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Hear a Mother’s Frantic 9-1-1 Call After Getting Lost in a Corn Maze

Family Stuck in Corn Maze Calls 911

Aerial view of Connors Farm corn maze in Danvers, Mass. (Photo: Connors Farm)

A Danvers, Mass., couple with two small children thought a romp through the local corn maze would be fun. But when they couldn’t find the exit and it got dark, it turned into a “nightmare.”

Toting a 3-week-old baby, the mother frantically called 911 when she’d had enough and wanted to be found. Within 10 minutes, the patrol officer and his K-9 found the family inside Connor’s Farm maze. They were 25 feet from the exit.

Watch the Associated Press report:

Interested in more corn maze news? Check out these NASA-themed mazes.

Comments (150)

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  • mattmo79
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:01pm

    Hey I didn’t get mustard on my hotdog, maybe I should have called 9-1-1!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:03pm

      and I bet she has a GPS on that cell phone.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:34pm

      Guess they couldn’t find the Wall Street protest…

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    • themadlipper
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:54pm

      You know she is a dingbat! She is out with a three week old baby.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:06pm

      Oh, oh – I see a new government regulation on the horizon imposed on crop farmers requiring them to install navigational signage once crops reach a certain height.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:37pm

      Jesus, no matter what way you are pointing JUST WALK STRAIGHT and you will get out. My God ,what the hell is wrong with people ??..

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    • sabrinacle
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:44pm

      wow talk about learned helplessness. It was corn for crying out loud. She could knock them down and walk straight out!

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:19am

      another case of why city people should not be out of the city without an escort.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:55pm

    I guess they got their money’s worth being so spooked they had to call 911!!

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  • Danimal98367
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:38pm

    To all you grammar and spelling complainers – did you pay a membership to access this site? No? Now you know the hidden cost of free.

    Yeesh.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:45pm

      I pity people like this, that let a simple corn maze defeat them. When the collapse arrives, and they have to wonder how to protect and feed themselves, with nobody stepping up to help them, they will not survive.

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    • ACLUHater
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:18pm

      TXPilot – excellent words!

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  • countryfirst
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:35pm

    How could she say no one heard here yelling, she was surrounded by ears.

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    • yiddishlion
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:44pm

      That was so bad it was funny……

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:47pm

      ha,ha, now that is original, ears, thanks for the laugh

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:47pm

      @COUNTRYFIRST…….In the words of Larry the Cable Guy……”Thats funny, I dont care who you are”….lol!

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    • SquishyBear
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:51pm

      Wah, Wah ;-)

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:23pm

      Country first,

      That’s really corny!

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 10:59pm

      I’ve lived in Iowa my whole life…Cornfields are scary…especially at Halloween. The rattling leaves of corn, the wind, the cold spots, the psychotic killers, or Children of the Corn Zombies…its very intense.

      A little clue to people trapped in a corn maze, urinate before you enter the maze, choose the path that is most worn, following the most footsteps. Before you call 911, break off a stalk of corn, wave it violently above your head and scream bloody murder. Remove articles of clothing at every junction. When help is on the way, don’t stay in one spot too long.

      For city folks, corn in planted in rows. If you following the same row, you will eventually come to a fence or a road or the evil Master of the Maize.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:31am

      What a corny remark!

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    • Salamander
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:32am

      She should have called the kernel!

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    • bry
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 7:06am

      Give the family a break, it’s scarey to be stalked.

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    • khetaamenti
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:21am

      thanks for the morning laugh, it was so bad it was funny…

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    • SerikFox
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:26pm

      Hahahahahahaha, that is one of the best lamest jokes I’ve ever heard

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  • aragona
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:33pm

    Um….couldn’t she have just started walking through the corn? She didn’t have to stick to the path…..

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  • Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:26pm

    This woman is obviously a Republican!!! What an idiot! And she brought a 3-week old baby with her! Sheeesh!

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    • yiddishlion
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:42pm

      Not only am I NOT a liberal, there are no liberals in my kingdom.

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    • yiska8
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:02pm

      It’s Massachusetts!!! This woman had to be a dumb liberal feminist. Only a liberal would expect a government agency to help them out of a cornfield. Good Lord. They don’t know where food comes from, wouldn’t possibly hunt for it, and now the capitalist corn maze owners will probably be sued for emotional stress to her and the baby. Out with a three week old baby! Where was the hubby? Or Baby Daddy? This is Obama’s dream voter -Dumb, incapable, and easily spooked by really imposing corn stalks.

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:24pm

    Shouldn’t the owners of this maze know how many are going in?And be assured that all who entered have made it out by closing time/dark?
    Its like those stories of people scuba diving and then being left behind,out in the ocean.Nobody counted bodies going in-coming out.

    In any case,it was a cornfield for Pete’s sake.Anyone with half a lick of sense would know to just walk through it,as said earlier.Betcha 10-1 they were Libs.

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    • diablosho
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 7:02am

      Oh my God that would be so horrible! I’m terrified of being stranded out at sea (I can’t go out on boats or cruises), not to mention the sharks!, and I’ve always wanted to go scuba diving, but you have officially scared me off! I never thought about them not taking a head-count, but it makes perfect sense, and is ENTIRELY plausible! Thank you for your post!
      –Brian

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    • Notsureishoulddothis
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:35pm

      If you listen again, you‘ll hear the manager say he hadn’t even had a chance to check the parking lot yet before the cops showed up. So yes, they DO check.

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    • MrMagoo
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:15am

      @ DIABLSHO

      Have you ever watched the movie Open Water? Terrifying for sure.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Eileen_Lonergan

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  • GTH
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:22pm

    Idiot city people. What will they do if they ever need to survive just about anything besides the shopping mall closing.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:21pm

    Dear god how STUPID can people get? Corn is planted in rows if you get in a row and start walking you will walk out of the corn field. Redneck common sense.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:41pm

      The City Folk are gonna eat themselves first. It will look alot like the Occupy Wall St dipsticks

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    • FeliciaJewel
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:38am

      Clarity, I now know that some can not take care of themselves, they have to have the guidance of others to bail them out, how sad! I can now imagine what the world will be like when the B.S. hits the fan.. The strongest will survive and those lost in the corn will not! I was shocked to hear the husband is 42!!

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  • Erwin
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:19pm

    What about making warning signs compulsory on the inside of every door leading to the outside world: “WARRANTY! YOU WILL NEED SENSES AND INSTINCTS OUT THERE: IT IS A DANGEROUS WORLD!”

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    • skitrees
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:25pm

      I think we need to replace all warning signs with this phrase:

      Use at your own risk. Don’t be stupid.

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    • Erwin
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:27pm

      On second thought – in the times before satnavs in every car, she was always complaing that he was not asking for the way. Can he complain now that she is a total loser with 911 programmed into her cell phone losing her nerves 25 feet from home?

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:52pm

      i bet he never said a word, he probably just stood there shaking his head,saying to himself, just shut up quit your whining,please just for once listen to me, i know what i am talking about, poor guy, he should have left her,took the baby and went to the car and watched the show.

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  • InterestCapital
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:15pm

    I guess they got lost in the “maize.” Get it? LOL

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  • janedough1
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:11pm

    Been there, done that. I didn’t have a cell phone. I yelled that I was lost for several minutes, then decided that since no one was answering or coming, orientation 101 was the order of the day. A thunderstorm and high wind were rolling in and I wasn’t about to have my family soaked. I took my direction off the lay of the land and where the light was brightest and cut a straight path through the maze with my family. I was out in three minutes or less. I got chewed out by the management and told next time I should call for help. I told them I did call, no one came, and there would be no next time. They didn’t need to worry about earning any more money off me. Of course, they didn’t care. It was a government funded corn maze.

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    • skitrees
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:23pm

      That was my thoughts exactly….it wasn’t like the corn was made out of sharpened razor wire or built on a mine field…it’s CORN – you can walk through it. “Oh government, please come and save me from myself!”

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    • Floribama
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:24pm

      Google “Democrats stuck on an escalator”.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:32pm

      LOL @ democrats stuck on an escalator

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    • Salamander
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:37am

      Gosh, if they only knew how many corn borers and corn snakes were in there, they wouldn’t have gone in the first place!

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  • thegodfather
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:07pm

    Put the Wall street occupiers in here. With the brain capacity of that group, We’ll never hear from them again.

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    • janedough1
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:11pm

      Like, like, like, like, like, like, like :D

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:22pm

      +Like

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:26pm

      They would starve to death, never once thinking they could eat the corn. after all, food comes from stores and we all know that grocers are greedy capitalists.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:01pm

      s w e e t ,corn that is.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:35am

      Hmmm, by their vast numbers, it looks to me like the Occupy Wall Streeters are 1%! If they paid ‘their fair share’, there would be no more budget problems!

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:05pm

    Hahahah.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:05pm

    lawsuit for being stupid, and why would anyone bring along a 3 week old to a corn maze,

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  • bhelmet
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:02pm

    I love my girl and would freak out all for a minute. I would have moved toward the sound of engines – COMMON SENSE. As a former MA resident, I realize that common sense is now the 7th sense – only special people have it!

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:04pm

      well thank you

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 7:52pm

      Few Massholes have that 7th sense. Ted “The Murderer” Kennedy and John “Who served in Vietnam” Kerry are examples.

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  • jlherbst
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:56pm

    Who would bring a 3 week old baby to a corn maze??

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  • wasalibonce
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:49pm

    I agree. We love ya Glen, but it’s impossible to quote from a website and have the fact-checkers come back to see that the writers can’t spell or use good grammer. It‘s really bad and it’s not very professional. Please fix this.

     
    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:58pm

      Please, use “Site Support” for complaints like this. Posting a comment in the blog does nothing and I don’t think Glenn reads through these very much.

      Report Post » Anonymous T. Irrelevant  
    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:07pm

      he does not read any of these post, it is someone else, who ever it is though needs to get another job because they are not very good at this one, it has really gone down in the last few months,but has really fell off the cliff in the last few weeks,

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    • KelVarnson
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Ahem, that’s “grammar”…

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:48pm

    Did she consider walking straight THROUGH the corn?

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    • avenger
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:51pm

      nope too stupid..

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:56pm

      DOH!! I guess that corn is just too hard for a lefty from MA to walk through. Citiots!
      Maybe she had seen one too many “Children of the Corn” shows.

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  • Sergei
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:47pm

    My sediments egzakly

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  • yiddishlion
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:45pm

    Gee people, common sense would tell you to cut through the corn in a straight line until you are out….. that is what I did once………then again common sense isn’t really that common any more…….

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    • Independant in Oklahoma
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:52pm

      Probably liberally educated. Not taught how to think, but what to think! Probably never ocurred to them to step off the designated path!

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  • Wild_Woody
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:44pm

    That’s how you say “hear” in Mass. Go pock the caar in the pock. Then go ride your tin speed.

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  • shooter
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:41pm

    Hey Glenn…how about hiring someone other than a high-school dropout to write your headlines?

    I mean really…“Heare” a mother’s frantic 9-1-1 call?

    Once would be an error…but, it’s on here twice. That clearly indicates a lack of English skills and without follow up proof-reading by a supervisor.

    Report Post » shooter  
    • Sergei
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:45pm

      My sediments eggzactly… and could sumone tell Wendys’ dat dey Wild Berry Tea is fo real to sweat!

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    • avenger
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:50pm

      yikes..must be a public school grad..ignore the maze & walk out of the corn…

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    • chips1
      Posted on October 12, 2011 at 6:40pm

      Apparently, minimum wage is too high.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:49am

      Spell checker probably changed it from Hear to Heare (forgot the apostrophe? Hear ye?) I even see spell checker change my IM’s on cell phone–right before your very eyes!

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:41pm

    This is amazeing.

    Report Post » N37BU6  
  • Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
    Posted on October 12, 2011 at 5:36pm

    Heare?

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