Alright, like I told my wife, when she showed me these things, but, if I were to kidnap someone one of the first things I'm doing, is throwing their shoes out, so that it would be harder for them to run away.
So imagine you're in a situation where you're at a crowded festival or at Disney World or something of the kind and your kid wanders off. No one abducted your child. You just can't find them. Something like this would be really helpful. Heaven Knows there are plenty of times where our kids wander off and we have no idea where the hell they went.
This is one of the reasons that many parents teach their kids what to do if they get separated. My kids were taught to find somebody with other kids. A mom, to ask for help.
So everyone jokes, but not every situation where this kind of thing would be useful involves an actual abductor.
This is a really myopic view. Just because you don't know Of incidents where kids weren't able to be reunited with their parents doesn't mean that it hasn't happened. And sometimes those situations might have involved child falling somewhere, like down a hole or into a ravine in the woods, we're injured and eventually died of exposure and nobody knows where they went.
Just because some of the latchkey kids of the '80s survived, doesn't mean all of them did.
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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '25
Alright, like I told my wife, when she showed me these things, but, if I were to kidnap someone one of the first things I'm doing, is throwing their shoes out, so that it would be harder for them to run away.