[DashAnimal]

I know someone who had what can only be described as a nightmare scenario from using couchsurfing. I don't know many of the details, and not something I want to pry into, but she was essentially kidnapped, trapped in a house, and had her passport stolen by the host in a foreign country where she didn't speak the language and on her first trip overseas. This was also before smart phones were just commonplace such that everyone had one.