pinkpuddytat
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Okay...if this was me, I would have called 911... and then not let the child out of my sight if I truly thought it was him. If this child was walking in the middle of the night it doesn't matter WHO it was, that is worthy of a 911 call and not leaving him there alone. If they were in a vehicle, he could get a plate number and possibly follow them. Plus, most truckers have radio contact with officers.
That just seems weird to me. :waitasec:
I don't think there's any indication this sighting was "in the middle of the night". It may well have been in the afternoon, at an hour when little kids are normally going around to friends' homes, etc. And the term "highway" can mean a lot of different things. I have a vacation home in a rural area, and one of the roads through there that is officially named a "highway" is one lane in each direction, with driveways leading to farmhouses all along the way. Totally normal for 7 year old kids to be walking along the edge of of across the road to a friend's house, or in some cases to a different part of their own family's farm.
From the map, it looks like once you get a little ways out of the city of Portland, Highway 26 turns into this type of road. If the trucker saw the boy, he may have thought little or nothing of it. Then later he got home and turned on the news, saw the pictures and description of missing Kyron, and thought to himself "that little kid I saw *might* have been him", and call in the tip then.