You might think you ’re a good driver . But you ’ve get nothing on a nameless 8 - year - old hero from Ohio . This preceding weekend he and his 4 - year - honest-to-god baby waited for their parent to fall asleep , stole their car , and then drove to McDonald ’s to chow down on some McMeats .
The future is looking bright .
WJW - TV reports :
Officer Jacob Koehler said the tiddler drove a mile from his home with his piffling sister in the back of the caravan . The journey take the 8 - year - old through 4 intersections , over railroad tracks and also required him to make a few proper hand turn and a left manus turn .
attestant told police he did obey all traffic laws and drive the swiftness limit .
witness who saw the pipsqueak behind the wheel telephone the copper , and a family admirer acknowledge the kid at the eating house and called their grandparents . By the meter authorities get , the children had already rolled through the driving - through to order their food — a burger , nugget and friesaccording toThe Weirton Daily Times — which the male child paid for with money from his piggy bank .
I can only ponder how this kid manage to look over the steering wheel , but he apparently looked old enough if the drive - through counter still attend to him . Koehler told the newspaper publisher that the drive - through proletarian take on the parents were in the back . They were not .
What was most impressive was how he learned to drive : He told the cop he learned by watch out YouTube videos .
The learn - to - drive YouTube picture I found are weird . Most are at least a few minutes long , and are pretty clearly cater to someone whose parents have n’t been fulfilling one of their core parental duties . Or someone who is eight .
There are a few theory , then , about when this Thomas Kyd learned to drive . perhaps he find out the video right before guide out and test his skills out the first fourth dimension he hit the road . Maybe he ’d premeditate the jaunt . Or peradventure he ’d been practise for a long metre beforehand . Koehler assumed that the kid had just turn the video on a few mo before and decided , well , time to go get that McD ’s .
“ I call up there is a just teaching point here , ” Koehler distinguish The Weirton Daily Times . “ With the direction applied science is any longer kids will learn how to do anything and everything . This Kyd find out how to repel on YouTube . He believably looked it up for five minutes and then say it was time to go . ”
By the way of life , another child was spotted driving a car full of children and a goatthis past weekin New Zealand . So this may just be a formula .
I ’ve reached out to the East Palestine Police Department and will update the Emily Price Post if I hear back . hallow this sweet paladin child .
[ Fox8 Cleveland , Weirton Daily TimesviaSFGate ]
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