Saroo Brierley: Five year old boy get's lost, finds his way home 20 years later

This story is a couple of years old, but I just found it tonight. It's fascinating.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/india-orphan-google-earth-journey

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.

Wow...

I can't remember where I left my hammer half the time.

man. That was a great read.

without clicking on the link: so it's a real life Joe Dirt story?

Great story

novaderrik wrote: without clicking on the link: so it's a real life Joe Dirt story?

Yeah, kinda... Except with less hemi coronet.

I'm sure it will end up being a movie.

In reply to Woody:

Soooo, you read Vanity Fair...

Not much, I actually read about him in Time and then Googled his name for more articles. But I have found some good articles from Vanity Fair in the past. I really think the name does them an injustice.

This may have been the first Vanity Fair article I ever read. The magazine was on the table of a lake house we rented. It's a long article, but eventually, there is a vehicle connection.

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1998/08/sandsimeon199808

mndsm wrote:

novaderrik wrote: without clicking on the link: so it's a real life Joe Dirt story?

Yeah, kinda... Except with less hemi coronet.

It was a Belvedere.

Pretty incredible...I never considered how simple literacy is so taken for granted. Incredible is the only word I can think of.

Also, Ive never spoken a second language more than a few phrases and some odds and ends I retained from middle school Spanish classes. I couldn't imagine forgetting a language I was fluent in. I guess its a case of "if you dont use it, you lose it"?

Woody wrote:

mndsm wrote:

novaderrik wrote: without clicking on the link: so it's a real life Joe Dirt story?

Yeah, kinda... Except with less hemi coronet.

It was a Belvedere.

Thanks. Been a while since I saw the movie.

Great story, thanks for sharing!

Good read thanks!

That was a really cool story.

Really neat story. Thanks for sharing!