borndem
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Let me help folks sort that out ... they are all sorta correct ..... haaaa
1 kilometer is 1000 meters so 1/2 km is 500 meters.
1 kilometer is .62 of a mile so 1/3 of a mile (from the house) is also reasonable
Now to be absolutely precise the creek is due south of the house and not quite 1/2 km away ..... but if the boy was found a bit to the east or west it could explain the difference.
Our whole country is surveyed and laid out in square miles as can be seen on the maps .... but our convoluted government decided to go metric years ago and in their bureaucratic thinking the country is now laid out in 1.60934 km squares and news media are forced to report in metric.
Most Canadian people still talk and think in square miles the way the land was originally surveyed.
That being said .... the boy was found in the creek about 1/3 to 1/2 mile south of the house.
Which of course is roughly 1/2 a kilometer if you work for the government. God help us.
Thanks, Arnie M, for the metrics math lesson for us mph-fps-inches-feet-yards-miles-pints-quarts-gallons-mpg only speakers, for the most part, who are down here in the lower 48. We're so in love with "our way" (some of us, that is) that we don't even seriously learn a foreign language in which to be fluent, and so on & on. Also thank you for your metric-bashing tongue-in-cheek diatribe. We needed a bit of a tension easer...