Missing 9-year-old boy is found after spending two nights lost in the woods with no shoes or jacket
Message:Was rather happy to see this. He even scrounged a tarp to make a shelter. I thought okay, rural boy makes good.
Then I read on...he was three-quarters of a mile away from his home!
WTF?!? A boy who hasn't explored a ten mile radius around his home? In my day we entered every vacant house and climbed every tree in every forested lot. We rafted creeks and dammed-up the stream after. We built forts above and under the ground. We started fires. We ran away from home. We smashed pennies on train tracks. We went wild on Halloween and every day before and after. With a bike we could roam a hundred miles to Bull Run through farm country. The only thing we feared was draft dodging hippies and the neighbor's ten feral dogs.
A pox on this kid and his family. Three quarters of a mile? I can shite a length longer than that without even a second course of red beans.
Glad he's well. Needs a scout manual to pour over, but today it would be just a bunch of links to YouTube ads for towed campers.
Yours,
IronRed
18-Nov-2020