Re: Boy, 4, breaks into Texas store, plays with toy
I think it was a major overreaction on the child protection agency who insisted that the child not stay with his parents. My eldest was a wanderer I couldn't even go to the bathroom without checking the deadlocks were on or he would be gone, and when he started sleep walking it was even worse. We were lucky, he never walked off at night time but he did go missing for 3 hours when he was about 3 yrs old. And the police would have found me out looking too. When I rang the police they told me to give them a neighbours ph number and when I rang her to tell her what I had done, she said, Gregs been here for the last 2 hours. Rang the police back but couldn't get my dad he turned up a few minutes later, he had driven a 35 minute trip in 13 minutes, as he said if the cops wanted to follow him, good, we needed them to help search. That was the first time I saw my father cry, he was so relieved that his grandson was safe. (My neighbour thought I knew where Greg was bc when he had wandered over to her house she rang and got my boarder and he never thought to leave me a note.) We still don't know where he was for the first hour tho.
I'm sure those parents will never sleep soundly again, so why punish everybody by seperating them this close to xmas
And the toddler didn't even break in, he opened an unlocked door and walked in, thats not breaking and entering, that is the shopkeeper being careless and not locking the blasted door. Just as well he did tho bc otherwise the little boy could have wandered off god knows where and then this story would have been tragic instead of infuriating.
