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Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Re: Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Post by Cyph0n »

BasedAnon wrote: post #13
kramerger wrote: post #2

Finally since good news :) Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days. How was he able to keep the toddler alive? What do you feed someone that young in a jungle??

You shouldn't be, 13 year olds have complex reasoning and the physical capability. 14 year olds used to be expected to fight wars.

Definitely not a normal 13 year old. Taking care of a 1 year old in ideal conditions is already a challenge (even for an adult!), but doing so in the Amazon for over a month is a different ballgame. Also, the older siblings’ mental state must have been all over the place.

Re: Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Post by sveme »

kramerger wrote: post #2

Finally since good news :) Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days. How was he able to keep the toddler alive? What do you feed someone that young in a jungle??

SHE. The two elder sisters kept the two younger ones alive. They knew what to eat in the jungle and used some of the randomly dropped emergency kits.

Re: Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Post by jeromegv »

Solvency wrote: post #20

I was vaguely tracking this through Reddit for a while, and I thought the consensus was that they falsely claimed they found the children and it turned out to be a big political lie. Glad to hear it finally happened.

Who’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?

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Post by the_lonely_road »

runsWphotons wrote: post #19
BasedAnon wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You shouldn't be, 13 year olds have complex reasoning and the physical capability. 14 year olds used to be expected to fight wars.

A few 14 year olds have always fought in wars but when was this common or expected?

Here is a good historical reference from a western viewpoint.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_m...

I am less familiar with other regions of the world but understand it to be common place in some of them to this day.

Re: Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Post by meowzor »

jeromegv wrote: post #23
Solvency wrote: post #20

I was vaguely tracking this through Reddit for a while, and I thought the consensus was that they falsely claimed they found the children and it turned out to be a big political lie. Glad to hear it finally happened.

Who’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?

They had claimed they were found before this, but they retracted it. This time they did find them.

Edit: I believe the president is the one that tweeted it the first time, and he retracted.

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Post by Kalkaline »

jeromegv wrote: post #23
Solvency wrote: post #20

I was vaguely tracking this through Reddit for a while, and I thought the consensus was that they falsely claimed they found the children and it turned out to be a big political lie. Glad to hear it finally happened.

Who’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?

"The president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found.

He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information - which his office had been given by Colombia's child welfare agency - could not be confirmed." quote from the article this thread is about.

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Post by alienfromearth »

sveme wrote: post #22
kramerger wrote: post #2

Finally since good news :) Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days. How was he able to keep the toddler alive? What do you feed someone that young in a jungle??

SHE. The two elder sisters kept the two younger ones alive. They knew what to eat in the jungle and used some of the randomly dropped emergency kits.

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Re: Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Post by flashback2199 »

the_lonely_road wrote: post #24
runsWphotons wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few 14 year olds have always fought in wars but when was this common or expected?

Here is a good historical reference from a western viewpoint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_m... I am less familiar with other regions of the world but understand it to be common place in some of them to this day.

The repeated use of the phrase that children were "used by all sides" is concerning because there were many countries that used no children except those that got in by pretending to be older.

Re: Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Post by flashback2199 »

jeromegv wrote: post #23
Solvency wrote: post #20

I was vaguely tracking this through Reddit for a while, and I thought the consensus was that they falsely claimed they found the children and it turned out to be a big political lie. Glad to hear it finally happened.

Who’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?

From reading this article, it sounded like they found the general area where they were, but it took a while to actually find them because they kept moving

Re: Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane crash

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Post by pm3003 »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #3
kramerger wrote: post #2

Finally since good news :) Surprised that a 13 years old was able to take care of 3 small children in a jungle full of snakes and jaguars for 40 days. How was he able to keep the toddler alive? What do you feed someone that young in a jungle??

A one year old eats almost anything you give to them.

They found the baby bottle quite late. Maybe they managed to salvage some milk or formula from the plane.
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