Still Waters Posted April 14, 2012 #1 Share Posted April 14, 2012 An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania - using satellite images.Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India's trains. "It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep." That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. "I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother." Read more... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libstaK Posted April 14, 2012 #2 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Wow, I am so glad that had a happy ending - for Saroo at least, I do feel sorry for his older brother. What a clever little boy he must have been to survive on the streets as a five year old and outwit those who would do him harm. It is a great tale and would make a great movie, as they mention - three cheers for Google Earth, at least in this instance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckys_Mom Posted April 14, 2012 #3 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Hollywood will want to make a movie about this story.. It seems almost a cert..... Good story.. shame his brother was killed shortly after his disappearance... The mother doesn't know if it was foul play or not... It is sad .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbi Laveau Posted April 15, 2012 #4 Share Posted April 15, 2012 So sad. I'm so glad he went back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryso Posted April 15, 2012 #5 Share Posted April 15, 2012 ... happy ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csspwns Posted April 16, 2012 #6 Share Posted April 16, 2012 and now it will become a chinese proverb and saying. chinese parents lecturing their children how someone who was so hardworking finally has a happy ending Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted April 16, 2012 #7 Share Posted April 16, 2012 What a great story! Can't wait to see the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Raven Posted April 16, 2012 #8 Share Posted April 16, 2012 its nice that some of these stories have happy endings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puckmomma Posted April 17, 2012 #9 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Great Story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted April 17, 2012 #10 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I wanna believe it,but it's got my hackles up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MontanaGramma Posted October 18, 2012 #11 Share Posted October 18, 2012 If he could not tell anyone his mothers name or the town in which he lives, How could he look up that "town" on google earth? I'm calling fake on this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted October 18, 2012 #12 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Did you read the whole story? It explains how he did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemonix Posted October 19, 2012 #13 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Wow, that is an incredible story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipotep Posted October 19, 2012 #14 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Its good to read a nice story for a change - Pity he's a Tasmanian ( local joke - just kidding ) TiP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted October 19, 2012 #15 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Poor kid, glad it had a happy ending. It would of been happier if he brother hadn't been killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldethyl Posted October 20, 2012 #16 Share Posted October 20, 2012 I'd have been looking for my kid the day he didn't come home. Glad he found her but I like to think I'd have found him pretty soon after he went missing as a mother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libstaK Posted October 21, 2012 #17 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I'd have been looking for my kid the day he didn't come home. Glad he found her but I like to think I'd have found him pretty soon after he went missing as a mother Every mother would no doubt like to think that, including his - unfortunately it is easier said than done to find a lost child especially when they are such a long distance away and could have dissappeared from home in any 360 degree direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGirl Posted October 21, 2012 #18 Share Posted October 21, 2012 so young! that just blows me away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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