Posted on 03/17/2017 12:51:01 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Moment hero bus driver rescues lost five-year-old boy wandering the freezing streets of Milwaukee in the middle of the night
A kindhearted bus driver saved the life of a crying little boy who was wandering the streets of Milwaukee on a cold January night.
Milwaukee County Transit System bus driver Denise Wilson was pulling over for a break around midnight on January 28 when she noticed the five-year-old boy dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and socks.
'He came out of nowhere out of nowhere. I just happened to look over and heard him crying and he was just running up Center [Street],' Wilson told WISN-TV.
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Authorities are not investigating the family? How does this child wander out of a house? Don’t the doors have locks?
If being called a “hero” by the media helps motivate society to do common-sense good deeds, which should come from any normal human conscience - then so be it.
But the driver herself admitted there was nothing “heroic” about her actions.
The boy was probably sleep walking and woke up out on the street not knowing where he was.
What a nice story. This is how a community is supposed to work. An adult sees an unaccompanied child wandering around, the adult’s instinct should be to help the child. Exactly what she did. And as she points out, she’s not a hero. Just doing the right thing. Contrast this to the story the other day about the guy who got beat up for offering to help pay for someone’s meal and then the other patrons at the restaurant just walked over him to order their food.
Could be a million things. The usual crappy mom but even other factors. Kids sleepwalking for instance, have know kids to do this right out the front door even in dead of winter.
“The boy was probably sleep walking and woke up out on the street not knowing where he was.”
Was thinking the same thing. Have seen kids to this. The way the kid looked in that video, I’d say he was in shock as to where he was and how he got there.
When I was at summer camp as a kid other girls in the cabin would do stuff like that. Just get up out of their bunks, walk clear across the yard, down to the creek and stop dead at the water’s edge. It was creepy. When caught the camp staff would simply turn them around and say “go back to bed” and they would! In a daze but they would.
It happens. I was on a run one day when I saw a neighbor 3 year old alone in the street. I asked him where he lived and he ran home. Then I saw a dog and figured that it was part of the same adventure. When I took the dog home Mom was horrified to find out the kid had gotten out too. They put slide locks 5 feet up to stop the little runner and he figured out how to defeat those too.
My brother used to sleep walk himself out of the top bunk without climbing down the ladder. After few falls my dad moved him to the lower bunk.
Have you ever been a parent?
Kids can figure out door locks and medicine bottle lids in s heartbeat.
I did sleepwalk when I was younger but not anymore as I’m older. Cant explain it. My brothers and aunts would sometimes see me in the corner at night staring at them and they would scream thinking I’m a ghost LOL. Once I reach 15?, I stopped doing it. Weird.
Hero bus driver!
If being called a “hero” by the media helps motivate society to do common-sense good deeds,
Both of our boys walked out of the locked house when they were little ones. Honest to goodness, this happens.
Even if no creeps got hold of him, hypothermia, getting hit by a drunk driver, and so on - the list of horrors is endless. I raise a toast to the bus driver who got involved!
A 5 y.o. can open a door. But what compels a 5 y.o. to leave the house at that time is the real questionr.
He wanted to see what was going on.
And thereby risk being accused of kidnapping and molestation. Yes, I'd take the risk, but I'd be extremely upset if questioned like a perp. Probably end up jailed for smacking a cop in the chops.
I have no memory of it, but my parents told me when I was about 8 years old I hopped out of bed one night about 11:00 and proceeded out the front door in 30 degree weather to go feed the chickens. I had on a nightgown and no shoes. They followed me out and asked me what I was doing and I told them I was feeding the chickens. The chicken house was out the back door and I’d fed them hours earlier. They took me by the hand and walked me back into the house and tucked me back into bed. I remembered nothing of the adventure the next morning.
My youngest brother was a sleep walker, one night my mother thought she had caught him before he went out the door. That is, until she picked him up and his legs were wet up to his knees. He had returned all by himself from wherever he had been. Thank goodness the dogs legs were also wet from the dew, so we figured they all went out together for an adventure. Locked doors were no problem for him. He was about five at the time.
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