A "child abduction" foiled

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. ... 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, ... [and i]t wasn’t until a passerby asked why her husband was in the back of the RCMP car that Patsy realized something was wrong.

- Excerpted from The News Serving Pictou County Nova Scotia

I've mentioned before the problems that people - particularly men - can encounter simply by being in the vicinity of small children (even their own). Yet another example.