Redden wasn't sure if this was part of the game. However, as he later told the Dallas Morning News, he decided it was,"too real to be a joke" So Redden called the police. With the additional help of international phone operators, Finnish paramedics found 20-year-old Tara Laintinen and gave her the medical attention she needed. Without the Internet and the efforts of a 12-year-old boy half a world away, she might not have survived