We were laying in bed recalling a helping hand incident last night. About 11 years ago while living in the bay area of CA, we came on a man trying to push his car up a very steep off ramp of the highway in the heat of the day. we stopped and noted the man was covered from head to toe in sores ad very fatigued-( lupus) my husband offered to give the car a jump which is all he needed. As we were helping him a state patrol officer came along checked out the matter and told the man he was free to go but we needed to stay. He walked up to my side and said- you're not from around here are you? We responded - no sir we're orinally from WI but have been living abroad as well as just coming from WA state. He sternly warned us to never stop again because of people posing as needing help then attacking the helper. That hasn't stopped us