Posted on 10/12/2011 5:57:28 AM PDT by dead
DANVERS, Mass. — An evening stroll through a corn maze took a confusing turn Monday for a family that became disoriented in the rows of corn and called 911 to ask for help.
A father and mother with two children used their cellphone to call Danvers Police at 6:32 p.m. reporting that they were lost in the Connors Farm corn maze. Danvers Officer Justin Ellenton responded to the call and entered the corn maze with Connor’s Farm manager Ritchie Potter to search for the family.
Within nine minutes of entering the maze, Ellenton and Potter found the family. The family had almost found their way out; unbeknownst to them, they were only 25 feet from the street. Police were not releasing the name of the family.
The 7-acre corn maze is a challenging course, said owner of the farm, Bob Connor. This year’s course with a design cut into the corn of the “Salem Village Headless Horseman” may be trickier than years past Connor said. Other designs from previous years included “Eastwood,” with Clint Eastwood’s face emblazoned through the corn, and "Family Guy."
“We had a few people who got a bit lost last year, but they found their way out,” Connor said. “There is no wire or fence around the maze, so if they really want or need to get out all they have to do is listen for the sound of traffic.”
Connor said that the farm has a night security person on hand every night who stays until everybody leaves.
“We make sure there are no cars left in the parking lot. We don’t want to leave anybody behind in the maze,” Connor said. Connor had just left the farm for the evening when he got a call from a friend who had heard on the police scanner that somebody was stuck in the maze.
“They were a really nice family. We offered for them to come back on us and try the maze again – but I think they had enough,” Connors said.
Did they tell the dispatcher they were being stalked?
Seriously?? Just look at the sun and keep walking. You’ll get out of the corn eventually. Incredible. Wait until the collapse happens...
I'm not sure which is worse...the couple that called 911, or the news service that felt this merited a story.
Since they used a cell phone, they probably had high tech help in their hand. iPhone comes with a compass app already installed.
Many urban (and shockingly many suburban) dwellers know nothing of such things.
Someone needs to regulate these corn mazes before someone gets an alergy! /s
They should have waited for the "Children of the Corn" to come and help. On second thought, maybe that's why they were worried enough to dial 911.
Yeah, but I wouldn't want to walk through them (end up with a lot of cuts and scratchs) if I didn't have to. I'd just put one hand (virtually) out against one "wall", and keep it there while following the maze until I came out.
Must be Obama voters!
The instinct for survival has been successfully bred out of that group.
before knowingly entering a maze... learn the right-hand-rule (or wall follower)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_solving_algorithm#Wall_follower
An idiot that can get lost in a corn maze, and calls 911 for help in getting out.
25 feet from the road? Gimme a break.
This couple is pathetic, the call was pathetic and they were only 25 feet from the exit, morons.
There you go. Local news is reporting that the family is from Everett, which is a pretty gritty urban suburb just north of Boston. This family can probably navigate through a maze of humongous gas storage tanks, but are totally lost when there's no pavement or concrete beneath their feet.
And although this is a silly story, let's not look over the fact that it's emblematic of the sh*tty, scary direction in which this country is headed: a family freaked out and resorted to calling in outside help at taxpayer expense to get them out of a "problem" they could've solved themselves with the simple application of common sense and self-reliance. The husband of this family should chop off his manhood and turn it in to the local authorities. He won't be needing it again.
Truer words were never spoken. This happened a couple towns over from where I live. Central (M)assachusetts has been invaded by yuppy scumbags and McMansions. We’re talking about people that own homes in the NE without fireplaces. If and when the SHTF these people will be cannibalizing each other in their little Penny Lane neighborhoods.
Of all the stories spinning around that day, I don't remember that one at all. My favorite was Hillary demanding the VP's office because of it's location and not being allowed to have it.
Lost in a corn maze. Decision tree:
1. Walk between the stalks of corn to get out
2. Get the government to bail us out. Call 9-1-1
I now fully expect someone, in the near future, to call 9-1-1 to rescue them from a stalled escalator.
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