[Stoat]

a FR thread from 2005:

Boy, 5, in cake run

A PECKISH five-year-old boy slipped unnoticed from his school and took a bus to the local supermarket to buy cake.

[Stoat]

"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.

[bvw]

Hooray for three year olds!

[John123]

Oh yeah... I did this too... when I was 39 years old...

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

FREERIDER PING????

[johnthebaptistmoore]

This also sounds like something that Indiana Jones, as a toddler, would do.

[Arthalion]

Mr. Brown took an awful chance when he put the kid in his truck and took him back home. If the parents had already discovered the kid missing and called the police, he'd have had a heck of a time convincing them that he wasn't a kidnapper. What if the police had spotted him in the truck before he even reached the house? I'm glad it turned out well, but that was a very poor choice on his part.

"Sure. You expect us to believe that this three year old walked an entire mile to the store and nobody saw him? And you were just kindly driving him home?"

Should anyone ever stumble upon a lost kid like this, the smart thing to do is to sit the kid down and call the police from the place where the kid was found. Keep the kid safe, but let the police deal with taking him home.

[TexasCajun]

I feel your pain kid!

[lafroste]

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.

[Xenalyte]

Do Brits not speak in contractions? Or does the Brit media have a bias against them?

[krb]

Ambien kid?

[RichInOC]

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.

[Manic_Episode]

When my kid was 3 we had to get him back from the police more than once. He would occasionally climb the fence in the back yard when Mother was distracted and would sneak to the park about 4 blocks away.
Someone always called the police immediately because he stood out like a sore thumb.

He was the only white kid in the entire busy park and there were no matching parents.

At least it wasn't 3am.

[JRios1968]

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.

[Tired of Taxes]

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.

[r9etb]

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.

[TNdandelion]

LOL When I was 5, I left school one day and walked home by myself. I didn’t feel well after lunch and while we were outside at recess, I asked to go in to use the restroom and then decided I needed to go home. I just got my things and walked out the door. Unfortunately, my mother was not home so I had to sit in the front yard for a bit. She was shocked.

[Linden1209]

I could have never done that; was not allowed to cross the street.

[Daffynition]

Fantastic story. I can understand completely.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Have the authorities put Max on Ritalin yet?

[Tainan]

Hey...its chocolate...ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

Lovely looking village.