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Holland Kid Headed For China By Bike

March 18, 2008


Collin Baker is an average 16-year-old. Or is he? According to latest news Collin has been finally caught in Poland on his way to China. Apparently Colin ran away from home on a bike with nothing but £6 and a bag of crisps.

Police have been looking for him for six days since he set out by bike from his home in Holland.

He managed to pedal through Germany and into Poland unnoticed. He had only a book, a map, some crisps and a bottle of mineral water.

That’s where his journey has ended. Residents in Przemkow, noticed him and phoned the local police. According to local news “residents reported discovering a boy who ‘looked lost’, and spoke no Polish, at a bus stop.”

“It turned out that he had been cycling for 6 days and had covered 600 miles cycling along small country roads,” said the local police spokesperson Daria Solinska.

Collin Said that he had left home and is heading for China because he did not like his mother’s new husband. He was determined to get to China by bike even though he had only £6 with him: “I want to go there, because I’ve never been there,” he said.

At the moment he is in a care center for minors, before local police decides what they’ll do with him.

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