In the US state of South Carolina, an eleven-year-old man drove more than 300 kilometers in a car to meet a strange man. He is said to have met this person beforehand via the messaging service Snapchat. The Charleston Police Department said the boy was stopped in a parking lot after more than three hours of driving. He told an official early Monday morning that he had lost his way.
The officer in charge said that the boy had taken his brother's car to drive from Simpsonville to Charleston. There he wanted to meet an unknown person he had met on Snapchat.
During the trip he is said to have used the navigation system of his father, according to police. This finally lost the signal. Because news on Snapchat delete itself after ten seconds, the eleven-year-old should have had no access to the address of the unknown.
Desperate to inform the police
In desperation, the boy turned to the policeman. He immediately informed the father. This was going to report his son as missing. Meanwhile, the boy is back with his family. According to CNN, police have launched investigations against the elderly stranger.
A police officer from the Charleston office used the incident to point out the dangers of social media. "Everyone who sees this and is the parent of a child, especially an eleven-year-old, should get together with their children and talk about what they do on social networks," he told CNN.
