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Kid who fell into the gorilla enclosure could have been mine
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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 690898" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>This is one of those there but for the grace, go I.</p><p></p><p>When my easiest child was 3, we went to the circus at Nassau Coliseum. It was H and I, with his cousin, who was in a wheelchair but mobile, and the 5 kids. The baby was 1 and in a stroller, the oldest 2 were 8 and 9, difficult child was 5 and 1/2 and because he was a runner, he was on a leash which I held along with the stroller. As we were leaving, we ran into friends of ours and stopped to say hello. Less than one minute later, we noticed easy boy was gone. </p><p></p><p>The coliseum was shut down immediately, security was running in and out of the parking lot. 20 minutes later - the longest 20 minutes in my life - a man came into view on the monitors, leading my son towards the entrance. He had managed to make it all the way out of the venue, across a gigantic parking lot and into the lobby of the hotel across the way. We never got his name, he was a family man with his wife and kids when he saw a little boy wandering the parking lot...</p><p></p><p>Believe me, we did not take our eyes off of our kids for minutes at a time. We had taken precautions to keep our runner from taking off. This one had never run before - after that, he was leashed until first grade.</p><p></p><p>I don't have to imagine that mother's terror, I can still conjure it up and my son is 20 now.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 690898, member: 3493"] This is one of those there but for the grace, go I. When my easiest child was 3, we went to the circus at Nassau Coliseum. It was H and I, with his cousin, who was in a wheelchair but mobile, and the 5 kids. The baby was 1 and in a stroller, the oldest 2 were 8 and 9, difficult child was 5 and 1/2 and because he was a runner, he was on a leash which I held along with the stroller. As we were leaving, we ran into friends of ours and stopped to say hello. Less than one minute later, we noticed easy boy was gone. The coliseum was shut down immediately, security was running in and out of the parking lot. 20 minutes later - the longest 20 minutes in my life - a man came into view on the monitors, leading my son towards the entrance. He had managed to make it all the way out of the venue, across a gigantic parking lot and into the lobby of the hotel across the way. We never got his name, he was a family man with his wife and kids when he saw a little boy wandering the parking lot... Believe me, we did not take our eyes off of our kids for minutes at a time. We had taken precautions to keep our runner from taking off. This one had never run before - after that, he was leashed until first grade. I don't have to imagine that mother's terror, I can still conjure it up and my son is 20 now. I [/QUOTE]
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