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3-year-old toddler takes bus to movies A little boy just really, really wanted to see a movie. The New York Post reports that a 3-year-old from Queens set off a massive search Wednesday after he slipped out of the house, hopped a city bus and snuck into a showing of the computer-animated movie "Robots." "He's pretty smart," his stepbrother, Kareem Williams, 16, said of the boy, Clarence Ricky Davis Jr. Ricky, as his family calls him, got out after his father fell asleep and while Kareem was at Home Depot buying a new door lock because the family had discovered that Ricky could let himself out. A block away, Ricky caught a bus, paying the fare with his own money, and rode 3 1/2 miles to a multiplex cinema. "He's really an amazing kid," his mother, Sherrie Williams, told the Post. "He is a brave little sucker to take the bus by himself. Kids are much brighter today. I couldn't go anywhere by myself until I was 7." When Kareem came back, he noticed that Ricky was gone, and police quickly began a search. It didn't last long, however, because an alert security guard at the movie theater had spotted the errant youngster. "He walked in with a woman, but she told me, 'That's not my kid,'" said the guard. The guard followed Ricky, learned how he got there, told him to enjoy the movie, then called the cops. "For a lost kid, he sure was calm," the guard said. Ricky's father was charged with endangering the welfare of a
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