There are supplies of food at various locations along the street and numerous water-taps for adequate nutrition and hydration. The observant juvenile human can readily observe mature female inhabitants of the local species and understand the protective function of verandahs , hedges and school pc facilities.

There are two distinct types of persons that live in AU. There are the left which are caring people and there are the right inconsiderate persons with radical views.

"There are supplies of food at various locations along the street and numerous water-taps for adequate nutrition and hydration. The observant juvenile human can readily observe mature female inhabitants of the local species and understand the protective function of verandahs , hedges and school pc facilities."

I hope you don't have children.

This is a child, not a stray dog.

I rescued a naked toddler a few weeks ago - he was about twenty metres from a busy road when I intercepted him.

I rang the police and waited for them - his dad found he had escaped out of a window, couldn't find him, rang the police and came and collected him.

This child was 2 1/2...perhaps, by your calculations, I should have let him wander about a bit and enjoy his "freedom" - left a few bickies outside and a bowl of water....

Yours and Yuyutsu's comments are the most deranged I've ever encountered on OLO - and I've read some doozies.

Do you have no concern for the horrendous impact on a 5 year old of hundreds of serious adults swarming in a mob frenzy psychology ideology of hunt and locate with mass TV , community and OLO implosion? Birds are trapped with fine nets but did they think of that here? No. I've met a victim of mass searching as a child in the carefree delight of a picnic wandering. His mind is a mess.

"Do you have no concern for the horrendous impact on a 5 year old of hundreds of serious adults swarming in a mob frenzy psychology ideology of hunt and locate with mass TV , community and OLO implosion? Birds are trapped with fine nets but did they think of that here? No. I've met a victim of mass searching as a child in the carefree delight of a picnic wandering. His mind is a mess.'

So tell me, in the case of the tot that I intercepted...let's paint a scenario where I didn't see him. Could have happened that way. I was seeing a friend off in the driveway. I didn't see the child. My friend came back and knocked at the door. My friend is elderly and couldn't have run to save the child who was nearing the busy street. I bolted and caught the child. (Actually was quite surprised I coud still run that fast!)

So if the child hadn't been seen, he probably would have been hit by a car. If he'd gone in the opposite direction he would have walked into a densely forested area which then leads to the beach.

People would have searching - hundreds of them to find this little guy.

And you appear to be telling me that that would be overly traumatic for the child the "horrendous impact...of hundreds of serious adults swarming in a mob".

As I said..."deranged".

Dear Poirot
my target is otb not yourself . joke ends here.