A few weeks ago my wife and I were coming home and noticed a young girl walking down the street by herself, maybe 5 or 6 years old.
We turned back around and by the time we reached her she was another several hundred yards down the road, no one in sight. We pulled over, shut off the car, got out and tried to talk to her, figuring out what’s going on. She didn’t know her last name, her parent’s name, her address, where she came from, nothing. She didn’t know whether she had brothers or sisters or a dad. She gave conflicting answers. it was crazy.
She wanted to get in our car! But we said oh hell no. I called police. They came out within about 15 minutes. As I prepared for the police officer to shoot me, neighbors were driving by whispering about our abduction of a child.
After the officer also struck out asking her questions I got the bright idea to post the situation and her first name on Facebook. Within 10 minutes I think we had a thousand houses in the neighborhood trying to figure out who she was. I got contacted by the PTA. Nuts.
We finally left her with the police officer. When we drove back by an hour later we ran into the cop and he said the parents were at dinner when their Facebook blew up with info about their daughter. They rushed back home. Babysitter had their head up their ass and hadn’t noticed she slipped out and was gone.