Life in the 21st century

The 11-year-old Boy Scout who was rescued after a four-day search in a Utah wilderness could have been found sooner -- but mindful of warnings from his parents of strangers who might kidnap him, he deliberately evaded searchers.

His father, Toby, said they had never talked with Brennan about how that stranger rule shouldn't apply if he got lost. "This may have come to a faster conclusion had we discussed that," he said.

You think? Or maybe he was raised with such fear and complete inflexibility that he didn't even have the capacity to think for himself. But that's okay, his parents have only two years to think of all possible contingencies and drum them into him, just in time for his teenage years. Good luck with that.

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