Rare onlyslightlymad Posted December 30, 2023 #1 Share Posted December 30, 2023 This is a little odd. A 15 year old missing off a cruise ship is lost in Dunedin. How do you get lost in Dunedin? It's just not that big https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/search-underway-15-year-old-missing-afte-becoming-separated-from-parent-during-cruise-ship-visit-to-dunedin/TLFKGFE6V5FF5LC3M6PFVQJSEA/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarramar Posted December 30, 2023 #2 Share Posted December 30, 2023 28 minutes ago, onlyslightlymad said: This is a little odd. A 15 year old missing off a cruise ship is lost in Dunedin. How do you get lost in Dunedin? It's just not that big https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/search-underway-15-year-old-missing-afte-becoming-separated-from-parent-during-cruise-ship-visit-to-dunedin/TLFKGFE6V5FF5LC3M6PFVQJSEA/ Maybe this was one of the excursions? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare arxcards Posted December 30, 2023 #3 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jean C Posted December 30, 2023 #4 Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) I dunno, I was in the supermarket on Christmas Eve and stopped to chat to a man I know. He was standing with his granddaughter. He'd "lost" his wife, last known location at the frozen turkeys 🐔 I said I'd look out for her and carried on, getting my few things. I didn't see her and when going through the checkout I could see him still looking for his wife (why he didn't stay in one place and send the 14 year old around all the aisles, I don't know)! My supermarket is smaller than Dunedin! Edited December 30, 2023 by Jean C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jean C Posted December 30, 2023 #5 Share Posted December 30, 2023 PS, in this situation one would hope the cruise line would be a tad sympathetic and if need be not pull the gang plank up pronto (I know it costs them not to depart pronto). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buchhalm Posted December 30, 2023 #6 Share Posted December 30, 2023 3 hours ago, yarramar said: Maybe this was one of the excursions? In the article..."found missing". What a strange expression. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted December 30, 2023 #7 Share Posted December 30, 2023 3 hours ago, onlyslightlymad said: This is a little odd. A 15 year old missing off a cruise ship is lost in Dunedin. How do you get lost in Dunedin? It's just not that big https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/search-underway-15-year-old-missing-afte-becoming-separated-from-parent-during-cruise-ship-visit-to-dunedin/TLFKGFE6V5FF5LC3M6PFVQJSEA/ Easily done if he found the Speights brewery. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boeckli Posted December 30, 2023 #8 Share Posted December 30, 2023 7 minutes ago, MicCanberra said: Easily done if he found the Speights brewery. Seems you didn't read the article... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Traveller Posted December 30, 2023 #9 Share Posted December 30, 2023 8 minutes ago, MicCanberra said: Easily done if he found the Speights brewery. The missing teen was a girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted December 30, 2023 #10 Share Posted December 30, 2023 1 hour ago, boeckli said: Seems you didn't read the article... I didn't. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted December 30, 2023 #11 Share Posted December 30, 2023 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted December 30, 2023 #12 Share Posted December 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Aus Traveller said: The missing teen was a girl. Easily done if she found the Speights brewery. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Traveller Posted December 30, 2023 #13 Share Posted December 30, 2023 15 minutes ago, MicCanberra said: Easily done if she found the Speights brewery. Do you think Speights would have served alcohol to a 15 year old girl? In the photo in the article she appeared her age - not 15 going on 20. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted December 30, 2023 #14 Share Posted December 30, 2023 5 minutes ago, Aus Traveller said: Do you think Speights would have served alcohol to a 15 year old girl? In the photo in the article she appeared her age - not 15 going on 20. 🙂 I didnt read the article, but you don't have to be of age to do the brewery tour, and you don't need to be drinking to get lost. Our nephew almost got lost there once. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jean C Posted December 30, 2023 #15 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Okay, okay, the girl got separated from her family in an unknown city and was considered lost. The girl was found - happy ending 😊 Play nice everyone 🤣 💕 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare aussielozzie18 Posted December 30, 2023 #16 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Glad the teen was found. Be a big relief for her family. Unrelated to the post but since of few us who posted here have them - what exactly have we done to earn a gingerbread man? I got the notification from cc - something to do with Christmas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OzKiwiJJ Posted December 30, 2023 #17 Share Posted December 30, 2023 It's the Holiday Sharing badge. I guess if you shared a Christmas experience here you earned one. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwendy Posted December 30, 2023 #18 Share Posted December 30, 2023 I was standing in the aisle at KMart, a shop assistant came up and asked if I needed help to find anything. I told him I had lost my daughter, he immediately wanted to take me to the service desk to put a notice over the store pa. I thanked him but told him my daughter probably wouldn’t like that as she is 50. The look on his face was priceless. and yes I found her after I texted her. Lol 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jean C Posted December 30, 2023 #19 Share Posted December 30, 2023 I guess the report of the "lost" young person in an unknown city, with perhaps a cellphone that doesn't have international roaming or being able to use the "stalker" app to locate the parents, if that'swhat they do in their home town, is an opportunity for those travelling or planning to travel with young people to have a plan in case this happens to them. If they carry their cellphone, even without roaming, they could perhaps find free wifi and use FB Messenger, or similar, to contact each other, or go back to the advice we were told as kids, if we got lost to find a policeman or someone similarly responsible. I doubt there isn't anyone on this site who hasn't at some point in their life "lost" a kid or spouse when out and about, especially shopping. It's like an accident - unplanned but sometimes it just happens. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSWP Posted December 30, 2023 #20 Share Posted December 30, 2023 My kids were often lost at the big shopping centres like Miranda/Hurstville when we lived in the 'Shire.' These days I just lose my car at the local Shopping Centres in Batemans Bay, You know, where did I park it lol. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogbay Posted December 31, 2023 #21 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Yes I read the ad for the social media site fb ... teenagers are never lost . I can always find them sitting,slouching on the ship staircases with their phones . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGc Posted January 2 #22 Share Posted January 2 On 12/31/2023 at 12:55 AM, Jean C said: I doubt there isn't anyone on this site who hasn't at some point in their life "lost" a kid or spouse when out and about, especially shopping. It's like an accident - unplanned but sometimes it just happens. Yes I have but somehow they always managed to find me.🤭 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussieflyer Posted January 2 #23 Share Posted January 2 According to my husband, I am the one who just 'disappears' - one minute I am right there with him and the next - voom, gone. I only stop or veer off a little to look at something and of course he keeps walking,😁 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGc Posted January 2 #24 Share Posted January 2 2 hours ago, Aussieflyer said: According to my husband, I am the one who just 'disappears' - one minute I am right there with him and the next - voom, gone. I only stop or veer off a little to look at something and of course he keeps walking,😁 Must be a wife thing, mine does the same. Seen many husbands / partners walking along scanning the isles. 😁 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Womble99 Posted January 2 #25 Share Posted January 2 9 minutes ago, JohnGc said: Must be a wife thing, mine does the same. Seen many husbands / partners walking along scanning the isles. 😁 The trick to prevent that is to just continue on home 🤷♂️ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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