Kids Are Unreliable at Identifying Body Parts

I never really had much interaction with the police when I was a kid.. kid. Like 7 to 11 years old. That’s probably because I grew up in a community where people kinda dealt with problems with local kids on their own. If you screwed with old lady McGrady’s flower garden, she was coming over to your house to yell at your parents then beat you with her cane.

I think maybe I lit of fireworks or something and the cops were like, “Hey, kid, we don’t wanna work, don’t do that.”

See, kids are generally pretty dumb and excitable. I don’t think cops take their word as worth much.

An Allentown Fire Department dive team was called to Jordan Creek on Thursday night to investigate a report that children had spotted a human hand in Jordan Creek.

It turned out to be a glove.

“Some kids were swimming in the creek and they saw what they believed to be a human hand at the bottom,” city fire Capt. Robert Reilly said late Thursday. Police asked for Fire Department divers, who went into the creek at about 9:30 p.m.

A short time later, at the bottom of the creek, the divers found a glove. The case was closed. Source

The kids just wanted to believe they found a hand because that would have been cool. I mean, they DO live in Allentown, finding a hand in the Jordan Creek isn’t exactly the craziest fantasy they could have come up with.

Remember that guy in the Princess Bride with six fingers on one hand? Craazzzzzy.