If you were going out in wild country to search for a lost little girl, why would you make .......

[Stinky The Clown]

..... the conscious choice to wear CAMOs?????

To hide from the little girl?

To hide from rescuers if *you* should need help?

I think I'd have gone more fashionably appropriate ..... like blaze orange or red or yellow.

I'm just sayin".




I'm glad they found her.

[spanone]

1. the guy who found her took his bible into the swamp....along with toilet paper

Rescuer: ‘Lord led me’ to missing girl

The story of how a lone volunteer working on his own found a lost girl in the Florida swamps was so extraordinary, law enforcement officials at first weren’t sure whether they should believe it.

It seemed too good to be true. James King set off at dawn on Tuesday because, he said, that’s what God told him to do. And he went pretty much straight to Nadia Bloom, who had been lost for five days while scores of organized professionals and volunteers systematically scoured the subtropical wilderness for any sign of her.

Even King could understand why people would be skeptical.

As they waited for rescuers to arrive, King gave her a nutritional shake, an apple and some water. During the 911 call, King asked Nadia if he could take her photo, “so you can show how God protected you.”

Read more: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36497665/ns/today-today_people/#ixzz0l5lKtpDt

[Crabby Appleton]

2. The TP was to mark his trail with.

[jdlh8894]

5. Yeah, Id Wear orange--------

If I wanted to be panther or gator Bait!!! EOM

[Stinky The Clown]

8. They have a preference for orange, do they?

Not scent? Or movement?

Orange, huh?

Is Panther Chow orange? 'Gator Chow?

[jdlh8894]

13. Not necessarily orange

Any bright color catches their attention.

[Tanuki]

11. "James King" was the name of the rescuer?

I bet the Bible he took with him was the "King James" version!

[louis-t]

16. Uh oh....

[zipplewrath]

3. Dat's da gear ya got

I don't do camo, but if I went into a swamp, most of my stuff would be black, navy, or green. Yeah, I'd wish I had an orange vest or something, but I'd go with what I have.

Yeah, I know, I sound like Rummy.

[jobycom]

4. His mango Ralph Lauren was at the cleaners?

I imagine his outdoor gear was camo, and he didn't feel like hitting REI to buy something more vivid for this one campaign. :shrug:

Whatever he is or does, I hope they Rolodex him for the next time. I don't buy the whole "God led me" stuff, but maybe the dude is just an intuitive guide. Just guessing, but I'd say that a professional search team would lay out a grid and cover it methodically regardless of terrain to make sure they didn't miss anything, whereas a lone scout could pick a path and say "If I were a kid, this is the way I'd go." If the scout is lucky or good, he finds her, and if he's neither, he just wanders for a while and no one's hurt by it.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Don't most outdoors types have orange vests?

Like the road crews wear? Those thin, see-through sorta things. With reflective stripes and such?

My son is an outdoors type. He has a shitload of gear, much of it camo. He owns an orange vest.

[jobycom]

19. For hunting season, maybe. Or for walking along roadsides.

Since he wasn't hunting, he probably didn't really think about it.

ALthough I guess maybe he was thinking "If they see me they'll want me to join them," so maybe he wanted some stealth. I don't know.

[hamsterjill]

7. I concur

First, I'm thankful that the young girl was found and is safe. But I am withholding judgment for a few days on this story. Something just doesn't seem quite right.

Another balloon boy story, perhaps? Or perhaps not. We don't know.

I'm interested to see if further details emerge that further explain how this occurred.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I think the kid was actually missing. That part I'm accepting at face value ......

The rest of the story, unless it involves intentional harm to the kid, I don't much care about. If Tracker Dan was sent from Gawd, who cares? Personally, I think he's an alien dressed in a human suit. But that's just my mistrust of bible thumpers.

[hamsterjill]

15. Agreed

I simply wonder, however, when the man says that God instructed him to find the girl - well, what would he say to the parents of other missing children? I mean, why wouldn't God direct someone to find their missing child, as well?

That's a rhetorical question, of course, because we all know what he would say. And I am a believer, but I think it's pretty arrogant of one person to say something like that without thinking through the harm that can be caused by saying something like that.

[jobycom]

17. It's a little suspicious, but the cops have looked closely at it.

I figure the guy just knew the area or the outdoors and thought "A lost kid with no experience would likely head in this direction, and get this far," and stuff like that. And he got lucky.

I've got a little cabinet in the back of my head where I hold the "There might be more to this story" stuff, and it's there, but I can believe the story as it stands, too. I've also got a "No way that happened, I'm waiting for the truth" cabinet for stories like the runaway Prius. This one isn't there. It could get there if I ran across a detail that didn't work for me, but I haven't so far. :)

[TK421]

10. Just to blend in...you never know who might get a shot of Bigfoot

[NM_hemilover]

12. You can't go with the search party you want,

You have to go with the search party you have.

[Marr]

14. I have a friend who wears camo a lot. Whenever he speaks,

I jump and shout, "AUGH! I didn't see you there!".

[eShirl]

18. I'm guessing it was tough, durable cothing suitable to that environment

[TheWraith]

20. That might simply have been the most environment-appropriate clothing.

By virtue of being, say, more waterproof than anything else he owned, or better thermal protection. Hunting garb is designed for that sort of long-period outdoor wear.

[tranche]

21. Not everyone dresses up like an REI commercial to go into "wild country".

The camo gear is his best outdoor gear. He wore it to help find a little girl, not to be laughed at by asshats on the internet with no idea.

[Stinky The Clown]

25. "Asshats on the internet"

Mirror much?

A thin orange vest is what ....... unfashionable to asshats looking to get on teevee?

By the way, I very much dislike asshats.

[corpseratemedia]

22. i'm not so much caring about his camo(s)

I'm caring about his story...and like a few other posters here, filing it in the back of my head under "this story could get much weirder and darker."

[old mark]

23. The lost girl's father is a fundamentalist beonging to a local "group".

She was found by a neighbor (one of the camo wearers) who also is a member of the "group", and also a fundie. She was found within a mile of her home.
I may have an evil mind, but I think the whole thing was a set up to show off that their "christian militia group" served a valid purpose and rescued the poor lost Aspie girl.
I think she was never lost at all and it was a publicity stunt.

Evil me.

mark

[trotsky]

24. You are not alone in your suspicions.

Doesn't pass the sniff test.

[CTyankee]

26. Yep, his reference to God made me think twice and your post just made me

think again...something may be a bit hinky here...