What could possibly go wrong?
Posted on 10/12/2011 1:38:31 PM PDT by bgill
A Massachusetts family got the Halloween scare of a lifetime by getting lost inside a dark and creepy Salem-area corn maze and had to call 911 for rescue.
Danvers police say they got a call of distress from a mother of two about 6:32 p.m. Monday. The woman alerted the 911 operator of their situation in the Connors Farm in Danvers, a short distance from Salem...
He said a Danvers police with a tracking dog quickly plunged into the depths of the maze with a farm manager to search for the disoriented dad, mom and two young kids.
Within a minute or so upon arrival, the police officer located the family. The family didn't realize they had almost made their way out; they were just 25 feet from the street, Connors said.
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Start with a czar or a regular cabinet department. Certainly they should need licenses, permits, inspections, audits, injunctions, raids.... With enough help from the government, they’ll be out of business pronto!
LOL She got tired of asking him to stop and ask for directions. ;)
What could possibly go wrong?
Yep, funny thing about corn, its planted in a straight line. (so farmers don’t get lost apparently) LOL
I refused to enter the maze in Hampton Court years ago - I knew I’d be there for a week.
All they had to do was follow the rows.
Yeah I’m usually not a fan of listening to 911 calls. They’re mostly just needless media porn.
In this case its just plain funny like idiots who call police because they’re out of weed or something.
I felt the same frustration over “The Blair Witch Project”.
They climbed UP a mountain to get there and got “lost”.
Why didn’t they just go back DOWN the mountain?
I live in the mountains and “up” and “down” are quite simple universal constants.
Ahh, lost in the maize maze
Kinda relates to the thread about Vancouver demanding men sit down to urinate.
Trivia: the witch hysteria actually occurred in “Salem Village”—what is now Danvers.
Salem of course benefits from huge tourism around Halloween,
including witch Laurie Cabot, proclaimed by Mike Dukakis as “the official witch of Salem”, or “the official fraud of
Salem” as a Salem-native friend of mine says.
What would the dog track, exactly? People have been walking through there all day.
[Police Officer]: Okay Police Dog Rex, "COWARDICE", go get it!
OK, how stupid are these people? Dad, put kid or mom if she’s not (ahem) fluffy on your shoulders. Corn is not that tall. You can see over it. Well, unless you’re a physical midget as well as a mental one. Where’s the edge of the maze, where are the buildings and parking lot? Walk in that direction. How hard is that? These are the idiots who end up sitting in the SuperDome or standing on a bridge, waiting for somebody to come and rescue them. Not a brain between the two of the adults.
I don’t know if the family saw that picture or a diagram of the maze but my thinking is if you kept walking in a certain line, you will reach either a group of trees or a big path.
There seems to be a footpath next to the trees. If you see the trees, go to the path and start walking around. Eventually you will wind up back at the start. Am I right?
I grew up playing in corn fields.
Always got home just fine.
Now the oat fields were a little bit iffier....:))
At least you won’t go hungry. There’s corn.
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