Couple gets lost in apple orchard, calls 911

STOW, Mass. -- For the second time in a month, a couple got lost while on a walk. This time at an apple orchard.

“Yes, um, we’re in Honey Pot Orchard and we can’t find our way out,” Marcia Rosenthal told a 911 dispatcher.

Night fell on Honey Pot Orchard and a man and a woman found themselves in an age-old argument:

“I said ‘Marcia, we’re going the wrong direction’ she was screaming at me to shut up in a whole other language,” Mark Rosenthal.

Marcia and Mark Rosenthal couldn’t find their way back to their car after apple picking this weekend.

“ I said ‘My problem is I’m holding this heavy bag of apples and we’re walking for eternity and we’re never going to find our car ‘cause you’re wrong and you’re leading me down the wrong path,’’ Rosenthal said.

“We’ve never had anyone lost in the orchard to the point where they had to call for help,” said Andrew Martin, the orchard owner.

It was the first time in the family-run orchard’s 85 years, and it happened to a man that had been a local meteorologist for more than three decades.

“Here you got this 56-year-old guy who’s a weather man forever who should know his geography, who’s lost in an apple orchard. Feeling like a jerk calling the police,” said Rosenthal.

His wife called police when no one picked up the phone at the orchard store.

“I said ‘What are you this woman who got lost in a maze?’” said Rosenthal.

He was referring to the couple who called 911 earlier this month when they couldn’t make it out of a Danvers corn maze, but sure enough the couple did the same.

“I felt like an idiot, I really felt stupid. And I hate being lost,” said Rosenthal.

The dispatcher with Stow police did tell the couple to call 911 so they could GPS the couple’s exact location.

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