DELAND,USA - An 8-year-old girl who recently moved to Florida caused a panic when she tried to ride back home to Ohio on her bicycle out of fear of hurricanes.Forecasters are predicting that Hurricane Dean will miss Florida, but Heather Snoke,8, didn't get the message.
Heather was riding her bicycle in front of her home Wednesday, mother Melissa Snoke, 37, told police. Twenty minutes later, at 6:30 p.m, the girl's father, John Snoke, 41, came home and noticed Heather was gone.
While the mother called police, her father drove around the neighborhood looking for his daughter but did not find her.
She did not get far from her family's house in Deland,Florida. Neighbors and a police helicopter located her about 75 minutes after she was reported missing,at 7:46 p.m. on East Plymouth Avenue. By that time she had pedaled almost a mile -- still more than 900 miles from Columbus,Ohio.
Police took the girl home and reunited her with her parents.
"It is amusing but at the same time sad," Deputy Police Chief Randel Henderson told The Daytona Beach News on Thursday.
A police report said Heather told officers "she was headed back to Columbus, Ohio, because she was afraid of hurricanes and that was her home."
"No charges are pending.There was no abuse. There was no neglect. It's a happy story. We're just so excited we were able to find this little lady," Henderson said.
Melissa Snoke, Heather's mother, told police the family moved recently and her daughter had not made any friends yet in her new neighborhood.
2 comments:
75 minutes to go an hour? pathetic
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