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Had a bit of a scare tonight :tearful: . Scott had escaped out of the house! Front door was still locked, a neighbour knocked on the door to tell me she had seen him in the road!!!!!!!! :crying:

 

She tried to catch him but he ran, Forrest Gump! :unsure:

 

Well, needless to say he was in the lane at the back of our house - he had come back like a homing pidgeon!

 

Okay, believe me I was sick :sick: ! I am laughing now but it could have been so much worse! :pray:

 

I had to run as he was ready to bolt again when he saw me coming. He was not phased at all!!!! I bought him back in the house and lo he tried to get back out!

 

I then realised he used the ladder from the trampoline, put it on a garden chair and climbed over the back wall!!!!!! Little *+*@!!!!

 

I had only seen him about a couple of minutes before he had gotten out. I had gone to the loo!!!

 

Okay, panic over but it has really scared me. In a way I am happy that he was so resourceful but he could have been run over or worse!!!!

 

Its hard that he is so quick and mobile but so capable of getting into danger. I have to watch him 24/7! I am so glad my neighbour happened to be outside!

 

And other half will NOW build the back wall up! I have told him time and time again to make it higher because I foresee this happening in a few years time, I did not think it would happen now!!!!

 

Razor wire, electrified wire, search lights and armed guards I think! :hypno:

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You were in the loo. That's just the kind of lacksadasical parenting that causes untold... etc etc etc :lol::lol:

 

Given that you've now no doubt confiscated the ladder and chair, what's gonna be his next move? A bag of cement (bought in for the express purpose of raising the back wall) dropped onto the trampoline, bouncing onto one end of his see-saw and WHOOOOOOOOSHHHHH! another superhero takes to the skies!

 

Seriously, glad all ended ok... oh - and don't leave any shovels lying about!

 

:D:D

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You were in the loo. That's just the kind of lacksadasical parenting that causes untold... etc etc etc :lol:  :lol:

 

Given that you've now no doubt confiscated the ladder and chair, what's gonna be his next move? A bag of cement (bought in for the express purpose of raising the back wall) dropped onto the trampoline, bouncing onto one end of his see-saw and WHOOOOOOOOSHHHHH! another superhero takes to the skies!

 

Seriously, glad all ended ok... oh - and don't leave any shovels lying about!

 

:D  :D

Yep, I know what a bad example of parental neglect, how dare I go to the loo! He watched me go into the bathroom, funilly enough he has been standing outside the door of late, must have been timing me, keeping track of my movements. Knowing I had had curry last night, this bought him an extra minute or so!!!!

 

Best invest in some super-dudette mega-huge ASM sized nappies! Then I can go on the go and fulfill my full parental duties without taking time out for ablutions! May swipe a couple of BRWs inco pads - I know where she hides em!

 

Have noticed his toys, ie buzz lightyear, bob the builder and spiderman and of course scottie, all huddled together in a conspiratal way in his bedroom :whistle: ! Perhaps this is the escape committee! Obviously Bob the Builder is the brains of the outfit! He's interractive.

 

I'll fix Bob, :devil: I'll confiscate his batteries and will hide Chicken Run DVD, he has taken far too much interest in this film!

 

Que music from The Great Escape! :whistle:

 

Never mind the spade, have noticed a serious lack of spoons in the house! Hah! Perhaps I dont have a mole in the garden!!!!!

 

Okay, alls well that ends well, but am very miffed at other half. I am going to get my brother to put trellis ontop of the wall!

 

Have taken on board advice re trampoline and moved it to other end of garden!

 

Incidentally have seen scottie testing strength of various 4 by 2's! Working out velocity, projection, wind speed/direction, nappy status, ie full or empty!!

 

Bag of cement will be dropped on other half's head! Lazy so n so. He is a ###### builder so there is no excuse for not doing the wall, aside from - never getting round to it. I know if I ask my brother he will do it at the weekend!

 

Thanks BD, I am just glad he's okay and will live to plan his escape another day!

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Oh carolJ!!!!!!!!!! :o

 

What a scare!! A complete and utter nightmare where every minute seems like an hour! Time to revise the 'security' systems in place! :shame:

 

I'm sure Baddad has given you plenty more to think about, too. Oh, the possibilities!!!! :devil::whistle: Good luck, pal.

 

Give 'other half' a less than subtle kick to get grafting outside. And refuse to give him tea and hob-nobs until it's finished! :lol:

 

Take care, and very glad it had a safe and happy ending.

 

Elefan

xx

PS Where's Pooks at the mo? :ph34r:

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wow he is rescourcefull if nothing else, you have to give him his due!!.

my son has just started secondary school and is having real problems negotiating the roads, i dont drive and have another child to take to primary so we have a big problem.

did the old school run about 12 times in the hols but he still pelts accross the roads at the traffic lights.

roll on the holidays! :blink:

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You have my sympathy - I also am Mother to a very accomplished escape artist - he can also run very very fast.

 

I know how scary it can be, and I hope that you are feeling a bit better now.

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wow he is rescourcefull if nothing else, you have to give him his due!!.

my son has just started secondary school and is having real problems negotiating the roads, i dont drive and have another child to take to primary so we have a big problem.

did the old school run about 12 times in the hols but he still pelts accross the roads at the traffic lights.

roll on the holidays! :blink:

Elaine, cant you get some sort of transport sorted out. If he is darting across the road, that is far too dangerous.

 

Do you get motability for him. Perhaps this might pay for a taxi. Also someone told me about an organsiation called GASP who organise an account with a cab firm for autistics. I will try and find out more and get back to you. This might be an alternative to LEA transport, but speak to school and tell them the problems you are having. You can get driving lessons from Family Fund and you should be eligible to high rate motability from the sounds of it and get yourself a car so you cn keep him safe.

 

However transport should still be laid on. Scottie gets both.

 

Good luck and thaks >:D<<'>

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You have my sympathy - I also am Mother to a very accomplished escape artist - he can also run very very fast.

 

I know how scary it can be, and I hope that you are feeling a bit better now.

Cheers Linz

 

We have nicknamed scottie Forrest Gump cos he runs everywhere! :wacko:

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PS Where's Pooks at the mo? :ph34r:

Elefan have not heard in a while, PC is at her brothers house, it must have gone down again. I also have em on msn messanger so when they turn the PC on or log in I can see em online. It has not come up presumably PC died a death.

 

I am sure the caped confuser will be with us soon!

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i am sat here and all i have in my mind is a young chap building a escape bridge from several garden pieces of furniture and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE theme tune running thru my head!

Tristan is a well seasoned escape artist too! we like to call him hudini!

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Ben had three sets of straps on his baby buggy, and I still had to watch him like a hawk (no, not with binoculars from a canvas hide 3 quarters of a mile away, Carol - that would be ridiculous!). :D

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Ben had three sets of straps on his baby buggy, and I still had to watch him like a hawk (no, not with binoculars from a canvas hide 3 quarters of a mile away, Carol - that would be ridiculous!). :D

Err why would that be ridiculous BD? Binoculars are also very use for spying on neighbours. Doing your bit for queen and country in case you have a cell of terrorists or something in the vicinity?

 

I defy anyone here who has ever had a pair that they have never looked at people's windows - just to see how they decorated their bedroom, :devil: give yourself a few decorating ideas - ahem!

 

There I will stop.

 

-----------------------

 

Helen, I am sure you r right, pooks is probably nursing frank after his encounter with the mutant ninja dog turd.

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Give 'other half' a less than subtle kick to get grafting outside. And refuse to give him tea and hob-nobs until it's finished

Elefan I can do better than that!

 

I will hide the sky remote, his stellas artois!

 

I know a man's weak spots!

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CarolJ

 

I'm a bit late offering tea and sympathy. :( Hope you have recovered from the ordeal.

 

This has probably been mentioned before but here it is again for anyone interested.

 

If your child is a runner you may want to get a safety alarm:

http://www.natobe.co.uk

 

Nellie. x

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CarolJ...

know exactly how you feel...2-3 days ago im at work minding my own business when my mobile starts ringing nothing new there just lissa (my wife) phoning to say hi..except this time shes in histerics screaming "the kids are gone the kids are gone" and hangs up...i run to my locker grab my helmet sprint out of work to my motorbike (not easy when you smoke 20 a day)and fly home...get home to find the house wide open and nobody but the pooch about... so i start running round the estate like a mad man...next thing i know i find my wife and kids walking up the road towards me...

 

turns out that my eldest son (and AS) decided that it would be a good idea to take his brother to the park how sweet huh?... and it would be if my eldest son wasnt 3 and my youngest 2...and if the park wasnt half a mile away and the other side of a major road..how they got there in one piece amazes me...

 

they gave me a heart attack and the wife hasnt really stopped shaking since...but theyre ok and now we just lock everything so they cant get out..oh in we have put in a request to the nhs to have eyes surgically implanted in our backside to make sure we can watch them ALL THE TIME!!!!!

 

nightmare.... but thought it would make you feel a bit better to know your not the only one.. :tearful::D:P

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I can sympathise totally with this. The first week of the holidays my hubby ran to a neighbours house to get something and didn't shut the front door and Joshua (who's 3) strolled out of the front door and did a runner while I was upstairs. I have never been so scared in my whole life, had practically the whole street out looking for him, my hubby got in the car and drove round our estate which is luckily fairly quiet and found him with a couple who had heard him crying outside their house and were just about to ring the police! I couldn't believe how far away he'd got in such a short time and that he'd crossed two roads (thankfully not main roads). Josh was totally oblivious to what had happened whereas my hubby, my 6yr old and I were totally hysterical. Now if Josh goes quiet in the house for a few mins I get a panic attack.

 

Michelle x

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Mawbrew and Spike >:D<<'> >:D<<'>

 

Well, it happened again a couple of weeks ago. This time under the side gate, there is a gap at the bottom he managed to squeeze through!

 

This time he was found on a traffic island in a main road by some motorists who stopped and grabbed him and phoned the police. I had telephoned the police and ran down the road in the opposite direction, hysterical, no shoes etc! John was driving around and spotted the police and stopped and lo and behold scottie was sitting in the back of the cops car oblivious, not even fazed! A policeman was trying to ask him his name (he is non-verbal). He was gone for about 10-15 minutes in total but it seemed like a lifetime! :crying:

 

I have asked for an Occupational Therapist to come round the house to try and suggest ways of making it scottie proof.

 

That boy will be the death of me :( ! I watch him constantly now. He is still trying to negotiate the back wall! He has gotten a taste for freedom now. He just needs a bit of road sense!

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cheers bid, it happened a couple of weeks ago and I was so shaken by it I did not even post. Elefan knew about it though.

 

However, scott lives to escape another day!

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Whatever you do, don't let him watch The Great Escape :whistle:

 

Also keep a watchout for any tunnels!

 

Seriously, I'm really glad it turned out well, but poor you. You must have been on total panic mode.

 

Take care

Gita

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Glad everything was OK in the end and Scott was safe, I'm surprised that we are not all nervous wrecks (come to think of it I am most of the time)!

 

Joshua has not made anymore bids for freedom but he is only 3 so there is still time.

 

Take care

Michelle x

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Okay, yesterday he found another way out - got through the chain link fence and hedge into next door's garden.

 

I had checked on him 30 seconds before, turned to see to Emma when I looked back 30 seconds later he had gone!!!!

 

I am seriously thinking of CCTV, employing securicor, electric fences and upping my dosage of prozac.

 

Start of half term hols today (help!"!!)

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oh these replys give me the willies lol. we must have eyes in the backs of our heads. it makes me shudder just to think about it.

calm down woman lol

 

anyhow, the school is only 10 mins walk away from the house would we still qualify for transport.

I get disablility suppourt for him but not mobility, dont know if we wd qualify for that either !!.

 

As for me driving i tried it and even in a automatic car it was a no no me and cars dont mix !!!

thanks for your advice .

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Hi, Oh sparkling one -

 

Just a thought, but did you ever see that film (Ray Liotta, I think) where all these prisoners on an island had to wear exploding neckchains? If they wandered beyond the boundaries of the detection field: BOOM!!

Now obviously Scottie would need to learn the 'theory' by rote (very dangerous otherwise!)... perhaps a series of demonstrations with well loved pets (do you have a dog? Robbie the Rabbit could be volunteered I'm sure, Elefan/Kris??)

Perhaps you could combine a training session with bonfire night - a beautiful display and you'd be killing two birds (or dogs, or rabbits) with one stone...

 

Seriously, I am so sorry I haven't anything sensible to offer other than just keep plugging away with the green cross code etc... You will get there (well, nearly there - I don't think those heart in mouth moments ever go completely when you have a kid who is easily distracted/fascinated/excited to the point that the rest of the world fades out of existence) one day... In the mean time, as Shaw Taylor used to say many years ago, "keep 'em peeled")

 

L&P&lots of :thumbs: and >:D<<'>

BD

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:angry: Kris,....I am trusting you to come up with some sort of program that will edit Baddad's posts until they are acceptable/sensitive (poor Robs :robbie::tearful: ) /fair/polite, etc, etc.

 

 

AAAhh,....I see the problem,...there would be nothing left of his post then!! Doh!! :devil::P:lol:

 

 

Badman!!!!!

 

 

 

Elefan & Robs

xx

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Just a thought, but did you ever see that film (Ray Liotta, I think) where all these prisoners on an island had to wear exploding neckchains? If they wandered beyond the boundaries of the detection field: BOOM!!

Mmmm interesting theory although I would be very reluctant to use my cats or even poor Robbie as demonstration. Scott loves loud bangs, explosions and things of that general nature and would love to see something blown to kingdom come!

 

However, your suggestion has given me food for thought. How about an remote controlled electronically activated device that fits snuggly in nappy. Something that could not be removed. This could delivery an zap of shocking proportions to temporarily disable the wearer.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of John rather than scott. When he standing in the pub and he told me he would be home 2 hours ago I could activate device and get the so n so to dance and spill his pint at the same time!

 

Thanks for the idea BD.

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Kris,....I am trusting you to come up with some sort of program that will edit Baddad's posts until they are acceptable/sensitive (poor Robs ) /fair/polite, etc, etc.

So,

 

you want a program that deletes EVERYTHING??? Hmmm, sounds like a job for BANMAN (mwa ha ha ha ha) :banman1:

 

In the meantime, keep Robbie under lock and key and bar the windows ;)

 

Krisxx

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This brings back some memories.

 

I remember we were visiting the Ear Specialist before my son was diagnosed. I was leaving the office the Dr was holding the door open for me so I could push the pram with my 6 month old daughter out. The whooossh, my son did a runner, the doctors office was on a cross street and a medium busy road that goes onto another more busy 60km road, I was amazed how fast my son ran, the Dr ran after him he couldn't catch him, a bus sitting in the busy road was on a rest break - the driver watching this to his amusement, but realised trouble was on the way when my son ran around the bus then three people including the bus driver where chasing him as he was on the right side of the road full speed ahead running for the busy road, my heart was in my stomach I was in shock holding the pram, the bus driver picked him up in one quick sweep, and they brought him back, the doctor was speechless as was I, he didn't know what to say and then just went inside I eventually put my son in the car.

From that day on I went to shopping malls where he could run but no cars, everytime I wanted him to follow me if I let go of his hand, off he would go, so I learned to say BYE BYE and walk the other way, hey, it worked, he would come running after me, REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY, it seemed everytime I proceeded after him whooosh off he went. :lol::lol::lol: I am glad those days are over.

 

>:D<<'>

Hailey

 

Hey is your son called Robbie, thats my sons name too!! see they have a lot in common.

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I love the sense of humour on these boards :lol:

 

This thread reminds me of the time when C went missing OMG the worst day of my life! We had gone to Caister nr Great Yarmouth on holiday and my 2 kids and my friends son were in and out of the caravan, C was running out of the back door, in the front, out the back, in the front etc. Suddenly I realised that she hadn't come back in for a few minutes, the boys weren't watching her properly so didn't see her slip away ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

There was a small road next to the caravan and the club was over it so I ran over and asked the security guard if he had seen her, he said she definately hadn't gone in the club so we checked the small shopping parade, no sign of her :tearful: I started to go into hysterical mode by now, jumped in my car and kerbcrawled round the campsite trying to peer through all the caravans, and well aware that she could have just popped in someones caravan for a nosy round if the door was open. By this time site security had turned up, I had 5 people out looking for her and I was told to stay in the caravan where hysteria really took hold! Worst nightmare scenarios were racing through my mind, she was in the sea drowned, a pervert had snatched her, she was wandering on the main road about to be hit by a bus etc etc etc This went on for an hour until my friend said she was going to check the club just in case. She found her in the club, C had stripped off her jacket so didn't fit my description any more :rolleyes: and was joyfully dancing in front of a large mirror she had found in the club. She'd been there all that time! :crying: Happy as fecking Larry she was, and me, I needed valium!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:

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My girlfriend (mid 20's) always vanishes when we are out. See something she likes and walks off to have a look. I'm always loosing her. I end up phoning her on her mobile hoping she is in the right fram of mind to pick it up! Once I found her the other side of our local town feeding ducks when we were ment to be shopping for food! She has very little road sence and a very bad memory for directions. If I'm at work and she decides to go some where I usually get a text just saying "I lost" then trying to get her to discribe where she is so I can give directions or get someone to pick her up is very hard. She will walk for hours and hours if she gets an idea in her head but I can't lock her up! And if having a "meltdown" and runs off I stand no hope in hell at keeping up with her!!

I hope you have got over your sons escape and I hope he "grows out of it"

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