Society 'Fed up' family let 11-year-old drive, to get him off Grand Theft Auto: police

[Super Dave]

An 11-year-old boy was pulled over while driving a car around an English parking lot, police say, after his family became “fed up with the child playing Grand Theft Auto all day.”

The child was found behind the wheel of a red Vauxhall Astra in the seaside town of Blackpool, England.

 

[Super Dave]

View: https://twitter.com/LancsRoadPolice/status/1234152970159370242?s=20

 

[Super Dave]

I like the department's sense of humour

 

[silentsinger]

Had two Astras as company cars and got my one and only food poisoning in Blackpool.

 

[SongExotic2]

Had two Astras as company cars and got my one and only food poisoning in Blackpool.

From eating astra?

 

[Leigh]

I live more towards the countryside. One place we take the kids has a huge grass field for a carpark. I let them drive my car around at the other end, away from the other cars. They have to sit on my lap cos they can't reach the pedals.

 

[silentsinger]

I live more towards the countryside. One place we take the kids has a huge grass field for a carpark. I let them drive my car around at the other end, away from the other cars. They have to sit on my lap cos they can't reach the pedals.

Doesn't putting a kid on your lap take them further away from the pedals?

 

[Leigh]

Doesn't putting a kid on your lap take them further away from the pedals?

Yes, for them to see over the dashboard, they have to be raised away from the pedals. I have to use the pedals for them.

 

[Rambo John J]

Yes, for them to see over the dashboard, they have to be raised away from the pedals. I have to use the pedals for them.

I was learning to snow/ice drive before i could reach the pedals, on my dad's lap.

A good skill that is instinctual for me at this point.

 

[silentsinger]

Yes, for them to see over the dashboard, they have to be raised away from the pedals. I have to use the pedals for them.

Think 5 year old me may have done a similar thing on army not illegal property in Sandhurst.
Passed my driving test first time but fuck knows how. I was better at 5 I reckon.

 

[Filthy]

meh. I was driving legally on public roads when I was 12.
illegally for awhile before that.