男子利用谷歌地球找到了失散多年的家人
萨鲁·布里尔利只有5岁的时候，一列火车把他带到了离家数百英里的地方。他花了25年时间，经历了一场技术革命，才最终回到家乡。
萨鲁·布里尔利利用谷歌地球找到了他长大的印度小镇，尽管他5岁时就无意中离开了那里。照片：CC BY：Johan Larsson
一位与家人失散25年的印度男子，凭借对童年模糊的记忆和谷歌地球的地图技术，奇迹般地找到了家人。以下是关于这位男子神奇回家之旅的详情：
他是如何与家人分离的？
1987年的一天下午，5岁的萨鲁·布里尔利和哥哥在当地火车站乞讨零钱。到了回家的时间，兄弟俩上了他们认为正确的火车。然而，他们错了。筋疲力尽的兄弟俩睡着了，醒来时却发现自己身处印度的另一端，距离家人数百英里。
他们下火车后发生了什么？
Gizmodo网站的凯尔·瓦格纳表示，细节“很少”，但我们所了解到的零星信息却并不美好。小布里尔利和他的哥哥花了整整一个月的时间试图找到父母。期间，这位五岁的男孩差点在恒河溺水身亡。还有一次，一个陌生人试图绑架他，把他卖为童工。他的哥哥不幸去世。最终，布里尔利被当局找到，并被宣布为失踪儿童。他被送进孤儿院，之后被一对塔斯马尼亚夫妇收养，并被带出国，开始了新的生活。
他是如何开始寻找父母的？
如今，布里尔利在塔斯马尼亚拥有一家工业用品商店。但他从未停止过对失散多年的父母的思念。近年来，他开始回忆起坎德瓦火车站，那是他旅程的起点。于是，他开始从那里寻找父母。
他后来做了什么？
布里尔利利用谷歌地球和一些零碎的童年记忆，在火车站附近的城镇里寻找线索。“我脑海里一直保留着我长大的小镇的景象，我曾经漫步的街道，以及我家人的面孔，” 他告诉塔斯马尼亚的《水星报》。布里尔利在谷歌地球上花了几个小时，不断放大地图寻找线索，执着地寻找任何他能认出的东西。最终，他找到了自己的家乡：加内什·塔莱。
他找到家人了吗？
他确实做到了。 据NBC洛杉矶的克里斯·罗伯茨报道，布里尔利加入了一个关于加内什·塔莱的Facebook群组，并开始从他发给群组成员的电子邮件中拼凑出更多线索。很快，他就订了一张飞往印度的机票，在他童年时代的家乡街头漫步，最终找到了家人。“直到今天，我仍然难以置信自己竟然找到了家人，考虑到印度的人口规模以及我与他们失散时年纪尚小，” 他告诉《水星报》 。布里尔利现在计划将他的故事拍成电影。
这些年他的家人都在做什么？
他的母亲说，他们苦苦寻找两个男孩，最终却发现其中一个已经去世，另一个下落不明。算命先生向她保证，她的儿子总有一天会回来。“他真的回来了，” 罗伯茨说，“这多亏了硅谷的帮助。”
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A wonderful story and illustration of the benefits of technology. We truly are becoming one human family. ~liz
There are few questions that I had after reading the article.
1. The orphanages that find an easy way out by getting a child adopted, rather than work to get the child re-united with the parents.
2. The young man was missing his roots, so he worked hard to find where he came from. And once he found where he came from, met the people where he belonged, the quest was over. He returned back to his adopted place.
3. I think of both the parents, the adopted ones and the real ones. Both would be at loss. The young man needs to take a decision. The best would be to return to his biological parents. Return to his roots, that his what instinct wants him to. That is why he worked so hard in the first place to look for them.
4. But India is no Australia. Life in Australia is more comfortable. Returning to India is like a start of life once again.
More open wounds I would summarize.
Heart warming story
Says a lot about this boy (man) that he persevered. Wonderful outcome!
Interesting story, but didn't the police and media get involved back in 1987 to retrace the missing boy?
What a heart-warming story of resillence and love!
The family stories are one of the few things I concluded. It was that I had not seen my mother for many years.
[Hide Full Comment]I remember days passed weeks passed months and years did the same till a decade came and did the same work. Some monsters were said to be mothers I tried to compare their unkind motions to that of my mother. I refused to accept women are damned humans and continued to unassociated with all types of women. I remember praising mothers and all close people knew.
It is this recent that themother I had been dreaming to be with had trusted a son of another woman than her own.
That happened seconds and I felt very cold upon knowing the truth.
I took two bottle of tusky which the doctor banned me. I could see my fingers becoming shaky and
Diaspam 5. Where I wasn't supposed to tall to her I tried to be brave and convinced her she is right.
How stupid she is to call my number every month.
I also got hard time to cool father whom she infected with pockets of worrisome lies.
Don't love people too much
Really?