Lost in a corm maze... Really?

[hemibee]

A couple got lost in a corn field and had to call 911 to get police to find them. I thought this had to be a joke but they really were lost, Bless Their Hearts.

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Boston Herald

Police rescue couple with baby who couldn’t find way out of Danvers corn maze

By Deborah Netburn / Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

LOS ANGELES — Getting lost in a corn maze is supposed to be fun.

But it turned into a nightmare for a Massachusetts couple who got so turned around that they had to be rescued by the police.

It all started late Monday afternoon, when the couple entered a corn maze at Connors Farm in Danvers, Mass., about 23 miles north of Boston.

After about an hour in the maze, darkness began to fall. The couple, who were there with their 3-week-old baby, could not find a way out. As the mosquitoes started to descend, they placed a desperate call to 911 asking to be rescued.

The Danvers police released audio of the call. Here’s an edited transcript:

Woman in tears: "Hi, I just called. I’m still stuck at Connors Farms. I don’t see anybody. I’m really scared. It’s really dark and we’ve got a 3-week-old."

Police officer: "Your husband is with you?"

Woman: "Yes. But my baby..."

Police officer: "A police officer is on the way. Can you put your husband on the phone?"

Husband: "I see lights over there at the place, but we can’t get there, we’re smack right in the middle of the cornfield."

Woman: "I don’t know what made us do this. It was daytime when we came in. We thought if we came in someone would come in and find us... We can hear (the police officers) ... Oh, my goodness. The mosquitoes are eating us alive, and I never took my daughter out, this is the first time. Never again."

Woman: "This is embarrassing."

By the end of the seven-minute call, a K-9 unit had found the couple.

Kamille Combs, marketing director for the Utah-based company the Maize, which designed the Connors Farm maze, said the company’s average corn maze is 8 to 10 acres and it takes the average person 45 minutes to complete the maze.

She said the company usually breaks its mazes into three different phases "because some people want that ultimate challenge, and others are happy after 20 minutes."

She said she’d never heard of someone needing to be rescued by the police from a corn maze before.

 

[otherwise]

Should have left them overnight, they probably would have worked it out the next day. All part of growing up and these parents sure haven't grown up yet. Next thing in this BS world they will ban all corn maze activity because of two numbnuts.

 

[Dilligaf]

No comment

 

[The Seeker]

Corn is planted in rows. How hard would it be to follow a row until you came the end of the corn field?

 

[DaveM]

AJ this one seems to be made to be one of those mazes type setup and was planted in a puzzle type fashion.You can see it from the air in the video.

 

[Gromit]

I agree - BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS!

 

[Ksquared]

I'm fortunate - have been blessed with an unerring sense of direction. I can't explain it and neither can anyone else who knows me, but i can honestly say that I've never been lost in my life.

Strangely, one of my sons, my eldest, has the same thing while the other could get lost in the garage. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

 

[Gromit]

Don't joke about it - we sometimes call petrol/gas stations 'garages' too and I got lost in the forecourt of a garage, took the entrance out instead of the exit, and took off in the complete opposite direction to the rest of the RAT riders - who were rolling around the forecourt laughing. Farside had to quick jump on his bike and come chasing after me and get me facing in the right direction! :y11:

 

[CarlS]

First off, these were city slickers. They have no concept of how corn is panted. I doubt if they even observed that corn is planted in rows and in which direction the rows are running when they entered the maze. Secondly, they probably do not enough about tracking to observe the most traveled paths in the maze. Obviously they panicked instead of using their brains.
I, too, am blessed with a very good sense of direction. I do most of my adventure riding and traveling in general without a compass or a GPS. I do have a map generally. Mae Lyne, on the other hand, had no sense of direction. She could get lost in a parking lot. I was able to tech her how to find her directions outdoors. She would tell me “I don’t need a sense of direction; that’s what I have you for.

 

[Dilligaf]

These two need to be removed from the gene pool not the maze.

 

[avion]

Sheesh. Thing is though, these two have already bred.

Now if they get divorced, are they still brother and sister?

Argh.

 

[Dilligaf]

LOL