I'm tellin ya right now, my husband would have tackled me and stomped on teh phone before ever allowing me to call 911. How embarrassing! New York (WCVB/WCAX/CNN) - Most folks go to a cornfield maze to enjoy getting lost, but a family in Massachusetts got so lost and confused, that they called 911. To the rescue, the K-9 unit. You're lost in a giant cornfield maze, you don't know which way to turn, darkness is falling. Who ya gonna call? 911. "I'm really scared. It's really dark, and we got a three week old baby with us," said a Massachusetts woman in her 911 call. "Relax. Calm down. Your husband's with you, right?" said the dispatcher. "Yes, but my baby..." said the woman. You'd think she was being stalked by the corn. The woman, her husband and two kids got lost and called Danvers police an hour after the 6 p.m. closing time at the Conners Farm Maze. And we all know from the movies how spooky cornfields can get, especially after dark, when you fall into the clutches of demonic corn. "We thought this would be fun. Instead, it's a nightmare," said the woman. "Can I talk to your husband?" asked the dispatcher. The dispatcher told the man to yell to the K-9 unit that was arriving at the maze to look for the lost family. At one point the lost dad took the dispatcher so literally he even repeated the "say". Finally, toward the end of the seven and a half minute call, the K-9 unit officer said he found the family about 25 feet from the entrance. If they get this lost in a corn maze, next thing you know they'll be calling 911 from the maze at Ikea. The manager of the farm offered the couple free tickets to come back again. They didn't answer, but their faces said no.
im sure i saw that on the simpsons. Why didnt they just walk THROUGH the corn and out? But if that wasnt possible then i guess yes the police are apropriate if they couldnt call a staff member.
because they are stupid. The 911 operator told the dad "say, 'we're over here'. The dad said "say, we're over here" stupid stupid.
to be honest it sounds more like they were panicing. Trust me i have herd some REALLY stupid things said in a 000 call because people are in distress. When they sit back and think on it latter it apears stupid to them but in that moment *shrug*
There is no law against stupidity. And stupid people need help too. (so they can make more stupid people) I mean whom would you call? National Geography?
Yes to most of the above. Strange panics these days. Perhaps our lives our complex but too sheltered. Once, driving back east after midnight in a blowing snowstorm, I went off the road. I was following someone else's tire tracks in the snow and for some reason he'd had a dart at the guardrail...then disappeared... That fact struck me as a little odd in the millisecond I had to think about it, although it's likely he started to go off, slowly, then stopped and backedup, and so I jerked the wheel, spun, overcorrected, and round and after that it was a Dead or Alive song. So disgusted was I that I willed the car to hit the lightpole as hard as I could, and when that failed I went into the long, sloping snow-filled ditch in the centre of the lanes, coming to rest thirty feet down at about a thirty degree angle, but otherwise completely unharmed. Except for being stranded in the pitch black of a blowing snowstorm with nothing but an emergency shovel and no proper hat. Anyway, long story short, I got out the shovel o' freedom and dug myself a path in the two feet of snow on the angle, then dug a back-path to back up onto the opposite slope for a little extra speed, backed up and got out. Someone actually did stop at this point and I had to gesture him out of the way, although I'm sure my approaching headlights did most of the talking for me. Perhaps the failure of self-reliance is caused by the hope that someone was coming. I knew no one was coming (although I was wrong) and so I just did it myself. Or maybe we really are sheep.
That's right. Say what you want about country bumpkins, but all that inbreeding--it's like it gives ya an internal compass!
I was in a wood maze one time and we got disoriented . It was not that big either . I was just starting to contemplate kicking some boards out to get threw when we found the exit . We repeated some ares that was for sure . People get lost in the woods a lot . You would be surprised how easy it is to follow out a ridge and end up in the wrong drainage . You can get disoriented real fast . People get lost in hunting season ( which is right now until that week end after Thanksgiving ) last day of November for all you Fornicators outside the U.S. . When the snow is on people can die if they don't know what there doing . Yeah I got a built in compass . I usually know were I am . There is one lake that disorients Me < Crist Lake up 9 mile drainage . Pronounced Christ. That is how the Locals say it . I don't know why . I even look at the topo map and still can't orientate my self . It just feels like west is north . I think it is the road going in that cause the effect . It might just be me too. My brother and my old star employee Brian did not seem to be affected . I been a lot of places in the deep wood and have never had that happen Driving illusions . Have you had that before . Were you are driving up hill but because of the changes in the surrounding mountainous area you are positive you going down hill . Or the opposite .Going down hill but it sure looks like it is up hill
