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NBC: Missing Boy Scout found alive after disappearing in N. Carolina woods.
Posted on 03/20/2007 8:15:14 AM PDT by Lonely NY Conservative
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TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: adhd; boyscout; ritalin; slownewsday
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To: Fairview
"The concensus was that the boy had been taken by a lion. "
Oh, yeah kind of like man made global warming.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:21:02 AM PDT
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(A day in the country is better than a week in town.)
To: ExSoldier
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:21:04 AM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
To: martinidon
Why would he need to go into the woods to "hide" from a scout leader? He wandered right after lunch time when the entire group - the ones who went on the hike from which Michael stayed behind and who had returned from the hike, plus Michael and the scout leader who had stayed behind as well - had come together for the noon meal. He was surrounded by everyone who was on the campout.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:21:15 AM PDT
by
txrangerette
(Congressman Duncan Hunter for POTUS...check him out!!)
To: martinidon
"Maybe he was trying to hide from a scout leader......."
That was my first thought, too, when he disappeared, and they said he stayed behind with an adult and didn't go on the hike that morning. Then today, when I read that he had attention deficit disorder, I thought, well maybe I was being too suspicious....
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:22:18 AM PDT
by
toldyou
To: Victoria Delsoul
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:22:45 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: estrogen
That is what the main stream press wants you to believe.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:24:07 AM PDT
by
Sertorius
(A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
To: Joe 6-pack
Wrong party of the state. Eric's roam region was South of Asheville.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:25:23 AM PDT
by
geo40xyz
(Born a democRAT, Dad set me free in 1952: He said that I was not required to be a MF'ing democRAT)
To: Fairview
You're obviously not a mommy. I am, and my 12-year-old Boy Scout is not a "little child." He's a young man who is as tall as I am ... well, that was yesterday - he's probably taller today.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:26:49 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("James doesn't want to, 'Go away, please, James,' !!!" said James.)
To: mplsconservative
"They were discussing the search for Rudolph, not the search for this Boy Scout."
Thanks...I should have looked more closely. I realized it a few seconds after I posted, and then corrected myself.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:27:32 AM PDT
by
toldyou
To: Mr. Brightside
...from Whom all goodness flows.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:29:24 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
To: txrangerette
I just think there is more to this story. I have spent a lot of time in the woods and mountains. If this kid was only a 1/2 mile from the camp site, which makes sense because they said it was rugged terrain; how could 70 plus searchers swarming that area calling out for this boy and the boy not respond? Maybe the boy did not want to be found or maybe he was scared. Something is just not right.
To: Lonely NY Conservative
The President Lyndon Baines Johnson's signature on my Eagle Scout certificate back in 1968 is seared, seared into my mind...
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:31:08 AM PDT
by
FDNYRHEROES
(Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
To: Lando Lincoln
Our local Boy Scout camp has a dining hall with a 100' long front porch. Early for a meeting there one time, I noticed a sign that read something like - learn your pace, 100 feet. In a minute or two it hit me. It takes me 44 steps to walk 100 feet. I thought at the time, what a cool thing to teach children.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:32:07 AM PDT
by
Quilla
To: estrogen
I was worried that the poor boy had been accosted by the scout leader ( what a crazy world that I would even think that) I am so thankful he is allright. I have a 12 yr. old grandson and can't help but think how scared he would be.
Thank You Lord
I had the same fear. And that raises a very important issue which will no-doubt become more vocalized now that he is safe (Thank and Praise God!). Boy Scouts of America rules prohibit ever allowing an adult leader to be alone with a scout. It is one of the most fundamental rules of scouting. It's called "2-deep Leadership" and it protects the child as well as the adult. It demands that there always be 2 adults minimum present with a child. In reality, it legally protects the BSA more than anything else. But in cases such as this one, it would have made it less likely that the child could have wandered off un-noticed, and it would have largely prevented suspicions such as the ones you and I had. I suspect that law-suits will come out of this that could have been avoided if 2-deep leadership had been complied with.
To: Fairview
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:36:57 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Ron/GA
Little boys with too much energy typically make great gymnasts. No kidding. (My father-in-law still holds the NCAA record in mens gymnastics.)
To: Lonely NY Conservative
I can't tell you how happy I am to log in and see your post with this wonderful news.
To: betsyross1776
Get real,everything is done by God! Don't get me going on you people who do not know that. Only answer is some day you WILL! God did not put my socks on for me this morning. He did give me the ability to earn the money to buy them and a brain and body that know how to do it.
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:41:02 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
To: SubGeniusX
But he will get:
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:43:51 AM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
(Past the schoolhouse / Take it slow / Let the little / Shavers grow / BURMA-SHAVE)
To: don-o
And a wife to wash, dry, and place them in your drawer :-).
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posted on
03/20/2007 9:44:59 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("James doesn't want to, 'Go away, please, James,' !!!" said James.)
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