Mother, son reunite thanks to phone number tattoo

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Tattoos are usually meaningful pieces of body art, but in some cases, they can even help someone find their way home.

Traffic police discovered a teenage boy walking dangerously close to the G15 expressway in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, He was quickly escorted to a safe location.

The lost boy with a police officer. /zjol.com.cn Photo

When asked to contact his family, the boy had no response and also had trouble speaking clearly. However, he was wearing a short-sleeve shirt, and on his forearm, the officer found a tattooed cellphone number.

The officer suspected that the phone number might be a contact number for the boy's family – his hunch was correct. The number belonged to the boy's mother. Half an hour later, the mother arrived at the scene and informed police that her 17-year-old son was mentally disabled and her family had been searching for him all day.

The mother revealed that her son had gone missing several times in the past. Two years ago, she decided to get her phone number tattooed on his forearm, hoping that if he did run away again, people would see the number and contact her. When she later changed her phone number, she crossed out the old one and added the new digits below it.

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