# So your kid goes missing for 3 days... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911 "2015-04-30T17:52:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/1 "2015-04-30T17:52:16Z")
Don’t worry they were just successful at completing the _Game of 72_! > **[Terrifying 'game' on Facebook sees children vanish for 72 hours](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3060935/Parents-left-terrified-cruel-new-game-Facebook-children-dare-vanish-72-hours-without-telling-relatives.html)** > > Authorities have been alerted to the game after a 13-year-old girl from northern France went missing for three days last week, and claimed to have been challenged to the 'Game of 72' dare. I couldn’t find any instances of this occurring in the US, but from the article it sounds like a thing in France. Basically, hide from everyone for 72 hours and you win!!! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/2 "2015-04-30T17:55:28Z")
I hope this isn’t really a thing. Seeing as how it’s being reported by the Daily Mail, it probably isn’t. I don’t think most teenagers are this stupid. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/3 "2015-04-30T18:01:59Z")
As far as dumbass things that teenagers might do go, this one at least poses very little danger to the teenager or others. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/4 "2015-04-30T18:12:02Z")
Must be a headache for local police. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/5 "2015-04-30T18:16:09Z")
Might be something for parents to get in on, though. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/6 "2015-04-30T18:27:50Z")
What do they do for 72 hours? Huff jenkem at a rainbow party? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/7 "2015-04-30T19:11:02Z")
Joke’s on them – after 48 hours, my teenager’s stuff goes on the curb and the little one upgrades to a bigger bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/8 "2015-04-30T19:25:39Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > What do they do for 72 hours? Huff jenkem at a rainbow party? They occasionally take a break to smoke some banana peels. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/9 "2015-04-30T19:29:37Z")
Can you choose which kid goes? Can you extend the time by, say, a few weeks? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/10 "2015-04-30T19:58:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > They occasionally take a break to smoke some banana peels. Quite rightly! ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/11 "2015-04-30T21:38:49Z")
Been there, done that. Not as a joke though. If I had heard of this game when my kids were teens, a) I know them better than anyone else. b) The rules I would lay down would be enforced. c) My rules in this day and age of cell phones & computers, they could do it safely and any repercussions from school or … would be on them. I would not be one of their problems if they follow my rules. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/12 "2015-04-30T22:28:17Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Quite rightly! It’s bound to be a sudden craze. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/13 "2015-04-30T23:16:28Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > As far as dumbass things that teenagers might do go, this one at least poses very little danger to the teenager or others. Until they get home and get their asses whipped. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/14 "2015-04-30T23:22:31Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > As far as dumbass things that teenagers might do go, this one at least poses very little danger to the teenager or others. Well, if they should ever be kidnapped for real, they might be sorry they cried wolf. And a frantic enough parent is liable to have a heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/15 "2015-04-30T23:30:42Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > I hope this isn’t really a thing. Seeing as how it’s being reported by the Daily Mail, it probably isn’t. I don’t think most teenagers are this stupid. Even the article itself basically admits its bullshit. There’s a whole genre of this type of “teen craze” articles, that are almost always somewhere between massively overblown or entirely fictional. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/16 "2015-05-01T01:47:26Z")
Anyone else brain-flashing the Python Olympic Hide and Seek skit? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4upY8UWrsU) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/17 "2015-05-01T16:12:45Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Well, if they should ever be kidnapped for real, they might be sorry they cried wolf. The chances of a random teenager being kidnapped are incredibly small. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/18 "2015-05-01T19:52:25Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > The chances of a random teenager being kidnapped are incredibly small. And the chances of a small teenager being kidnapped are incredibly random. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/19 "2015-05-01T21:38:46Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Even the article itself basically admits its bullshit. > > There’s a whole genre of this type of “teen craze” articles, that are almost always somewhere between massively overblown or entirely fictional. Seems that this sort of article might \*give \*teenagers ideas. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911/20 "2015-05-01T21:47:28Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > I don’t think most teenagers are this stupid. Aw, c’mon! I raised 3 and was one myself. Never underestimate the stupid stuff the average teen can do! 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-your-kid-goes-missing-for-3-days/718911.md?page=2)