"I'm still shaking from shock after all this."
Posted on 08/07/2008 12:06:46 PM PDT by Stoat
A PECKISH five-year-old boy slipped unnoticed from his school and took a bus to the local supermarket to buy cake.
"I'm still shaking from shock after all this."
Every parent's nightmare.
Hooray for three year olds!
“”When the police arrived it was an awful shock. They said they had found my son.
“I’m still shaking from shock after all this.”
Every parent’s nightmare.”
Lucky for them that’s all it was, and now it’s over. It could have been a nightmare that never ended.
Flash Jr. 1.0 turns three on Sunday.
Oh yeah... I did this too... when I was 39 years old...
FREERIDER PING????
This also sounds like something that Indiana Jones, as a toddler, would do.
I feel your pain kid!
Which is why all our exterior doors have safety chain locks placed way up high where our fearless 3 year old can’t get to them.
Do Brits not speak in contractions? Or does the Brit media have a bias against them?
Ambien kid?
1. If Cadbury doesn’t sign Max up for an endorsement deal yesterday, they’re knuckleheads.
2. If the Army doesn’t keep an eye on this kid and try to get him in when he’s old enough, they’re even bigger knuckleheads. A three-year-old who’s got the stones to go out on a candy run at 3 in the morning has a good shot to grow up into the kind of guy that walks out of Buckingham Palace one day with the VC pinned on his SAS dress uni.
He was the only white kid in the entire busy park and there were no matching parents.
At least it wasn't 3am.
My 2-year old is a prime candidate to try something like this.
We have already found the 6-year old playing across the street with the neighbor kids when he was supposed to be taking a nap.
A family around my way had their child taken away from them for escaping the house while they slept in the early morning hours. Thanks to news coverage, there was such an uproar that the child was returned to them the next day.
In retrospect, LOL! Typical little kid thing. Glad the little guy is OK ... and since it turned out fine, this is a story his family will enjoy telling for many years to come.
Absolutely! That jumped right out at me as well. You really don’t want to get caught with a little kid in your vehicle when his parents don’t know you and have no idea the kid is with you — even at 4 in the afternoon. If you’re actually acquainted with the family, it MIGHT make sense to take the kid home in your vehicle without calling police. Even then, it’s risky.
Very true. Amazing that the kid actually found the store, since it was a whole mile from his home. I was a pretty precocious tot (though not in such an adventurous way — I was a little GIRL), but I seriously doubt I could have found my way to any pre-chosen destination that far from my home. As far as I was concerned, the only way to get to the grocery store was to go out and get in the car in the driveway (with mom) and wait until the store came into view. I did once make it across the street and one door down to a playmate’s house when I was three.
And it's not often that family stories can be augmented by numerous national newspaper articles....this story is being carried by at least 17 papers at the moment, and it's only a few hours old. Here are just a few:
Toddler walked 1.5 miles at 3am to find sweets - Telegraph
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