Scout found, would you punish him for wandering off??

scoutmaster wrote:

Thank goodness they found him alive. If he was your kid, would you punish him for wandering off???? I think I would ground him for a week for that.

Punish him? No. Find out what the hell he was thinking? Yes. Don't let him out of the sight of Scout leaders the next time? Yes.

If that was my boy been lost in the woods for 4 days, I'd make him watch Deliverance for 4 days straight.

The hill people are an unforgiving lot and the kid is lucky the dog found him before the toothless overalls.

A dog named "Gandalf' found him in the woods. The white wizard takes many forms to help the little people of the Shire.

I don't have kids but I think the fact that the scout troop searched for this kid and after a 1/2 hour went for the park rangers tells you that the kid was probably having emotional problems even before he got lost. Most people would have given a kid at least an hour before calling the feds in.

apparently the kid likes to run track

He was probably sick of all the homosexual experimentation that goes on during boy scout camping trips, and had to get away.

I would give him some sort of survival badge or something. He is in the boy scouts for crying out loud! While those other pansies were racing there soap box cars this kids was out surviving on the land!

Give him his props!

If you punish this scout for whacking off, you'd have to punish every 13 year old boy. So no, no punishment.

I'm on plenty of meds. How do you think

I got the name Buzz? And yes, I do spend

a lot of time in the woods when I'm not in

rehab.

The parents should be punished for putting the kid on ridalin

According to CNN, the kid demanded a helicopter ride out of the woods. Sounds like he had this all planned after reading a book about a kid surviving in the wilderness. Just more Generation LoserMe trying to get attention and become a star for 15 minutes. Probably he only planned to be gone for a few hours at first and then got lost for real. Pathetic.

get lost in woods = get helicopter ride

pathetic kid is a disgrace to scouting, although at least he did not get lost on purpose, sounds like he was just hiding out too long

CNN:

A 12-year-old Boy Scout missing for four days in North Carolina's wilderness wandered away from his campsite because he was homesick and planned to hitchhike home, the boy's father said Tuesday. ... He said he got homesick because some of his closest friends had not gone on the camping trip, so he planned to walk to a highway and hitchhike to his home in Greensboro, North Carolina.

"We're going to have that lecture about hitchhiking again," Auberry said.

That kid is whacked.

And this:

CNN:

"Michael, who is from Greensboro, North Carolina, had remained with an adult at the campsite Saturday while other Scouts went for a hike, said Bauer of the park service. Michael was one of seven adults and four boys on the trip. Dave Craft, assistant scoutmaster, said Michael stayed behind because his feet got cold after playing in a creek. He was tired and wasn't feeling well, said Craft, who left the group Saturday afternoon on business. When the other Scouts returned, they ate lunch with Michael, who later disappeared from the camp, Bauer said"

What a crybaby. Parents probably put the kid in scouts so that they would not have to deal with him for a few weekends a year.