On just another Tuesday morning, UK mum Michelle Dinning entered her nine-year-old son Josh’s room to wake him up in time for school.
But unlike every other Tuesday morning, this time, Josh was nowhere to be found.
Panicked, Ms Dinning, 49, called the police, who then called in a force helicopter and dog section to search for the missing boy.
According to Yahoo! News, police searched the family home, before taking their search to the streets.
Not only that, but as the search grew, spreading across nearby bushes, outbuilding and gardens, Ms Dinnning’s worried neighbours handed out pictures of Josh at the Gateshead local shops.
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And while fears of the boys whereabouts mounted with each second that went by, little did the mother-of-eight, as well as the police, know that Josh was actually still at home – hiding underneath his bed.
Four hours into the search, police turned the search back to the Dinning’s family home to see if they had missed anything in their initial search.
Well, it seems they did.
As reported by Yahoo! News, apparently Josh had crawled through a tiny gap in the bottom of his wooden bed frame, out of sight from anyone quickly peering beneath his bed.
Look, we’ve heard of kids trying it on in any way possible to get out of school, but Josh’s reason for not crawling out when called for is less about school and more about getting yelled at for worrying everyone in the first place.
“I could hear people looking for me and I thought I had better stay quiet because when they found me I would get shouted and bawled at so I just stayed where I was,” Josh explains.
Fortunately for Josh, a relieved Ms Dinning was having none of that.
“I just couldn’t bring myself to be angry with him, the relief that he was alive and well was just too much,” Ms Dinning adds, clearly, and understandably, rel Even the police officer who was leading the search was in tears.”
We can only imagine…
