It’s the same boring sophomoric observation made by equally boring and vapid people. No shit working at 80 sucks, what does that have to do with this man getting a quarter million dollars in response?

Here’s a news flash for you: nobody forces a fucking 80 year old to do anything, if he really didn’t want to work he would’ve said so.

This child was found with one easy trick that rescue teams DONT want you to know!

Yeah HCSO isn't known for their good performance. They insisted on searching my car for drugs one time and their reason was "you're tall, skinny, and work a trade job".

Will never live in Brooksville again. Some of the worst policing.

“A man found a boy when the boy was lost.”

I say a dude found a kid. The end.

[removed]

Yeah maybe we should do a lot of awesome things but until that’s the reality we can take some small victories here and there.

My son has tried to leave the house multiple times, luckily our house security system announces when a door or window opens. Granted they know not to go far away and they stick to our yard.

It would be great for California to have high speed rail! It’d facilitate travel across the state so much easily.

Just have them eat it and you'll be good for a day or two.

Luckily it was never my turn to go into the hole

I don't see this as a situation where the government has failed. I see it as one where the culture has failed.

See I totally agree with that. Standard Gauge rail has worked in the U.S. over small populations in the past, and has proven to work in countries with higher population dispersions like Russia. It’s in fact working really well right now with cargo rail.

If I wanted to go forward with a plan to bring rail back into common use with the U.S. I would go to CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, etc. and propose government subsidized passenger cars/trains on their trains to government owned stations along their routes. The routes are already there, the U.S. already has one of the largest cargo rail networks in the world. The cost would be relatively minimal for these companies, the real question is how much profit is there to be gained from it? The problem with Amtrak is its sharing the cargo rail for passenger service, essentially competing with the cargo companies on their rail. The key would be to work with these companies so that they make them a priority.

This guy was talking about HSR across the U.S., which is laughable given our population dispersion.

I don't think trains or hsr have to make any economic sense. They're a public service. The less cars they have out on the road the better.

We spend so damn much on highway maintenance here in California and no one bats an eye because it's a public service.

Or keychain clipped to a belt loop if they’re wearing something with belt loops.

From the article:

In total, 15 mammals, eight birds, four frogs, one reptile and one fish were found to have made varying degrees of recovery, including the humpback whale, which was delisted by the government's scientific panel last year. "These species were in severe and rapid declines, such that extinctions within decades were very real possibilities for many," Dr Woinarski said.

She already said her very first thought was to kill herself. Spiraling down a path where you think your dead son is talking to you may end with her creating a conversation where he "tells" her to die and be with him. That's probably not likely, but it's entirely possible. There are plenty of other bad situations that could come from the psychosis of truly believing a dead person is talking to you.

Again, I don't know if all that is true, which is why I keep suggesting a psychologist deals with this, not us, not some random person making a phone booth in a park.

[deleted]

That's pretty smart. Could do a necklace too (but possibly dangerous due to strangulation risk idk I don't have a child), or ankle bracelet. Or just clip it to their ear like they do cows.

My friends use one of those kids watches with gps enabled, and they can only call mom and dad

How much is this supposed to cost?

Love this subreddit tbh

They make watch band style things for AirTags in toddler sizes. Whenever we go to super crowded areas (the beach, the fair, etc) we have my son wear his “watch” and he’s super excited about it. Doesn’t even want to take it off when we get home. Pretty easy and inexpensive peace of mind.

Federal money is used for the war. California themselves uses state money to build the high speed rail. It seems like money wasn’t the issue for this HSR. Too many land rights and bad planning. We invested most of our money in airports instead. Look at how many airports we have compared to rest of the world. Think we have more than the next 5 countries combined

I used my intuition and my gut said to look in all the places.