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Some say devine intuition. Others say 50/50 random chance. I say: both.

There's no excuse for a parent losing a 2 year old. Idgaf

Butterfly effect

Children are very slippery

It completely depends on the situation. Little kids can be real escape artists. It can happen with responsible parents or neglectful ones.

My cousin, as a 2-year-old, loved letting himself out of the house. My aunt and uncle had a heck of a time keeping the front door secure from him (rental house so limited in what they could install). Sometimes they were sleeping, but sometimes it could be simply doing something in another room. They're great parents and were doing their best, but it's not realistic to have the kid glued to their sides 24/7. My aunt's horror story was finding him walking up from down the street, having let himself out while she was cooking dinner. It really only resolved when he grew out of the behavior.

The article says they think he got out of the house while his parents were sleeping after last being seen Thursday morning. It could be that the whole house was sleeping and he woke up and let himself out of the house. From the article, it doesn't sound like there's any charges against the parents for doing anything that put him at risk.

Watched too many crime docs. All I can think was he was the one who put him there for not great reasons.

I don't think that's truly the case but where my mind went.

What the hell is a fork in a field? Fields don’t have forks, that’s what makes them fields.

Ah, someone with no kids commenting on parenting.

I have 3.

While this obviously is not the case here, it could be a field with very tall plants like Corn or Wheat. Sometimes they have pathways that fork and you cannot see over the plants.

Did anyone else read that like Michael Scott?

I thought the same thing. I’m pleased that I am not the only one who see ugly and doesn’t pretend it doesn’t exist. I hope that this is a true story though

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Yeah and if that’s the case, it’s also likely you can’t do a good job of forcing yourself through the actual crop.

Awesome!👏

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Robert Frost anyone?

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

Reminder that if you are part of a SAR team looking for a child to not only call their name but also that they aren’t in trouble.

Read somewhere young children sometimes hide from potential rescuers because they’re afraid they’ll get in trouble.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky"

• Michael Scott

It's made all the difference

A co-workers hearing impaired son was missing. The whole neighborhood and several co workers got involved in the search. After the third inspection of the house by the local police department, the missing child woke up from his nap on the couch under a blanket, where he had been the entire time.

On the flip side, my coworker fell asleep on the couch, and when he woke up his 2 year old was found by a neighbor 4 blocks away

Pitchforks

Perchance.

It’s a field in the middle of a forest. So when you enter it, there is a forest to the right and left. He went left and the boy was in that forest area.

We had a neighbour that got the whole street looking for her little girl. Turned out she fell asleep behind the couch.

It's just the writer taking poetic license. Making a choice of which direction to walk in is all you're doing when you're working on a search crew. Hopefully a grid approach has been discussed with a team, but this may have been the work of a lone-wolf amateur seeker.

Divine?

Man when looking looked left first found boy to the left.

The 100 people before had all looked right.

Shoot the writer of this headline.

It’s kind of a fucked up story. He got dropped off to his mother and another person who were both asleep - the person dropping him off didn’t wake anyone up. The mom lied and said he had only been missing for an hour before she called the cops but he had actually been missing for 4 hours before she called. Terrible supervision of a child.

Oof. Definitely a lot of mistakes by the adults.

Avoidable for sure. A neighbor saw him outside by himself playing with dogs and then he just kept driving away to the gas station. Idk if I see a 2 year old or a 5 year old whatever age playing alone in a front yard I’m gonna sit there for a second until I see an adult come out with them and if that doesn’t happen then go knock on the door to see wtf is up.

I’m so glad he was found safely though.

What kind of fucking advice is this today and tryst my gut tells me to stay hone from work

Didn't this happens years ago? That photo looks familiar

I've often thought that gut instinct is stuff that's seen or heard, but not consciously noticed. In this case, perhaps the left path looked more recently trodden or something.

jesus why does nobody ever read the article. WHYYYY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qslcnw-9KbI

https://i.imgur.com/l03oBwX.png

THERE IS NO CORN OR WHEAT IN THIS FIELD

there is a path. the path forks, then there is a field...

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Thank the gods. 🥰

Jesus why does nobody ever read the comment WHYYYY

Please read my comment again. I specifically said, "while this is obviously not the case here." All I was trying to say is that some fields can certainly have forks. All fields are not just flat grass.

Little guy was out looking for a barber i think.

Florida: Maybe I don't want to be the bad guy anymore?

Maybe someone dropped a fork after eating lunch :)

Or its an AI title.

What the fuck is this title? It reads like a crap clickbait article.

When my youngest was like 2 1/2 I put him down for a nap. I checked on him like an hour later and he wasn't there.

I went ask over the house yelling and screaming. It's not like he could have left the house on his own because the front door is bolted, the sliding glass door has a blocker thing up high and the garage door is noisy as hell.

We had looked all around the house for 20 minutes and my wife was literally on the phone with 911 when I found him.

He had crawled under his bed, created a wall of toys around him then fell asleep.

I didn't see him when I looked under the bed because of the toys.

He definitely heard me screaming for him but he stayed quiet because he thought I was mad or something.

Mine did that when I lost track of him inside the house.

and the worst parent award goes to….

As a software engineer, what I would do is send one person to look at the left fork, and one to look at the right fork. We call this dual threading.

Hope this helps.

What the fuck kind of grammar is this?

> “Mama, Mama,” the boy said, latching onto Link. We’re going to Mama, Link said.

Nah he went missing yesterday and was earlier today

SCREAM LAUGHING!!!! 😂

Cause it's reddit. People expect the article to be summarised and are here for the comments and will move on.

Moral: take the right fork, and somebody dies

Oh but they do- if the fields are sprawling enough. There’s paths abound, always.

Happy the kid was found.

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Why is it turned into some drama requiring mystical woo that the guy who found him 'trusted his gut' as if there's some kind of divine inspiration, rather than just he got lucky and found him?

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If one volunteer reached a forked path by himself it was a very poorly organized search.

The article actually says,

>The 62-year-old came to an open field and was met with a choice — two wooded areas with a small clearing in between. Link, an ex-Marine and former supervisor for Hernando County parks, said he decided on intuition alone. He would go to the woods on his left.

Which makes more sense.

Like a buttered watermelon

Me looking at my 2 year old and taking notes

Y’all need to attach AirTags to your children

That was actually my nickname in high school

Oh my god. When we moved into our new house our cat went missing. We thought she ran away trying to get back to the old house. She buried herself under the covers in our bed. She had never done that (when we weren't in it) and never done it since.

We don't hear the story about the person who thought the same thing but was wrong.

Makes me wonder if it was written by an AI

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AI would do better

OMG tell me about it!

Ugh these comments remind me of a case from Mexico in which a girl couldn't be located...she was eventually found at the foot of her bed :(

Death of Paulette Gebara Farah

>Paulette Gebara Farah was a four year old disabled Mexican girl who disappeared, and was subsequently found dead under suspicious circumstances. She went missing from her bedroom on March 22, 2010, in the municipality of Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico. Upon her disappearance, her family began a search campaign utilizing television, advertisements, and social media. Paulette's body was found in her own room wrapped in sheets between the mattress and the foot of the bed, the same room where her mother had given interviews.

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That's where I've been going wrong. I've been shouting "ready or not, here I come"

I did this as a child. Could have been found hours sooner.

The Road Not Taken

My sister with down syndrome did this many years ago. Scared the shit out of me. My three other siblings and I all ran out of the house to look for her.

Ya know, I have a toddler and have tried thinking logistics for this.

Praise God. Glad they found him.

Seconded! This happened to my bf's baby sister who went missing while she was inside their house

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It was a forked up field

what the fuck is this title

The story is uplifting, the comments are a bunch of idiots, and I think I’m going to cuddle with my son a bit more after reading this article.

We're having a pizza party! We're going to the toy store! Santa's here! (Panicked tones of course).

Tell them about the monsters that inhabit under their bed to avoid a similar situation. Or take away their bed. And toys. For their own safety, of course.

If you're doing search and rescue you don't trust your gut. You search everywhere systematically.

And you also don't continue searching after you find the person (or their corpse).

When we moved into our new house several years ago my son who at the time was 3/4 vanished in the morning. I wake up early for work and found the front door wide open and couldn’t find my son anywhere. I’m outside in a panic looking for him and what feels like an eternity searching eventually my neighbor flags me down and informs me he’s with her. Apparently he wanted to play basketball with the neighbors kids.

I think this account is a bot posting news articles for karma tbh

This was in my town and we all feared the worst, it's not the best area.

"I'm coming to get ya"

Forksooth!

The whole article reads like it was written by a high schooler on their first internship.

Everyone should just put those GPS trackers they have for wallets on your children

r/kidsarefuckingstupid

"Left is right, right is wrong."

> his wild, golden hair a bush of brambles and curls on his head

That 2-year-old boy's name?

>!Albert Einstein&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;!<

Thus the expression Fork this field.

He had fifty-fifty chance of having good intuition.

You bad! Lol

Today I trusted my gut and went left, too. Caused a head on collision but I got away

I don’t know enough about Paw Patrol!

Hahahahaha 🤣

My brother did this too!

I think this might be less to do with stupidity and more, does the child have experience being in trouble for things out of their control or accidental at home?

You should read the article. He had planned on going fishing but his wife told him about the search so he volunteered. While walking the path he was on forked, it was then that his "gut" told him to go left.

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You can't hide from him, the ultimate seeker.

Unfortunately, ChoMos know and exploit this fear.

Read it aloud with a Tiktok voice and it's fine

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Plot twist, when he said he trusted his guts, he was practising Haruspicy

I know I’m gonna see a political cheesy reference of this on twitter

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We found his skeleton 23 years later.

My mother tells a story about me that goes something like this:

When I was about your son's age, I apparently decided one day that I was tired and wanted a quiet place to nap, so I climbed into the lazy Susan cabinet with a pillow and blanket and slept in there.

Apparently my mother was looking for me for a solid couple hours because I'd tucked myself in the back corner.

I don't remember this happening but I can still bet I was comfy xD

A bit over dramatic. Each of the people searching constantly made choices over which way to look.

Humans naturally/subconsciously favour the left path when they come to a fork in the road.

Airtag your kids folks

Lol I know. It was a fork, 50/50 shot he'd choose the right way. So fucking stupid

“No matter where you’re hiding, I’m going to find you!”

So I’m probably being over-dramatic that gators are gonna eat me if I walk around in Florida? Or just a lucky kid?

You have no kids, right?

You can’t just say perchance

That's what the real psychopaths would say though.

Your joking write?

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Plenty of wild animals that would eat a kid in this specific area. I'm hoping it's a lucky kid and not an abandoned kid napping.

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If you wanna read something spooky, than read about Katherine Van Arst. A 8 year old Girl went missing for 6 Days in a national park. She was found around 7 air miles away and 600 feet higher than the place where she had originally disappeared. They estimate the distance you need to walk to get there to about 30 miles trough rough terrain. How she did that, with no outdoor experience and no equiptment at all, is still a mystery. Even why she went missing in the first place, is totally unclear.

My brother once did that except he wasn’t napping, just a prick lmao. Little 8 year old hiding under the cushions for hours whilst we freaked the fuck out

Everyone knows you're supposed to put another kid into the hole in the wall to scare the other one out. Rookie mistake.

I have been a part of some SAR searches. There sometimes comes a point in the search where it’s best to let the more experienced searches go on their own to cover more ground quickly.

As soon as the volunteer saw the child he immediately called the police!

Oh that's a sad story

No joke the best thing I did for my toddler’s safety is get an indoor camera with motion detection pointed at their door while they are napping and at night. You can tell when they’re up and which direction they went (toward kitchen, toward front door, whatever) when they left their room.

Our street is crawling with kids all summer, this happens weekly. But the kids do a good job keeping everyone informed, and the all parents have a group text.

I used my intuition and my gut said to look in all the places.

They make watch band style things for AirTags in toddler sizes. Whenever we go to super crowded areas (the beach, the fair, etc) we have my son wear his “watch” and he’s super excited about it. Doesn’t even want to take it off when we get home. Pretty easy and inexpensive peace of mind.

Love this subreddit tbh

My friends use one of those kids watches with gps enabled, and they can only call mom and dad

That's pretty smart. Could do a necklace too (but possibly dangerous due to strangulation risk idk I don't have a child), or ankle bracelet. Or just clip it to their ear like they do cows.

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Or keychain clipped to a belt loop if they’re wearing something with belt loops.

Luckily it was never my turn to go into the hole

Just have them eat it and you'll be good for a day or two.

My son has tried to leave the house multiple times, luckily our house security system announces when a door or window opens. Granted they know not to go far away and they stick to our yard.

I say a dude found a kid. The end.

“A man found a boy when the boy was lost.”

Yeah HCSO isn't known for their good performance. They insisted on searching my car for drugs one time and their reason was "you're tall, skinny, and work a trade job".

Will never live in Brooksville again. Some of the worst policing.

This child was found with one easy trick that rescue teams DONT want you to know!

A found that bit of detail a bit unnecesary for a title as it doesn't make the article more attractive to read. If he found the child, he obviously chose the correct path. It sounds like they are trying to imply the gug had some kind of supernatural ability.

Two year old in a diaper leaves the house while mother is asleep at 11 am. So heartwarming 🙄

I was gonna say, when we get our kids microchipped or just a neural implant this is gonna be as easy as Find My iPhone.

Nope. Just someone from Florida.

Hell yeah this is my county!!! We were so scared for the little boy. Some people feared the worst. Some thought the parents were in on it. I was looking at the articles and refreshed when it came up that they found him “1 minute ago” He was covered In scratches and bug bites but he was alive. The woods he got lost in were rather extensive for the area and covered in swamp. They figured he would have drowned by morning time. The dispatcher cried when officers radioed in saying they found little JJ. There were over 500 volunteers, so many the Sheriff told people they didn’t need more. There’s a go fund me for the man that found JJ and people are leaving flowers and balloons on his fence (with his families permission of course). Amazing story and so glad it turned out best case scenario.

Thank God the child is safe

According to the mom the kid wandered off at 10:40 while she was asleep. It would take more mental gymnastics to make that an ok situation for the kid than to jump to the conclusion that’s a bad situation for the kid to be in the first place.

Considering it's Florida the guy probably had him the whole time.

Can she not speak...? Or did she die?

With a title like that? 100% a bot

Hero!

i mean they could've probably also sent someone the other way at the fork too right????? this isn't a dungeon crawler lol

>(but possibly dangerous due to strangulation risk idk I don't have a child)

Bro, toddlers are suicide machines, you are not that far off.

Going right and left was also an option if they had so many volunteers

Last time I went left at a fork I ended up falling down a muddy embankment and hitting myself in the nuts with a stick (two separate incidents)