the road faster. RIP Stobe, if you are reading this on RUclips comment purgatory I just want you to know- POSITIONING MATTERS WHEN YOU HITCHIKE

  • @Billy-f7g
    @Billy-f7g 5 месяцев назад

    I would like to have picked him up and had the chance to meet him. Normally, it's more risky to be the hitchiker. a friend of mine had to hitchike a ride one time and a creepy guy in a van picked him up. He noticed a chainsaw setting between the driver and passenger seats and made the mistake, while trying to make conversation, in asking 'does that work?' And the guy said' Does it work?!' and picks it up and starts it and it sparks off of the ceiling in the van when he starts it lol. My friend iprned his door and took off running. If you knew my friend it would make it even funnier because he's really smart but even more socially awkward. I always laugh when remembering that story 😂

  • @HappyQuailsLC
    @HappyQuailsLC 7 лет назад +9

    Honestly it is too small to read

  • @KyleGotSkill
    @KyleGotSkill 6 лет назад

    Cant believe he was in ABQ. Wished he caught a train out on a video.

  • @edgit69
    @edgit69 4 года назад

    R.I.P

  • @HappyQuailsLC
    @HappyQuailsLC 7 лет назад +1

    At that size next time just write Denver as dark and bold as you possible can. When they get clise enough to read it they are passing so fast they would be lucky to get as far as the word "give" and then tbey would have to assume you are asking for money in the middke of the highway...notice how hard it is to read lost pet notices abd garage sale signs sometime. It will help put its size vs. their speed of travel and distance from the sign jnto perspective.

  • @growmiezhomiez8760
    @growmiezhomiez8760 4 года назад +2

    Suuuuper patriotic sign stobe... 😂 “a vet gimme a ride to Denver.” HA!!!!

  • @emptyset00
    @emptyset00 8 лет назад +3

    you do look pretty decent with that shirt on.

  • @Gibbinifuggs
    @Gibbinifuggs 5 лет назад

    USE A WHITE DRY ERASE BOARD! Magic trip of the road.

  • @HighRail62
    @HighRail62 8 лет назад +2

    Thank you for your Service,Brother. Your also right,if their not a cop or a Veteran,just who are they. We did something for our country and yet A** holes who have never served anything greater than themselves would call the cops. What goes around,comes around. Great Videos by the way!

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад +1

      yeah its odd how only vets seem to ever pick me up, not usually carrying a sign or anything.

    • @HighRail62
      @HighRail62 8 лет назад

      Looking for some new videos,seems I've watched all you posted. Great stuff and will be watching for them! Ride High,Brother!!

  • @scarecrow2885
    @scarecrow2885 5 лет назад

    I don't think his sign was big enough.

  • @FRISKY_MANDINGO
    @FRISKY_MANDINGO 7 лет назад +2

    Stobe. thanks for your service, for whatever that's worth to you, but I think you need to make a damn better sign. That damn thing looked like shit.

  • @Jakenh84
    @Jakenh84 8 лет назад

    Hey HobeStobe, have you ever rolled through central Texas?

  • @Bozz8111
    @Bozz8111 8 лет назад +1

    STOBO!!!!!!

  • @ernestoguevara3713
    @ernestoguevara3713 7 лет назад

    Vets help vets. Civilians help themselves. The end.

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  7 лет назад

      lol i totally know what your saying. why fucking bother serving

  • @robrogers2407
    @robrogers2407 3 года назад

    nice video

  • @gforce527
    @gforce527 5 лет назад +1

    I know it is way too late now, but your sign is too teeny tiny

  • @twiztidbrainkiller2977
    @twiztidbrainkiller2977 8 лет назад

    ok am I the only one that read his sign? " thank a vet, give me a ride_Denver". how do u get that he is a vet himself? I'm not sure he served or not?????

    • @twiztidbrainkiller2977
      @twiztidbrainkiller2977 8 лет назад

      sorry I missed a bit there in the beginning. coastguard! thank u stobe!

  • @bobbastion7335
    @bobbastion7335 6 лет назад

    I learned a long time ago not to pick up hitchhikers. They are there for a reason and it's not because of a series of unfortunate incidents beyond their control. It is by choice. The same goes for bums "flying signs."

    • @dmkays
      @dmkays 6 лет назад

      Bob Bastion Who peedvin uour Wheetees, Robert?

    • @bobbastion7335
      @bobbastion7335 6 лет назад +1

      @@dmkays Not so much "pee in the Wheaties" as it is stinking up my vehicle. I picked a guy up (dressed decent) that stunk so bad, I had the windows down at 60 MPH and could still smell the stinkin bastard. I had to pull over and put him out. I picked up a kindly elderly gentleman once (looked like my dad kinda) and when he got out, there was a stem (crack pipe) in the seat. I said "Hey, you forgot something" and the lyin SOB said: "that ain"t mine." I had half a coffee cup of change come up missing when one got out and I told him: All you had to do was ask" but he just kept denying that he stole it. So I got out and made him empty his pockets and he had a pocket full of change in one and a coffee cup in another. Guess he'd rather steal. So, yeah, mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism, just plain old scumbags, they are there for a reason. You give em a ride if you want to Slick. I'm all tapped out on the "milk of human kindness."

    • @Vfh........y
      @Vfh........y 6 лет назад

      @@bobbastion7335 I hate to say it but you are right Bob. I grew up in the midwest in the 70s and join the airforce in the early 80s. Times have changed a lot. There are a lot more people that would wish you ill. It's just too dangerous to pick people up and guess whether there are good guy or a bad guy. Plus I'm not nineteen anymore and it's tough to defend yourself as you grow older

    • @bobbastion7335
      @bobbastion7335 6 лет назад

      @@Vfh........y Why would you "hate to say it?" You should never have any qualms when it comes to speaking the truth.

  • @robertkerr3059
    @robertkerr3059 7 лет назад

    I hope that cop reads the comments once in a while for a pick-me-up cuz he gets "nothin but love" here, as slim hobo said, ABQ is a nice town so I ascribe your temporary bad luck sort of the way pimples pop up once in a while on an otherwise fine ass,

  • @aaronstately
    @aaronstately 7 лет назад +10

    I think you would have had more luck with out the sign with just thumbing a ride. The Sign makes you look dodgy.. more like beggar than a hitch hiker.

    • @Meow_Ag47
      @Meow_Ag47 6 лет назад +6

      Still no reason for some fucktard to call the cops. I hate people!! Work retail for a year and you'll lose all faith in humanity.

    • @silentdarkness6260
      @silentdarkness6260 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah but he was on the highway dude and his sign clearly said he needed a ride to Denver. I can see if you were standing off an exit ramp but this guy look like he was literally on the side of the highway

  • @johng5710
    @johng5710 6 лет назад +1

    In all honesty, if someone picks up a hitchhiker these days, I question their sanity. Sad but true this is the world we live in. RIP Stobe!

  • @DesertDrifter
    @DesertDrifter 8 лет назад +2

    Good ol city of Albertjerkme 👎🏼

  • @newsbystringer
    @newsbystringer 8 лет назад +1

    it's ezer to just hitch with out of the sign

  • @JoshuaMichael53
    @JoshuaMichael53 2 года назад +2

    This is my least favorite hobestobe video and I still gave it a thumbs up like all the rest of his. Just wish he could see that those 200 "fucktards' as he called them are most likely decent people just trying to get along themselves.

  • @hilldoggydogg635
    @hilldoggydogg635 7 лет назад

    Albeq PD is usually out of control, they were so trigger happy they shot an undercover cop like a dozen times, they shoot first ask questions later, like the man they all shot with automatic rifles for camping in the mountains, you got lucky and got a good cop.

  • @SaveAmerica-TRUMP2024
    @SaveAmerica-TRUMP2024 6 лет назад

    Stobe was a vet?

  • @novimunita
    @novimunita 8 лет назад

    Bagus

  • @JacksonTravel
    @JacksonTravel 3 года назад

    hahahahaha very scientific

  • @steveshea6148
    @steveshea6148 2 года назад

    Lol!

  • @curtis13450
    @curtis13450 7 лет назад

    mexico

  • @derekrohan9619
    @derekrohan9619 4 года назад

    All these people saying they miss him.. how can you miss him when you never met him? missing his videos is one thing. I wish he could upload more. But I can’t say I miss him I don’t even know him.. his life was way more than a few dozen videos of hopping on trains being a train barnacle..

  • @jbscornerstore
    @jbscornerstore 8 лет назад +2

    This country is finished

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад

      its definitely possible. fortunately with the current dumbing down, for various reasons traveling on trains has never been easier, as hitchhiking has become nearly impossible

    • @jbscornerstore
      @jbscornerstore 8 лет назад

      My recent attempts at hitchhiking (with the exception of Vermont) have been fruitless. I haven't been on the rails in years, however I may need to revisit that mode of transport

    • @jbscornerstore
      @jbscornerstore 8 лет назад

      Great channel BTW, love everything you put out. Thanks for sharing your adventures.

  • @murdy1975
    @murdy1975 7 лет назад

    What A life.. Traveling, Trains, Panhandling, seeing History, Solo Life, Drinking beer..
    I LOVE IT~! Honestly, if you didnt do the train thing, like, your exploring for people.. thats what you got.. thats it!, No offense but your not a travel guide on history.. plus you want people to support you.. so.. in that aspect you are a hobo.. but .. the only reason people love you is cuz of Trains... cuz you have shown us another aspect of living.. if you quit that... you will probly loose out.. your great at piano however.. need some motovation.. what are you going to do after you traveled all the rails?? Love ya Stobe, will follow you till the end.. If you quit riding trains , I quit watching... thats your thing.. Piano is awesome too.. but good luck with that.. cheers~!

  • @mikepodella
    @mikepodella 5 лет назад +1

    The Coasties is not a military branch, it's in the Department of Homeland Security, not the Department of Defense. You're as much a veteran as those TSA goons at the airport.

    • @DjTanner29
      @DjTanner29 5 лет назад +1

      You know he is dead right?

    • @saintchuck9857
      @saintchuck9857 5 лет назад

      It is a US Armed Service and has been involved, in one guise or another, in every US war. Learn your history you ignorant fuck.

    • @lknanml
      @lknanml 5 лет назад +1

      I work on UH-60s. We have a few guys that came over from the Coasties and their basic training and training after is no walk in the park. They were well trained and are way above TSA levels when it comes to interactions with hostile forces. I've also been sailing since the late 80s. They are trained medivac's in every way just like our guys. They have also been apart of a lot of wars and are the front line "troops" when people have come at the states via water and they have. If something big were to kick off they would be attached to the Navy and have to be trained so that transition would be instant. They go well past keep waters safe which is a HUGE mission itself.

    • @brianseifer9744
      @brianseifer9744 5 лет назад

      @@saintchuck9857 : From disabled Vet, thanks for the comments , sorry I didn't join them or at least U.S.A.F. I was stuck 2 years in a crummy drinkin druggie whore house smochi bragib navy town no fuck vagina ( n .folk, Va. Been a happy adult had I been Coast guard.

    • @brianseifer9744
      @brianseifer9744 5 лет назад

      @@lknanml right on , 2nd. Most physical fit . after u.s.m c. Like trying to save boater in 100' 🌊 wave s ,Oct. 1991.

  • @Elrond_Hubbard1
    @Elrond_Hubbard1 8 лет назад +6

    You did join on your own right? I mean , you got paid for your service right? Shouldn't that be thanks enough? Love all these vets that serve willingly then want their ass kissed the rest of their lifes.

    • @hobestobe
      @hobestobe  8 лет назад +11

      Hugh Janus yeah I know not calling the cops on a hitchhiker is such royal treatment. u obviously dint even watch this so it's hard to your comment

    • @senior_ranger
      @senior_ranger 6 лет назад +7

      Yeah, I remember being paid $240 month (including combat pay) to have people shoot at me. What is wrong with you?

    • @LastGenGaming675
      @LastGenGaming675 3 года назад

      @@senior_ranger
      I'm thankful but you knew what you were getting into when you signed up and ya you did get paid , those vets that got drafted , those deserve the most thanks , and even then just because your a vet doesn't make you a good person , in fact none of us are good people , Jesus saves , and I do thank the vets but I also thank every elementary school janitor out there , they deserve the same .

  • @InlikeMikeQuinn
    @InlikeMikeQuinn 2 года назад +1

    They can’t read the tiny lettering