Missing 2 Days, 5 - Year - Old Found Alive

[wakeme2008]

Source: AP

June 16, 2007
Missing 2 Days, 5 - Year - Old Found Alive
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 5:57 a.m. ET

MOMENCE, Ill. (AP) -- A 5-year-old girl who was feared drowned with her grandfather on a boating trip startled searchers Friday when she emerged from the woods -- naked, scratched and holding raspberries.

Crews had pulled her grandfather's body from the Kankakee River in eastern Illinois just hours earlier.

''People were like, 'Who's that little girl? That can't be her, can it?''' Kankakee Sheriff's Chief Deputy Ken McCabe said. ''I went up to her (and) asked, 'How you doing? What's your name?'''

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Girl-River-Search.html

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Some days you just need a Happy News Story.

[annabanana]

1. I'm glad she found rasberries. . . What a great story.

Thanks.

[silverojo]

13. Isn't that cute (and smart!)

The little girl managed to find food for herself during that terrifying ordeal...now that's one smart, resourceful little kid. I'm glad she's safe and sound!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Yeah! n/t

[zanne]

3. Thank you, thank you, thank you for that post!

It made me cry in such a good way.

[monktonman]

4. Headline- Five year old outsmarts Paris Hilton

Spends two days in wood alone.
Manages to feed herself.

Amazing!

Paris Hilton- Spends three days in jail
Cant handle it in spite of being pampered
has nervous breakdown
shames family.

Pathetic!

[silverojo]

14. ^ OMG, that's so hilarious!

Because it's so TRUE! :rofl:

[Uncle Joe]

5. This is a beautiful story,

it would be perfect if her grandfather hadn't drowned.

[Nickster]

6. Wow, I thought for sure she was gone. That is a wonderful story, someone was looking over her.

[evilkumquat]

7. Was That the Same Someone...

Who let her grandfather die and forced her to spend two days naked and alone in the cold, dark woods?

Just an innocent question.

Evil Kumquat

[roody]

9. We better slide on over to the atheists forum.

[Nickster]

10. Right, we don't live in a utopia with all happy outcomes, so there's no God. Got it.

I can't help you with your loss or lack of faith, so don't take it out on me.

How is your shoving your non-belief down my throat any better than a religious extremist doing the same with their religion?

Just an innocent question.

[WindRavenX]

15. ...

...you're a brave dude for posting what I was thinking!

[truthisfreedom]

17. You know, I don't believe in god either, but

I do respect the rights of others to believe as they wish. Pushing the idea of atheism on a believer is just as offensive as a LDS visitor at my door preaching to me.

[roody]

8. Sorry to be a doubter, but if God saved

the girl, did he let the grandfather die?

[Nickster]

11. How about we just leave the philosophical wranglings out of it and just be happy that this innocent

child came out of this ok? Can we agree on that?

[roody]

12. Absolutely! And I applaud her for having saved herself.

[roguevalley]

16. how about two people made a mistake and one died. The other

got out alive. why does god have to take the blame for people's mistakes? Jeez. A man is dead. Respect doesn't seem out of line for everyone's feelings and reactions here.