This video made me realised of the healthy way we deal with lost children in my country. If you find one on a public place, you start clapping and either put them on your shoulders or stay with them. Everyone around you immediatly knows you found a lost child, gets involved and starts clapping with you. If any parent hears this, they know to check on their kids, and come to you if they cannot find one. And everyone around the person that founds them knows he/she is not a kidnapper. Loud but practical😂
Usually fruit that comes directly from a tree is actually much tastier than what you get in the supermarket. The reason for this is that the supermarket buys from growers that are not right next-door to them, and they have to pick them before they are ripe, so they can ripen on the way to the grocery store. The fruit on the tree, has ripened from the tree and is full of flavor.
right. they are also handled with various chemicals (like pesticides f.e. or genetically manipulated to withstand nature 🤨 and to look better - but all that comes at the price of taste and healthiness)
The people who are scared to eat produce from the tree/vine/dirt absolutely canNOT be Southern fresh produce that's been homegrown is more valuable than cash. We barter it for real, and if you get a reputation for growing the best strawberries ... your phone will never stop ringing and your grass will always stay cut by a neighbour hoping for a couple quarts of that deliciousness! 😋
Target handled that completely wrong. There is literally a PA code for missing children. You NEVER announce to customers that info. You call a “Code Adam” and lock the store down.
No one in or out until kid is found or determined not to be in the store. Don’t blame parents- I’m sure most kids did all kinds of things their parents told them not to.
That is absolutely correct! That intercom announcement would alert a would-be kidnapper. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. As a man, maybe alert a woman or flag down staff, and watch them walk her to the front.
@@Nostradevus1 I don't know how it works at a store; however, in the hospital we post all available staff in hallways, stairwells etc . Security officers post at each door to ensure no one leaves. Prevention of child abduction is usually enough reason that most rational people don't argue with having to stay.
I found a small child alone in a grocery store years ago. He was crying. I heard the announcement over the PA. I talked to him & told him we were going to the front of the store where his Mom was. He took my hand & we walked to the front to see his Mom. I was relieved to see them reunited. I told her where I found him. She thanked me & I carried on my shopping. I'm a woman so that might have been why the little guy took my hand. I was lost in a big store when I was just little. My Mom always told us if we got lost you go to the exit door. I just remember watching as all these legs went by me so I must have been small. Mum did find me right away. Even now, if I hear an announcement about a lost child, it still tears me up. I will go looking for them, looking on shelves, wherever. So glad when I hear that the child has been found. PTSD for sure.
I'm a mom of 4. One time, we were visiting the local pool and at the playground, there was a little girl (maybe 4 or 5) walking around, looking frantically around and yelling "mommy, mommy!". I watched her a moment and as no one came I approached her and asked her if anything is okay. The girl told me that she can't find her mom, nearly in tears. I told her that it's fine and I will help her looking. I lifted her on my shoulder to see better between all those people while walking around the playground, but no luck. Then I asked her if she knew where their blanket was located and she brought me there but no luck either. At that point, she was really devastated and I decided to bring her to the front where the staff can call for the parents, which I did. I waited with her, after the announcement was made and a woman came up, furious! It was the aunt, not even the mom, screaming at me for taking the child away. I told her that we couldn't find the girls parents and we were walking around and the girl was yelling for them. The aunt still screams and curses at me, because "they were right there!" If you were right there, why did you not react to the girl and why did you let a stranger take your kid away!? Btw they weren't right there...
@@izzy6455 mind you, it's many years back. During this time, at least where I'm from, it was not an issue to lift anyone's child in your arm in an attempt to help. Today, it's really different. And calling the police would be really overkill at the local pool, where staff can easily make an announcement for the parents.
@@izzy6455 dude that's really not serious.. to lift a child if they're crying and being panicky ofcourse and let's not forget she helped her .... And yes maybe it's different in your country but where I'm from its really not a deal to help a little child in distress when they are lost or something 🫡
I think that person as a kid was told not to eat from THAT tree and as an adult it equated don't eat from any tree. As a kid my family explained that I can eat apples, pears and plums from gardens (if it's okeyd by the owner), but under no circumstances I'm to eat from trees that grow by our apartment building, because they are near well trafficked street and will absorb leed from car fuel. In other word the fruit might be pretty, but unhealthy.
@@emuxkrcould be. I’m 42 and ashamed to admit that until only a few years ago I believed what my dad told me about exposed beams during thunderstorm. Our beams in our ceiling were exposed and he told me that they protected us from the lightning strikes.
@@emuxkr I'm sure a child has the intelligence to differentiate between "that specific tree" and "any tree". This is just next level ignorance, probably with a sprinkle of stupidity too
If I were that girl, I'd be looking into filing a restraining order when that guy gets out. That level of delulu is not something I would feel safe around.
Yes! I am concerned for her safety, especially after the comment that he would not be happy that she was out living her life, clubbing, etc. He had no right, no say in her life. Creepy!
14:59 “why don’t we just plant fruit trees everywhere?” Wasps 😭 Had to share the backyard with wasps every year as a kid because of a single pear tree. Also, fruit can ferment on the tree. Look up “animals get drunk on fruit” 😂
I didn't know that about fruit fermenting on the tree. I thought that they got drunk because they ate the rotten fruit off the ground that had fermented. 😮
The fact that her parents had the audacity to act the way they did when TWO of them couldn't keep track of ONE child, is completely ghasting my flabbers!
That's insane. Things happen. Imagine you lost your child only to hear her screaming while being carried by a stranger. I promise you'd go off. If you wouldn't your a liar
Fr it sounds like they were looking at clothes and just walked away not even paying attention before realizing they had no idea where their little angel was. Wild, at 3 I barely let my kid out of the cart because they don't just wander off they run lmao
@@qryptid right?! My kids were NEVER out of my sight, especially in a public place. Like, I get that kids are fast and things can happen but you’re exactly right, at 3 they definitely shouldn’t be allowed to just run around the store or if that’s what you’re okay with then you had better keep your eyes on that kid the ENTIRE TIME.
@@annacobb1140 I realize that things happen but there is NEVER any reason why a three year old child should be allowed to run loose in a crowded store. And no, if I was irresponsible enough to LOSE MY CHILD WHILE SHOPPING and then a person did EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE TOLD TO DO IF THEY FOUND THE CHILD, I would be extremely grateful and embarrassed.
Hello! Former Target employee here! Missing child events are uncommon but not rare. I thought the story was a little odd here because (I don’t if the employee didn’t do their job right or what but) we don’t announce “missing children” over the intercom because that could possibly alert the “potential kidnappers” (if there are any). Instead we use the term “code yellow” and it is issued over our walkies. So typically, customers aren’t involved in the search, all target personnel are. Which was probably why the poor guy experienced what he did.
@bufficliff8978 "It's uncommon but not rare" 🤔 Technically the statement doesn't contradict itself. Uncommon is a step down from an everyday occurrence and rare would mean maybe once a year if at all. I would assume uncommon would mean every couple of months at best. It's a weird way to phrase it, but from the numerous comments of former target employees saying the same thing (Though I keep seeing "Code Adam" not "Code Yellow" but it could be a store/regional difference.) I think this person knew what they were talking about and you just misread it. So nice try bud.
I have stood in a mall screaming for my 3 year old. I had 5 kids with me and she just disappeared. I screamed what she was wearing and her name. Three high school boys came up to me and said they saw her. They found her two stores away in the very back reading a book. Those boys were so kind to come to my aid. No one else offered to help. I’m forever grateful. Three months later she crawled under a floor length tablecloth in the bakery section at the grocery store. After that she sat in the cart.
The other day I was at the department store and this little girl, maybe 3 years old, was crawling around in the handbag section. It was a calm day and I couldn’t see any adults around, so I just stood there and waited for a bit, then asked a sales assistant and eventually the parents were found. A while later I was passing that area of the store again and the same little girl was on the floor between the racks again 😂😂 Future fashion diva, I think!
@@s.a.4358 YES!!! Exactly!!! Keep an eye on them & ask a passer by to get an employee OR yell "that kids in the kids clothing department!!!" At Walmart it was 📢 announced, Code Adam, & what they were wearing, anyone not at a register looked for the kid & several guarded the exits! It was never suggested that customers help! Some times someone would say I see or saw them in a specific location. We sometimes did have people bring unrelated kids to the front & say that they found them wandering alone, usually crying.
Ngl, I was a kid who just wandered away and my mum kept me in those toddler reins till I was like 6, by which point I'd learned a whistle sign that meant I'd gotten lost because I did not, ever, notice myself getting separated. If she whistled I knew to go and look for her. Fun fact, she later adopted a retired sheepdog from my grandparents' farm, and it was only then that I realised that she'd used the same whistle to call me as the farm dogs were trained to come to heel to. I was in my 20s, the dog and I had both wandered off at the dog park, she whistled and we both came right back. That was EMBARRASSING
@busekrc702 actually yes you can, it happened before and from seizures. We don't actually know if the lady in the story spoke in latin per say (we weren't there 🤷♀️), the girl telling the story said "I think she was chanting in latin", and the husband said it sounded like Italian (both Spanish and Italian are latin languages and very similar). Since they apparently are a very religious couple, it's not crazy to assume the lady started to speak maybe a form of gibberish between latin and Italian she caught from their religious background. There is a case of a 19yo Turkish woman who started to speak in fluent English AND German (both languages she had very little knowledge of) during a seizure. It's possible!
@kitkittykitkat3108 or, just maybe, idk, possession can *cause* seizures. Honestly that makes more logical sense than seizures giving you the ability to know a language you don’t. Knowledge like that can’t just be spontaneously given through a mental or physical illness, how would that even work? I will give you the fact that this is secondhand information, and we don’t know if she was fluently speaking it, but other than that, the logic seems flawed.
15:38 as someone who's studied urban geography, this is a actual hostile urban design tactic. They don't want to provide free food but they want the pretty tree, so many cities only plant male trees as it's the female trees that fruit. Side effect of this is hay-fever symptoms have drastically increased because of this because the male trees release pollen with no female trees to collect. Additionally, the plants are smart enough to know that they've not been successful in pollenating previous years so they release more pollen the next year. So a cycle of even worse hay-fever. All because certain cities don't want to provide free food
@@maanamanaa Fr. Urban geography is a quick to become radicalised if you weren't already because you get to learn about all the proven ways you can build up areas to support communities and then learn that most governments prefer to implement tree sexism and other hostile tactics instead
I was going to give benefit of the doubt and assume the reason was because the fruit would be contaminated by vehicle emissions or that the fruit would remain untouched (because people assume contamination) and rot on the ground.
It’s especially stupid because they also didn’t realize that female trees don’t produce fruit if they’re not pollenated anyway, so if they had just planted female trees, there’d be no fruit or pollen.
I call everyone, including random strangers "Darlin'", "Sweetheart", "Babe", etc... . In fact; I was at the store the other day and this lady and I were walking down the same isle with our carts and kept almost running into each other our carts bumped and it was totally my fault (not paying attention) I said "Oops, sorry Darlin". She responded with "No worries Doll". We laughed and had a 10 min conversation about pasta, rice, who in our family liked what, etc... . 100% positive experience.
I am the same. And I won't lie I accidentally called my twinnie babe in a store or 2 around town and all the cashiers now think we are a couple lmao 😅🤦♀️
Oh char char, bless your soul. You know fresh home grown food is always better than store bought. You can even pick the varieties you specifically like. So much nicer!
Truly! I mean I know here in the US, drug sentences are much longer but it has to be intent to distribute to be that long, or accessory to a serious crime, if he was that young and he hasn’t even gotten to parole (which is usually a small fraction of the time)
@@TheBaumcm If it's just illegal drugs sentences are not high. They're high when there's dangerous and multiple felonies involved and the matter is pleaded down to just a drug charge. It's a miscarriage of Justice but not the way people have been told. If someone is charged with a violent crime they shouldn't be able to plead it down to just drugs, but that's what happens.
I am a country girl. I grew up on a farm. Growing up I assumed everyone knew at least the basics of growing food. At least until I moved to a city. Then I realized there are people in the world who would starve to death in a garden full of food. Including one would freaked out when I informed her that all fruits and vegetables grow in the ground, after she dropped an uncooked, unpeeled potato outside on the ground. I made the mistake of telling her to just wash it, since it grew under the ground.
My mother freaked out because I used herbs from my garden, said she doesn't want anything from outside that I need to go to the store 🤦 I laughed and said where do you think it comes from except mine is organic. Wow just WOW 😂
I had a college level biology class that was taught at a high school. We had a field study portion that involved going around this wooded lot next to the school and identifying trees and plants. Getting there we had to walk past a corn field. My lab partner that semester thought the corn was marijuana and was outraged that it was grown next to the school. Imagine her shock when I explained that the frozen (or canned) corn she ate was from a PLANT (and that’s why it’s classified as a vegetable). She didn’t believe me until I walked her over and showed her the corn on the stalk. This was before we all had cell phones and could just pull out a phone and look up pictures or I would’ve shown her what marijuana looked like. An entire field of it when it was still illegal next to a school…? And I’m still not sure she was convinced it was corn. Or that she didn’t decide corn was basically marijuana.
I don’t understand, where do they think fruits and vegetables come from? They just magically appear at the store?? Also Charlotte said fruit straight from the tree might not taste as good but usually it tastes much more fresh, ripe and sweet.
That happened to me once in a shopping centre. I saw this little girl wandering around on her own, probably around the same age. So I sat her on a bench next to me, was just sitting talking to her so she didn't get stressed. I'm just waiting for a parent to show up. Waited 5 minutes. No parents. So I decided to head for the security desk. So we are halfway there, and all of a sudden, this woman shows up. She picks the kid up and starts shouting at me. She caused a big scene. So I got miffed off at that. Told her she was bloody lucky that was a parent, and not some dodgy person. Then I told her I had been looking after her kid for nearly 10 minutes. Where the hell had she been for that long ?? She shut up at that. Gave me a filthy look and stalked off with her kid, who was crying and screaming at that point. Some people are just bloody ungrateful 🙄
A few summers ago I was with my husband and son at the city park for the 4th of July fireworks show and we noticed a little boy crying and screaming for his mom. This park was crowded with hundreds of people and this kid was scared. The mom in me decided I was going to help. I walked up to him and asked if he was lost and through his cries he said yes. I told him I would walk with him to go find a police officer so that we could find his mom. He followed along with me through the crowds of people and just as we were coming up to several officers I see a woman and man coming running up to us. The lady was hysterical and picked up the little boy. He started crying more and calling her mom…. I looked at the mom and dad and realized they were my next door neighbors!!!!! What are the odds that I’m the one that ended up finding their little boy in the crowded mess of people??? I should have recognized the little boy, but to my defense I only see him as a blur as he is running through my front yard… I’ve never sat and had a conversation with him. 😂
I was lucky enough to have a grandfather who had a small farm. We picked strawberries, raspberries, blackberries at various points around his land. He had apple and pear trees, rows of corn, potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables. We worked in the garden daily in the summer, waking up at dawn, working until breakfast, eating breakfast and going back to work. My grandmother would bring us lunch then we would eat dinner inside the house and go back out to work until dark. We were taught to work on the farm like little farmers, because he had chickens too. We had fun with him, though. He was a great man.
My brother was a nuclear engineer, an electrical engineer, and is now an accountant. One time he locked his keys in his car. I asked him where his spare keys were and he said "....I'm looking at them right now through the window of my car." He was keeping his spare car keys... in his car. Big brain is not equal to big common sense.
I once ended up locking two sets of keys in my car at the same time, at a gas pump, with my cell phone inside too...on my way to a midterm, it was not a great night.
@ckee8437 that suuuucks lol. I locked my keys and my phone in the car at a gas station at 3am. I was totally alone and the clerk made a big deal about me using their phone to call AAA. also not a good time 😂
First story is why less people are inclined to get involved and help others. I remember taking my son to the playground and initially being nervous about people wondering what a solo man was doing in the playground. Having said this, I told my son if he got lost first look for a police officer, if he didn’t see one, then look for a mom with kids, finally only a man if he’s with kids.
Interesting. I always love to see dads playing with their kids- but I get your rules for if the child is lost. Any man without kids shouldn’t be at a playground- and if his kid was playing on something, I feel he’d constantly have to interact with the kid referring to himself as daddy, in order to not look like a weirdo.
*any man or woman without kids shouldn't be at a playground. Kidnappers/child predators aren't only men. We see that with on the news and crime documentaries. Like the teachers sleeping with students, a newborn being stolen from a hospital by the woman who recently miscarried, or the few involving a woman tricking and luring a pregnant woman somewhere to cut them open and steal the baby.
@@cademancadenboth of you guys act as if women themselves don’t kidnap children. If a woman can be there then so can a man. I’m a woman and these comments don’t make any sense to me. Anyone and anything can take a child. It has nothing to do with gender.
The parents effectively deflected the blame that would've fallen on them for not keeping an eye on their child by accusing a good samaritan of being a criminal. Poor guy.
I feel sorry for the first guy, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. He seems to have a good heart. It's terrible he was judged with side-eye. Thank god for cameras ❤❤❤
I’m sorry, if I see a guy with a little girl that he does not know in a cart, I’m gonna be suspicious, might save a life. His feelings can be put aside
“Please if you see her, bring her to the front” *does as asked, almost gets arrested* like if you’re gonna accuse someone of something because they did what you asked, don’t be surprised when no one ever helps you again…
He made it up, just fyi. There is no footage. Just copying and pasting to try and undo the negative damage he has done, people in his comments literally saying they will be unwilling to help a kid because of his story.
@Rose_Castle as a man, im already unwilling to help random children. Mental get accused of being creeps for just existing. I've had cops called on me for playing with MY OWN KIDS at the park because some other kids joined in kicking the ball around and there mom came from the playground screaming at me to get away from all those kids and that she was calling the cops. So i shooed away her kids and told mine to come with me and mind you, my oldest is a CARBON COPY of me.
as a former target employee who was involved with SEVERAL lost child searches, this Target did not follow protocol. Code adam is called over walkies, and PA system, security and store management guard the exits, and every single employee looks for that kid via a asweep that starts in the back and works forward. I worked for target for about 2 1/2 years, and participated in at least a dozen searches. Parents are just the worst. I worked for wal-mart for about 2 years and only had 3 searches.
Yeah I've seen/heard this happen before at a Target, the correct way. I never knew they did this so it almost brought me to tears seeing how quickly everyone burst into action to help find the child. 🥹🩵 Humans can be awesome sometimes.
My daughter got lost at Walmart before. It’s my fault for not keeping a closer watch. It was very scarey they called code Adam and luckily some couple found her hiding in the middle of a clothes wrack 😅 I was so grateful to the people who found her.
I’m just curious why don’t you use the intercom? I’m in Sweden and the normal thing to do here is to do an announcement like this. If the child is old enough to understand they will just say “Amy (the child’s name) your Mom is looking for you please come to the front desk or approach an employee and ask them to help you” This happens all the time.
PLEASE - Charlotte's editor - PLEASE RAISE THE VOLUME on the clips so that they are as loud as Charlotte's hosting ... Our ears are being blasted everytime Charlotte makes a comment during the clips from the difference in volume!!
My Mom told me when I was little I ran off on my her and my Nana in a Woolworths. They were freaking out that I'd been kidnapped. Apparently I had climbed in to the window display, sat in a deckchair and was waving at people passing by 😂 My Mom was so mad. That ended my early career in advertisement 😂
I literally saw a naked toddler running around my neighborhood yesterday and ran outside to catch her. I was ASTOUNDED at the number of people who just ignored her as she ran past them. That first guy did THE RIGHT THING 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@airamortiz4661 yeah was just about to say this lmao. The folks that did nothing were probably more afraid of the consequences of being caught in a situation like that without context
He made it up, just fyi. There is no footage. Just copying and pasting to try and undo the negative damage he has done, people in his comments literally saying they will be unwilling to help a kid because of his story.
As an American we had a vegetable garden and ate peach's, plumes and apples off of the trees in our yard, and blue berries off the bush. I haven't ever heard of anyone saying you can't eat it off the tree.
I raised my own chickens for eggs and meat. I made sure they had a really really good life. A woman came out to tow a trailer for me with her husband. She was nearly in tears when she asked what the chickens were for and I told her. I assumed she must've been a vegetarian. Nope. I'd heard of people saying things like "get meat at the store where no animals were harmed " but I never thought I'd actually hear someone say it. She was so upset that I'd harm an animal instead of buying chicken that had not been harmed 🤯 I wasn't even sure what to say. I gently explained how awfully store bought chickens are treated. My chickens spent their entire life free range, given treats and cuddles, basically living the dream. Even when my hens stopped laying they lived a good life. Some people just really have no idea how the world works and don't care to know.
i was 10 when we moved from the city to a very small rural vilage. next to our house was a tiny old farm (most land was sold, i.a. to build our house) and i quickly started helping the granny that lived there with the chores. she had chicken, goose and pigs and i never had tastier eggs or meat after that... i also helped during the butchering witch taught me to value meat (and innards, leather, etc.). i'm 40 now and i don't buy meat in the store, i buy it from a small farm or from my uncle who is a hunter.
@@DisturbedFox137 ❤️❤️ it really is so much better. It's better tasting, better for you and way better for the animal. I love hearing people say they support local farms. It's quite often cheaper to buy from them and always better for the animals involved. Every farmer/hunter I've known is incredibly compassionate to animals. I know there are exceptions to this. Generally though it's true. Factory raised animals are miserable, abused and often very sick.
So we basically eat grandma chicken fron your farm? Just kidding, lol. Glad to hear you take such good care of them and they have an actual life. Even if the ending is still sad, it's way better than the mega coops with barely any wiggle room. That said, it is insane that (mostly kids but still) kids that age wise should know better think milk comss from a factory and have no clue it comes from a cow. Or that meat used to be an animal. The latter may be a form of protection about them eating an animal, but I guess the cow's milk could be too if they don't want their kids to know it comes from udder.
@Fluffy-Fluffy It was only this week I found out that some kid's schoolbooks (readers) published in Australia had to be censored for the US market. Why? To remove the cow udders from the pictures of cows. 🤔
@@Sarahopal unfortunately here (germany) it's often more expensive to buy directly from a farm. the reasons are better quality (because of lower quantity) and beeing able to tag a fair price without beeing oppressed by corporations. but i choose quality over price! that just means i only afford meat 2-4 times a month, wich makes me savor it even more 😄
I work in retail and Code Adam is the announcement for missing children. We contact other employees through walkies with descriptions. 99% of the time we have an unaccompanied child and the parents are missing. We just make a general announcement that all minors must be accompanied by adults and the frantic adult runs up asking if anyone has seen baby "Boo boo" who was wearing "Oshees." We keep the child at customer service and verify that the child did enter with the person before allowing them to leave.
Been there! I was in a movie rental section at about 13 in a grocery store (when they still had those) when a little girl came in by herself, no adult in sight, walking around, playing with a doll and knocking down movies. I spoke to her and asked her where her mom or dad was while picking up the movies and putting them back. She said whe didn't know, so I said I'd help her find her mom, she took my hand and I planned to take her to the store manager at the front so we could call her mom. Her mom found us in a panic and freaked out. Mind you, I'm a female child helping a child and she was so rude to me acting like I did something terrible. Thankfully the video department manager stepped in and told her exactly what happened before things got too far, but I was really intimidated. My mom came a few minutes later. She was just in the store while I was picking out a movie. Sometimes you can do everything right and people will still be upset.
When I see a lost kid in public, I ask for help from another adult, so there is someone who witnesses the interaction. Not to judge this man, he did nothing wrong. But yeah, I always like to have a witness. It's easier for me if my kid is with me. She's 8, and she loves kids. And it probably would put the parents' mind at ease too.
16:03 cities do grow fruit trees but the largely only plant male trees, as the fruit from female trees can wreak havoc as it falls from the tree into the roads and what not once ready. So in the olden days lots of cities planted only male trees, and that’s why in the south in particular allergies are so horrible due to the pollen. We sneeze because of tree jizz 😞
Saw a kid crying his eyes out walking to each store door in the mall calling mama and not a soul was helping so I walked up.to him and asked "Are you looking for your mama?" looked around and saw nobody looking for a kid and took him to customer service, and the whole time I was stressed out waiting to hear someone yell I was stealing their kid. That was years ago Today Id be even more worried...how sad.
I would have shouted "MILLIE IS OVER HERE!!!!" Eating fruit off a tree is AMAZING! If it comes off the tree easily, practically falling off, that's when it's at its ripest. So sweet and lovely. Fruit in the store is not as good.
Mmmm so much better! We had an apple tree when i was growing up and my siblings and i would go out to pick enough for Mom to make pie. She was a horrible woman but made great pie, and it was fun being picked up by my big brother to pick apples
But that would be bad for the same reason why announcing a missing child over the PA system is bad. Because if kidnappers are actually involved they are fully alerted and can years away nab the child and escape. Like if he did that he has no idea what the parents look like, so anyone could’ve run up and grabbed her.
I work in urban forestry. We don’t put fruit trees on the street because pedestrians and bicycles can slip on fallen or rotten fruit, and clean up/maintenance is harder, and fallen fruit can attract hornets and wasps… basically they’re more work and liability. What if someone sues!?
You beat me to it but thank you lol. Its def. something cities take into consideration and why in places like Atlanta there is an over abundance of male trees leading to pollen-geden"
I work in risk management for a city. In addition to what you listed, there is also the worry that they’ll eat the fruit, choke, then sue. Or eat it despite having an allergy, then sue. Even those the lawsuits get thrown out, they cost (waste) money, so cities just pass on the risk.
Oh sweet innocent girl.... Apples, oranges, lemons, peaches fresh picked off the tree taste 10000% better than what's in the store. Haven't you noticed what you grow in your backyard garden tastes better/fresher? I have a lemon tree and orange tree and pineapple plant in my yard. Grew up in Michigan and had apple trees in the neighborhood, they were the best. Love your content btw❤
What a crappy society we've become that someone helps your child and instead of thanking him for finding your child, you accuse him of trying you take her. If he was trying to take her, he would not be walking in plain site with the child...he would've tried to sneak her out without being seen. He follows the directive of the stores announcement over the loudspeaker. He's a hero and the parents are irresponsible and should be the ones being looked at for losing their child and accusing the hero of a crime.
The sad thing is when it concerns young children that aren't able to properly speak yet... it can and has happened in plain sight. So the issue is how do we make the system better. Well for one you make that type of announcement thar even describes the child because the kidnapper may end up being alerted. In my opinion, the store staff should have been on immediate look out without worrying the customers. It's actually easy, you just have security pay extra attention to cameras. And have other workers wait near doors and bathrooms, while rest of workers go around the store.
I TOTALLY AGREE on the fruit tree dilemma! We wonder why people with allergies to pollen react so poorly during spring in cities, and why there's so MUCH pollen in the first place flying around in the air. The reason is because cities only plant the male versions of trees, to avoid having to pick up the fallen fruit/clean the roads. If we had a mix of both, not only would we be able to feed off of our land, but it would also reduce the pollen outbreak by a lot.
The problem with planting fruits in the cities is the pollution of air and soil. When there are fruits growing near streets with car exhaustions, they can contain harmull chemicals. I come from Czech republic, we have mostly apple and pear trees pretty much everywhere along the roads, but we have to be carefull eating the fruits. When it is near too busy road, it might not be the safest. On the other hand, majority of homeowners has cherry, apple, pear, plum, peach or apricot trees in their gardens. Especially cherry trees are popular and the cherry season means cherry cakes, jams and sirups everywhere and people practically inviting everybody to their gardens to pick the cherries before they decay. This season is coming soon, I am sooo looking forward 😊
@FadedLightBluePink oh wow you're totally right! Thank you for the insight, I'm excited for my apple trees to produce as well to make some homemade apple juice. ☺️
As someone in the US who grew up eating cherries, pears, plums, and apricots off of my grandmother's trees in her yard, the story about people not knowing you can eat fresh fruits from trees baffles me. Especially people my age (I'm 25). Picking and eating fresh fruits with my grandma and cousin is a memory I'll always cherish.
Yeah! I’m 20 and during summer camp when we would be on the baseball court, my friends and I would sneak off the bench to eat the mulberries that grew through the link fence.
I'm 41 and this has been true since the beginning of time in the US. I'm also a lil irritated that we have to buy water where I live because of the putrid smelling sulfur in the water! 🙄🤨🤔
What shocked me was Charlotte saying she didn’t know if it would taste better than store bought! Fresh picked tastes 1000x better. Most produce we get in stores tastes like crap because it was picked weeks to months before you get it. That’s also why it goes bad so fast.
I was raised by my Sicilian Nonna in Toronto. We had 5 kinds of apples, peaches, pears, plums, mulberries, cherries, and nectarine trees grape vines, raspberry, blackberry and gooseberry bushes rhubarb and a patch of wild strawberries. My childhood was eating fruit grown in that yard!🏡
In January 2017, Mum and I took a mental health trip to Hobart (I am Australian, it was a same-country trip). We went on a food tour one day, and one of the locations we went to was an orchard/cheese-maker place, where they made fancy fruit jellies. Like I have said, they had an orchard. The person running the tour actually invited us to pick an apple each from their trees. The orchard was actually quite young as the trees were under 6 foot high. That apple was damn tasty, as it was probably a quality breed and graft, plus it was fresh off the tree. Second, in 2018, I visited Saxony, East Germany. I saw roads that had apple trees running alongside them - that was in late summer and I believe apples were in harvest time. I also saw elderberry trees, though I believe it was flower season for them, and here's the thing, Elderflowers can be harvested and used to make syrup or tea, but I presume if one harvests the flowers, I presume one has to be careful not to harvest all of them so as to make sure a crop of the berries comes in afterwards. I have heard tales of blackberry brambles, Mum's family going to the nearby growing towns to get large amounts of produce for yearly canning (like tomatoes, and stonefruit from Orange, a NSW mountain town that grows cooler climate fruits like cherries, peaches, and apples), and have had some experiences with growing things in backyards I have lived with. When I was 9-12, I lived in a rental house with a large backyard that showed signs of once being someone's fruit garden. There was passionfruit, papaya palms, strawberries, a mulberry tree, a mango tree and a Monstera plant, and a section of old dirt that must have been more planting space. I grew some sunflowers in that area when I was 10. We definitely harvested the mulberries. Plants aside, I also had an aunt and uncle (Mum's sister and her husband) who, when I was young, lived on farms. My hometown is the homeland of commercial macadamia farming in Australia, and likely the cause of macadamia farming in Hawaii, as I have an impression it was someone who saw the early Rous Mill orchards who took the nuts to the islands as a crop. That area (regional centre Northern NSW city Lismore) is also pretty heavily into dairy and avocado growing, and it is at the southern end of Australia's sugar cane growing range. This all to say, I was always very aware food came from plants and animals. Once plants harvested, cows milked, eggs collected and animals slaughtered, only then did it go to supermarkets, and a lot of the time, going through factories to process into packaged goods (Lismore had a Norco factory right next to one of the main bridges - a dairy co-op in Northern NSW, now wide enough distribution that their products are in Brisbane supermarkets today).
Yeah, and to me it’s clear she cried because she wanted to be held and he put her in the cart, but I don’t blame him for that either. Kids cry. He did the best he could have done. The parents who didn’t watch in the first place are already known to have bad judgment
He shouldn't have to yell that- we was clearly trying to take the kid to the front. If he was trying to ste the girl, she would've been gone. As a tiny female, trust me- I look over my shoulder everywhere I go because it can be so quick. If your child is in the front of a strangers cart on their way to the front after YOU made target use their PA system. You need to sit down and be grateful cps wasn't there, lmao!
If we’re really talking hindsight, he should have asked the nearest woman to help take the girl up to the front, not because he’s incapable or ill-intentioned, but to avoid the reaction he got.
In America most of the trees we have planted in cities are male trees... which is why when spring comes around we get a massive influx of pollen... no female trees to take in the pollen and make fruits. My understanding is it was to prevent trash... but I suspect it was to prevent people from being able to eat anything that they didn't buy first.
I was also told that the cities are worried fruit trees will attract bees and potential dangerous bugs. My family thinks it's to prevent people from getting free food, especially the homeless population.
@@halstag1898 considering there are multiple places trying everything in their power to make homelessness illegal... what's next, are they going to start arresting the homeless now instead of just raiding and demolishing their camps? Making being alive and homeless illegal isn't going to make it go away, its the next step in completely dehumanizing people.
All of this I had seen that tik tok before and I keep telling fellow Americans it isn't their fault they don't know that. They aren't supposed to know they can just get fruit. In public housing one isn't allowed to grow fruit plants. AT ALL. Even tomatoes. You and all of your family can be put out. Of public housing.
I'm a kid who grew up on going outside for snacks. We had a veggie garden, rhubarb, and raspberries that grew in the woods in the back yard and many neighbors who had apple trees. I never remember my parents giving us snacks. Just a bowl of water to rinse anything we were gonna eat in the yard
14:55 I actually know the answer to this! Botanical sexism! The people in charge of planting in urban spaces have preferences towards male trees because they don’t leave flowers and fruits behind that need to be cleaned up after! So we’ve overloaded spaces with male trees and in turn created the huge pollen saturation we’re drowned in each spring!
I'm from the South, we do the terms of endearment all the time. "Honey", "hun", "darlin'", "sweetheart", etc. It's just how hospitality is up here, and when I lived up north in Indiana, everyone I interacted with thought it was sweet. I think that girl had other issues she needed to work out lol
I feel like honey and babe are not the same though because babe though. Maybe baby when talking to someone way younger but babe is definitely a romantic relationship type of nickname.
@@Carpathianpixie I've been called babe by sweet ladies, and I live in the state of Utah, so not near the south! My mom has called me babe and older family friends have too. It might just depend on a generation and older.
In Bristol UK we call everyone my love, the older generation will say “alright my lover” when they see you. I’m originally from Ascot, somewhere near London so I would call everyone mate or to a woman sweetheart, babe, darling and hon of course. But now I have been here in Bristol so long I tend to call women my love and men mate. My grown children call people both because of me though. Although my husband will use sweet, sweetheart and darling sometimes now too. So our terms of endearment have now mixed! 😂
@@BangtansMommayup, from Newport, just over the Welsh border & I use "love" or "m'love" and blokes I'll use "mate" or "fella(s)." Go 20 minutes up the valleys though and EVERYONE will call you "beb" aka "babe" with a welsh accent. Love the "west country" accent with "my loverrrr" 😂
I remember sneaking in to my neighbours garden as a kid and eating strawberries straight from the plant. We also used to eat brambles and blackberries from the bush. My grandparents also used to grow rhubarb, which we would eat. Delicious!
I want to gently remind people that the US is huge and some of us do grow our own food. City dwellers and people that live deep in the suburbs might never see fruit trees but those of us living in the country (including here in California!) know very well that fresh off the tree is absolutely the best.
Yep. I knew several people growing up with apple trees. Anecdotally, I will say that many Americans don't like fruit trees in their yard because they require some upkeep and they (god forbid) attract bees.
I am a nurse but started out as and EMT then Paramedic for an emergency ambulance in Los Angeles. This call would have been super cool for me, it's like 'Stigmata'. To the Person who said they would have quit on the spot, employees in the Emergency Medical Service have a 'duty to act' You cannot simply abandon your patient. it takes a certain mind set to do and enjoy it. I loved what she said about the rookie firefighter "welcome to EMS" LOL
I've been working in EMS for 15 years and actually have gotten a scenario like this a couple of times and heard of more. They happen in cultures who believe you can get possessed, and is actually a symptom of severe PTSD :( And I can vouch that cops get scared of paranormal shit 😂
Here in the US it’s a complicated answer about the fruit trees. 1) is that they make more mess and therefore cost more for cities to clean up. 2) there are some cities that ban fruit trees because they think it’ll incentivize more homeless people to stay in their neighborhoods. 3) Lastly, yeah. Some people are food chain ignorant. I knew a woman that didn’t realize that eggs come from chickens, she genuinely thought the stores made them (or at least they were ‘made’ and then shipped to the stores).
It really does depend on where you live though. In the Midwest and South, plenty of people have gardens and yards. And no one would be surprised that you can eat fruit right off of a tree. But I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying. I just think it varies all over the country.
I asked a farmer friend of mine what's the weirdest thing a city slicker has ever asked them... She responded that once some one asked where the meat sacks are in the animal, she knows where the organs and muscles were but where did the meat come from...
Saying "hun" or "dear", etc. Is very endearing and it's something a lot of people who are hospitable do. Nothing wrong, it's a nice feeling to get someone so welcoming to take your order
I say "hun" or "love". And I couldn't have said it better. I typically do it when I'm just trying to take care of my customers. Half are sweet in return, so it makes for a sweet interaction with them and my day a little better. Tell you what though: this why you don't take back a cheater. 🤣 Definitely no trust there.
This!! I work in customer service and in recent years, I have tried to find more non gendered ways to communicate with guests. I say My Dear or Darlin’ all the time.
Heck..... I can remember the farm truck driving around my neighborhood on a PA system yelling. "Get your strawberries, cherries, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. We even had Milk delivered in glass bottles and would have to leave a message in the empties if we needed less or would be away!! We had a grape vine growing along our fence bordering our property with our neighbors. Both household ate grapes from that vine even though the roots were in their yard. I was so sad when they moved away and the new owners tore out the grape vines!
Exorcism story: a lot of people actually do learn Latin in school, not even necessarily Catholic school but some public schools will also have Latin programs. With dementia, patients can remember things that they haven't used in decades as they regress. Dementia also often results in psychosis and hallucinatory episodes, which would explain strange rants about taking your children to bloody rivers. It's very sad that this poor woman did not find sympathy in her family or her doctors. I hope she was given the proper care that she needed after being hospitalized
Thanks to TBI I have headaches. When it get extremely bad I speak a language I haven't used in decades. Without a headache I can't remember much of the language beyond hi, thanks, and please. The brain is a weird blob we know hardly anything about. A bump in the wrong spot, high fever, infection, or anything can make it go crazy
Someone down the street from my grandmas when I was a kid used to host garden parties and barbecues and had a bunch of raspberry bushes. They’d give the kids lil paper cups like the mouthwash size ones and explain how to tell when they’re ripe and let us go fill up our cup. It’s one of my favorite memories. We also used to sneak peas off our next door neighbors plants that were along grandmas fence line lol
One of my core memories is picking fruits from a tree that belonged to my foster mom's brother. Man had a massive garden, and it was like HEAVEN to visit during the summer growing up.
I took latin in highschool. They don't teach you how to speak, passes like reading stuff out loud. But we did have some university students come visit the class who were majoring in Latin and they do teach you to speak it there! It was really neat hearing them speak it out loud when I could barely read it out loud!
In my town there’s a “historical” park where the plum trees are descendants of the plum trees that came across the Oregon trail with the pioneers. My parents house was right across the street from the park, but as soon as the city noticed that I and some of my neighbors were actually picking and enjoying the fruit from those trees instead of letting it rot on the ground, the parks department destroyed these historical fruit trees! It’s actually disgusting!!
That's sick. Somewhere along the way, some lawyer told them that if a citizen got sick from the fruit, the city could get sued. Instead of doing their homework, they went with the fast & easy choice of action. I hate stuff like that!
Where I live in NZ, there are fruit trees everywhere. In my yard alone we have two mandarin trees, a lime tree, a plum tree, a grapefruit tree & an avocado tree. We did not plant them, they were planted by the developer when the house was built. Essentially developers here plant fruit trees whenever they do a build. Everywhere you go there are bags of various fruits outside people’s houses, usually for free. It’d be pretty great if developers all over the world did this.
Yep, NZ is awesome for this. I have some lovely lemons growing on my tree that's been there for yonks (I rent). I also grew up with mandarins, lemons, limes, oranges, feijoas, peaches, guava... most of the time we didn't need to buy fruit at all and I made juice most winters from the citrus. It was awesome, and they tasted way better than from the supermarket. We used to live in a rural area surrounded by growers fields and the growers and workers would help themselves to the fruit during their breaks, in exchange they would give us some unmarketable produce. It was so idyllic!
I live pretty far away from my neighbors but every time fruit and veggie seasons come around, there’s always crates of fruits and veggies outside my house. In return, I bring wild game and fish and usually, I make sure everything on their property is working.
Re: fruit and vegetables in the UK, we are going back to growing our own so we know what chemicals are on them and the soil in the gardens is generally more nutrient rich than on over used farms. That or we try and buy organic but that’s expensive. Growing your own is so rewarding and cheap and can be done in pots if you don’t have gardens.
My sister is a pre-1840s demonstrator. During her demonstrations, she typically cooks over a campfire using cast-iron. She has had people tell her that she can’t eat food cooked over an open fire. It would kill her.
Raised Catholic. Used to know a whole heap of the liturgy in Latin. Don't speak Italian, or Spanish. Maybe she is from a Spanish speaking country that still has church services in Latin. Also, studied science. Used Latin a lot. It is still quite common to study Latin at expensive private schools here in Australia too. (Public schools in the UK)
As a South African who lives and works on a farm - it absolutely confounds me that some people don't know where their food comes from. I do our company's health and safety, and for that reason I don't touch most of the processed foods that Americans tend to gravitate towards. Our greens and animal byproducts are organic, and our meat isn't contaminated with antibiotics, corticosteroids and preservatives. Its always better to get some farm fresh produce for your household - your body will thank you for it.
Target employee here. As others have mentioned, Target did not handle the missing child situation according to official target protocol. There are reasons we don't announce it over intercom. What confuses me is that Target's undercover asset protection person cleared this man of any wrongdoing relatively quickly, so was he really arrested? That poor dad!
Maybe it’s different depending on what state you’re in? I’m in Europe and that’s how we handle it here. (The intercom thing) To put a store or hospital in lockdown over a missing child is crazy to me. I’ve never heard anything like it.
@@LillllyPad It because traditionally kidnappers or the child themself would just... walk out while everyone was looking. There have also been cases where they ANNOUNCED that a child was missing and the kidnapper just... killed them (typically in malls where there are areas to do this). So now it's "code Adam" and a description. Some stores will give the description over the intercom, others only tell employees.
@@cheshirenevande4701 How would do that to a random child? In a store of all places there’s cameras there. It seems a little hysterical to think like that.
I'm from the U.S and I have never met anyone who didn't know fruit/apples grow on trees or are edible off trees.. Not sure where these people are form , but they really need to expand their horizons.
RIGHT!? Me either. Lol. I sadly can’t wait to meet one. I’ll give them a store fruit and a tree fruit lol. Let them compare. But it’s also sad.. and in todays world.. as sad as it is, I think I could actually believe it’s true. I just wonder where they live where they don’t teach you these things.
Same! I assume rich people? Or neighborhoods with low education? I'm from the Midwest, we grow everything we can here. And if we can't, we have a university that develops trees that can.
I remember as a child I got lost in the store with my younger brother. I had a good memory but I couldn't find my parents. So I grabbed my brother as a little five-year-old and asked the employee for help since I knew them as nice smiley people. My dad wasn't happy and didn't let us go having a good grip on our hands.
The fruit thing isn't just the US, I'm in the UK and it's the same here. When my mother retired in 1995 she became a volunteer class room assistant. When a teacher asked the kids where you get fruit from most of them said Tesco. My mother set about using some of the school grounds to plant an apple and pear orchard. She contacted all manner of big businesses for charity funds to buy everything and my dad did the ground work. My mother passed in 2002 and my dad in 2014 but every year the kids in the school get to eat the fruit they planted.
My high school had some cherry trees. They weren't the prettiest and the fruit was sour, but sometimes kids ate them. At another school, a kid threw a pit at another kid and hit him in the eye. The parents sued the school. For insurance reasons, my school cut down all the trees.
What?! Did they teach in London or something? Britain is so small how are their people who don't understand where our food comes from? I'm glad we're teaching this stuff now at least
Yep, I’ve found lost kids in stores before and I yell for store employees/parents/guardians. I’m not walking around with someone’s missing kid for this very reason.
@@TheBaumcm because in this day and age things like him being accused of something wrong is normal….so for the safety of the child and himself, call for an associate
YOU lose YOUR kid, and you wanna claim the guy that found her KIDNAPPED HER??? I've had similar happen. Kid in J.C. Penney's. Crying because she lost her mom, so I put her on my shoulders so she could see over the racks, and said, "Find mom!" Mom was at the service desk, freaking out, so I pointed, the kid pointed, the woman ran at me and acted like I had nabbed her! AND I AM A WOMAN! Another time in Fred Meyer, woman was helping her son in the bathroom stall, her little girl was trying to wash her hands, so I lifted her so she could reach. Helped her get paper towels as mom came out. My friend and I leave, here comes the kid, galloping after us, happy as hell. I got on my knees and told her she has to stay with mommy, because bad people might try to steal her. Elsewhere in the store, a tap on my shoulder, it was her mother, thanking me for telling her that, and saying she has a tendency to run off and talk to anyone. YIKES!
About the trees- in Soviet Union after ww2, I think, if not before then, the government planted mostly fruit trees alongside the roads in cities to provide food for people to eat. And people living in a house were cleaning the fruit that fell on the ground too, it wasn't solely a job for street cleaners. But people were gathering the fruits and making jams and other stuff, and I'll tell you that I have never tasted anything remotely like that bought from a supermarket. Supermarket fruits taste like paper to me.
I’m in my last semester of an ecology degree. In America, urban farming is becoming more popular, but there’s a LARGE population of people that don’t want community gardens or fruit trees in public because “people will steal the fruit.” It’s so sad. I’m genuinely moving to Finland.
It is also the fact that there are always these no so good people that ruin community gardens by taking more than they should and destroying the tree or garden itself. We used to have these really fruitful mango trees outside our community and I would see people break whole branches to get at a few fruit. I have also heard of people pouring hot water on to other people's plot at community gardens out of jealousy or just being a d*uche.
@@fakenailsThat speaks to that particular society. There are other countries that have those successfully, however those are better community-based societies who aren’t promoting violent behavior in their media!
I’m from Sweden, here every household has an apple tree in their garden, even apartment complexes has fruit trees in the shared garden. People put fruitbascets with homegrown fruits they don’t need at the gate for bypassers to take. Or if the fruit hangs over the fence, we just pick and eat 😅 Besides apples, it's very normal to grow cherry trees, plum trees, lots of berry bushes 😊
@@Avysaurus So jealous of y’all who can grow citrus!! I’m in cold New England and always share my peppers, tomatoes, etc. with friends and family. Hoping to get some fruit trees & bushes started soon!
Don't forget the pear trees! I also remember every PE lesson when we had orientation are teachers told us not to "palla äpplen" (steal apples). But oh well... when the trees stick out from the garden it's public domain, right?
"You can't eat fruit right off the tree!!" *Confused Hillbilly noises* also my ex husband's family had a mini orchard in their San Diegi home garden (and rosemary hedges!). I grew up with shitloads of food off the source with a rural upbringing. I've eaten rare apple types, my great grandma grew these nasty little plums to make my great grandpa devil schnapps. And was it even summer if your arms aren't shredded from blackberry brambles?
Fruit Trees. I'm in my mid-50s. My dad grew up during the Great Depression. My mom was raised on an English farm. Fruit trees were a valued part of the property... we had oranges and lemons, and my dad tried so hard for us to have peaches, but the birds and squirrels got those first. When we were living in my husband's uncle's house, we looked forward to the seedless orange tree to bear fruit (it was planted in the early 1950s, and gave the SWEETEST, juiciest fruit). We also planted an apple tree, pear tree, lime tree, avocado tree on that property. I can see on Google Maps that those trees are all still there, and doing well. This was all in Los Angeles suburbs.
Growing up, we lived in this house that my dad's friend let us rent. While we were there (about 6 ish years), we had so many fruits. Apricots, pears, apples, etc. We even had a grape bush. It saved my parents so much money, especially during the 2008 financial crisis. We would spend days without power sometimes but I am forever thankful we had those fruit trees. In the house my mom lives at now, she has an apple tree and a peach tree and grows her own green tomatoes, peppers, etc. It's a joy, really. And she freezes those veggies so she has enough for the winter.
As an ex Walmart Assistant Manager in Alberta…. There are cashiers who mask the credit card as a point card due to the push from head office to get applications. Some cashiers grab the ID from people and fill out the applications out themself for the customer. Had to fire the cashiers for fraud and get the police involved numerous times
About the apples… fresh fruit picked directly from the tree tastes better than grocery store fruit. Anything fresh is almost always better. Signed, An old-head Cajun lady
15:33 Miss Charlotte if I remember correctly, the reason why we don't have fruit trees in cities in the US is because in the 1950s (?) they planted all male trees, because the female trees cause too much waste (fruit not being picked left on the ground to rot). BUT if they had planted only female trees, no male trees to pollinate them, there would be less fruit and waste and we could have fruit trees. I think the reason they don't do it now is because nothing is free in 'Merica.
Pretty sure a lot of it has to do with not "giving handouts" to the homeless population in major cities and affluent neighborhoods as well. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if some pretentious jacka$$ tried to sue someone over a piece of fruit off a tree. :(
I also found out that because they planted only male trees most of us have developed adult allergies because the females ABSORB the pollen instead of it flying free.
My mom can speak Latin that she learned in Catholic school back in the 1960s. She also poured super glue in her eye back in the 1980s. She just got diagnosed with ADHD in her 70s. Finally, it explains a lot.
@@FreedomofSpeech865I don’t know about common but in the early days of superglues we saw any number of people in the ER with parts glued together including eyelids. It was a bit of a drama to begin with, no one wants to be pouring acetone into an eye so now what? Thankfully, it didn’t take long to figure out that, generally, the best thing to do is nothing. Skin cells slough continually, as that happens the glue gets sloughed too and whatever is stuck together will release on its own.
I can answer the fruit tree question! My husband is an arborist in California, US. Most cities and counties have limits on fruiting trees/plants in public spaces because of liability. The arguement is that if someone gets sick from rotten or underripe fruit, or if someone like slips on some fruit that's on the sidewalk or road, they could sue their local or state government. Usually the fruiting trees that are allowed have fruits that are onamental, but not edible. It makes no sense, but I swear this is the real reason they teach tree workers here as to why you can't plant or maintain fruit trees in or overhanging public spaces like sidewalks and roads
A lot of cities also consider it an "attractive nuisance" much like play equipment and swimming pools, so if you do have fruit trees or something in your own yard, you have to keep them fenced to prevent children (or idiot adults) from climbing the tree to get the fruit and then hurting themselves. 🤦 And then you get the "wildlife complaints" about it attracting animals, bees, wasps, etcetera. 🤦
that's so weird... in germany we have fruit trees alongside rural roads, people harvest them (illegally 😅) otherwise the fruits end up on the street making it slippery or they rot on the side. but nobody here would sue a city/district for getting sick from eating inedible food or getting hurt not beeing able to walk - that's their own fault for earing something without knowing if it's good or for not watching their step 😂 i'm so glad we don't have this mentality over here and also our children can learn were their food is coming from just by going outside 😅
My mom had multiple fruit trees in the yard. The plums were beyond compare. The fruit was deep purple inside. I've never seen them anywhere. I think they were Burgandy plums. As a pot smoking teen they were the best thing everm
The story where the guy found the little girl was something that happened to me and my daughter, too. I turned my head, and she was gone. I freaked out they called everything over the system and a few minutes later a man brought her to me and I said "Thank you" as I cried and that was it. Accusing him of that, didn't even cross my mind.
I think that story was bs….the operator and officers not giving the EMS any information, the “oh the furniture is moved because exorcism” not to remove hitting hazards, trying to talk to a seizing patient, not understanding that seizure positions do look inhuman af, etc.
@@mysticheart1049 I’m not saying exorcisms aren’t a thing, I’m saying it’s standard practice to move furniture away from a seizing individual so they don’t hit anything.
When I was like four, my dad lost me at a big store, and after basically closing down the entire place and having the worst time of his life, he eventually called my mom, who was on a different store across the parking lot, to inform her that he, unfortunately, lost one of the kids forever… Only for her to calmly tell him “he’s here with me, wait so you’re still at the other store?”. Turns out I, the little toddler, got bored of being with my dad, walked out of the store alone, crossed the parking lot *alone*, found the other store, found my mom, and refused to elaborate.
I accidentally became a litigation freak. I fight legally through the courts. Four for four. I wouldn't recommend it but I have learned so much about the Rule of Law.
😂 "i was being dumb so now i sue because it can't possibly be my fault" 🤦♀️ as a german it's always so strange that people would sue for just any reason 😂 i mean i sued my city because they insinuated me to earn money illegally (because i couldn't prove that i don't earn money - how would you even prove that 🙄) so they refused to pay me housing benefit when i was unemployed (socialism 🥳)... i sued, i won, i just didn't become homeless during the process because family pitched in to pay my rent until i could pay them back 😊 - that was the only time i ever had/wanted to sue and it was so time and energy consuming that i don't want to do it ever again 😅 edit: socialism is not comunism
"The city planting this tree here and i ate a fruit from it and now im sick and I KNOW it aint have anything to do with the 5 days old room temp milk i drank 20 mins ago, I'm suing the city"
Alberta girl here to say a piece about fruit trees. Fruit trees will attract skunks, deer, moose, bears, and other animals that eat those animals. In fact, towns like Canmore and Banff have an active program to replace fruiting trees within town limits because of them attracting bears in the area. That being said, the only fruiting trees that were planted in public spaces in Korea were ginko trees. You can peel them and eat the nuts (they are pretty good), but it is surrounded by a clear gel-like substance that smells like the sewers. Europe in general don't seem to have a bear problem like Canada though...
That last one, the girl should never come to the south, because we say,"baby, sugar, honey, sweetheart,etc,"all the time to people and never think a thing about it. She would stay triggered. Hahaha
Outside of the south, there's usually only two kinds of people who call others that and it's either grannies or creeps. Not coming from grannies, it's basically shorthand for, "I have bad intentions and/or contempt for you."
Coming from someone that is a farmer/rancher and have many family members that work for the state, the reason why fruit trees are not grown commonly in cities is because it’s the female trees that grow fruit but, they also lose the leaves earlier than the male trees. But the male trees will produce way more pollen than the female trees because the pollen is needed for the protection of fruit. Cities would rather deal with the over production of pollen than the fruit and the early falling of leaves and/or rotten fruit.
there have been medically observed cases where patients start speaking a language they could not before. Latin is the basis for spanish and most other european origin languages, also lots of people took it in highschool or through a church group.
Well. And, if nobody speaks Latin, how do they know she’s speaking it? How can you identify it if you can’t speak it? It was probably just some sort of tongue.
I am from the UK. A big part of my childhood was picking fruit from trees in our yard, and fruit bushes, blackberries etc. We also went to various lanes, orchards and so on, picking berries and fruits. Raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants... We'd go out on harvesting days, as well as cultivate vegetables at home and on an allotment. My nan took me mushroom and fern picking, lots of roaming around, learning what is safe to eat and what is not. When nuts were in season, they got added too! We learned how to make food out of everything we got as well. Some plants or berries were not safe to eat... But that's because of them being poisonous. It baffles me how Americans can not even realise that fruit from suitable trees can be eaten. How is this not a life skill they were taught? It's less usual these days for younger folks, (I'm a millennial in terms of years but not really mindset) yet I am confused as to how parents don't have the time to teach these skills to their kids. Learning what's safe to eat and how to prepare it properly was great fun for me. It came down to a few weeks a year when certain things were ripe for harvesting, so it didn't take up much time at all. We were not rich either, these were functional outings. My nan and mother also taught me lots of survival stuff, including self defense, I am female, they told me that I would do better in life if I knew how to handle myself in any situation life may throw at me. It gave me a lot of confidence, and totally changed me from the usual "girly" upbringing into someone practical and self assured. But there was also makeup too, alongside practical skills like DIY, building things, fishing, butchering, animal husbandry, medical skills and so on. I am the one that gets called when people are not treating MY people right. 😂 I am thankful for how mum and nan raised me, as I am really afraid of no one, and I can deal with.... Well anything that comes my way.
This video made me realised of the healthy way we deal with lost children in my country. If you find one on a public place, you start clapping and either put them on your shoulders or stay with them. Everyone around you immediatly knows you found a lost child, gets involved and starts clapping with you. If any parent hears this, they know to check on their kids, and come to you if they cannot find one. And everyone around the person that founds them knows he/she is not a kidnapper. Loud but practical😂
Cool, which country?
Oh nice! Now I need to know your country...
That is amazing lets be honest
That sounds amazing!
excellent idea
Usually fruit that comes directly from a tree is actually much tastier than what you get in the supermarket. The reason for this is that the supermarket buys from growers that are not right next-door to them, and they have to pick them before they are ripe, so they can ripen on the way to the grocery store. The fruit on the tree, has ripened from the tree and is full of flavor.
I was going to say that. Of course, fruits and veggies taste better when they ripen naturally.
right. they are also handled with various chemicals (like pesticides f.e. or genetically manipulated to withstand nature 🤨 and to look better - but all that comes at the price of taste and healthiness)
The people who are scared to eat produce from the tree/vine/dirt absolutely canNOT be Southern fresh produce that's been homegrown is more valuable than cash. We barter it for real, and if you get a reputation for growing the best strawberries ... your phone will never stop ringing and your grass will always stay cut by a neighbour hoping for a couple quarts of that deliciousness! 😋
That's why farmer's markets are the best place for produce. The fruits are almost sure to have been picked that day or the day before.
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Target handled that completely wrong. There is literally a PA code for missing children. You NEVER announce to customers that info. You call a “Code Adam” and lock the store down.
This. The only additional info given us a physical description of the child
How does this lockdown work? Responsible people are not allowed to leave un-accosted because irresponsible people cannot keep up with their children?
No one in or out until kid is found or determined not to be in the store. Don’t blame parents- I’m sure most kids did all kinds of things their parents told them not to.
That is absolutely correct! That intercom announcement would alert a would-be kidnapper. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. As a man, maybe alert a woman or flag down staff, and watch them walk her to the front.
@@Nostradevus1 I don't know how it works at a store; however, in the hospital we post all available staff in hallways, stairwells etc . Security officers post at each door to ensure no one leaves. Prevention of child abduction is usually enough reason that most rational people don't argue with having to stay.
I found a small child alone in a grocery store years ago. He was crying. I heard the announcement over the PA. I talked to him & told him we were going to the front of the store where his Mom was. He took my hand & we walked to the front to see his Mom. I was relieved to see them reunited. I told her where I found him. She thanked me & I carried on my shopping. I'm a woman so that might have been why the little guy took my hand.
I was lost in a big store when I was just little. My Mom always told us if we got lost you go to the exit door. I just remember watching as all these legs went by me so I must have been small. Mum did find me right away. Even now, if I hear an announcement about a lost child, it still tears me up. I will go looking for them, looking on shelves, wherever. So glad when I hear that the child has been found. PTSD for sure.
I'm a mom of 4. One time, we were visiting the local pool and at the playground, there was a little girl (maybe 4 or 5) walking around, looking frantically around and yelling "mommy, mommy!". I watched her a moment and as no one came I approached her and asked her if anything is okay. The girl told me that she can't find her mom, nearly in tears. I told her that it's fine and I will help her looking. I lifted her on my shoulder to see better between all those people while walking around the playground, but no luck. Then I asked her if she knew where their blanket was located and she brought me there but no luck either. At that point, she was really devastated and I decided to bring her to the front where the staff can call for the parents, which I did.
I waited with her, after the announcement was made and a woman came up, furious! It was the aunt, not even the mom, screaming at me for taking the child away. I told her that we couldn't find the girls parents and we were walking around and the girl was yelling for them. The aunt still screams and curses at me, because "they were right there!"
If you were right there, why did you not react to the girl and why did you let a stranger take your kid away!?
Btw they weren't right there...
You lifted her on your shoulder?😮 that's terrible. Do not touch a child. Have a mobile? Call the police.
@@izzy6455 mind you, it's many years back. During this time, at least where I'm from, it was not an issue to lift anyone's child in your arm in an attempt to help.
Today, it's really different.
And calling the police would be really overkill at the local pool, where staff can easily make an announcement for the parents.
@@izzy6455 dude that's really not serious.. to lift a child if they're crying and being panicky ofcourse and let's not forget she helped her .... And yes maybe it's different in your country but where I'm from its really not a deal to help a little child in distress when they are lost or something 🫡
@izzy6455 She let the child have a better view and let the parents have a better view, if they are looking for their child
They should’ve been arrested for negligence
"You can't eat apples that grow on a tree"
I think I just physically felt my braincells dying
I think that person as a kid was told not to eat from THAT tree and as an adult it equated don't eat from any tree. As a kid my family explained that I can eat apples, pears and plums from gardens (if it's okeyd by the owner), but under no circumstances I'm to eat from trees that grow by our apartment building, because they are near well trafficked street and will absorb leed from car fuel. In other word the fruit might be pretty, but unhealthy.
@@emuxkrcould be. I’m 42 and ashamed to admit that until only a few years ago I believed what my dad told me about exposed beams during thunderstorm. Our beams in our ceiling were exposed and he told me that they protected us from the lightning strikes.
Because I'm just that person I would have had to ask her where she thinks apples come from 😂😂😂
@@emuxkr I'm sure a child has the intelligence to differentiate between "that specific tree" and "any tree". This is just next level ignorance, probably with a sprinkle of stupidity too
I was literally blinking in disbelief and then looked over and saw Charlotte doing the same thing lol
If I were that girl, I'd be looking into filing a restraining order when that guy gets out. That level of delulu is not something I would feel safe around.
Yeah I would be scared too. That's a very unhealthy obsession at this point.
Before.
Yes! I am concerned for her safety, especially after the comment that he would not be happy that she was out living her life, clubbing, etc. He had no right, no say in her life. Creepy!
My question is, what did he do to STILL be in jail 14 years later? I'm scared and I am not her
His whole damned family is delulu af.
14:59 “why don’t we just plant fruit trees everywhere?” Wasps 😭 Had to share the backyard with wasps every year as a kid because of a single pear tree.
Also, fruit can ferment on the tree. Look up “animals get drunk on fruit” 😂
I didn't know that about fruit fermenting on the tree. I thought that they got drunk because they ate the rotten fruit off the ground that had fermented. 😮
And birds.
This and also they are annoying to clean up when the fruit (rotten or not) inevitably fall on the ground.
The fact that her parents had the audacity to act the way they did when TWO of them couldn't keep track of ONE child, is completely ghasting my flabbers!
California has fruit trees everywhere. The fruit tastes better right off the tree if you wash it.
That's insane. Things happen. Imagine you lost your child only to hear her screaming while being carried by a stranger. I promise you'd go off. If you wouldn't your a liar
Fr it sounds like they were looking at clothes and just walked away not even paying attention before realizing they had no idea where their little angel was. Wild, at 3 I barely let my kid out of the cart because they don't just wander off they run lmao
@@qryptid right?! My kids were NEVER out of my sight, especially in a public place. Like, I get that kids are fast and things can happen but you’re exactly right, at 3 they definitely shouldn’t be allowed to just run around the store or if that’s what you’re okay with then you had better keep your eyes on that kid the ENTIRE TIME.
@@annacobb1140 I realize that things happen but there is NEVER any reason why a three year old child should be allowed to run loose in a crowded store. And no, if I was irresponsible enough to LOSE MY CHILD WHILE SHOPPING and then a person did EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE TOLD TO DO IF THEY FOUND THE CHILD, I would be extremely grateful and embarrassed.
Hello! Former Target employee here! Missing child events are uncommon but not rare. I thought the story was a little odd here because (I don’t if the employee didn’t do their job right or what but) we don’t announce “missing children” over the intercom because that could possibly alert the “potential kidnappers” (if there are any).
Instead we use the term “code yellow” and it is issued over our walkies. So typically, customers aren’t involved in the search, all target personnel are.
Which was probably why the poor guy experienced what he did.
Yep, definitely mishandled by the store and parents. Poor guy was just doing what was asked.
Yup, and a description of what they’re wearing and we have to check our whole area for them
yeah, the whole thing didn't follow target procedure. So strange
"Uncommon but not rare" is impossible. I think you meant something more like "rare but trained for"
@bufficliff8978 "It's uncommon but not rare" 🤔
Technically the statement doesn't contradict itself. Uncommon is a step down from an everyday occurrence and rare would mean maybe once a year if at all. I would assume uncommon would mean every couple of months at best. It's a weird way to phrase it, but from the numerous comments of former target employees saying the same thing (Though I keep seeing "Code Adam" not "Code Yellow" but it could be a store/regional difference.) I think this person knew what they were talking about and you just misread it. So nice try bud.
I have stood in a mall screaming for my 3 year old. I had 5 kids with me and she just disappeared. I screamed what she was wearing and her name. Three high school boys came up to me and said they saw her. They found her two stores away in the very back reading a book. Those boys were so kind to come to my aid. No one else offered to help. I’m forever grateful.
Three months later she crawled under a floor length tablecloth in the bakery section at the grocery store. After that she sat in the cart.
The other day I was at the department store and this little girl, maybe 3 years old, was crawling around in the handbag section. It was a calm day and I couldn’t see any adults around, so I just stood there and waited for a bit, then asked a sales assistant and eventually the parents were found. A while later I was passing that area of the store again and the same little girl was on the floor between the racks again 😂😂
Future fashion diva, I think!
I mean gorl you had your HANDS FULL with 5 kids my god. Respect to you for handling that
@@s.a.4358 YES!!! Exactly!!! Keep an eye on them & ask a passer by to get an employee OR yell "that kids in the kids clothing department!!!" At Walmart it was 📢 announced, Code Adam, & what they were wearing, anyone not at a register looked for the kid & several guarded the exits! It was never suggested that customers help! Some times someone would say I see or saw them in a specific location. We sometimes did have people bring unrelated kids to the front & say that they found them wandering alone, usually crying.
Ngl, I was a kid who just wandered away and my mum kept me in those toddler reins till I was like 6, by which point I'd learned a whistle sign that meant I'd gotten lost because I did not, ever, notice myself getting separated. If she whistled I knew to go and look for her.
Fun fact, she later adopted a retired sheepdog from my grandparents' farm, and it was only then that I realised that she'd used the same whistle to call me as the farm dogs were trained to come to heel to. I was in my 20s, the dog and I had both wandered off at the dog park, she whistled and we both came right back. That was EMBARRASSING
My mother got scared so many times when my brother was little that she ended up putting bells on his shoes.
I had chills when the EMS worker shared her story ...🙏God be with that woman...
She just needs mental health help which is sadly taboo in many cultures
@@gemmamckenzie9244could be, and could be not😂you don’t just start speaking languages you don’t know when it’s psych/medical
@@gemmamckenzie9244she needs a priest, and probably mental health professionals after. Schizophrenia doesn’t teach you Latin
@busekrc702 actually yes you can, it happened before and from seizures. We don't actually know if the lady in the story spoke in latin per say (we weren't there 🤷♀️), the girl telling the story said "I think she was chanting in latin", and the husband said it sounded like Italian (both Spanish and Italian are latin languages and very similar). Since they apparently are a very religious couple, it's not crazy to assume the lady started to speak maybe a form of gibberish between latin and Italian she caught from their religious background. There is a case of a 19yo Turkish woman who started to speak in fluent English AND German (both languages she had very little knowledge of) during a seizure. It's possible!
@kitkittykitkat3108 or, just maybe, idk, possession can *cause* seizures. Honestly that makes more logical sense than seizures giving you the ability to know a language you don’t. Knowledge like that can’t just be spontaneously given through a mental or physical illness, how would that even work?
I will give you the fact that this is secondhand information, and we don’t know if she was fluently speaking it, but other than that, the logic seems flawed.
15:38 as someone who's studied urban geography, this is a actual hostile urban design tactic. They don't want to provide free food but they want the pretty tree, so many cities only plant male trees as it's the female trees that fruit.
Side effect of this is hay-fever symptoms have drastically increased because of this because the male trees release pollen with no female trees to collect. Additionally, the plants are smart enough to know that they've not been successful in pollenating previous years so they release more pollen the next year. So a cycle of even worse hay-fever.
All because certain cities don't want to provide free food
That is actually evil.
@@maanamanaa Fr. Urban geography is a quick to become radicalised if you weren't already because you get to learn about all the proven ways you can build up areas to support communities and then learn that most governments prefer to implement tree sexism and other hostile tactics instead
I was going to give benefit of the doubt and assume the reason was because the fruit would be contaminated by vehicle emissions or that the fruit would remain untouched (because people assume contamination) and rot on the ground.
It’s especially stupid because they also didn’t realize that female trees don’t produce fruit if they’re not pollenated anyway, so if they had just planted female trees, there’d be no fruit or pollen.
@@Zoe.m. Yeah nah, the reason unfortunately is capitalism
Like I said, that poor pesto girl will never hear the end of it🤣
At least she's a good sport about it and thinks it's funny 😄
🤣
lol so true! Sorry pesto girl this seems to be your legacy 😄
honestly, it's maybe the funniest way to introduce your WILD story lmao.
I just found her channel, so I’m not understanding this pesto girl thing.
I call everyone, including random strangers "Darlin'", "Sweetheart", "Babe", etc... . In fact; I was at the store the other day and this lady and I were walking down the same isle with our carts and kept almost running into each other our carts bumped and it was totally my fault (not paying attention) I said "Oops, sorry Darlin". She responded with "No worries Doll". We laughed and had a 10 min conversation about pasta, rice, who in our family liked what, etc... . 100% positive experience.
Super southern here! Saying sugar is like saying ma'am!
I do too!😂😅
this is simply how people from the deep south talk and any discomfort is likely a culture clash
My coworkers and I call each other gurl. Doesn't matter, everyone is gurl.
I am the same. And I won't lie I accidentally called my twinnie babe in a store or 2 around town and all the cashiers now think we are a couple lmao 😅🤦♀️
Oh char char, bless your soul.
You know fresh home grown food is always better than store bought. You can even pick the varieties you specifically like.
So much nicer!
14 years in jail is a serious conviction. Guessing there was a death involved. Run girl, run.
Truly! I mean I know here in the US, drug sentences are much longer but it has to be intent to distribute to be that long, or accessory to a serious crime, if he was that young and he hasn’t even gotten to parole (which is usually a small fraction of the time)
Especially since he was a minor. They must have tried him as an adult.
@@TheBaumcm If it's just illegal drugs sentences are not high. They're high when there's dangerous and multiple felonies involved and the matter is pleaded down to just a drug charge.
It's a miscarriage of Justice but not the way people have been told.
If someone is charged with a violent crime they shouldn't be able to plead it down to just drugs, but that's what happens.
Uhm idk. I see child predators only serving months while a women attacking her gRapist gets 14 yrs. Who would you invite to your bbq? 👀
Umm people have literally received worse than that for marijuana dude
I am a country girl. I grew up on a farm. Growing up I assumed everyone knew at least the basics of growing food. At least until I moved to a city. Then I realized there are people in the world who would starve to death in a garden full of food. Including one would freaked out when I informed her that all fruits and vegetables grow in the ground, after she dropped an uncooked, unpeeled potato outside on the ground. I made the mistake of telling her to just wash it, since it grew under the ground.
How did she react to that after your explanation?
My mother freaked out because I used herbs from my garden, said she doesn't want anything from outside that I need to go to the store 🤦 I laughed and said where do you think it comes from except mine is organic. Wow just WOW 😂
Fruits grow on trees... ;)
I had a college level biology class that was taught at a high school. We had a field study portion that involved going around this wooded lot next to the school and identifying trees and plants. Getting there we had to walk past a corn field. My lab partner that semester thought the corn was marijuana and was outraged that it was grown next to the school.
Imagine her shock when I explained that the frozen (or canned) corn she ate was from a PLANT (and that’s why it’s classified as a vegetable). She didn’t believe me until I walked her over and showed her the corn on the stalk. This was before we all had cell phones and could just pull out a phone and look up pictures or I would’ve shown her what marijuana looked like. An entire field of it when it was still illegal next to a school…?
And I’m still not sure she was convinced it was corn. Or that she didn’t decide corn was basically marijuana.
I don’t understand, where do they think fruits and vegetables come from? They just magically appear at the store?? Also Charlotte said fruit straight from the tree might not taste as good but usually it tastes much more fresh, ripe and sweet.
That happened to me once in a shopping centre. I saw this little girl wandering around on her own, probably around the same age. So I sat her on a bench next to me, was just sitting talking to her so she didn't get stressed. I'm just waiting for a parent to show up. Waited 5 minutes. No parents. So I decided to head for the security desk. So we are halfway there, and all of a sudden, this woman shows up. She picks the kid up and starts shouting at me. She caused a big scene. So I got miffed off at that. Told her she was bloody lucky that was a parent, and not some dodgy person. Then I told her I had been looking after her kid for nearly 10 minutes. Where the hell had she been for that long ?? She shut up at that. Gave me a filthy look and stalked off with her kid, who was crying and screaming at that point. Some people are just bloody ungrateful 🙄
A few summers ago I was with my husband and son at the city park for the 4th of July fireworks show and we noticed a little boy crying and screaming for his mom. This park was crowded with hundreds of people and this kid was scared. The mom in me decided I was going to help. I walked up to him and asked if he was lost and through his cries he said yes. I told him I would walk with him to go find a police officer so that we could find his mom. He followed along with me through the crowds of people and just as we were coming up to several officers I see a woman and man coming running up to us. The lady was hysterical and picked up the little boy. He started crying more and calling her mom…. I looked at the mom and dad and realized they were my next door neighbors!!!!! What are the odds that I’m the one that ended up finding their little boy in the crowded mess of people??? I should have recognized the little boy, but to my defense I only see him as a blur as he is running through my front yard… I’ve never sat and had a conversation with him. 😂
Some people should never have children. This behaviour puts everyone off doing anything good
@@DeathByBlonde1So, they didn’t get mad at you like in this commenter’s story???
I was lucky enough to have a grandfather who had a small farm. We picked strawberries, raspberries, blackberries at various points around his land. He had apple and pear trees, rows of corn, potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables. We worked in the garden daily in the summer, waking up at dawn, working until breakfast, eating breakfast and going back to work. My grandmother would bring us lunch then we would eat dinner inside the house and go back out to work until dark. We were taught to work on the farm like little farmers, because he had chickens too. We had fun with him, though. He was a great man.
My brother was a nuclear engineer, an electrical engineer, and is now an accountant. One time he locked his keys in his car. I asked him where his spare keys were and he said "....I'm looking at them right now through the window of my car."
He was keeping his spare car keys... in his car.
Big brain is not equal to big common sense.
I once ended up locking two sets of keys in my car at the same time, at a gas pump, with my cell phone inside too...on my way to a midterm, it was not a great night.
@ckee8437 that suuuucks lol. I locked my keys and my phone in the car at a gas station at 3am. I was totally alone and the clerk made a big deal about me using their phone to call AAA. also not a good time 😂
I can verify that, from personal experience. :/
Engineers have a reputation for lacking common sense. . .
Lmao
First story is why less people are inclined to get involved and help others. I remember taking my son to the playground and initially being nervous about people wondering what a solo man was doing in the playground.
Having said this, I told my son if he got lost first look for a police officer, if he didn’t see one, then look for a mom with kids, finally only a man if he’s with kids.
Interesting. I always love to see dads playing with their kids- but I get your rules for if the child is lost. Any man without kids shouldn’t be at a playground- and if his kid was playing on something, I feel he’d constantly have to interact with the kid referring to himself as daddy, in order to not look like a weirdo.
*any man or woman without kids shouldn't be at a playground. Kidnappers/child predators aren't only men. We see that with on the news and crime documentaries. Like the teachers sleeping with students, a newborn being stolen from a hospital by the woman who recently miscarried, or the few involving a woman tricking and luring a pregnant woman somewhere to cut them open and steal the baby.
@@cademancadenboth of you guys act as if women themselves don’t kidnap children. If a woman can be there then so can a man. I’m a woman and these comments don’t make any sense to me. Anyone and anything can take a child. It has nothing to do with gender.
@@cademancadenshould a woman without kids be at a park?
I'm impressed that a rich person was concerned about the health of the workers rather than mad they were eating their ornamental apples.
The parents effectively deflected the blame that would've fallen on them for not keeping an eye on their child by accusing a good samaritan of being a criminal. Poor guy.
I feel sorry for the first guy, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. He seems to have a good heart. It's terrible he was judged with side-eye. Thank god for cameras ❤❤❤
I’m sorry, if I see a guy with a little girl that he does not know in a cart, I’m gonna be suspicious, might save a life. His feelings can be put aside
“Please if you see her, bring her to the front” *does as asked, almost gets arrested* like if you’re gonna accuse someone of something because they did what you asked, don’t be surprised when no one ever helps you again…
Exactly. They have video all over that place and they would’ve been able to see that it was only AFTER THE announcement he did anything.
They probably thought he was going to kidnap her, poor guy
He made it up, just fyi. There is no footage. Just copying and pasting to try and undo the negative damage he has done, people in his comments literally saying they will be unwilling to help a kid because of his story.
Now we all understand why Dre on Blackish left that toddler in the elevator.
@Rose_Castle as a man, im already unwilling to help random children. Mental get accused of being creeps for just existing. I've had cops called on me for playing with MY OWN KIDS at the park because some other kids joined in kicking the ball around and there mom came from the playground screaming at me to get away from all those kids and that she was calling the cops. So i shooed away her kids and told mine to come with me and mind you, my oldest is a CARBON COPY of me.
as a former target employee who was involved with SEVERAL lost child searches, this Target did not follow protocol. Code adam is called over walkies, and PA system, security and store management guard the exits, and every single employee looks for that kid via a asweep that starts in the back and works forward. I worked for target for about 2 1/2 years, and participated in at least a dozen searches. Parents are just the worst. I worked for wal-mart for about 2 years and only had 3 searches.
I was just going to say Walmart doesn't follow any protocol. I worked there too.
@@nightshadeshadowlilly6095they do in Alberta
Yeah I've seen/heard this happen before at a Target, the correct way. I never knew they did this so it almost brought me to tears seeing how quickly everyone burst into action to help find the child. 🥹🩵 Humans can be awesome sometimes.
My daughter got lost at Walmart before. It’s my fault for not keeping a closer watch. It was very scarey they called code Adam and luckily some couple found her hiding in the middle of a clothes wrack 😅 I was so grateful to the people who found her.
I’m just curious why don’t you use the intercom? I’m in Sweden and the normal thing to do here is to do an announcement like this. If the child is old enough to understand they will just say “Amy (the child’s name) your Mom is looking for you please come to the front desk or approach an employee and ask them to help you” This happens all the time.
PLEASE - Charlotte's editor - PLEASE RAISE THE VOLUME on the clips so that they are as loud as Charlotte's hosting ... Our ears are being blasted everytime Charlotte makes a comment during the clips from the difference in volume!!
"Welcome to EMS- welcome to the fire dept., we're glad to have you" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 The fcking CACKLINGGGGGG coming from my body!! 💀
Lol the holy water was going all over my body 🕊️🙏🕊️🙏
Oh God, thank goodness I didn't pass my EMS finals 😅 I would be breaking out my abuelas rosary and hail Mary's instead of checking vitals
Bet it was his 1st n last day too
My Mom told me when I was little I ran off on my her and my Nana in a Woolworths. They were freaking out that I'd been kidnapped. Apparently I had climbed in to the window display, sat in a deckchair and was waving at people passing by 😂 My Mom was so mad. That ended my early career in advertisement 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Awesome anecdote!!!🤣 Miss Universe sitting in her throne
😂😂😂picturing this😂😂😂
I played in the dining room and fell asleep on the chairs (where they couldnt see me) at my grandparents and they freaked out! I was only like 3.....
Okay Queen just doing your due diligence and holding court! ❤
I literally saw a naked toddler running around my neighborhood yesterday and ran outside to catch her. I was ASTOUNDED at the number of people who just ignored her as she ran past them. That first guy did THE RIGHT THING 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Probably afraid of being found out in public with a stranger's naked toddler and being arrested.
@airamortiz4661 yeah was just about to say this lmao. The folks that did nothing were probably more afraid of the consequences of being caught in a situation like that without context
Been there. The baby I found was dressed for bed. Cars just driving around him. I lost faith in society that day.
He made it up, just fyi. There is no footage. Just copying and pasting to try and undo the negative damage he has done, people in his comments literally saying they will be unwilling to help a kid because of his story.
@@Rose_Castleit’s not because of the story, it’s because of how people react and assume the worst. Your kid, your problem.
As an American we had a vegetable garden and ate peach's, plumes and apples off of the trees in our yard, and blue berries off the bush. I haven't ever heard of anyone saying you can't eat it off the tree.
I raised my own chickens for eggs and meat. I made sure they had a really really good life. A woman came out to tow a trailer for me with her husband. She was nearly in tears when she asked what the chickens were for and I told her. I assumed she must've been a vegetarian. Nope. I'd heard of people saying things like "get meat at the store where no animals were harmed " but I never thought I'd actually hear someone say it. She was so upset that I'd harm an animal instead of buying chicken that had not been harmed 🤯 I wasn't even sure what to say. I gently explained how awfully store bought chickens are treated. My chickens spent their entire life free range, given treats and cuddles, basically living the dream. Even when my hens stopped laying they lived a good life. Some people just really have no idea how the world works and don't care to know.
i was 10 when we moved from the city to a very small rural vilage. next to our house was a tiny old farm (most land was sold, i.a. to build our house) and i quickly started helping the granny that lived there with the chores. she had chicken, goose and pigs and i never had tastier eggs or meat after that...
i also helped during the butchering witch taught me to value meat (and innards, leather, etc.). i'm 40 now and i don't buy meat in the store, i buy it from a small farm or from my uncle who is a hunter.
@@DisturbedFox137 ❤️❤️ it really is so much better. It's better tasting, better for you and way better for the animal. I love hearing people say they support local farms. It's quite often cheaper to buy from them and always better for the animals involved. Every farmer/hunter I've known is incredibly compassionate to animals. I know there are exceptions to this. Generally though it's true. Factory raised animals are miserable, abused and often very sick.
So we basically eat grandma chicken fron your farm?
Just kidding, lol. Glad to hear you take such good care of them and they have an actual life. Even if the ending is still sad, it's way better than the mega coops with barely any wiggle room.
That said, it is insane that (mostly kids but still) kids that age wise should know better think milk comss from a factory and have no clue it comes from a cow. Or that meat used to be an animal. The latter may be a form of protection about them eating an animal, but I guess the cow's milk could be too if they don't want their kids to know it comes from udder.
@Fluffy-Fluffy It was only this week I found out that some kid's schoolbooks (readers) published in Australia had to be censored for the US market. Why? To remove the cow udders from the pictures of cows. 🤔
@@Sarahopal unfortunately here (germany) it's often more expensive to buy directly from a farm. the reasons are better quality (because of lower quantity) and beeing able to tag a fair price without beeing oppressed by corporations. but i choose quality over price! that just means i only afford meat 2-4 times a month, wich makes me savor it even more 😄
I work in retail and Code Adam is the announcement for missing children. We contact other employees through walkies with descriptions.
99% of the time we have an unaccompanied child and the parents are missing. We just make a general announcement that all minors must be accompanied by adults and the frantic adult runs up asking if anyone has seen baby "Boo boo" who was wearing "Oshees." We keep the child at customer service and verify that the child did enter with the person before allowing them to leave.
Been there! I was in a movie rental section at about 13 in a grocery store (when they still had those) when a little girl came in by herself, no adult in sight, walking around, playing with a doll and knocking down movies. I spoke to her and asked her where her mom or dad was while picking up the movies and putting them back. She said whe didn't know, so I said I'd help her find her mom, she took my hand and I planned to take her to the store manager at the front so we could call her mom. Her mom found us in a panic and freaked out. Mind you, I'm a female child helping a child and she was so rude to me acting like I did something terrible. Thankfully the video department manager stepped in and told her exactly what happened before things got too far, but I was really intimidated. My mom came a few minutes later. She was just in the store while I was picking out a movie. Sometimes you can do everything right and people will still be upset.
When I see a lost kid in public, I ask for help from another adult, so there is someone who witnesses the interaction.
Not to judge this man, he did nothing wrong. But yeah, I always like to have a witness.
It's easier for me if my kid is with me. She's 8, and she loves kids. And it probably would put the parents' mind at ease too.
16:03 cities do grow fruit trees but the largely only plant male trees, as the fruit from female trees can wreak havoc as it falls from the tree into the roads and what not once ready. So in the olden days lots of cities planted only male trees, and that’s why in the south in particular allergies are so horrible due to the pollen. We sneeze because of tree jizz 😞
Saw a kid crying his eyes out walking to each store door in the mall calling mama and not a soul was helping so I walked up.to him and asked "Are you looking for your mama?" looked around and saw nobody looking for a kid and took him to customer service, and the whole time I was stressed out waiting to hear someone yell I was stealing their kid. That was years ago Today Id be even more worried...how sad.
I would have shouted "MILLIE IS OVER HERE!!!!"
Eating fruit off a tree is AMAZING! If it comes off the tree easily, practically falling off, that's when it's at its ripest. So sweet and lovely. Fruit in the store is not as good.
Mmmm so much better! We had an apple tree when i was growing up and my siblings and i would go out to pick enough for Mom to make pie. She was a horrible woman but made great pie, and it was fun being picked up by my big brother to pick apples
We had the best plum tree in our yard.
But that would be bad for the same reason why announcing a missing child over the PA system is bad. Because if kidnappers are actually involved they are fully alerted and can years away nab the child and escape. Like if he did that he has no idea what the parents look like, so anyone could’ve run up and grabbed her.
@aduckofsomesort Nah security and all the staff and customers are on alert. Plus CCTV, no one can be that fast and invisible
Like buying watermelons from the field. Best watermelons 😋
I work in urban forestry. We don’t put fruit trees on the street because pedestrians and bicycles can slip on fallen or rotten fruit, and clean up/maintenance is harder, and fallen fruit can attract hornets and wasps… basically they’re more work and liability. What if someone sues!?
You beat me to it but thank you lol. Its def. something cities take into consideration and why in places like Atlanta there is an over abundance of male trees leading to pollen-geden"
see that makes sense. however if you believe ya can't eat fruit off a tree, you stoopid af
They could put them in public parks
I work in risk management for a city. In addition to what you listed, there is also the worry that they’ll eat the fruit, choke, then sue. Or eat it despite having an allergy, then sue. Even those the lawsuits get thrown out, they cost (waste) money, so cities just pass on the risk.
I live in Denmark. We have fruit trees everywhere. Noone sues, we just... you know... eat the fruit.
Oh sweet innocent girl.... Apples, oranges, lemons, peaches fresh picked off the tree taste 10000% better than what's in the store. Haven't you noticed what you grow in your backyard garden tastes better/fresher? I have a lemon tree and orange tree and pineapple plant in my yard. Grew up in Michigan and had apple trees in the neighborhood, they were the best.
Love your content btw❤
What a crappy society we've become that someone helps your child and instead of thanking him for finding your child, you accuse him of trying you take her. If he was trying to take her, he would not be walking in plain site with the child...he would've tried to sneak her out without being seen. He follows the directive of the stores announcement over the loudspeaker. He's a hero and the parents are irresponsible and should be the ones being looked at for losing their child and accusing the hero of a crime.
The sad thing is when it concerns young children that aren't able to properly speak yet... it can and has happened in plain sight. So the issue is how do we make the system better. Well for one you make that type of announcement thar even describes the child because the kidnapper may end up being alerted. In my opinion, the store staff should have been on immediate look out without worrying the customers. It's actually easy, you just have security pay extra attention to cameras. And have other workers wait near doors and bathrooms, while rest of workers go around the store.
Seems like they were feeling guilty that they had lost their child, and was looking for someone to blame.
Irresponsible parents, you said that right!
He made it up, just fyi. There is no footage.
How do you know?
@@Rose_CastleHow?
I TOTALLY AGREE on the fruit tree dilemma! We wonder why people with allergies to pollen react so poorly during spring in cities, and why there's so MUCH pollen in the first place flying around in the air. The reason is because cities only plant the male versions of trees, to avoid having to pick up the fallen fruit/clean the roads. If we had a mix of both, not only would we be able to feed off of our land, but it would also reduce the pollen outbreak by a lot.
Lmao the sexism of horticulture, especially in cities, is absolutely bizarre
The problem with planting fruits in the cities is the pollution of air and soil. When there are fruits growing near streets with car exhaustions, they can contain harmull chemicals. I come from Czech republic, we have mostly apple and pear trees pretty much everywhere along the roads, but we have to be carefull eating the fruits. When it is near too busy road, it might not be the safest. On the other hand, majority of homeowners has cherry, apple, pear, plum, peach or apricot trees in their gardens. Especially cherry trees are popular and the cherry season means cherry cakes, jams and sirups everywhere and people practically inviting everybody to their gardens to pick the cherries before they decay. This season is coming soon, I am sooo looking forward 😊
@FadedLightBluePink oh wow you're totally right! Thank you for the insight, I'm excited for my apple trees to produce as well to make some homemade apple juice. ☺️
i was today years old when i found out that trees have genders
Or u can just plant female trees with no males
As someone in the US who grew up eating cherries, pears, plums, and apricots off of my grandmother's trees in her yard, the story about people not knowing you can eat fresh fruits from trees baffles me. Especially people my age (I'm 25). Picking and eating fresh fruits with my grandma and cousin is a memory I'll always cherish.
Yeah! I’m 20 and during summer camp when we would be on the baseball court, my friends and I would sneak off the bench to eat the mulberries that grew through the link fence.
I'm 41 and this has been true since the beginning of time in the US. I'm also a lil irritated that we have to buy water where I live because of the putrid smelling sulfur in the water! 🙄🤨🤔
I'm glad I'm not the only one who questioned the tree video...🫠
What shocked me was Charlotte saying she didn’t know if it would taste better than store bought! Fresh picked tastes 1000x better. Most produce we get in stores tastes like crap because it was picked weeks to months before you get it. That’s also why it goes bad so fast.
I was raised by my Sicilian Nonna in Toronto. We had 5 kinds of apples, peaches, pears, plums, mulberries, cherries, and nectarine trees grape vines, raspberry, blackberry and gooseberry bushes rhubarb and a patch of wild strawberries. My childhood was eating fruit grown in that yard!🏡
In January 2017, Mum and I took a mental health trip to Hobart (I am Australian, it was a same-country trip). We went on a food tour one day, and one of the locations we went to was an orchard/cheese-maker place, where they made fancy fruit jellies. Like I have said, they had an orchard. The person running the tour actually invited us to pick an apple each from their trees. The orchard was actually quite young as the trees were under 6 foot high. That apple was damn tasty, as it was probably a quality breed and graft, plus it was fresh off the tree.
Second, in 2018, I visited Saxony, East Germany. I saw roads that had apple trees running alongside them - that was in late summer and I believe apples were in harvest time. I also saw elderberry trees, though I believe it was flower season for them, and here's the thing, Elderflowers can be harvested and used to make syrup or tea, but I presume if one harvests the flowers, I presume one has to be careful not to harvest all of them so as to make sure a crop of the berries comes in afterwards.
I have heard tales of blackberry brambles, Mum's family going to the nearby growing towns to get large amounts of produce for yearly canning (like tomatoes, and stonefruit from Orange, a NSW mountain town that grows cooler climate fruits like cherries, peaches, and apples), and have had some experiences with growing things in backyards I have lived with. When I was 9-12, I lived in a rental house with a large backyard that showed signs of once being someone's fruit garden. There was passionfruit, papaya palms, strawberries, a mulberry tree, a mango tree and a Monstera plant, and a section of old dirt that must have been more planting space. I grew some sunflowers in that area when I was 10. We definitely harvested the mulberries.
Plants aside, I also had an aunt and uncle (Mum's sister and her husband) who, when I was young, lived on farms. My hometown is the homeland of commercial macadamia farming in Australia, and likely the cause of macadamia farming in Hawaii, as I have an impression it was someone who saw the early Rous Mill orchards who took the nuts to the islands as a crop. That area (regional centre Northern NSW city Lismore) is also pretty heavily into dairy and avocado growing, and it is at the southern end of Australia's sugar cane growing range.
This all to say, I was always very aware food came from plants and animals. Once plants harvested, cows milked, eggs collected and animals slaughtered, only then did it go to supermarkets, and a lot of the time, going through factories to process into packaged goods (Lismore had a Norco factory right next to one of the main bridges - a dairy co-op in Northern NSW, now wide enough distribution that their products are in Brisbane supermarkets today).
That poor firefighter's first night on the job was an exorcism. Literally sounds straight out of a movie. 😂
Bro will go back carrying a demon and try to fight it like in conjuring😂
No good deed goes unpunished.
He should yell "I found her!" over and over as he took her to the front. 20/20 hindsight.
Yeah, and to me it’s clear she cried because she wanted to be held and he put her in the cart, but I don’t blame him for that either. Kids cry. He did the best he could have done. The parents who didn’t watch in the first place are already known to have bad judgment
facts, starts screaming help until people show up and everything is on camera.
mans deserves an apology from that family and target
He shouldn't have to yell that- we was clearly trying to take the kid to the front. If he was trying to ste the girl, she would've been gone. As a tiny female, trust me- I look over my shoulder everywhere I go because it can be so quick. If your child is in the front of a strangers cart on their way to the front after YOU made target use their PA system. You need to sit down and be grateful cps wasn't there, lmao!
If we’re really talking hindsight, he should have asked the nearest woman to help take the girl up to the front, not because he’s incapable or ill-intentioned, but to avoid the reaction he got.
@@netpunk5890Well he will now XD
In America most of the trees we have planted in cities are male trees... which is why when spring comes around we get a massive influx of pollen... no female trees to take in the pollen and make fruits.
My understanding is it was to prevent trash... but I suspect it was to prevent people from being able to eat anything that they didn't buy first.
I was also told that the cities are worried fruit trees will attract bees and potential dangerous bugs.
My family thinks it's to prevent people from getting free food, especially the homeless population.
@@halstag1898 considering there are multiple places trying everything in their power to make homelessness illegal... what's next, are they going to start arresting the homeless now instead of just raiding and demolishing their camps? Making being alive and homeless illegal isn't going to make it go away, its the next step in completely dehumanizing people.
All of this I had seen that tik tok before and I keep telling fellow Americans it isn't their fault they don't know that. They aren't supposed to know they can just get fruit.
In public housing one isn't allowed to grow fruit plants. AT ALL.
Even tomatoes. You and all of your family can be put out. Of public housing.
@@halstag1898Your family is correct. Worst case scenario people would sell the surplus!
Can attract animals, cause mess
I'm a kid who grew up on going outside for snacks. We had a veggie garden, rhubarb, and raspberries that grew in the woods in the back yard and many neighbors who had apple trees. I never remember my parents giving us snacks. Just a bowl of water to rinse anything we were gonna eat in the yard
Fruit from trees: Girl, it tastes better than from the store. I have peach and plum trees in my yard. Can't wait for them to ripen.
It actually is advisable to take them a little bit before they ripen! So they can ripen inside the house and you can eat it immediately
Yeah i am also confused when charlotte said the ones in the grocery taste much better... people are so disconnected where their food came from 😭
Fruit and vegetables in the store is often kept in cold rooms before displayed in the store, which result in them lose a lot of the taste.
I second this. I have two apple trees in my back yard and they taste so much better than from the store.
Tomatoes and cucumber from the vine. That is the absolute best.
14:55 I actually know the answer to this! Botanical sexism! The people in charge of planting in urban spaces have preferences towards male trees because they don’t leave flowers and fruits behind that need to be cleaned up after! So we’ve overloaded spaces with male trees and in turn created the huge pollen saturation we’re drowned in each spring!
Ya I’ve heard about this. Ugh. We need the females back!
@@Mama_Bear524Bring back the Entwives, lol 😆
@@sorateal12 omg best possible response to my comment. Gold star! ⭐️
@@Kate8Plol!! Thanks!! I'm so glad you got it!! Haha!!
Oh wow, I never knew this!
I'm from the South, we do the terms of endearment all the time. "Honey", "hun", "darlin'", "sweetheart", etc. It's just how hospitality is up here, and when I lived up north in Indiana, everyone I interacted with thought it was sweet. I think that girl had other issues she needed to work out lol
I feel like honey and babe are not the same though because babe though. Maybe baby when talking to someone way younger but babe is definitely a romantic relationship type of nickname.
@@CarpathianpixieI live in Oklahoma and it's normal in my circles to use "babe" in a non-romantic way. Maybe it depends on where you live.
@@Carpathianpixie I've been called babe by sweet ladies, and I live in the state of Utah, so not near the south! My mom has called me babe and older family friends have too. It might just depend on a generation and older.
In Bristol UK we call everyone my love, the older generation will say “alright my lover” when they see you. I’m originally from Ascot, somewhere near London so I would call everyone mate or to a woman sweetheart, babe, darling and hon of course. But now I have been here in Bristol so long I tend to call women my love and men mate. My grown children call people both because of me though. Although my husband will use sweet, sweetheart and darling sometimes now too. So our terms of endearment have now mixed! 😂
@@BangtansMommayup, from Newport, just over the Welsh border & I use "love" or "m'love" and blokes I'll use "mate" or "fella(s)." Go 20 minutes up the valleys though and EVERYONE will call you "beb" aka "babe" with a welsh accent. Love the "west country" accent with "my loverrrr" 😂
I remember sneaking in to my neighbours garden as a kid and eating strawberries straight from the plant. We also used to eat brambles and blackberries from the bush. My grandparents also used to grow rhubarb, which we would eat. Delicious!
Apples fresh off of the tree are so much nicer than apples bought in a store. You really can't beat it ♥
Yeah! Like no comparison. But the shocker is strawberries. The ones grown at home are so much better, smaller and uglier maybe but soo tasty.
@@saranaila5905Strawberries from the store are sour and disgusting 🤢 But I love them from my own garden!
@@NsTheName yeah! Sometimes they have no taste AT ALL! It's so weird..
@@saranaila5905 It’s the worst because they’re so big and red and beautiful…and taste disgusting 😭
@@NsTheName it's quite unfortunate spacially with the price of fruits out there. Having even the smallest of gardens is such a blessing.
I want to gently remind people that the US is huge and some of us do grow our own food. City dwellers and people that live deep in the suburbs might never see fruit trees but those of us living in the country (including here in California!) know very well that fresh off the tree is absolutely the best.
Yep. I knew several people growing up with apple trees. Anecdotally, I will say that many Americans don't like fruit trees in their yard because they require some upkeep and they (god forbid) attract bees.
I am a nurse but started out as and EMT then Paramedic for an emergency ambulance in Los Angeles. This call would have been super cool for me, it's like 'Stigmata'. To the Person who said they would have quit on the spot, employees in the Emergency Medical Service have a 'duty to act' You cannot simply abandon your patient. it takes a certain mind set to do and enjoy it. I loved what she said about the rookie firefighter "welcome to EMS" LOL
I've been working in EMS for 15 years and actually have gotten a scenario like this a couple of times and heard of more. They happen in cultures who believe you can get possessed, and is actually a symptom of severe PTSD :(
And I can vouch that cops get scared of paranormal shit 😂
Today i learned... if i come across a lost kid in a store i will just start hollerin' "FOUND THEM!!!!" And keep my distance.
Here in the US it’s a complicated answer about the fruit trees.
1) is that they make more mess and therefore cost more for cities to clean up.
2) there are some cities that ban fruit trees because they think it’ll incentivize more homeless people to stay in their neighborhoods.
3) Lastly, yeah. Some people are food chain ignorant. I knew a woman that didn’t realize that eggs come from chickens, she genuinely thought the stores made them (or at least they were ‘made’ and then shipped to the stores).
I met a woman once who didn’t realise beetroot was a plant, I was like “it has ROOT in the NAME” 😂
Fun fact.
Cities only plant male trees so they don't fruit and make mess...
The unfortunate result of this is the unusually high pollen count.
Alot of urban development has moved from ornamental trees, like crabapples, to public gardens. I hope the concept goes nationwide.
It really does depend on where you live though. In the Midwest and South, plenty of people have gardens and yards. And no one would be surprised that you can eat fruit right off of a tree.
But I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying. I just think it varies all over the country.
I asked a farmer friend of mine what's the weirdest thing a city slicker has ever asked them... She responded that once some one asked where the meat sacks are in the animal, she knows where the organs and muscles were but where did the meat come from...
Saying "hun" or "dear", etc. Is very endearing and it's something a lot of people who are hospitable do. Nothing wrong, it's a nice feeling to get someone so welcoming to take your order
I say "hun" or "love". And I couldn't have said it better. I typically do it when I'm just trying to take care of my customers. Half are sweet in return, so it makes for a sweet interaction with them and my day a little better.
Tell you what though: this why you don't take back a cheater. 🤣 Definitely no trust there.
Yeah I say hun all the time. Just "hi hub. How can I help you today."
This!! I work in customer service and in recent years, I have tried to find more non gendered ways to communicate with guests. I say My Dear or Darlin’ all the time.
In the south! It's normal and okay in the south!
I love it when older people call me those names. Makes me feel good.
Heck..... I can remember the farm truck driving around my neighborhood on a PA system yelling. "Get your strawberries, cherries, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. We even had Milk delivered in glass bottles and would have to leave a message in the empties if we needed less or would be away!! We had a grape vine growing along our fence bordering our property with our neighbors. Both household ate grapes from that vine even though the roots were in their yard. I was so sad when they moved away and the new owners tore out the grape vines!
Exorcism story: a lot of people actually do learn Latin in school, not even necessarily Catholic school but some public schools will also have Latin programs. With dementia, patients can remember things that they haven't used in decades as they regress. Dementia also often results in psychosis and hallucinatory episodes, which would explain strange rants about taking your children to bloody rivers. It's very sad that this poor woman did not find sympathy in her family or her doctors. I hope she was given the proper care that she needed after being hospitalized
👏👏👏 i shudder to think what torture she endured during the "exorcism"
I've learned Latin at school, and I'm dreaming in it from time to time. So, absolutely agree with your statement.
I learned Latin for 5 years in my UK Grammar School.
Thanks to TBI I have headaches. When it get extremely bad I speak a language I haven't used in decades. Without a headache I can't remember much of the language beyond hi, thanks, and please.
The brain is a weird blob we know hardly anything about. A bump in the wrong spot, high fever, infection, or anything can make it go crazy
Doesn’t explain the body contortions that were nonhuman 🤷🏼♀️
Do people who speak Latin also growl and hiss? Lol
Someone down the street from my grandmas when I was a kid used to host garden parties and barbecues and had a bunch of raspberry bushes. They’d give the kids lil paper cups like the mouthwash size ones and explain how to tell when they’re ripe and let us go fill up our cup. It’s one of my favorite memories. We also used to sneak peas off our next door neighbors plants that were along grandmas fence line lol
That’s a nice memory! My elementary school had grapes growing along the fence. We used to pick them during recess.
One of my core memories is picking fruits from a tree that belonged to my foster mom's brother. Man had a massive garden, and it was like HEAVEN to visit during the summer growing up.
I took latin in highschool. They don't teach you how to speak, passes like reading stuff out loud.
But we did have some university students come visit the class who were majoring in Latin and they do teach you to speak it there! It was really neat hearing them speak it out loud when I could barely read it out loud!
I wouldn't have just slept with the lights on, I would be hugging my Bible like it was a Teddy Bear.
I'm an atheist and I may have picked up a Bible on the way home too
In my town there’s a “historical” park where the plum trees are descendants of the plum trees that came across the Oregon trail with the pioneers. My parents house was right across the street from the park, but as soon as the city noticed that I and some of my neighbors were actually picking and enjoying the fruit from those trees instead of letting it rot on the ground, the parks department destroyed these historical fruit trees! It’s actually disgusting!!
😮
Tree law possibly??? Couldn't they get in financial trouble for destroying a historical tree?? 😰
That's sick. Somewhere along the way, some lawyer told them that if a citizen got sick from the fruit, the city could get sued. Instead of doing their homework, they went with the fast & easy choice of action. I hate stuff like that!
Thats a shame!❤
WHAT?!
Where I live in NZ, there are fruit trees everywhere. In my yard alone we have two mandarin trees, a lime tree, a plum tree, a grapefruit tree & an avocado tree. We did not plant them, they were planted by the developer when the house was built. Essentially developers here plant fruit trees whenever they do a build. Everywhere you go there are bags of various fruits outside people’s houses, usually for free. It’d be pretty great if developers all over the world did this.
Yep, NZ is awesome for this. I have some lovely lemons growing on my tree that's been there for yonks (I rent). I also grew up with mandarins, lemons, limes, oranges, feijoas, peaches, guava... most of the time we didn't need to buy fruit at all and I made juice most winters from the citrus. It was awesome, and they tasted way better than from the supermarket. We used to live in a rural area surrounded by growers fields and the growers and workers would help themselves to the fruit during their breaks, in exchange they would give us some unmarketable produce. It was so idyllic!
There are a lot of fruit trees in places like Florida or California but a lot of the US has too harsh a winter.
I live pretty far away from my neighbors but every time fruit and veggie seasons come around, there’s always crates of fruits and veggies outside my house. In return, I bring wild game and fish and usually, I make sure everything on their property is working.
@@klyseet9346 that's really neat
Re: fruit and vegetables in the UK, we are going back to growing our own so we know what chemicals are on them and the soil in the gardens is generally more nutrient rich than on over used farms. That or we try and buy organic but that’s expensive. Growing your own is so rewarding and cheap and can be done in pots if you don’t have gardens.
My sister is a pre-1840s demonstrator. During her demonstrations, she typically cooks over a campfire using cast-iron. She has had people tell her that she can’t eat food cooked over an open fire. It would kill her.
They must have never camped before 😂
I swear people are getting dumber by the day.
Those folks clearly were never boy or girl scouts.
@@candacen7779 I wasn't either, but even I know that isn't true
I really wonder what they think will happen... Seriously what could they think is going to be the danger here?
Raised Catholic. Used to know a whole heap of the liturgy in Latin. Don't speak Italian, or Spanish.
Maybe she is from a Spanish speaking country that still has church services in Latin.
Also, studied science. Used Latin a lot. It is still quite common to study Latin at expensive private schools here in Australia too. (Public schools in the UK)
As a South African who lives and works on a farm - it absolutely confounds me that some people don't know where their food comes from. I do our company's health and safety, and for that reason I don't touch most of the processed foods that Americans tend to gravitate towards. Our greens and animal byproducts are organic, and our meat isn't contaminated with antibiotics, corticosteroids and preservatives. Its always better to get some farm fresh produce for your household - your body will thank you for it.
I honestly love the idea of fruit bearing trees being planted in public places. 😊😊😊
Target employee here. As others have mentioned, Target did not handle the missing child situation according to official target protocol. There are reasons we don't announce it over intercom. What confuses me is that Target's undercover asset protection person cleared this man of any wrongdoing relatively quickly, so was he really arrested? That poor dad!
Maybe it’s different depending on what state you’re in? I’m in Europe and that’s how we handle it here. (The intercom thing) To put a store or hospital in lockdown over a missing child is crazy to me. I’ve never heard anything like it.
This close 🤞🤲 to being arrested.
He was probably taken to security and waited till they saw proof
@@LillllyPad It because traditionally kidnappers or the child themself would just... walk out while everyone was looking. There have also been cases where they ANNOUNCED that a child was missing and the kidnapper just... killed them (typically in malls where there are areas to do this). So now it's "code Adam" and a description. Some stores will give the description over the intercom, others only tell employees.
@@cheshirenevande4701 How would do that to a random child? In a store of all places there’s cameras there. It seems a little hysterical to think like that.
That MOVE IN THE SHADOWS SHIRT!! never wanted anything more!!
Sooooo comfy and cozy SUCH A TEASE
Same! Can’t wait for the drop 😻
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I neeeeed it
Really? Nothing?
I'm from the U.S and I have never met anyone who didn't know fruit/apples grow on trees or are edible off trees.. Not sure where these people are form , but they really need to expand their horizons.
RIGHT!? Me either. Lol. I sadly can’t wait to meet one. I’ll give them a store fruit and a tree fruit lol. Let them compare.
But it’s also sad.. and in todays world.. as sad as it is, I think I could actually believe it’s true. I just wonder where they live where they don’t teach you these things.
Same! I assume rich people? Or neighborhoods with low education? I'm from the Midwest, we grow everything we can here. And if we can't, we have a university that develops trees that can.
@@meimurphy that actually sounds beautiful
@@HoneyBeeCrafts it really is, Imo. University of Minnesota. 💜
@@meimurphyu of MN cross breed apples and Honeycrisp are the best!!
I remember as a child I got lost in the store with my younger brother. I had a good memory but I couldn't find my parents. So I grabbed my brother as a little five-year-old and asked the employee for help since I knew them as nice smiley people. My dad wasn't happy and didn't let us go having a good grip on our hands.
The fruit thing isn't just the US, I'm in the UK and it's the same here. When my mother retired in 1995 she became a volunteer class room assistant. When a teacher asked the kids where you get fruit from most of them said Tesco. My mother set about using some of the school grounds to plant an apple and pear orchard. She contacted all manner of big businesses for charity funds to buy everything and my dad did the ground work. My mother passed in 2002 and my dad in 2014 but every year the kids in the school get to eat the fruit they planted.
My high school had some cherry trees. They weren't the prettiest and the fruit was sour, but sometimes kids ate them. At another school, a kid threw a pit at another kid and hit him in the eye. The parents sued the school. For insurance reasons, my school cut down all the trees.
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Some fruits are not edible - too tanniny or sour, or other reasons
What?! Did they teach in London or something? Britain is so small how are their people who don't understand where our food comes from? I'm glad we're teaching this stuff now at least
Poor guy, he should have just started yelling for a store associate “I found Millie…can I have an associate”
I have found a couple of lost kids before. I get there name and start yelling for the parents. "Jaden's parents! Where are you?
Yep, I’ve found lost kids in stores before and I yell for store employees/parents/guardians. I’m not walking around with someone’s missing kid for this very reason.
Good luck getting the associate to do their job, when they mishandled this from the beginning. They aren’t page the store.
Yeah but why would a decent human being, also a dad, who was asked to bring the kid up front, ask for an associate.
@@TheBaumcm because in this day and age things like him being accused of something wrong is normal….so for the safety of the child and himself, call for an associate
YOU lose YOUR kid, and you wanna claim the guy that found her KIDNAPPED HER??? I've had similar happen. Kid in J.C. Penney's. Crying because she lost her mom, so I put her on my shoulders so she could see over the racks, and said, "Find mom!" Mom was at the service desk, freaking out, so I pointed, the kid pointed, the woman ran at me and acted like I had nabbed her! AND I AM A WOMAN! Another time in Fred Meyer, woman was helping her son in the bathroom stall, her little girl was trying to wash her hands, so I lifted her so she could reach. Helped her get paper towels as mom came out. My friend and I leave, here comes the kid, galloping after us, happy as hell. I got on my knees and told her she has to stay with mommy, because bad people might try to steal her. Elsewhere in the store, a tap on my shoulder, it was her mother, thanking me for telling her that, and saying she has a tendency to run off and talk to anyone. YIKES!
About the trees- in Soviet Union after ww2, I think, if not before then, the government planted mostly fruit trees alongside the roads in cities to provide food for people to eat. And people living in a house were cleaning the fruit that fell on the ground too, it wasn't solely a job for street cleaners. But people were gathering the fruits and making jams and other stuff, and I'll tell you that I have never tasted anything remotely like that bought from a supermarket. Supermarket fruits taste like paper to me.
I’m in my last semester of an ecology degree. In America, urban farming is becoming more popular, but there’s a LARGE population of people that don’t want community gardens or fruit trees in public because “people will steal the fruit.” It’s so sad. I’m genuinely moving to Finland.
It is also the fact that there are always these no so good people that ruin community gardens by taking more than they should and destroying the tree or garden itself. We used to have these really fruitful mango trees outside our community and I would see people break whole branches to get at a few fruit. I have also heard of people pouring hot water on to other people's plot at community gardens out of jealousy or just being a d*uche.
@@fakenails yeah but. who cares. overall, its worth this very small risk.
Heyy welcome to Finland
@@fakenailsThat speaks to that particular society. There are other countries that have those successfully, however those are better community-based societies who aren’t promoting violent behavior in their media!
I’m from Sweden, here every household has an apple tree in their garden, even apartment complexes has fruit trees in the shared garden. People put fruitbascets with homegrown fruits they don’t need at the gate for bypassers to take. Or if the fruit hangs over the fence, we just pick and eat 😅 Besides apples, it's very normal to grow cherry trees, plum trees, lots of berry bushes 😊
The municipality I’m from literally has a map online to fruit trees and bushes that are free to pick from!
I've had a gun put in my face for picking oranges over my side of the fence because the tree was my neighbors lol
Trust me, this is VERY normal in at least half the US. Lemon, apple, orange, and cherry trees especially.
@@Avysaurus So jealous of y’all who can grow citrus!! I’m in cold New England and always share my peppers, tomatoes, etc. with friends and family. Hoping to get some fruit trees & bushes started soon!
Don't forget the pear trees!
I also remember every PE lesson when we had orientation are teachers told us not to "palla äpplen" (steal apples). But oh well... when the trees stick out from the garden it's public domain, right?
"You can't eat fruit right off the tree!!"
*Confused Hillbilly noises* also my ex husband's family had a mini orchard in their San Diegi home garden (and rosemary hedges!). I grew up with shitloads of food off the source with a rural upbringing. I've eaten rare apple types, my great grandma grew these nasty little plums to make my great grandpa devil schnapps. And was it even summer if your arms aren't shredded from blackberry brambles?
Fruit Trees. I'm in my mid-50s. My dad grew up during the Great Depression. My mom was raised on an English farm. Fruit trees were a valued part of the property... we had oranges and lemons, and my dad tried so hard for us to have peaches, but the birds and squirrels got those first. When we were living in my husband's uncle's house, we looked forward to the seedless orange tree to bear fruit (it was planted in the early 1950s, and gave the SWEETEST, juiciest fruit). We also planted an apple tree, pear tree, lime tree, avocado tree on that property. I can see on Google Maps that those trees are all still there, and doing well.
This was all in Los Angeles suburbs.
Growing up, we lived in this house that my dad's friend let us rent. While we were there (about 6 ish years), we had so many fruits. Apricots, pears, apples, etc. We even had a grape bush. It saved my parents so much money, especially during the 2008 financial crisis. We would spend days without power sometimes but I am forever thankful we had those fruit trees. In the house my mom lives at now, she has an apple tree and a peach tree and grows her own green tomatoes, peppers, etc. It's a joy, really. And she freezes those veggies so she has enough for the winter.
As an ex Walmart Assistant Manager in Alberta…. There are cashiers who mask the credit card as a point card due to the push from head office to get applications. Some cashiers grab the ID from people and fill out the applications out themself for the customer. Had to fire the cashiers for fraud and get the police involved numerous times
Sounds like they need to fire people in the head office.
Why has Walmart NOT closed the account if it has never been paid?
@@lynn2594THAT is what I want to know!!!
Oh wow. That's disgusting and disappointing behavior. Not at all surprising, though. Clearly they shouldn't push it so hard at head office.
As a current Walmart employee, this doesn't surprise me.
Any apple you pick off of a tree that is ripe to harvest will ALWAYS be better then any store bought apple you could buy.
About the apples… fresh fruit picked directly from the tree tastes better than grocery store fruit. Anything fresh is almost always better. Signed, An old-head Cajun lady
15:33 Miss Charlotte if I remember correctly, the reason why we don't have fruit trees in cities in the US is because in the 1950s (?) they planted all male trees, because the female trees cause too much waste (fruit not being picked left on the ground to rot). BUT if they had planted only female trees, no male trees to pollinate them, there would be less fruit and waste and we could have fruit trees. I think the reason they don't do it now is because nothing is free in 'Merica.
Pretty sure a lot of it has to do with not "giving handouts" to the homeless population in major cities and affluent neighborhoods as well. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if some pretentious jacka$$ tried to sue someone over a piece of fruit off a tree. :(
I also found out that because they planted only male trees most of us have developed adult allergies because the females ABSORB the pollen instead of it flying free.
Danm even trees has s/o and I am still single 😂
@@kadeclark3511 oh you KNOW that some American somewhere has sued someone over fruit off of a tree. (And by "some American" I mean a yt lady 😂)
My mom can speak Latin that she learned in Catholic school back in the 1960s. She also poured super glue in her eye back in the 1980s. She just got diagnosed with ADHD in her 70s. Finally, it explains a lot.
How did the eye situation turned out?
@@FreedomofSpeech865 she went to the ER & they cleared it. They said it was a common problem.
@@VrtualMe 🫨 common? Wow
@@FreedomofSpeech865I don’t know about common but in the early days of superglues we saw any number of people in the ER with parts glued together including eyelids. It was a bit of a drama to begin with, no one wants to be pouring acetone into an eye so now what? Thankfully, it didn’t take long to figure out that, generally, the best thing to do is nothing. Skin cells slough continually, as that happens the glue gets sloughed too and whatever is stuck together will release on its own.
I'm wondering if people are getting glue on their fingers and then rubbing their eyes?
I can answer the fruit tree question! My husband is an arborist in California, US. Most cities and counties have limits on fruiting trees/plants in public spaces because of liability. The arguement is that if someone gets sick from rotten or underripe fruit, or if someone like slips on some fruit that's on the sidewalk or road, they could sue their local or state government. Usually the fruiting trees that are allowed have fruits that are onamental, but not edible. It makes no sense, but I swear this is the real reason they teach tree workers here as to why you can't plant or maintain fruit trees in or overhanging public spaces like sidewalks and roads
A lot of cities also consider it an "attractive nuisance" much like play equipment and swimming pools, so if you do have fruit trees or something in your own yard, you have to keep them fenced to prevent children (or idiot adults) from climbing the tree to get the fruit and then hurting themselves. 🤦 And then you get the "wildlife complaints" about it attracting animals, bees, wasps, etcetera. 🤦
Thank you! I was hoping someone would answer the question in comments!
That's one reason that popped in my head. The other was that there would be too much clean up when the fruits fell.
that's so weird...
in germany we have fruit trees alongside rural roads, people harvest them (illegally 😅) otherwise the fruits end up on the street making it slippery or they rot on the side. but nobody here would sue a city/district for getting sick from eating inedible food or getting hurt not beeing able to walk - that's their own fault for earing something without knowing if it's good or for not watching their step 😂
i'm so glad we don't have this mentality over here and also our children can learn were their food is coming from just by going outside 😅
My mom had multiple fruit trees in the yard. The plums were beyond compare. The fruit was deep purple inside. I've never seen them anywhere. I think they were Burgandy plums. As a pot smoking teen they were the best thing everm
The story where the guy found the little girl was something that happened to me and my daughter, too. I turned my head, and she was gone. I freaked out they called everything over the system and a few minutes later a man brought her to me and I said "Thank you" as I cried and that was it. Accusing him of that, didn't even cross my mind.
Yep. “Welcome to EMS” is the first thing I heard after a crazy call when I was an EMT in training, happy to hear an EMS call story on this channel
I think that story was bs….the operator and officers not giving the EMS any information, the “oh the furniture is moved because exorcism” not to remove hitting hazards, trying to talk to a seizing patient, not understanding that seizure positions do look inhuman af, etc.
@@BriEnrExorcisms DO happen whether you believe it or not. Just pray that neither you nor anyone close to you goes through that.
@@mysticheart1049 I’m not saying exorcisms aren’t a thing, I’m saying it’s standard practice to move furniture away from a seizing individual so they don’t hit anything.
I had heard this story before a few months ago crazy! But these things really happen
When I was like four, my dad lost me at a big store, and after basically closing down the entire place and having the worst time of his life, he eventually called my mom, who was on a different store across the parking lot, to inform her that he, unfortunately, lost one of the kids forever… Only for her to calmly tell him “he’s here with me, wait so you’re still at the other store?”.
Turns out I, the little toddler, got bored of being with my dad, walked out of the store alone, crossed the parking lot *alone*, found the other store, found my mom, and refused to elaborate.
😢 your poor dad. Oh no.
Still pretty scary. Why didn't your mom call your dad that you were with her? Nit very nice of her to let him worry like that.
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@agavictoria maybe she thought he knew, assuming the kid was being looked after 😅
In the US, I could see someone suing the city saying the food from the trees made them sick. We are a lawsuit happy country.
I accidentally became a litigation freak.
I fight legally through the courts.
Four for four.
I wouldn't recommend it but I have learned so much about the Rule of Law.
"I ate an apple from the ground that was covered in worms and now I'm sick! I'm suing the city!! 😠"
😂 "i was being dumb so now i sue because it can't possibly be my fault" 🤦♀️
as a german it's always so strange that people would sue for just any reason 😂
i mean i sued my city because they insinuated me to earn money illegally (because i couldn't prove that i don't earn money - how would you even prove that 🙄) so they refused to pay me housing benefit when i was unemployed (socialism 🥳)... i sued, i won, i just didn't become homeless during the process because family pitched in to pay my rent until i could pay them back 😊 - that was the only time i ever had/wanted to sue and it was so time and energy consuming that i don't want to do it ever again 😅
edit: socialism is not comunism
"The city planting this tree here and i ate a fruit from it and now im sick and I KNOW it aint have anything to do with the 5 days old room temp milk i drank 20 mins ago, I'm suing the city"
"I found a ham sandwich in one of your parks, and I wanna know why it didn't have mayonnaise!"
Alberta girl here to say a piece about fruit trees. Fruit trees will attract skunks, deer, moose, bears, and other animals that eat those animals. In fact, towns like Canmore and Banff have an active program to replace fruiting trees within town limits because of them attracting bears in the area.
That being said, the only fruiting trees that were planted in public spaces in Korea were ginko trees. You can peel them and eat the nuts (they are pretty good), but it is surrounded by a clear gel-like substance that smells like the sewers.
Europe in general don't seem to have a bear problem like Canada though...
That last one, the girl should never come to the south, because we say,"baby, sugar, honey, sweetheart,etc,"all the time to people and never think a thing about it. She would stay triggered. Hahaha
Outside of the south, there's usually only two kinds of people who call others that and it's either grannies or creeps. Not coming from grannies, it's basically shorthand for, "I have bad intentions and/or contempt for you."
As a Philadelphia native that has been living in South Carolina close to 8 years, I can say this is true
I come from an area where people call each other luv, darlin', sweetie etc in basic conversations.
And they’re not always used as endearing words. Sometimes they act as a warning or lead one into a false sense of security.
Can she also like slow down and take a breath xD
Coming from someone that is a farmer/rancher and have many family members that work for the state, the reason why fruit trees are not grown commonly in cities is because it’s the female trees that grow fruit but, they also lose the leaves earlier than the male trees. But the male trees will produce way more pollen than the female trees because the pollen is needed for the protection of fruit. Cities would rather deal with the over production of pollen than the fruit and the early falling of leaves and/or rotten fruit.
there have been medically observed cases where patients start speaking a language they could not before. Latin is the basis for spanish and most other european origin languages, also lots of people took it in highschool or through a church group.
Well. And, if nobody speaks Latin, how do they know she’s speaking it? How can you identify it if you can’t speak it? It was probably just some sort of tongue.
Whether it can be explained scientifically or not, I wouldn't want to be in that situation 😭😭
I am from the UK. A big part of my childhood was picking fruit from trees in our yard, and fruit bushes, blackberries etc. We also went to various lanes, orchards and so on, picking berries and fruits. Raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants... We'd go out on harvesting days, as well as cultivate vegetables at home and on an allotment. My nan took me mushroom and fern picking, lots of roaming around, learning what is safe to eat and what is not. When nuts were in season, they got added too!
We learned how to make food out of everything we got as well. Some plants or berries were not safe to eat... But that's because of them being poisonous. It baffles me how Americans can not even realise that fruit from suitable trees can be eaten. How is this not a life skill they were taught? It's less usual these days for younger folks, (I'm a millennial in terms of years but not really mindset) yet I am confused as to how parents don't have the time to teach these skills to their kids. Learning what's safe to eat and how to prepare it properly was great fun for me. It came down to a few weeks a year when certain things were ripe for harvesting, so it didn't take up much time at all. We were not rich either, these were functional outings.
My nan and mother also taught me lots of survival stuff, including self defense, I am female, they told me that I would do better in life if I knew how to handle myself in any situation life may throw at me. It gave me a lot of confidence, and totally changed me from the usual "girly" upbringing into someone practical and self assured. But there was also makeup too, alongside practical skills like DIY, building things, fishing, butchering, animal husbandry, medical skills and so on.
I am the one that gets called when people are not treating MY people right. 😂 I am thankful for how mum and nan raised me, as I am really afraid of no one, and I can deal with.... Well anything that comes my way.