You’ve probably heard this by now, but just in case…
According to wire reports, dispatchers received reports of a child driving recklessly on Sunday morning. Police said two deputies caught up with the boy and tried unsuccessfully to stop the Dodge Intrepid. The car reached 40 mph before the boy stopped in a driveway and ran inside a home.
Police said that when the boy’s father later confronted him, the boy said he didn’t want to go to church. No citations were issued, but police advised the father to keep track of his car keys. (source)
Can you really blame the kid for fleeing from a place where they tell him he’s going to hell unless he prays a magic prayer inviting an imaginary person into his blood-pumping organ?
He has some nerve to steal a car to get out of it, though…
Here’s a video, I just love when the door opens and shorty gets out:
It’s hilarious, and that’s why it’s getting so much media attention. People, especially kids, are easily influenced though, and I wonder if other kids will try this now since it got so much attention. I hope not, because they are seriously endangering themselves and other people.
I did a lot of stuff to get out of going to Hebrew school when I was a kid, but never quite that extreme. I can’t blame him, though. He’s got an early start on avoiding the brainwashing.
Unfortunately, the parents most likely response will be more Brainwashing.
What better way to whip him into shape than fairy tales and fear.
I remember going to church when I was little and being bored out of my mind. I hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated church.
God damn I hated church.
I remember going to church when I was little and being bored out of my mind. I hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated,
hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated going to church.
Sooooo…. Not entertained by church is what you’re saying?
I might have done this if I didn’t have my friends in church with me. We just kind of played the whole time.
When I was really little, my mom gave me jelly beans to keep me quiet.
You missed the other great part of the story, Daniel: the story got to Fox News, where they blamed the kid’s ability to drive on video games!
The kid, of course, had his own answer for how he learned to drive:
“Watched my mom. Watched my sister.”
I hate Fox. There’s one news report where a kid wanted to see how long he could hold his breath under the sand and suffocated to death. They blamed the Sand Ninjas from Naruto.
So basically, Fox is the televisual equivalent of the Cranky Old Man who blames everything on the young folk and technology that he doesn’t quite understand.
Here’s the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTeiIOeBk9g
Correction: It’s not Fox. But the news does this kind of stuff a lot.
As a 13 year old boy, I find it funny when he says nerudo.
Agreed. I’m a big Naruto fan. A Narutard if you will. If you’re going to do a report on something, at least learn a bit about it first, like HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE NAME!
Correct pronunciation and facts are but mere trifles to helmet hairs and blondeshells on “news”casts.
The video of this was shown on Swiss TV too, but there was no mention of what he was running from!
Do you think they stoned the kid to death? I mean thats what the God would want according to his bible. The kid would have known that stealing the car would get him stoned to death if he hadn’t stolen a car to avoid church.
Just as an amusing sidenote, my coworker was the one who broke the story. His was the first article written about it, before the national media picked it up. The parents also originally refused to give interviews, saying it would reward the kid for bad behavior. But I guess no one can resist the national morning show circuit…
http://www.standard.net/live/news/179343
The Devil must have made him do it.
Why do they always blame it on the console games?
There is a direct relation between crime and the fact that the person that comitted the crime had used a toilet at his home.
Wish I thought of that when I was younger.
This wouldn’t have worked when I was younger and being forced to go to church. We had a 1984 Dodge Caravan and odds are it would have broken down en route.
Agreed. He should have BIKED home from church.
I think the important question here is, did they still make him go to church?
lol