OMEN
03-19-2008, 12:12 PM
A teenage Dutch boy who ran away from home and headed to China with just £6 and a bag of crisps has finally been caught in Poland.
Cops have been searching for 16-year-old Collin Baker since he set out by bike from his home in Holland six days ago.
He had pedalled unstopped some 600 miles from his home, into Germany and across Poland with only a book, a map, some crisps and a bottle of mineral water.
Residents in Przemkow, a town of 7,000 inhabitants in south west Poland, phoned the local police after discovering a boy who 'looked lost', and spoke no Polish, at a bus stop.
"It turned out that the boy had been cycling for six days and had covered 600 miles cycling along small country roads," police spokesperson Daria Solinska said.
Collin told the police he had left home for China because he did not like his mother's new husband.
He had only £6 with him, but said he was still determined to get to China by bike.
"I want to go there, because I've never been there," he said.
Police have taken him to a care centre for minors before deciding what to do with him.
Annanaova
Cops have been searching for 16-year-old Collin Baker since he set out by bike from his home in Holland six days ago.
He had pedalled unstopped some 600 miles from his home, into Germany and across Poland with only a book, a map, some crisps and a bottle of mineral water.
Residents in Przemkow, a town of 7,000 inhabitants in south west Poland, phoned the local police after discovering a boy who 'looked lost', and spoke no Polish, at a bus stop.
"It turned out that the boy had been cycling for six days and had covered 600 miles cycling along small country roads," police spokesperson Daria Solinska said.
Collin told the police he had left home for China because he did not like his mother's new husband.
He had only £6 with him, but said he was still determined to get to China by bike.
"I want to go there, because I've never been there," he said.
Police have taken him to a care centre for minors before deciding what to do with him.
Annanaova