Corn pwn

“It’s one of our average-to-smaller mazes,” said Brett Herbst, who counts that maze among the 2,000 he has designed in the past 16 years. A typical visitor should expect to complete it in about 20 minutes, he said.

Still, a local family had to be retrieved by the police on Monday when they were unable to find the exit to Mr. Connor’s maze before the sun set. The parents, toting an infant and a small child, panicked and called 911, setting off a chain of events that soon turned them into a target for late-night jabs from television hosts like Jay Leno and Chelsea Handler. (The punch line, Mr. Connor said, was that the family was about 25 feet from the exit when they called for help.)…

“It’s not like 100-acre field out there,” he said. “Just cut through the corn.”

Douglas Quenqua, N.Y. Times.

I don’t know what Leno or Handler went with, but I’d go with this:

You called 911 to rescue you from a corn maze.

You called 911 to rescue you from a corn maze.

You called 911 to rescue you from a corn maze.

It’s like that movie Open Water, except instead of getting stranded in shark-infested waters miles from shore, you called 911 to rescue you from a corn maze.

Incidentally, this is an aerial view of the 2009 version of Mr. Connors’ maze:

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