Wolf Boy on the loose

Jon says: A ten year old boy who was raised by wolves has escaped from a Moscow clinic. He bites and snarls and acts all crazy, just like you'd expect a boy raised by wolves to act. And man, has he got some of the coolest toenails I've ever seen.

The boy moves around with his legs half bent, said Tvoi Den newspaper. "He was running with wolves and searching for food with them."

Villagers found this "wild creature" in a lair made of leaves and sticks in freezing temperatures and told the police who named him Lyokha, though his real identity is not known.

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• [Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator]

  Sorry; due to a shortfall of chaser links, we’re only posting them to threads involving nonstandard emissions of bodily fluids.

• [randee]

  Well, there’s nothing here on the site about Lyokha yet, but for all of your feral children needs, go here:

  http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php

  It’ll keep you reading for the rest of the holiday season.

• [Cpt. Tim]

  wolf boy!

  These instances rarely have happy endings. Feral children who were lost in their early years do not develop any language skills, do not start walking on 2 feet, or really progress much at all. (this is not true for children lost when they were slightly older) The children are pretty miserable in “Captivity” and don’t have long lifespans.

  part of me is kinda happy he escaped and with his wolf crew.

• [oligore]

  He might grow up to start an empire (called lyok?) just like Romulus who grew up to make Rome.

• [Tedly Teddington]

  I expect his future will be a comical romp, like the Howie Mandel movie, Walk Like a Man.

• [jtf]

  My intro psych classes a while back told me about a similar case, of a kid in France called the “wild child of Aveyron” that was a seminal case in this field. Might be worth looking into.

• [mellowknees]

  Poor little guy – I can’t help but think he may be happier running wild, even if it means a shorter life span, than stuck in an institution.

  Reminds me of the story of Oxana Malaya.

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/17/ftdog17.xml

• [gHurley]

  “Rescued” from the wild? Looks like he was doing fine before you stuck him in a lab, thank you very much.

• [Kaiser]

  Can we get a unicorn chaser with those toenails please?

• [lummels]

  h.o.a.x.

• [Sourbasil]

  I agree! This is a load of crap. When you were ten do you remember your feet looking like these >40y.o. clodhoppers? Seriously, they might even be cadaverous…

• [genevieve]

  Lyoka may have an undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder, and have come from a poor area where there are no services. This is a very sad bit of news to get at Christmas time. I hope he will be found again and treated more appropriately – it sounds like the newspaper reporting obviously knows very little about these conditions.

• [Foolster41]

  He doesn’t even have yellow eyes yet. Maybe there’s hope yet. He needs Aes Sedai :)

  I don’t know how reliable the daily mail is, but those feet look like the feet of someone who doesn’t know how to yuse nail clippers. Ew.

  Doing research I can find to credible links from the ny times. I also checked the houstin chronicle (I paper that has a pretty good national and international news coverage.) I found a link on the USA today sight to a propellor story, but the link goes to a 404. I tend to lean twords this being a hoax.

• [zuzu]

  I don’t know how reliable the daily mail is

  A typical headline in the Mail reads:
  “Immigrant ASBO teens ate my baby for Islam”

  Think of it as the British equivalent of The Post.

• [stovis]

  You know what they say about wolf-kids with big feet…