4-Year-Old Girl Slushie - On Friday, a raincoat-clad 4-year-old girl from Pennsylvania shocked a driver and his passengers after she boarded a public bus alone at 3 a.m. in search of a slushie, according to transportation officials Sunday.
Apparently, the 4-year-old girl searching for slushie girl was able to slip out the back door of her home and started wandering the neighborhood in heavy rain, just to search for the frozen treat, said city authorities.
Fortunately, a city bus driver picked her up, called his control center and waited for police to arrive. After a few minutes, police was able to deliver the 4-year-old girl searching for slushie into the arms of her relieved mother, according to USA Today.
The bus driver, Harlan Jenifer, 52, had reportedly just stopped his SEPTA bus in the city's Tacony neighbourhood in order to let out a passenger, after which a man standing in the rain told him to wait.
The 4-year-old girl searching for slushie had been standing alone in a purple raincoat.
"I'm like, 'Oh, God, what's going on here?' It was shocking, more or less," Jenifer told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "She was drenching wet. She was trembling."
The 4-year-old girl searching for slushie climbed onto the bus and told its passengers, "All I want is a slushie."
Surveillance footage of the 4-year-old girl searching for slushie showed the tiny blonde all bundled up in her purple coat, boarding a Philadelphia bus at 3 a.m. Friday and sitting down by herself. Afterwards, the passengers on board looked curiously towards her, reported Reuters.
Passengers had a chat with the 4-year-old girl searching for slushie as Jenifer called the police. Officers took the girl to St. Christopher's Hospital, where she and her mother were eventually reunited.
"I was scared for her, but it was funny. She was in good hands," said Jenifer, a father of three.
"Thank God for the bus driver stopping," said Timothy Ridgeway, the father of the 4-year-old girl searching for slushie told the Associated Press.
According to police, no charges would be filed against the family as they had no idea that the 4-year-old girl went searching for a slushie. Hours before the incident, they had put the girl to bed. Apparently, she got up and tried the front door, and when she found it locked, she went and slipped out the back door.
"I will take you to buy a slushie," Jaclyn Mager, the girl's mother, told her daughter after the 4-year-old girl asked for the slushie again. "But... promise me next time you'll wait for me, okay?"
The name of the 4-year-old girl searching for slushie was not released. She "was in good spirits," said Jenifer. "It was like she knew where she was going." Apparently, she did. Just three blocks from where Jenifer picked up teh girl is a 24-hour 7-Eleven store, which sells Slurpees.
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