Nine-year-old Steals Car, Cites Arcade Games
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It doesn't change the fact they left the keys lying around somewhere, unless videogames also taught the kid to hotwire a car, doubt it though.Amnestic said:
Where are you keys right now, might I ask? The whole idea that it's somehow the parent's fault for not hiding their keys better from their own child is ridiculous. You teach the child not to take them, then you can leave them wherever. Unfortunately lessons don't always stick and a child mucks up a judgement call like in this case here. A child making a mistake? Perish the thought.ThePlasmatizer said:
At least he didn't kill someone. Though it's kinda cool he could drive from just watching his dad and playing a game, also kinda nice that he was going to visit his grandma.
All I was pointing out was that they could hang them from a rack about 5 ft from the ground and solved the problem then and there. And I don't believe that locking up everything dangerous is a good idea, but it seems like a no brainer to not allow a 9 year old access to a car. And I see your point in mental testing on the child, but it was probably just because he was curious.Amnestic said:Thread over?Quintin Stone said:
Do you watch your kids 24/7 when they're in the house? Hypothetically if you don't have kids. No, you don't, that's what's known on the intertubes as "wrapping your little snowflake in bubble wrap". It'd be nigh-impossible for me to count the amount of times I had easy access to my parent's car keys when I was nine. It should be noted that not once did I go joyriding in my parent's car. Not only that, but the article states "Early Monday Morning." How early we don't know, it could have been before the parents were even awake and the kid had snuck out. Unless you live in a house where anything even remotely dangerous is kept under lock and key, I can't really see you having a point here.bue519 said:
Kid sounds like he needs to be tested. He may have just failed a judgement call and really wanted to see his grandmother(he is nine after all), he may be crazy. Note that he cites arcade games as a way he 'learned' how to drive, not as a reason for why he took the car.
I doubt you'd remember to do it every time anyway. If the kid really wanted to get to them he could utilise a chair or boxes or some other means of boosting himself up. He was 'smart' enough to drive a car and not crash it at the age of 9, I'm sure he can drag a chair across the room to the 5ft high rack.
