Or you could use your wand to fire a red spark up into the air like they did in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! Oh, I'm the only one with a wand? Nevermind then...

BBoDDD is right, though. It was pretty dumb to bring a 3 week old baby to a corn maze. Plus, I seriously doubt the baby was scared.

Anyone watch "Bones"? There's an awesome episode where an actual mummified body is found in a corn maze.

This whole thread reminds me of this... :)

http://images.google.com/imgres?q=th...1t:429,r:0,s:0

I should probably throw in a disclaimer that this (while fake) a bit...startling... Especially if you haven't seen "The Shining".

That was my thought! *grabs wand and yells "Periculum!"*

In fact, if I do a corn maze this year (never have but it looks fun) I think I'll bring my wand with me. Swishing it makes the tip light up so it's been useful when I've been places and the lights went out.

Yeah, I'd probably try to figure out how to get my husband to take my older child to the corn maze without me and the baby. I think the article said she was a mother of two. However, we don't know the family's dynamic. The husband may be the older child's stepfather, etc. Also, the mother may have been trying to do something fun with the older child to show that she still has time for/loves him/her.

I'd get freaked out myself if I were lost in one of those things, and it was getting dark. I think I'd be calling out loud for help from an employee rather than 911, though. You'd think that it would be standard closing procedure to walk all through the maze to make sure everyone made it out before leaving the premises, but what makes sense isn't always what's done.

First thing that popped in my head was why didn't they use their right hand trick to get out. I thought that was common knowledge... or maybe it was something I learned from a movie.

I feel like they overreacted. Yes it could have been scary to be lost in the maze but to the point of calling 911? Was there no one else in the entire maze that they could have got help from?

I never heard the right hand thing.

However, I got an email from Alpha Gam Sister-Daughter today (lil sis in other orgs) and she lives in Danvers now and went to that cornmaze on Sunday. She and her boyfriend found their way out relatively easily in about an hour and 15 minutes. She thinks it was pretty funny that they freaked out so quickly.

I have also never heard the right hand thing (though I have never been in a life-size maze either).

I don't know if they freaked out quickly. I read they had been there for an hour after the maze closed.


Also, they were found 8m from the edge of the maze

I have never been in a maze so don't know where I got the right hand thing from.

LOL! SAME! I just didn't type it.

This is why they should hand out whistles to customers.

I've been in plenty of corn mazes and never found them very hard to figure out. My first thought when I heard this story was "Why didn't they just pick a direction, then walk straight through the walls?!" They were found only 25 feet from the street just outside the maze.

A group of students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences build a corn maze as a fundraiser. Students are there selling maps for $1 but they also have other students in the maze keeping an eye on things and encourage people to bring their cellphones to call maze helpers when people get lost.

And somehow, I am on my way to my first corn maze. Yes, my wand is with me. These people are not having my Black behind running around in a doggone corn field at night, I'M BRINGING LIGHTS.