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Family Lost in Corn Maze Calls 911
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I actually feel sorry for them because people are laughing at them. :( I can see how it would get scary if you're walking too slow and it gets dark. Plus you have kids with you. Sense of direction can fade especially when you begin to panic. <----trying to see things from their point of view :) |
I've been lost inside a huge corn maize before. Said corn maize was only open during daylight hours for this reason alone, people getting lost. But still, this time of year, if you go in at 4, and you don't have it figured out in 2 hours, then you're in the dark, and it gets horribly confusing. It wasn't such a big deal back then, because it was just a bunch of us teenagers, and we used the dark advantage to sneak a few make-out sessions. Said corn maize also had employees stationed throughout the maize, in case people got really lost. I can chuckle, and empathize with her too. She's an emotional mom because of a brand new baby, too (which wasn't very smart on their part).
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The only maze I wanna see is Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly.
I guess those kids were Children of the Corn. Badumdum...chhhhhhh...a corn maze ain't corny enough for me.... |
I'm reminded of the rule I learned as a child...keep your hand on the right side of the maze and you'll either find the exit or end up back at the entrance.
I've never gotten lost in a maze using this technique. |
or you can use the left side - i read about that somewhere
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I heard you could use your big toe.
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which way does your big toe go? left or right?
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The toe goes whichever way the wind blows my nose.
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You follow around the maze with your hand on the wall - if you hit a dead end you go right in one side and out the other
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I get it now.
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http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...7KWamRys6QaAtv That looks scary as hell. Perfect horror movie scene. Are we to assume that the walkable areas (like in this photo) are from the entrance to the exit? Or are there visibly walkable areas throughout the maze that do not lead to the entrance and exit? Jeepers Creepers. |
They are morons. Who brings a 3 week old baby to a corn maze? Why not walk inbetween the stalks? Or yell out? Lol. Makes no sense. That was a waste of a 911 emergency call.
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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". |
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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. |
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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).
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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.
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This is why they should hand out whistles to customers.
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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.
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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.
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