Lassannn
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https://www.kget.com/national-news/7-year-old-who-wanted-mcdonalds-drove-10-miles-with-little-sister-in-car/amp/
Yep. Never fucking having kids...
No injuries.
May 1, 2025 10:35 PM
Lassannn
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https://www.kget.com/national-news/7-year-old-who-wanted-mcdonalds-drove-10-miles-with-little-sister-in-car/amp/
Yep. Never fucking having kids...
No injuries.
DarkSock
That kid displays managerial timbre.
quade
Yeah, well, I'd like to see his sister do any better...!
HeraldOfTheBadger
Fuck you Lassannn
canibiteyourbutt
no, I don't want no kids, kids are a thing i don't have or want to have. (to the no scrubs melody)
keelindsey
Birth Control.
borederdude
Ever have a ball joint break on ya? Age aside, when it happens... it happens
Snipsuper
if only that 7 year old could walk to a McDonald's
isthisjunkmail
Classic older brother. “I got this.”
FingerLickr
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VosperOfAntarctica
Shoulda gone to Culver's
totallyspambox
Rookie.
tooomanystevesgotbanned
How did he even reach the pedals?
69Voltage
One more reason to not eat at McDonalds
Ruudvann
Would it be wrong to say this is a very apt metaphor for the current state of the US?
bigpizzawithextracheese
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlODRvMWRsd2Mwazc3NDF3ajV0aGV6NnBxNDdsem50bTd1ZXlwODkxaiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB/giphy.mp4
SpriteandCats
Cant blame the mom here. She did everything up to this right. If you read the article, she reached out for behavioral assistance from the state and several resources but couldnt get them. She understood the extent of the kids behavior and he just took it much further. She made him do community service to the neighbors for his actions. She gives a shit and thats what matters in this situation
coffeeandprozac
I'm really glad my little shitheads never did stuff like this. I chalk it up to them never having interest in doing these things - like, I got lucky. I feel for the parents with kids who try to be overly independent so young. You can't watch them 24/7, and if you could, it's not healthy.
dohcohv
My 7 year old is as tall as my 13 year old. My 13 year old is wildly independent but her short height stopped her from doing a lot.
If their personalities were reversed...I dread what my 13 year old would have done had she had the ability.
Oatmealman1
The mother of my children was routinely left alone for days when she was 7-10 because her mom is an alcoholic pill popping junkie. She has to steal the car multiple times just so she could get food. Her mom also got her stepdad readicted to heroin after he got clean, he then offed himself with a shotgun. She was the one to find him first when she was 12. She has since allowed that junkie to move in with her and our kids. She's trying to score fen now.
RaxianTheta
every woman in this thread - "snorts birth control"
SoundBites
That'll buff right out.
AdroitCudgel
Parents not securing firearms and car keys should be prosecuted for negligence or more!
QuanticChaos
This is why you have to teach them young, so they don't crash! ;)
boozer69r
He just wanted to do hoodrat things with his friends.
CaseyJones1661
And smoke with cigawets
CompletelyUniqueUsername
Came here for this.
FrankTheCube
A former coworkers daughter, who was about 12 at the time, stole her moms car to go fight another girl because the other girl told her “Don’t look at my boyfriend or I’ll kick your ass”. So, could have been worse.
Autittuderp
It's not the kids fault. They don't have the capacity...it's the parents... especially at that age.
ReconditeEidolon
I'm curious if this was a push button start? AND if so, if he had the keys or if they were just in proximity to the car (like hanging on a key ring in a garage) when he started it? I know some (maybe all) models don't require the keys to stay in proximity to the car once it's in operation.
TriumphRider24
No car can start without the key inside the car unless it is a thief with a high power repeater device. If they could start by proximity outside the car, your car would have already been stolen.
seventailfox78
So this question-with-a-weird-premise then becomes: “Where did a 7yo get a high power repeater unit from???”
Is he in a criminal gang???????!11!
SerialChickenLover
Idk man, I just knew as a kid that I wasn’t allowed to drive. My parents never had to tell me, keys were always on a hook at my eye-level.
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SerialChickenLover
I don’t owe you an explanation for how that worked, but I’m looking at the key hooks right now.
Autittuderp
Kids aren't born knowing these things. They learn via observation.
SerialChickenLover
My point is that people are quick to judge parents when they have no idea how those people parent. I’m not going to assume someone’s a bad parent just because their kids got access to their keys, who is actually locking their keys up or hiding them from their kids? Maybe they did 1,000 things right that day but the one they didn’t ended up with this.
SerialChickenLover
Also, because I suspect it’s coming, leaving your keys around is NOT the same as leaving a gun around. And if you are for gun control like I am, you would accept that it’s stupid to compare cars with guns.
KommanderKayriel
Cars kill people. Guns don't kill people. (Bullets kill people!)
RooGryphon
its the kids. kids that do this are NOT normal well rounded and adjusted kids 7 year olds should kow actions do indeed have conseqsenses. this kid STOLE a car... he should be in juvi on that charge alone add in kidnapping with his sister. and yes parents also should hold the blame for this with jail and/or fines
WhoHim
Do you have stock in CoreCivic?
PastureofMuppets
Yikes insane overeaction
eepsheep
Humans don't develop the full ability comprehend consequences until their 20's.
This is an insane line of logic.
Autittuderp
You know how they BECOME well rounded and adjusted...right?! By having parents that are present. Literally and emotionally. He is 7 his brain is in hyper development, you are tapping like children are just small adults. They aren't. They are learning to human and when they have shitty caregivers - we end up with troubled kids. Oof.
RooGryphon
then we end up with kids that take guns to school and 5 end up dead in the classroom. your point...? its the kids who are just as at fault as the parents that allowed it to happen. the time of fucking around is over. secure your shit. car keys, guns etc. take responsibility for raising your kids. stop blaming the media and blame yourself for what has happened. how could you have prevented it?
Autittuderp
Parents don't just *allow* it...they *create* it. A child has no compass or the developmental ability to understand the concept of death or consequences of dangerous behaviour. That's my point. Parenting is a job that people need to take seriously. What are you even rambling about. Jayzuz.
RooGryphon
then the child should be removed by the state from that environment and the parents jailed for abuse and neglect hay... welcome to the finding out after fucking around and not wanting to raise your kids properly. welcome to reality. and how things should be done
Meowsma
Ah, yes, nothing makes a seven-year-old well-adjusted like a stint in jail and the loss of their parents. No notes.
RooGryphon
if that what it takes to get that kid to see reality and the consequences of there actions. yes jail them along with there parents
DarkZalgo
Just because you had abusive parents doesn't mean everyone else should.
Meowsma
Why on Earth would you think that would be an appropriate way to communicate those things, though? Have you ever been in charge of a child?
Cutting off your hand for shoplifting would, I'm sure, illustrate that your actions have consequences, but maybe, *just maybe*, there's a way to do that without causing you irreparable harm and teaching you many *wrong* lessons, too.
RooGryphon
sometimes you gotta let the kid burn themselves... they just refuse to listen. id say let them fel the burn the pain... tell them thats reality.... that is consequence
TacoPoweredHelicopter
While it is entirely the parents fault. The kid most definitely had the capacity at 7.
backrideup9
Well, hr had the capacity for 10 miles.
Autittuderp
Their executive function came online when they were 5 and can not reason if they haven't been modelled or taught how to.
Megadestructo
My son is 7 years old right now. He's incredibly bright and intelligent and it surprises me every day! He also puts his pants on backwards someone's without realizing it until he needs to use the bathroom.
TacoPoweredHelicopter
So he is going to take your car for a joy ride to McDonald's then?
Megadestructo
No, because he doesn't know where my keys are. Just like adults, however, kids may have similar tendencies due to development but they ARE different people.
Some are more risk-averse than others but to say any kid can accurately judge how someone like this would play out shows a lack of understanding on childhood behavior and development.
ickmarthegreat
My nephew does the same thing, also puts his polo's on backwards. He's in the gifted class's. Super great at math. I told my sister he's just trying to be a trend setter 🤣
Autittuderp
Sounds like a normal kid to me lol
Syxcfaq
Not really. If this were normal, it would happen a lot more often. This kid is just a little shit.
Megadestructo
Kids do not fully understand the consequences of actions because, literally, they use their amygdala for decision making as their pre-frontal cortex isn't fully developed yet (which actually doesn't happen until about 25 for most people). This is peer-reviewed research but thanks for calling my kid a little shit.
Autittuderp
Tell me you know nothing about cognitive and developmental growth without telling me.
ThanosDei
But how?
quade
Driving is pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
Frogblender
automatics be like that
emu314159127001
"Hey, this is where i leave the keys! Never never touch these."
emu314159127001
I'm telling you, use the bag system. I get that women have purses, but i suggest everyone have a bag, be it a satchel, a purse, whatever. Put everything in it, and secure it. Take it wherever you go.
TechnicallyTrueIGuess
"Officers began to pursue the vehicle, but soon disengaged when they noticed the age of the driver" ummm, what? Police let the car crash?
PocketCleric
probably didnt want to cause panic
toomanymemesandnotenoughmemeory
Decided against the pit maneuver into the ditched median
Mr21782Man
You know there are other ways to stop the car. They could have done a rolling road block. Or spike strips. Or shit do the freaking Pit maneuver because as clueless as adults are when it comes to driving a 7 year old might just decide to go into a wall at 60 because it looks fun and they haven't developed enough to understand bad shit happens.
mixiekins
haha at 7 he'd probably be like "wait, I've seen this before, it's just a drawing, punch it!"
TacoPoweredHelicopter
This is way up there on the stupid take-o-meter.
Do you know how the police stop another car? It's by making it crash. Most car chases with police are far more dangerous to everyone than if they let the person go.
TechnicallyTrueIGuess
maybe they have a safe technique to stop a moving car. Pull up in front of it and slow down? IDK
LiterallyAWizard
As opposed to......what? Open fire? Spike strips?
nojustsayitdont
I always appreciate the sniper from the helicopter maneuver.
IliveIdyeIliveagain
Don't let your kids play Grand Turismo or they'd think themselves a professional driver
KainLamond
Grand Turismo? What is this 2013?
firesnake
I was a Forza kid, but no joke, it gave me the instincts that prevented at least two crashes. Once when sliding in snow in a FWD car with oncoming traffic and once when a spare tire dropped from the van in front of me on the highway with traffic on both sides.
firesnake
Learning the skills is one thing. Driving like an ass is a different story, and that was made clear to me at the time. It's on the parents, not the game.
OnomatopoeicOnanisma
As a learner I came in hot to a roundabout, car started to slide out, a little countersteer, reduce accelerator (NO brake) - car straightened out beautifully. Just like on the Playstation. My instructor told me to never do that again.
TechnicallyTrueIGuess
The 7 year old drove 10 miles before crashing! Impressive.
pandemicpolemic
He drove by “several [other McD’s] on his route and had the money prepared”! Little dude probably knew where to find the lone working ice cream machine
BrotherOwl
I'm amazed at how true this probably is
ThanosDei
10 miles is not “promptly”. Ten miles is “how the fuck was there not a McDonalds within ten miles of their house?”
RevolutionOnHerLips
I looked it up, looks like they drove out of Clearfield UT and there are closer McDonald's than Ogden, where they had been driving. Perhaps they only knew one way? I was originally going to suggest they may live somewhere very rural. The closest McDonald's to where I lived in KY as a kid was a 35 minute drive away.
RocknRootRanchcuzallwegotisrocksandrootsandafewtrees
I listened to the story in the link. There's one just down the street according to the mom. But what 7 year-old would know directions?
MissingGravitas
Thinking back, around that age I had a decent familiarity with most streets in a 1 mile radius of home. I had a rough idea of stuff beyond that, but more limited to major roads and specific locations.
But... exploring a neighborhood on foot, horse, or bicycle really helps with that, so I can see this being unusual for children who are always ferried about in modern cars with screens and poor visibility.
SciencePetsComputers
I always looked out the window when going places as a kid, but couldn't remember the route to my best friend's house, despite being in the same town even. I am ADHD however, so during the second half of the trip I would be daydreaming or thinking of something else almost all the time.
blaghart
TYL about "food deserts" and how the US attitude of encouraging and promoting systemic racism coupled with discouraging unions via "individual action" propaganda has resulted in people living dozens of miles from the very systems they need to live while imagining themselves both as strong independent people and also desperately impoverished and abused by the system.
Druidhunter77
It’s such a terrible thing having to choose between insanely high rent with short commute, or a much a cheaper rent with an hour commute. At least I got a choice. Most people genuinely don’t.
vrockurmouth
That's where the dollar general comes in smh
Whitemannatee
My personal GPS as a child was based on my known McDonalds lcoations.