I keep hoping to run into someone here from my JW days. You proved it can happen.
It absolutely CAN happen, if you were in the organization long enough, and especially if you're in a metropolitan area and knew people from other congregations. People are bound to fall prey to Satan's wiles come to the realization that a better life is possible outside a hyper-controlling organization.
In my first month on this board, two people who had been in a congregation near me recognized me and got in contact. (Back then this site didn't have PM functionality, instead it had a little icon that could be clicked and would show your e-mail address.)
In the past few months I have come across 3 former JW's from my old hall in Minneapolis including RollerDave, and a former elder who is now a travelling blues singer, and a young lady who works on the same floor at the office where my job is. (The former elder and my co-worker successfully faded and do not post on this site.)