躲猫猫惊魂记

 
2009年7月7日，星期二傍晚6点左右，美国宾州（PYMATUNING TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA）一名两岁女孩娜塔丽（Natalie）在和哥哥及两个姐姐玩躲猫猫游戏时失踪了。

惊恐万状的父母以及整个社区的所有邻居倾巢出动，全力以赴，屋内室外，翻天覆地，寻找了近个把小时，毫无结果。最后不得不求助警察、消防队员，甚至出动搜救警犬，兴师动众，几乎掘地三尺，仍旧无果。

正当众人绝望之时，娜塔丽家的狗狗Copper发现了金发小姑娘的踪影－－她躲在洗衣机下面的抽屉里酣然大睡。



哥姐吓得半死，父母更是心有余悸。虽娜塔丽失而复得毫发未损，但家长不许孩子们再玩躲猫猫游戏。从此，娜塔丽及哥姐与躲猫猫游戏绝缘了。一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。

躲猫猫，应是全世界儿童青睐钟情的共通游戏之一。捉迷藏，无国界。

回想起童年时代玩过的躲猫猫，无拘无束，乐趣横生。

因了没什么技术含量，又无须借助任何工具和外力，只要有藏身之处，不被逮着就成。因而山林溪河、村头巷尾、房前屋后，灶间柴火堆、床铺饭桌下、柜子房门后，都是躲猫猫的首选场所，人人无师自通，躲技娴熟。

往往在吃完晚饭后，夜幕降临时，一窝子黄牙小儿，黄毛丫头，混迹着光着屁股蛋子呲溜着两条鼻涕的小屁孩，不分性别、年龄、强弱，大家一视同仁，一番‘合手’淘汰，剩下俩‘锤子剪刀布’决胜负，负方担当寻者，其余为隐士。

随着一声令下“一二三，躲啊！”，一群小隐士们如脱兔般狂奔，争先恐后，上蹿下跳，东躲西藏。被找到的，垂头丧气，愤愤不已，怪自己倒霉或不公，要报仇要申冤。没被抓现行的，趾高气扬，兴高采烈，乐得不知北在哪儿，更不知自己姓什么了。

一个简单的猫捉老鼠的躲猫猫游戏，玩起来，小家伙们个个跟打了鸡血，抽风似的，情绪高涨，兴奋异常，可以玩得忘乎所以，乐此不疲，而且脱胎换骨，判若两人。原先怕黑怕鬼的，突然都胆大包天，如阎王附体。斯文的行为张狂了，笨拙的身手敏捷了，无精打采的生龙活虎了，羞答答寡言少语的尖声怪叫不输他人。轮番做猫当老鼠，一个比一个狡猾奸诈，一个比一个勇敢无畏，哪里黑暗哪里寻找，哪里隐蔽哪里躲藏。

小时候，生活在乡下农村。农民家都建有猪圈，同时也是方便的茅房，养猪如厕双管齐下。而很多猪栏上方都搁置着一到两付备用棺材，俨然如鬼门关，不仅臭气熏天，而且阴气袭人。每次去这些人家玩，上趟厕所便是对胆量的严峻考验：胆颤心惊毛骨悚然进去，手忙脚乱惊魂未定出来。鬼是无形的，可怕可不怕，而巨大的棺材近在咫尺，实实在在足以吓得人屁滚尿流的。

躲猫猫时，最可恨的是几个天不怕地不怕的小伙伴，偏爱躲进这些空置的棺材里。我等怕鬼的小姑娘们哪有胆子与恐怖的棺材零距离接触？站在那黑灯瞎火的茅房外，感觉里面魑魅魍魉鬼影幢幢，无奈地在黑暗中干瞪眼，只有认输的份。而躲在空棺材里的小伙伴们幸灾乐祸，公然挑衅，有的嚷嚷：“有本事有胆量你就过来抓我们啊，来呀！来呀！”有的唱道：“东风吹，战鼓擂，现在世界上究竟谁怕谁？”有的高喊：“下定决心，不怕牺牲，排除万难，去争取更大的胜利。”“这是我、我、我的党费，让我最后再看一眼红旗吧！”

若不幸被长辈撞上，就有好戏看了。这些亵渎棺材的淘气包调皮鬼，瞬间英雄气短变狗熊。

而两岁的娜塔丽躲猫猫躲得更精彩 ，小小年纪胆识过人，居然能想出躲进洗衣机下面的抽屉里，堪称一绝。看来，小姑娘是个有躲猫猫天赋的躲猫猫奇才，前途不可估量。

不过活了一辈子作了一世人，不久前才知道躲猫猫这个游戏居然有着一定的危险性。国内云南几个犯人童心未泯，放风时玩‘躲猫猫’游戏，其中一个年轻力壮的小伙子一不留神竟然躲出“重度颅脑损伤”，不幸身亡。

躲猫猫闹出人命，匪夷所思。不晓得国内监狱是否如美国宾州的娜塔丽家一样，从此禁止躲猫猫游戏了？！

 

Little girl lost is found
Frantic search has happy ending

By Courtney L. Anderson
Herald Staff Writer   Published July 08, 2009 09:07 am

PYMATUNING TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA

A favorite childhood game is banned from the Jasmer household after 2-year-old Natalie proved herself the hide-and-seek champion.

Natalie went missing Tuesday evening while playing the game with her brother and sisters and the best efforts of neighbors, police and firefighters called by her frantic parents weren’t enough to turn up the tot.

The terrifying ordeal for her parents ended happily after more than an hour of scouring the neighborhood around the 10th Street mobile  home park where the Jasmers live.

In the end, it was the family dog that flushed her out.

“Copper found her,” Natalie’s brother Kenny Findley said, crediting the mutt with discovering the tiny girl asleep inside a drawer underneath the washing machine in the family’s home.

Natalie’s family was obviously relieved but still visibly shaken after she was found. Six-year-old Delynn Jasmer continued to cry after her little sister was discovered.

“I was scared we were never going to find her” Delynn said.

“I’m sorry,” the sweet-faced blonde told those who crowded around her in the family’s living room about 7:15 p.m.

Natalie’s mother Michelle Jasmer said Natalie and her siblings were playing hide-and-seek at about 6 p.m. and the family thought she had gone outside with Delynn.

Dad Dennis Jasmer said Natalie’s siblings told him she had been tired, so he feared she’d wandered into the woods, lay down by a tree and nodded off.

“I tore the house apart. I looked everywhere,” Jasmer said. “I walked around and around and around.”

It seemed like everyone in the neighborhood helped look for the girl and police were called about 6:45 p.m. after she was still not found, Pymatuning Township patrolman Mike Brown said.

“The neighbors were out searching all over,” Brown said, adding that he was “very impressed with the community.”

Jasmer was grateful they came together to look for his daughter.

“At least it makes you feel kind of good. If something happens, everyone pitches in,” Jasmer said.

Mrs. Jasmer said the kids are no longer allowed to play hide-and-seek.

“That game is forever stricken,” Jasmer agreed.

A K-9 search team was also at the scene along with Transfer volunteer firefighters Greenville and Hempfield Township police.