I just saw a commercial on TV for a new movie called Cellular and it's about some guy that randomly gets a call from a random woman that's been randomly kidnapped and is about to get murdered by a random murderer.
Okay, put yourself in the guy's position. Say you're driving down the highway, going 120 mph, bouncing up and down because of your car's hydrolics, okay? Suddenly, your phone rings and a stranger is on the other line, begging for your help because she has been kidnapped and will be murdered soon. She sounds sincere enough, but it could be your friends, trying to trick you into not going to an important meeting/a doctor's appointment/whatever, or it could be an enemy that's trying to lure you into a trap to murder you(hey, with the kinds of psychos out there, this is completely possible). Do you believe the person and help her? Or do you laugh and say, "Hey, pally, take a chill pill. I'm no jellyfish that you can just blow your horn at!"? How would you go about helping her out? You know that the murderer is in the place that she is in, or somewhere close by. Would you buy her cupcakes to make sure she's not hungry while dropping her off at her place?
I suppose I would help the person, if she sounded sincere enough. I would probably call the police, then stupidly go to where she's being held and either quickly untie the poor girl and high-tail it outta there, or, if the murderer's there, try to talk him outta doing what he plans on doing. About the third question, cupcakes are pretty expensive and high in fat, nowadays. That one's a toughy.