Senior citizens detained by police after waving to kid on a bicycle (Canada) [View All]

[JohnyCanuck]

Suspected attempted child abduction, doncha know.

PICTOU – Two Waterside seniors say they were accused of attempted child abduction after they waved at a child while driving by. Patsy McCara and her husband Gerald say they were detained for nearly two hours and questioned by the RCMP about the incident, which occurred about two weeks ago by the Pictou Sobeys.

Patsy can well recall turning up Veteran’s Drive in Pictou as the couple returned from her doctor’s appointment in New Glasgow. They were headed to pick up some groceries when her husband saw a little boy on a bike beside the Sobey’s store. Gerald waved his hand at the child as they drove by.

“We parked and both got out of our truck, my husband went into the tobacco shop and I went into Sobeys and picked up several articles,” Patsy said.

When she returned to their truck, Gerald was nowhere in sight, but an RCMP cruiser as parked immediately behind their red Silverado. Patsy put her groceries in the truck and climbed aboard to wait for her husband to return.

It wasn’t until a passerby asked why her husband was in the back of the RCMP car that Patsy realized something was wrong. She got out and spoke to an officer, who told her the Mounties had received a complaint that identified their truck as being involved in an attempted child abduction.

http://www.ngnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=305840&sc=49