Six-year-old takes car for three mile joyride – to get Chinese food

[Evil Eye]

The boy's family were asleep at home and were unaware their son had taken the Ford Taurus station wagon out in Michigan in the US.

When stopped by police at about 7.30am on Saturday morning, he informed them that he was planning to get the car repaired and then stop off for Chinese food.

Fortunately there were relatively few vehicles on the road at the time and the child was stopped by motorists who had dialled 911 to report erratic driving.

Having hit a street sign near his house and cracking the bumper, the boy initially blamed the damage on his father.

"I opened the door and asked him what he was doing," Lapeer County Sheriff's Deputy Karl Sapp told USA Today. "He told me he was going to the dealer to get the car fixed.

"I don't know how he was able to operate everything and see at the same time," Sapp said. "Apparently, he was close enough that he could reach the pedals."

The father was brought to the scene by an officer. It is not yet clear if the police will press charges.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9995439/Six-year-old-takes-car-for-three-mile-joyride-to-get-Chinese-food.html


I'm kinda impressed.

 

[The Dragon Master]

A six-year-old boy took his family car for a spin for three miles before he was stopped by other motorists.

The boy's family were asleep at home and were unaware their son had taken the Ford Taurus station wagon out in Michigan in the US.

When stopped by police at about 7.30am on Saturday morning, he informed them that he was planning to get the car repaired and then stop off for Chinese food.

Fortunately there were relatively few vehicles on the road at the time and the child was stopped by motorists who had dialled 911 to report erratic driving.

Having hit a street sign near his house and cracking the bumper, the boy initially blamed the damage on his father.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9995439/Six-year-old-takes-car-for-three-mile-joyride-to-get-Chinese-food.html

That could have ended worse :/

 

[Crusader]

How would they even know how to operate the car?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Maybe it's an automatic [shrugs]

 

[Flurry]

Lmfao!! Holy Crap!

 

[Kahnai]

Monkey see monkey do. Children learn by mimicking.

 

[The Dragon Master]

We got that off the exact same website

 

[Jazzy]

This is the type of vehicle he was driving:

I don't find anything humorous about this story. As you can see, it's a fairly large vehicle. How he even managed to reach the gas pedal or see out the windshield is beyond me. He's a very lucky little boy and so are his parents. This child could have killed himself or innocent people. To have car keys out where a child can get them, is extremely stupid.

 

[Ashley]

Maybe it's an automatic [shrugs]

Yeah, but even if it was an automatic, wouldn't you still have to know what you're doing? One would think so anyway.