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ackillesBAC t1_j9yikfk wrote

Reply to comment by XtremeWRATH360 in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

Our street is crawling with kids all summer, this happens weekly. But the kids do a good job keeping everyone informed, and the all parents have a group text.

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escrimadragon t1_j9yigse wrote

Reply to comment by UltraInstinctLurker in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

No joke the best thing I did for my toddler’s safety is get an indoor camera with motion detection pointed at their door while they are napping and at night. You can tell when they’re up and which direction they went (toward kitchen, toward front door, whatever) when they left their room.

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Jellodyne t1_j9yibga wrote

Reply to comment by paddywacknack in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

As soon as the volunteer saw the child he immediately called the police!

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AsYooouWish t1_j9yi340 wrote

Reply to comment by IRMacGuyver in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

I have been a part of some SAR searches. There sometimes comes a point in the search where it’s best to let the more experienced searches go on their own to cover more ground quickly.

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AnxiousBeaver212 t1_j9yhjs1 wrote

Reply to comment by cybercuzco in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

Everyone knows you're supposed to put another kid into the hole in the wall to scare the other one out. Rookie mistake.

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MrSpindles t1_j9yhj6e wrote

Reply to comment by Ange1ofD4rkness in Yungblud says he will provide a mental health safe space for fans on tour by TheScaryWatchdog

I had a panic attack in the crowd at a gig last summer, was a bit of a nightmare getting myself out (it was the Paul McCartney headline set at Glastonbury so a huge crowd of perhaps 100k). Sometimes these things can just happen out of the blue, almost without reason, it wasn't like it was a rowdy crowd or anything, just bang! panic attack! I managed to get myself out of the back of the crowd and to somewhere quiet to ride it out.

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jeffe_el_jefe t1_j9yh2ug wrote

Reply to comment by Chappietime in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

My brother once did that except he wasn’t napping, just a prick lmao. Little 8 year old hiding under the cushions for hours whilst we freaked the fuck out

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Maxtasy76 t1_j9ygyik wrote

Reply to A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

If you wanna read something spooky, than read about Katherine Van Arst. A 8 year old Girl went missing for 6 Days in a national park. She was found around 7 air miles away and 600 feet higher than the place where she had originally disappeared. They estimate the distance you need to walk to get there to about 30 miles trough rough terrain. How she did that, with no outdoor experience and no equiptment at all, is still a mystery. Even why she went missing in the first place, is totally unclear.

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littleferrhis t1_j9ygmpw wrote

Reply to comment by kynthrus in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

It makes no economic sense to do so. Say you have buttfuck nowhere station, and you want to bring it to buttfuck somewhere station. Buttfuck Nowhere has a population of 3000. To get to buttfuck somewhere station it is 50 miles.

For this project in California its some 200 million per mile. That’s a low estimate, but it is in Cali. So we’ll be extra gracious and call it 100 mil per mile. 100 mil per mile for 50 miles is now a 5 billion dollar project not counting upkeep. Now how are they, either the government or a business going to make a return on their investment for 3000 farmers who maybe say 50 will use it on any given day for a fee of 20 bucks(which low fees are why someone would take it over car), and that’s being gracious as well because farmers don’t really need to leave their farm every day to go to the bigger city.

Thats 1000 bucks a day for a 5 billion dollar project. 365k a year. Now how much is the for the planet excuse going to work when there’s a .000073% return on investment in the first year?

Now if we’re talking a small town with a population of 3 mil to a population of 50 mil like in China it totally makes sense to have HSR. Not in the U.S..

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Ave_TechSenger t1_j9ygllo wrote

Reply to comment by littleferrhis in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

Here’s the thing.

Japan has most of its population centralized in a few cities but still has HSR and standard rail options to the boonies. It’s pretty sparsely populated outside of those cities. The difference is that infrastructure including public transit is seen as a necessary public service in much of the world, cities and spaces are typically more pedestrian and bicycle friendly, etc.

China’s gotten there too. 20ish years ago, there was no train line to my hometown (with a population of about 20,000 and century old homes that still had unused open sewers repurposed as storm drains). We took a 6 hour bus from Shenzhen, then a 2 hour car ride. 15ish years ago, they put in a rail line to a nearby city (Chaozhou), so 3 hours on a train and 1 hour by car. 8 years ago, a maglev line was completed with a stop 15 minutes’ drive from the grandparents’ house, cutting total transit time to like 90 minutes from Shenzhen.

Here in the US, we do have very sparsely populated areas that this wouldn’t make sense in such as the plains, the Dakotas, etc. But certain circuits would make sense such as the coasts, regional hubs such as around Chicago, etc. would maybe be feasible along with connecting lines to link major hubs over distances. It would be seen as government bloat, anti/car, etc. most likely and those would be political obstacles…

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mistahelias t1_j9yg781 wrote

Reply to comment by PBB22 in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

Plenty of wild animals that would eat a kid in this specific area. I'm hoping it's a lucky kid and not an abandoned kid napping.

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