Driving Young ...

Kids are starting to drive way too young ...

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/4172648/detail.html

He'll be a world champion racer someday.

I used to drive on my dad's lap when i was a kid too. Yoinked the handbrake once. Don't think i ever 'drove' again after that.

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But how the hell did he get the car out of park if he couldn't reach the brake pedal??

Stepped on the brake pedal and reached up to the shifter. In the midwest, you have farm kids learning to drive around those ages and you have 8 year olds who can drive a standard better than most adults, driving their parents trucks around the field and whotnot.

There's a reason why automatics should be illegal. If it had been a manual, he would not have been able to go for a ride.

There's a reason why automatics should be illegal. If it had been a manual, he would not have been able to go for a ride.uh huh, make them illegal, based on that. Oh please. Where the hell was the mother in the first place. I am tired of seeing these little kids doing things that are dangerous to themselves and others simply because they are not being watched by the parent. Oh and what the hell is a parent teaching a kid of 4 years how to drive the car. Stupid, just stupid.

"It was the third time in six weeks that a west Michigan child was caught driving a vehicle." WTF, is it a trend?

TS out

uh huh, make them illegal, based on that. Oh please. Where the hell was the mother in the first place. I am tired of seeing these little kids doing things that are dangerous to themselves and others simply because they are not being watched by the parent. Oh and what the hell is a parent teaching a kid of 4 years how to drive the car. Stupid, just stupid.

"It was the third time in six weeks that a west Michigan child was caught driving a vehicle." WTF, is it a trend?

TS out

I wasn't actually serious about it. There is no way a law like that would ever pass. I just prefer manuals over automatics.

Parents? Where the fucking hell are the parents? Take this kid and give him to a family that would keep an eye on him.

Third time in six weeks?? Must be something in the water there.

as a west michigan native.. there is something in the water here.. Marathon Oil has poluted our ground water to the point where we are all being forced to hook up to city water at the mere cost of $5,000.. like i have an extra 5 grand laying around...

Yogs = ph33r. :thumbsup:

Parents? Where the fucking hell are the parents? Take this kid and give him to a family that would keep an eye on him.

it was 1:30 in the fawking morning... I'm gonna guess they were asleep?

yeah a parent can only do so much. but teaching the kid to drive?
hell at 4 i was still jerking the wheel vigorously left to right

I was heel and toeing by the age of 5...

And I bet you were double clutching and hitting the nawwwwsssss by the age of 10.
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as a west michigan native.. there is something in the water here.. Marathon Oil has poluted our ground water to the point where we are all being forced to hook up to city water at the mere cost of $5,000.. like i have an extra 5 grand laying around...

You're right about that. I live in St. Johns, (north of lansing) and it seems like about once a year somethin is happening over there yonder with the Wolverine pipeline or something like that. I don't really follow it, but it seems like you guys have your "Yearly spillage". Lol