A week after he ran away from his Bangalore home, 17-year-old Aswanth Vijay’s Goa trip ended in the Panaji town police station on Monday, to the relief of distraught parents back home.

Short of money, Aswanth approached the Inox theatre for a job on Monday. But his photo had been splattered in all the local dailies with reports that he was missing. So, the Inox staff quickly called the police.

A student of M S Ramayya first PUC, he told Deccan Herald at the police station,“I had an exciting time.” A minor domestic tiff had set Aswanth off on his adventure, riding alone from Bangalore on his new Pulsar motorbike. “I made sure to wear a helmet,” he said naively.

He has no driving licence.

Armed with Rs 10,000 he had saved up, Aswanth booked himself into a modest lodge close to Mira-Mar beach at Panjim and spent most of his week watching movies at the Inox.

The town police, where his relatives were camped out for three anxious days, is only a few buildings away from the theatre. The teenager’s phone calls to his place had been traced to a phone booth in Mira Mar.