A US family hoping for a mild navigational challenge in a Massachusetts corn maze ended up calling police on a cellphone and begging to be rescued.
The parents strolled with their two children, including a three-week-old baby, into the Connors Farm maze Monday. But as dusk fell, they simply couldn't find their way back out and panicked.
"I'm really scared. It's really dark," the mother said in a recorded call to the 911 emergency number replayed by local television stations.
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"Just relax. Your husband is with you, right?" the 911 dispatcher said.
"Yes, but my baby," replied the woman.
Police went to the rescue with a dog, quickly found the family - unharmed just 25 feet (eight meters) inside the maze - and got back out.
"We thought this could be fun," the mother said during the 911 call.
Farm manager Rich Potter, who creates the maze corridors in each year's crop of high-growing maize, or corn, told thebostonchannel.com site that he didn't think the stricken family was keen to have another go.
"I don't think they're coming back," he said.
