The adventure in The Beasties really gets rolling when Colette and Doug enter a vertical mine shaft and fall. It may be worth reminding people that falling down mine shafts does not as a general rule lead to an exciting adventure, more often it leads to injury and even death. Those who live in areas with many abandoned mines know that every years a few young people die because they thought they would have fun exploring a mine shaft that they had discovered. In real life a child who jumps into a shaft is a dead child.

When they enter the forest, at first Colette and Doug believe that they are safe because they are far from other people, including bad ones. It is an unfortunate fact of life that America's forests are not safe far young people and they should practice the same common sense...