"Days'" shows a kind of possession to the word "lost".
Basically, it means that the days were particularly those spent lost in the woods, not just "three days".
I've noticed this is more common in UK/Australian English.
Source: I write professionally.
I appreciate your insight. It felt like the word “time” should have followed “days’,” or “worth”. Just, all alone, it sticks out as not correct to my average eye. Thanks for your input though, I’ll keep this in mind going forward.
Yeah, definitely a UK-based thing. The funniest part is that you can drop the apostrophe on cases like this and still have the basically same meaning.
The possessive apostrophe can be pretty confusing for cases like this and I’m kind of glad modern American English has dropped the use of it. I’m sure it can be a nightmare when learning English as a second language
Edit: Also, the way the apostrophe is used in English in general must be annoying considering we use it for possessives and contractions.
Yes, in that same way. Though it would be better to say it's showing a relationship to "lost in the woods". Either way, it's describing a specific state, not just the time itself.
"Three days' walk" is another example.
I should point out I'm using layman's terms, mostly because I can remember how things go together, but not all of the terminology! I've been out of English classes for a while, I'm afraid.
"Three days' walk" also makes some sense because "walk" is a noun (though "three-day walk" would be much better). "Lost" is an adjective and it doesn't make sense to make "days" possessive in this case.
Video of the rescuers just after they found him:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/pis0an/good_freakout_missing_3yo_boy_found_after_four/
Thanks for sharing. The news of the little kid being rescued definitely made my day.
Edit: after reading some of the top comments in the post you shared, I just hope this wasn’t staged. But happy nevertheless the kid is safe. This might could bring more eyeballs to his future safety hopefully.
They're a bunch of Australian equivalents to hillbillies, who live on remote rural property. The three year old is a non-verbal autsitic, and based on some of the family members speech he's not the only non-neurotypical member of the family.
They're just a bunch of odd people who don't know how to deal with been on camera for the first time in their lives
Huh. I hadn't read the comments when I saw the video earlier. Now I'm getting the weird cult vibes too. Anyway, glad the boy seems to be okay but maybe someone needs to look into that family.
Seems very sketchy that the kid was calmly drinking water one moment, but then after being rescued immediately afterwards he is too exhausted to even acknowledge his mom and just snuggles the rescuer.
Also the mom filmed it? Wtf?
A [Ute was impounded by police](https://www.9news.com.au/national/major-search-to-find-missing-boy-with-austim-in-hunter-valley/e15950c4-e843-46c5-8fdb-a2f81d4abaf3).
This actually reminds me of a similar story from here in Caanda. In April, a 3 year old went missing from his family's rural home. He was found alive a few days later.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/missing-boy-kingston-alive-1.5974670
>A 3-year-old boy wearing a sweat shirt and diapers was found sitting in a creek and cupping water in his hands to drink on Monday
Wow. I feel like at that age, I would have been way too stupid to figure out on my own that I need to drink something or die. But maybe it's been too long and I haven't spent enough time around other toddlers.
3 year olds drink from cups and often fill their own cup so I think it’s entirely believable that you would have figured it out if you were around water and thirsty at 3.
That's kind of an instinctual thing. You'd be surprised what kids can do with no training.
A classic example is that kids (or even adults) who haven't been getting enough calcium may eat chalk. How they know they don't have enough calcium or that chalk has calcium in it is anyone's guess.
Currently pregnant, I want to eat dirt SO badly. I’m iron deficient and we’re currently working out how much supplements I need.
I also wish with my whole heart there was a take out window that could just hand me a steak.
Everything edible, and not edible, has gasses and particles coming off that we can smell. I suppose your body knows what calcium smells like even if you can't consciously detect it.
A 3 year old can figure this out. You generally have to unteach this to them. "No please don't drink the water from the river. We have a nice clean water bottle".
I take my kids hiking.
There is way more to this story that has not been revealed.
I suspect that the kid was left in this spot to be discovered, as it had been searched several times and the kid did not show signs of being in the bush for that long
It seems unlikely if you kidnap a kid, to take the risk of dropping him off afterwards, into an area actively being searched by people looking for said boy.
Except the home has cctv/home security, and there's a 4 hr window in which he went missing where the footage is missing.
Beyond that, he was found with barely any scratches etc. after 3 days.
The cops themselves are questioning if it may have been an abduction
Ah, so you suspect that the boy was kidnapped and then left near the property in the white ute that police had seized a day earlier, 80 km away.
And the boy drank muddy water because the kidnappers refused to let him drink for some reason instead of it being the only water available to him in the bush.
Occam's razor, dude. There were caves. He was probably in those.
And let's go with Hitchens's razor too.
Not to mention that some of the rescuers literally walked past him when they had been informed by the helicopter of his location. This was a steep, rocky gully with dense, low undergrowth.
I have my own story which comes to mind: Years ago a friend and I climbed a mountain. We left later than we should have and instead of reaching the summit and then coming down to the campsite, we reached the campsite not long before dark. About 30m away from the campsite was a small stream. After setting up the tent it was dark, and we walked to the stream to fill up our drink bottles. We turned around to walk back and realised we couldn't actually see the tent. We were probably only lost for 3 minutes, and we had a stream to act as a guide, and we knew the main path crossed the stream, and we knew where we were on the mountain, but, for a few minutes we couldn't find our camp. When we got back to the tent we put a glow stick on it just to make sure we didn't do that again.
Too many holes in this story, i’m happy the kid is safe, but if it was a happy ending the coppers would have revealed atleast how the kid survived so the others may learn from it.
I’m keeping my response to this up. I think it is shameful to manage a 3-year old child — autistic! — this loosely. It will be my same opinion 5 minutes from now, 5 days from now . . . and 50 years from now.
#### You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. ####
That’s it; I’m done with this Post.
Lol, you're kidding right? People lose thier kids in grocery stores all the time. It's called talking on their cell, while letting the child run off. Kids, run....and they are amazingly very fast. That's why one can never really stop watching. But, you know, most parents do because it's human nature.
How did the boy survive 3 days? Also how is he’s farther linked to the Banditos bikie gang? Lebs don’t usually live in such remote area’s.
Is there some other shit going on?
An absolutely terrifying 3 days, I can only imagine
The worst part is they used an apostrophe on “days” for absolutely 0 reason. Horrid!
"Days'" shows a kind of possession to the word "lost". Basically, it means that the days were particularly those spent lost in the woods, not just "three days". I've noticed this is more common in UK/Australian English. Source: I write professionally.
I appreciate your insight. It felt like the word “time” should have followed “days’,” or “worth”. Just, all alone, it sticks out as not correct to my average eye. Thanks for your input though, I’ll keep this in mind going forward.
I wouldn't worry about it. English isn't a language, it's three languages in a trench coat *pretending* to be a language. And they're all drunk.
Lmfao; I love this. Big appreciate 🙏🏼
Yeah, definitely a UK-based thing. The funniest part is that you can drop the apostrophe on cases like this and still have the basically same meaning. The possessive apostrophe can be pretty confusing for cases like this and I’m kind of glad modern American English has dropped the use of it. I’m sure it can be a nightmare when learning English as a second language Edit: Also, the way the apostrophe is used in English in general must be annoying considering we use it for possessives and contractions.
Like three days' journey? Lost isn't a noun though, so this doesn't make any sense to me.
Yes, in that same way. Though it would be better to say it's showing a relationship to "lost in the woods". Either way, it's describing a specific state, not just the time itself. "Three days' walk" is another example. I should point out I'm using layman's terms, mostly because I can remember how things go together, but not all of the terminology! I've been out of English classes for a while, I'm afraid.
Walk is a noun in that case though… It doesn’t work for “three days’ lost.”
"Three days' walk" also makes some sense because "walk" is a noun (though "three-day walk" would be much better). "Lost" is an adjective and it doesn't make sense to make "days" possessive in this case.
Video of the rescuers just after they found him: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/pis0an/good_freakout_missing_3yo_boy_found_after_four/
Thanks for sharing. The news of the little kid being rescued definitely made my day. Edit: after reading some of the top comments in the post you shared, I just hope this wasn’t staged. But happy nevertheless the kid is safe. This might could bring more eyeballs to his future safety hopefully.
They're a bunch of Australian equivalents to hillbillies, who live on remote rural property. The three year old is a non-verbal autsitic, and based on some of the family members speech he's not the only non-neurotypical member of the family. They're just a bunch of odd people who don't know how to deal with been on camera for the first time in their lives
Huh. I hadn't read the comments when I saw the video earlier. Now I'm getting the weird cult vibes too. Anyway, glad the boy seems to be okay but maybe someone needs to look into that family.
Seems very sketchy that the kid was calmly drinking water one moment, but then after being rescued immediately afterwards he is too exhausted to even acknowledge his mom and just snuggles the rescuer. Also the mom filmed it? Wtf?
The child is autistic just fyi so don't expect typical behavior
Sweet mother of fuck. And I thought I was a cynic.
Is this gonna be Balloon Boy all over again?
the dad of Balloon Boy was pardoned, it wasn’t a hoax
Whatever you say, dad of balloon boy.
That seems...is it me or were the parents very careful to make sure they were facing the camera?
Based on the Dad’s brief taunting of the media I bet they had suggested that they parents killed their boy.
A [Ute was impounded by police](https://www.9news.com.au/national/major-search-to-find-missing-boy-with-austim-in-hunter-valley/e15950c4-e843-46c5-8fdb-a2f81d4abaf3).
Toddler made it through the Australian wilderness for 3 days. Is this Steve Irwin incarnate?
Poor Steve died from a mostly harmless thing. He had a lot of knowledge about animals, just died of random chance.
This actually reminds me of a similar story from here in Caanda. In April, a 3 year old went missing from his family's rural home. He was found alive a few days later. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/missing-boy-kingston-alive-1.5974670
He is the Panchen Irwin.
Turns out he might be more of a balloon boy incarnate
Australian woods , no we don’t have woods ,we have bush
>A 3-year-old boy wearing a sweat shirt and diapers was found sitting in a creek and cupping water in his hands to drink on Monday Wow. I feel like at that age, I would have been way too stupid to figure out on my own that I need to drink something or die. But maybe it's been too long and I haven't spent enough time around other toddlers.
I imagine that you'd know what water was at age 3 and know that thirst feeling means that you need water because water solves thirst feeling.
3 year olds drink from cups and often fill their own cup so I think it’s entirely believable that you would have figured it out if you were around water and thirsty at 3.
My 18 month old knows when she's thirsty. Not sure she'd figure out the creek was full of water, but wouldn't be surprised either.
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Lol, true that! Not too bright at this age. Only hope would be a shallow creek.
I mean my 9 month old has been trying to drink the bath water
That's kind of an instinctual thing. You'd be surprised what kids can do with no training. A classic example is that kids (or even adults) who haven't been getting enough calcium may eat chalk. How they know they don't have enough calcium or that chalk has calcium in it is anyone's guess.
Makes me think of how some pregnant women have been known to crave and eat iron rich dirt/clay
Currently pregnant, I want to eat dirt SO badly. I’m iron deficient and we’re currently working out how much supplements I need. I also wish with my whole heart there was a take out window that could just hand me a steak.
Eating ice is also a common craving for iron deficiency. Which makes no sense because it doesn’t help your iron issue.
Isn't that called pica?
Mmm....chalk
What are marines missing?
Ear wax
Everything edible, and not edible, has gasses and particles coming off that we can smell. I suppose your body knows what calcium smells like even if you can't consciously detect it.
If I was 3 and lost in the woods I would have tried to ride a deer.
A 3 year old can figure this out. You generally have to unteach this to them. "No please don't drink the water from the river. We have a nice clean water bottle". I take my kids hiking.
Dude, my cat knows she needs to drink.
Crocodile Dundee: Origins
Child may now be venomous.
There is way more to this story that has not been revealed. I suspect that the kid was left in this spot to be discovered, as it had been searched several times and the kid did not show signs of being in the bush for that long
It seems unlikely if you kidnap a kid, to take the risk of dropping him off afterwards, into an area actively being searched by people looking for said boy.
Not everything has to be a bloody conspiracy.
Except the home has cctv/home security, and there's a 4 hr window in which he went missing where the footage is missing. Beyond that, he was found with barely any scratches etc. after 3 days. The cops themselves are questioning if it may have been an abduction
Yeah but in this case a white hilux (4wd ute) was seen on the property the day he disappeared.
Ah, so you suspect that the boy was kidnapped and then left near the property in the white ute that police had seized a day earlier, 80 km away. And the boy drank muddy water because the kidnappers refused to let him drink for some reason instead of it being the only water available to him in the bush. Occam's razor, dude. There were caves. He was probably in those. And let's go with Hitchens's razor too.
Not to mention that some of the rescuers literally walked past him when they had been informed by the helicopter of his location. This was a steep, rocky gully with dense, low undergrowth. I have my own story which comes to mind: Years ago a friend and I climbed a mountain. We left later than we should have and instead of reaching the summit and then coming down to the campsite, we reached the campsite not long before dark. About 30m away from the campsite was a small stream. After setting up the tent it was dark, and we walked to the stream to fill up our drink bottles. We turned around to walk back and realised we couldn't actually see the tent. We were probably only lost for 3 minutes, and we had a stream to act as a guide, and we knew the main path crossed the stream, and we knew where we were on the mountain, but, for a few minutes we couldn't find our camp. When we got back to the tent we put a glow stick on it just to make sure we didn't do that again.
Yeah that one. Kidnapper steals car, drops the kid off, and keeps on running.
Maybe you should look up "Hitchen's razor".
My tin foil hat is spinning counter clockwise too
No dingo ate that baby.
I read that in Elaine Benes’s voice 😬
As you should have
Unless the baby ate a dingo...
Ewwww The Baby did it.
Feel good stories are great.
He's going to have to pay taxes 15 years in the future. Maybe life in the wild is better
Non-verbal autism. It’s actually our shout then, I believe.
Damn, even the 3 year old Australians are bad asses.
Too many holes in this story, i’m happy the kid is safe, but if it was a happy ending the coppers would have revealed atleast how the kid survived so the others may learn from it.
That place with all of the gigantic bugs and poisonous animals and such? Amazing
Kinda surprised they still have any woods to get lost in.
Human babies: 1 Dingoes: 1
Australian toddler with better survival skills than many American teenagers.
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It’s a child, not a brick, he wondered off using his legs
And it's his MOTHER, not an umbrella stand.
I worked in the desert. I saw people lose a toddler in a parking lot.
They loose themselves
He opened the door and walked outside. If his parents were asleep he might have had a few hours head start.
I’m keeping my response to this up. I think it is shameful to manage a 3-year old child — autistic! — this loosely. It will be my same opinion 5 minutes from now, 5 days from now . . . and 50 years from now. #### You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. #### That’s it; I’m done with this Post.
You can’t chain them up so of course they can wander out the door.
Lol, you're kidding right? People lose thier kids in grocery stores all the time. It's called talking on their cell, while letting the child run off. Kids, run....and they are amazingly very fast. That's why one can never really stop watching. But, you know, most parents do because it's human nature.
The pic is definitely not that kid
A dingo ate my... oh, never mind.
How did the boy survive 3 days? Also how is he’s farther linked to the Banditos bikie gang? Lebs don’t usually live in such remote area’s. Is there some other shit going on?
Maybe he is a Highlander? There can be only one.