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  1. #1
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    Default Potential nightmare.

    My wife and I were travelling home tonight, around 5.30pm, with darkness just approaching,
    when we spotted a small girl standing beside a large tree near the roadway. This seemed a
    little odd as there was no house to be seen. After driving another couple of minutes I said
    that I felt guilty and we should turn back and investigate.

    This was a fairly quiet road between Lancefield and Kilmore and all I could think of was
    "Madeline McCann" and how it would be disastrous to read in the papers tomorrow that she
    had been abducted and dumped there.

    On arrival back at the scene she was now sitting down at the base of the tree with her
    small dog on her lap. I pulled up, wound down my window, and very tactfully asked why
    she was there, making sure I did not alarm her in any way. She was just the sweetest
    kid, about 3-4 years old, dressed in colourful clothes and blonde hair. She was more than
    happy to tell me she didn't want her dog to run on the road and that it was her best friend
    in the world. I asked where her parents were and she said her mother was at the house
    which I could not see from the roadway.

    I encouraged her to start walking up their driveway dirt track whilst we drove alongside her.
    Once we got away from the main roadway I told her I would drive up the track and get
    her mother. The house would have been about 400 metres from the main road. The
    mother had just come out of the house with another daughter and was about to leave
    in her car. I informed her that all was ok and she asked if I had her in the car. It
    took me all my time to avoid saying, "It would all the same if I had abducted her". The
    mother showed no emotion or particular concern and briefly said, "Thanks".

    I feel happy to have avoided a potential nightmare but at the same time I was angry
    that a mother could have been so careless in looking after her child.

    Allan
    Life is short ... smile while you still have teeth.

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    If not for you and Val Allan she may well have become just another statistic. Well done

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    Well done indeed. Our society needs more people like you who don't turn away from people needing a hand.


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