5 year old boy slips out of day-care, winds up at Hooters.

DENTON — Investigators are looking into how a young boy managed to slip out of a Denton day care center unnoticed, then cross two busy roads and end up a half-mile away at a Hooters restaurant on Tuesday afternoon. The five-year-old boy walked out of the Imagination Station child care center in the 2300 block of San Jacinto Boulevard near Golden Triangle Mall. He then crossed busy Dallas Drive to go to a RaceTrac gas station to purchase a soft drink and snacks.

After leaving the station, he ended up in the Hooters parking lot about a half-mile away. The restaurant's general manager Brian Mason and his employees spotted the child shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday.

"I was pretty impressed that he made it that way without getting hurt," Mason said. "He let us know that he looked both ways before crossing the road, stopped in the middle and then crossed again."

With no chaperone for the boy in sight, Mason called police. "We kept him in the back coloring and kept him pretty occupied until the police showed up," he said.

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5 or 50 years old; we're all the same. :evilgrin:

:D

But, you're just at the beginning of a lifetime in which the urge to see boobies will make you do stupid things.

My immediate reaction upon seeing that picture in the OP was, "Aw, how cute."

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:D

Why is it so amazing that he walked half a mile? That's only about eight football fields and I've had dogs that look both both ways at crossings.

How about the http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447527/Mystery-cat-takes-regular-bus-shops.html">cat that used to take the bus to a fish and chip shop?

They can keep me "pretty occupied" any time.

:toast:.. And an inspiration to us all! :woohoo: