Stijn wrote:
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I don't want to sound mean, but this scout was 0-for-3. I imagine that the boy who got lost last year was, too, and that makes me question whether the troop leaders, camp staff, and council leadership really spend enough time drilling safety and woods-wisdom into the heads of their charges.
That's all fine and true. But do you know
how he got lost?
This little kid, with his poor sense of direction, could have gotten lost at night while he was on his way to/from the toilet? (Or tree.) I agree, he should have stayed put. But the Buddy System? Who would bother to wake someone up in the middle of the night, and ask them to come with you because you need to take a smurf?
Actually, according to new reports, he was last seen an hour before dinner. My guess is that it was still light out at that time.
I got this from an online news article,
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/55900 :
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Brennan did tell his parents that while he was lost he kept two Hawkins family mantras in his mind – stay on the trail and don’t talk to strangers.
“His biggest fear, he told me, was that someone would steal him,” said the boy’s mother, Jody, at a news conference outside the Hawkins home.
He was so worried that he avoided rescuers on horseback and ATVs who he thought to be strangers.
Brennan told his parents he did not eat or drink during the four days and at night he got into what he calls “midget mode,” crouched down with his sweatshirt pulled over his knees.
I still think shapu is correct in his thinking and the appropriate people, including his parents, could have done much better job in teaching this kid some basic survival skills. Such as, if lost, definitely stay on the trail, but don't keep walking. Stay right where you are. And, after 4 days, it is OK to take a risk and drink water from the river. Better to get a GI infection than to die from dehydration. And, most of all, if you get lost, most likely there will be people looking for you. If this happens, it is OK to talk to them, even if they are strangers.
And, perhaps, this kid, being the age that he was, really had no business being at this camp without a parent's supervision. After all, the kid wasn't old enough to be a Boy Scout. He was only there because his friend's father was working at the camp at the time. The friend, who was also still a Cub Scout, had invited him to go along. Yet, they seemed to be doing all of the stuff that the older, more experienced Boy Scouts were doing. Without, in my opinion, the supervision that their young age warranted.
Shollia wrote:
I'm glad he was found....
But from reading some of these comments...
It makes me wonder... is the boy like... not all there mentally?
Because come on... who is going to go missing and then NOT talk to a "stranger" when they get lost and see someone?
That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
That was my thought as well. However, maybe he became delirious from the lack of food and water.
If I ever let my daughter go to a camp of any kind, she is wearing a big, fat whistle around her neck!
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