Posts Tagged ‘3-year-old’
Canadian boy floats unharmed down river on toy truck
A Canadian boy celebrating his third birthday was unhurt and apparently unfazed after he floated 12 km down a river riding atop his toy truck, said police.
The boy’s family was camping at a popular park near Fort St. John, in northeastern British Columbia, on Sunday when the boy wandered off unnoticed and somehow entered the nearby Peace River, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
The boy’s parents at first thought he was playing with other relatives at the campsite. But police were later alerted and had begun a search when a boater found the boy, and the toy, about 12 km away.
After a nearly two-hour journey down the swift-moving river the boy had no injuries, and was apparently unaware of the danger he had been in.
“He was very excited to see the police,” said RCMP Constable Jackelynn Passarell.
A local news report said the boy also made sure the boater who found him also retrieved the toy truck.
This kid will be telling this story when he’s 69.
Yes, his parents surely got their money’s worth from that toy truck.
Parents in a hole after 3-year-old buys backhoe online
Three-year-old Pipi Quinlan bought a $20,000 Kobelco digger on Trade Me, prompting immediate damage control by her mum when her purchase was revealed…
Parents Sarah and Reid Quinlan, of Stanmore Bay, were astonished to wake one morning to find Pipi had bought the huge excavating digger in a Trade Me auction.
The technically savvy kid had woken early and, with the rest of her family sound asleep, decided to play with the computer.
With a few clicks of the mouse she entered Internet Explorer and the Trade Me site her mother had already logged on to.
After a few more timely clicks, she had won the most recent auction listed on the site’s homepage.
It was for a Kobelco digger, and she had it for $20,000 – money she didn’t have in her piggy bank.
“The first I knew about it was when I came down and opened up the computer,” says mum Sarah.
“I saw an email from Trade Me saying I had won an auction and another email from the seller saying something like ‘I think you’ll love this digger’…”
“It wasn’t until I went back and re-read the emails that I saw $20,000, and got the shock of my life,” says Sarah.
The auction site reversed the sale after Mrs. Quinlan called and explained what had happened.
And the computer is, uh, now kept out of Pipi’s reach.
