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I can already see the lawsuit: "We got lost in the maze because he didn't put up direction. Emotional Distress!!!"

Family Lost In Corn Maze Calls 911 For Help

BOSTON -- A North Shore police department received an unusual emergency call on Monday from a family who was lost in a corn maze.

The family used a cellphone to call from Connors Farm in Danvers at about 7 p.m. Tuesday after the couple and their two children -- a 5-year-old and a 3-week-old -- became lost in the maize maze, police said.

"I'm really scared. It's really dark and we've got a 3-week-old baby with us," the woman told the 911 dispatcher.

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"Just relax. Your husband is with you, right?" the dispatcher asked.

"Yes, but my baby!" the woman said.

A completely valid response, given how babies are well known to be vulnerable to corn exposure.

Jericho941 wrote:

"Just relax. Your husband is with you, right?" the dispatcher asked.

"Yes, but my baby!" the woman said.

A completely valid response, given how babies are well known to be vulnerable to corn exposure.

You've never actually been near a baby, have you?

These idiots (and they ARE idiots, nearly to a degree that you could describe as 'criminal') should never have gone into a place where they might not be able to leave immediately, with such a small child. If you go out at all with such a little one, you have to be careful and prepared. They have certain needs that have to be met, and I'm willing to make a large wager the parents were NOT prepared for an extended time away from the supplies at home/in the car.

I guess they never heard of the right hand rule?

HTRN wrote:I guess they never heard of the right hand rule?

Panic. And stupidity.

You suggest a simple, sensible solution... but if they had the mental horsepower to manage simple, sensible solutions on their own they wouldn't have been in that situation in the first place.

Yeesh! It's a corn field. [strike]Unless they did something really unusual to build the maze[/strike], you pick a row, and plow straight through the corn until you hit a fence or a road. Take your bearings and proceed as indicated.

I just had a chance to see the video. That patch would barley count as field in Iowa, it's so small. Pick any direction and walk along a row and you'd be at the wood line or road in 5-10 minutes.

+1 on taking a youngling with you without adequate preparation (or just not doing it until the kid's older? Naaah, Crazy Talk).

"Just relax. Your husband is with you, right?" the dispatcher asked.

Those kids couldn't be his as it appears he has no balls.

randy wrote:That patch would barley count as field in Iowa

We need a rotten tomato smiley....

Greg wrote:You've never actually been near a baby, have you?

Not near enough to observe the effects of the dreaded Ethanol-235.

Greg wrote:

Jericho941 wrote:

"Just relax. Your husband is with you, right?" the dispatcher asked.

"Yes, but my baby!" the woman said.

A completely valid response, given how babies are well known to be vulnerable to corn exposure.

You've never actually been near a baby, have you?

These idiots (and they ARE idiots, nearly to a degree that you could describe as 'criminal') should never have gone into a place where they might not be able to leave immediately, with such a small child. If you go out at all with such a little one, you have to be careful and prepared. They have certain needs that have to be met, and I'm willing to make a large wager the parents were NOT prepared for an extended time away from the supplies at home/in the car.

I've taken my babies lots of places. Unless the kid is prone to sudden emergency attacks, I wouldn't hesitate to bring a brat into a corn maze.