Comments on: Missing Boy Scout Found Alive

Rescue Dog Led Searchers To Boy Stranded 3 Days In N.C. Mountains

[Syndicate]

I was starting to have my doubts. I figured yesterday he was dead. Its great to be so wrong.

[ander241]

What bothers me is that he has ADHA and nobody was responsible for making certain they kept his Ritalin with them at all times during outings. He has "impulsive, restlessness, and may not behave as rationally as you would like?" C'mon, and these folks say there are no signs of foul play? There usually is none when it comes to children or even adults who know their abductor. For Pete's sake, the most recent of boys being found alive were in the Devlin case. No one found any "foul play" during those obductions.

And the temperature is in the 30s-40s at night. Does Michael retain the skills to keep warm in clothes he was wearing during the warmer day-time hours without his Ritalin?

Not many people are searching such a wilderness for this boy. Seems they need to step up the search.

Candy wrappers just a mile away? Why candy? Only potato chips were mentioned that he had left from lunch. Sounds like Hanzel and Gretal. The troop and now the searchers seem to be lacking in the care of this little boy. I hope he is found alive. He may wander during the day if he actually does hunker down and stay warm at night. The more he wanders the more the trail becomes obscure. He doesn't have anything more to leave a trail if he is thinking properly, except clothing, which would be deadly at night.

[bosnmate820]

Boy Scout Leadres are not always experienced in search and rescue. A boy scout uniform doesn't make you an expert in tracking or hiking. It was suggested that the schools could have supplied "thousands" to look for this boy. That would have been thousands of untrained people wandering back and forth over possible clues relating to his disappearance. That many people stomping through the woods would also render dogs helpless to track. The book the boy read just might have saved his life.

[thenamesdave]

As much as a relief as it is that this young man was found, why is it always the white, middle-class, church-going children that get all the media attention when they disappear?

[extremophil]

It was all President Bush's fault. We need to pull our Boy Scouts out of the Smokies now, before it's too late.

[zootallures2]

"At this point, there's absolutely no sign, no indication, whatsoever, of foul play, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann."

Doesn't sound any more odd than the Michael Devlin case. The kid was kiddnapped, but the kid had the gun and Devlin was gone for a whole month shortly after the kiddnapping. But the DA has an explaination as stupid as why building 7 fell. Instead of a scholarship, a local dealership bought a 13 year old witness a new full sized 4 x 4.