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http://www.wnem.com/story/15673612/family-lost-in-mass-corn-maze-calls-911-for-help

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Family lost in Mass. corn maze calls 911 for help


Posted: Oct 12, 2011 6:23 AM CDT
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DANVERS, Mass. (AP) - Authorities in Massachusetts say a family that got lost in a seven-acre corn maze called 911 for help, apparently taking advantage of the police department's motto that says "We Want To Be Bothered."

The maze at Connors Farm in Danvers can take up to an hour to navigate.

A police officer entered the maze with a farm manager to search for the disoriented father, mother and two children. The family didn't realize they had almost made their way out and were just 25 feet from the street.

Farm owner Bob Connors tells the Boston Globe (http://bo.st/p7Xmzr) that they designed the maze so that people get lost in the long corn stalks.



Seriously, how hard would it have been to put lift someone up or put someone on your shoulders and they could navigate you out....or even just walk through the corn stalks in a straight line, bypassing the paths in order to get out?

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You are given a map at the one Oonagh and I go to locally. I wonder if this one does the same thing.

I was about to say that this is truly ridiculous, but I noticed the police department's motto is "We want to be bothered." If thats the way they want to be known, then so be it. Let people who get lost in corn mazes call them.

Still, come on people. Unless it was pitch dark out and completely devoid of other people, I can't see how they were unable to find their way out on their own. Even if the maze had no others in it at that moment, they are manned by staff, I would imagine. Yell for help, maybe???

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Hahah. I have been in corn mazes in Massachusetts before. Some of them are big and not trivial to find your way out of.
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Pretty sure they should get a ticket for a non-emergency call, there.

"Hello? 911? I'm on the pot, and out of toilet paper. No, there isn't any in the house. Could you stop on the way and pick some up? Also, since you're stopping, it wouldn't kill you to grab a pizza."
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I think there should be a federal law forcing farmers to cut down all of their corn fields to keep people safe from getting lost in them.

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LMAO

Just for reference 7 acres is a HUGE corn maze.

Still, wow.
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I'm just picturing jack nicholson chasing these people down in this corn maze outside the overlook hotel...

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Corolinth wrote:
I think there should be a federal law forcing farmers to cut down all of their corn fields to keep people safe from getting lost in them.


And, of course, a government subsidy to fund it.

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LadyKate wrote:
Corolinth wrote:
I think there should be a federal law forcing farmers to cut down all of their corn fields to keep people safe from getting lost in them.


And, of course, a government subsidy to fund it.

WHOA, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. FIRST we need to do an ecological study to make sure we don't poon the environment. Then we need to do a study of economic viability, then we need a study of corn mazes in general to create a baseline comparison, then we need a traffic study, then we need a study for...

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See? There the government goes again, funding studies, when corn is out there killing our children! THE GOVERNMENT IS PAINTING A CROSSHAIR ON YOUR CHILDREN'S FOREHEAD FOR CORNFIELDS! Anyone who is a real american should be out there in a cornfield burning it down already!
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Tip: If you're ever in a maze, if you only take all-right or all-left turns, you will eventually get out. Unless you have a Minotaur tracking you down. Then you're just f***ed.

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Tip: If you're ever in a maze, if you only take all-right or all-left turns, you will eventually get out.

Factually untrue.
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Numbuk, TheRiov's actually got you there. You have to go *into* the maze using that rule from the start for it to be a guarantee.

Most corn mazes probably don't make closed internal walls, though. That'd just be masochistic.

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Well when I played Minecraft, tunnels often turned into mazes. So what I learned to do was put torches only on the right side of the walls. If I wanted to go back to where I started, just make sure the torches are always on the left.

You can do this starting from any point in the maze and use the process of elimination to get out (make hay Xs on the ground on the right side). If you reach a dead end, follow the Xs back to the last fork and try another way.
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The only valid reason for a 911 call involving a corn maze, is if "He who walks behind the rows" is coming for you.

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Uncle Fester wrote:
The only valid reason for a 911 call involving a corn maze, is if "He who walks behind the rows" is coming for you.

Nice reference dude!

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Hopwin wrote:
Uncle Fester wrote:
The only valid reason for a 911 call involving a corn maze, is if "He who walks behind the rows" is coming for you.

Nice reference dude!


Yeah, and if he who walks behind the rows is already coming for you, that call is probably too late. :)
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Hopwin wrote:
Uncle Fester wrote:
The only valid reason for a 911 call involving a corn maze, is if "He who walks behind the rows" is coming for you.

Nice reference dude!

Indeed, jolly good show.
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So what do we outlaw here? Creating 7 acre corn mazes is obviously a public health hazard, and calling 911 because you are stupid is already against the law, right?
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So what do we outlaw here? Creating 7 acre corn mazes is obviously a public health hazard, and calling 911 because you are stupid is already against the law, right?

I think we tackle the problem at its source. Going through a seven acre cornfield is stupid so if we make stupidity against the law we solve both problems.

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Dammit that makes me an outlaw.
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Perfect!

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Arathain Kelvar wrote:
LMAO

Just for reference 7 acres is a HUGE corn maze.

Still, wow.


My daughter's Girl Scout troop just went here:

http://www.uncleshucks.com/uncle_shucks_corn_maze.php

It is a 12 Acre corn maze.

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