Jan 7 20096-Year Old Misses Bus, Steals Family Car, Learned To Drive Playing Grand Theft Auto

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A six-year old (possibly Lil Derrick) missed the school bus and did what any responsible, education-loving tyke would do -- stole his parents' 2005 Ford Taurus and drive his damn self. It almost brings a tear to my eye. Almost. Super villains don't cry though. I ain't no little bitch!

He made at least two 90-degree turns, passed several cars and ran off the rural two-lane road several times before hitting an embankment and utility pole about a mile and a half from school.


The boy told police he learned to drive playing Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam video games.

"He was very intent on getting to school," said Northumberland County Sheriff Chuck Wilkins. "When he got out of the car, he started walking to school. He did not want to miss breakfast and PE."

Damn, what a student he must be! I think we've got a future rocket scientist on our hands here. Just kidding, he'll be locked up in no time.

6-year-old takes family car after missing bus [ajc]

Thanks to Chris and Kevin, who never stole cars to get to school because those mutherf***ers had jetpacks, yo!

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there goes our future

that has happened many times before.
that one fat ass 10 year old bitch from FL stole his grandmas car and ran over people and mail boxes.

if people don't start slapping their kids, I shall be forced to give them a shotgun to the face with my cell phone.

fake its a total photoshope job dont they know that you cant get a ford taurus cant be drove on grand theft auto 3 suck a noobish photoshop job

wow even the daisy imatators don't make sense anymore

one of those guys getting hit by that car in the picture above died because the guy driving was super drunk. incase anyone was wondering

I'm guessing it was the dude in black in white on the left, sailing threw the air like a frisbee.

@5
i saw that the day it happened.
brutal

enough buzz kill,

anyone wanna go to the bar

That kid is so stupid, he didn't even know he was home schooled.
*zing*

Kids are stupid. And short.

I learned to drive playing grand theft auto, and I have no problems running lights, jumping curbs & hitting insane stunt bonuses whenever available

^^^^

hehe

i like the photo! KILLING FRENZY!!!

Holy shnit thats a real pic? What/when is that from????

the story on the photo is 10 times better than that damn kid, drunk driver, runs over 11 bikers in matamoros, tamualipas, mexico. f***in american faggot bikers. thats what they get hahaaaaaaaaaa!!!! VIVA MEXICO !!!! AJUA!!!!!!

"He did not want to miss breakfast and P.E.", that is hilarious!

Didn't it use to be "you got your license out of a Cracker Jack Box"? Kid had to be sitting on something. Maybe his passed out Moms face? With a empty bottle of Jack Daniels pushing on the accelertor.

This is the kind of "passion for education" we need for our kids today. And to 'the kid'... Bless your heart.

my friend once ran from four squad cars on a go cart once... not as cool of a story i know

This is the kind of 'can do' attitude that is sorely lacking from most of today's youth. Way to go, kid!

@4 - Indeed. And the sudden and extreme ambivalence this thought is causing me is too much.

Does anyone else feel like a slacker? This kid is making all of us look bad.

Who the f*** lets their 6 year old play GTA? Way to parent there...is that CPS knocking on the door? I think so...

And since when did they start serving breakfast in school?

I looked up the article and found this from The Washington Post:

"The boy's parents were arrested and charged with felony child endangerment." and "The boy and his brother were placed in foster care; his mother was in jail, officials said. "

Good.

original story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/01/07/ST2009010701921.html

Bullshit! This video was filmed in Mexico and it was a drunk driver that ran over those people, after he stopped the other bikers beat the shit out of him, and if i remember well about 6 people died in that crash.

@ 16: In the article I mentioned above "Sgt. Thomas A. Cunningham Jr. of the Virginia State Police said the boy is not particularly tall for his age and was "possibly standing" while driving the Taurus."

Indigo children...
Looks like the future might be arriving a little early this century folks, buckle up, it's gonna be a hell of a ride...

Video games are to blame! Kids grow up faster these days.

What's bullshit is that the parents are in jail now for child endangerment when the f***ing kid took the car out in the morning when they were sleeping.

Thats just bull. I mean, the GTA part was pretty bad but to put them in jail for child endangerment when they couldn't possibly know about this is dumb. Its not like they just handed him the keys to go to school.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max dove to Del Taco's in his moms car, because his moped was in the shop. While he was eating a bacon burrito, Pat Sajack stole his wheels and replaced them with tank treads. When max left the store, he wondered why he even had a spare tire.

Geekologie, I respect your work and enjoy your site but you HAVE to stop using this picture as a joke, innocent people died in agony in this accident.

"Calvin n' Hobbes here is gonna be either famous or end up in prison..."
UPDATE: both came true before the age of 7 WOOT!

Tom #29 - Are you NEW to the internet?

The parents were arrested because it IS THEIR JOB to teach this little moron not to do stupid dangerous shit. They failed, they do not pass go. I do believe lil Derrick grew up a bit...

I agree with Tom, using that picture is not funny or appropriate.

#21, many schools have served breakfast for the better part of 10 years where I'm from. What kind of oblivious geek are you? Must have come from some shitty ghetto school in Harlem..or f***in backwoods Texas. I don't know, there are so many grades of suck and so many varieties!

Oh this is just great, now cos of this stupid kid , more people will try to ban video games... how the hell did he learn to drive from gta?? MY car doesn't have a controller or mouse or keyboard, Just one more excuse for Jack Thompson.

@29 and 32 if you keep posting shit people will think your fags.

The people who died were all gonna die eventually anyhow. If you believe in God - then they are better off than us. If not, then what difference does it make?


You can't blame GTA for bad driving. You didn't hear about that old guy who killed people in a farmer's market in California blame his driving on GTA. It's a cop out just like Daisy is

I normally love the sarcastic humor of this website, but I agree with several other posters: using that particular picture is well beyond the realm of good taste. FYI, one cyclist was killed and (obviously a slew more were injured). Its just not funny, sorry.

Douchie McBagman, I hope no one ridicules your death when your time comes that would just be too ironic.

This site is usually sharp and funny, but total insensitivity is tedious and disappointing.

re: 31 thumper - "Tom #29 - Are you NEW to the internet? "

Way to support the ugly crowd mentality. btw you spelled colleague wrong.

whats the story on the pic? where can i get the original story? link pls ?

http://player.clipsyndicate.com/view/5897/613454?cpt=8&wpid=2057
The news story regarding the actual picture ;)

Comedy is just tragedy plus timing. Unless you're one of the cyclists or related to one, you have no business getting sanctimonious on the rest of us readers for laughing, or the writer for posting. Hate to break it to you, but people are dying all the time. If we're not supposed to laugh, we'd be spending all our time crying. Internet... if I die from ridiculous or absurd circumstances, and there's a camera present, and a picture gets uploaded to the web, you have my permission to laugh. I won't be offended. ... I'll be dead.

Not funny - losing hits?

-1 unique visitors to this site,

here in brazil we have a 11 years old boy who was arrest more than 12 times, but always STEALING the cars and driving over roads. I think he do that since 8 years

Ok, I was just kidding. Sorry to be such a jerk.

#44 - where was he supposed to drive, under the roads?

@39 - Thanks for the heads up, that particular spelling error is made about 100x funnier by the sentence it is in... I'll fix it when i get home.

As far as the ugly group mentality, perhaps you make a point. The more elaborate point I was making (and apparently oversimplified) was that in this instance and many others (especially here) people use the gruesome, ugly things in life and twist them a bit to make you laugh, it's how humans cope with tragedy. It is a way for us to release the negative without being truly negative. I understand there are some who find this appalling. To those I say… nothing, I simply don’t give a shit what offends your delicate sensibilities.

First off, I'd like to ask what the totally unrelated photo (except that there is a car in it) has to do with the kid driving? There was a man asleep at the wheel when this car struck the cyclists. The kid only drove off of the road.

Secondly...Um...I've been riding for years and (no offence to anyone struck by the tragedy of the photo) I am always keenly aware of the traffic when I am riding on the roadways also used by other vehicles...which I guess is all of them! Point: If I see a car drifting toward me (as sleeping drivers don't usually swerve dramatically) on a wide roadway (as this one seems to be), I will steer to avoid it. I am in full control of my direction regardless of other's negligence. Race or not, if there are no delineators or safety personell to prevent such situations, the onus is on the rider. Death is inevitable - survival of the fitest is as well. I believe the Darwin Awards committee should be informed of this one if they haven't already been.

Thirdly, if the kid knows where the paren's keys are, usually gets himself up to make the bus for school/breakfast, feels as though he will get in more trouble for missing the bus than taking mom/dad's car, can't be responsible for making adult decisions due to his age,...must I go on? I don't see how the parents could be negligent besides raising your kid in fear of the wrath of his parents. When I was young I'd do almost anything to avoid a spanking, which usually lead to bigger trouble. The kid made some kid-like decisions which led to some mischief, not a horrible tragedy. Yes, it could've ended much worse, but it didn't.

My $0.02

that was quite an essay #47
the picture is more or less related id say...waddyou want him to do film his kid driving into something!? EH!? IS THAT WAT U WANT!!?!? it shows somebody driving who shudnt be driving, and hilarity/tragedy ensues, depending on how u look at it.

also im guessing youve never gotten in an accident and currently think youre "the shit" as it were. Dont be so naive to think that ever accident that ever happened was caused because ppl arent as aware of the road as u, u awesome driver you.

I blame the spankings.

This is an even better story of a seven year old stealing his grandmother's car - he actually says, "..but wanted to do hoodrat stuff..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLeVlBca5lg

this picture is HILARIOUS

Too much violent video games, IMO.

Sounds like he read harry potter.

my favorite part on the full frame photo is the cop escorting them actually moves out of the way of the drunk driver. clearing the way for him to make the kill.
shoot to kill.

@48

I'd call it LESS related except that there is a car involved. The kid didn't plow through anyone. He just ran off the road.

I don't want nor do I need to see a film about a kid driving into something. My mind can make a much better video than any amature hack.

The guy who drifted across the road was asleep at the wheel. I suppose you have NEVER gotten drowsy and refused to pull over for a nap while swerving dangerously. You just lied to yourself didn't you! In that case YOU shouldn't be driving either, RETARD!

I find it interesting that you lump hilarity and tragedy together. I'm actually amazed that you can spell them correctly.

Yes, I have been in a few accidents which were beyond my control. I have not ever ridden headlong into a car which drifted into my path. I am in control of the direction that I ride, therefore no headon collisions, thank you. If this makes me "the shit", then so be it. I am "the shit" and you should listen to my advice because it is "the shit" as well. Then you can fill your head with "shit" and think about "shit" instead of just being a f***nut retard who can't argue him/herself out of a paper bag.

Judging by your english skills you have no idea about discipline. Therefore, making a judgement call regarding spankings is moot. It's people like you who raise rude and unruly children with no discipline who I am paying for with my tax dollars to put through rehab and be thrown into prison.

Next time...Zach...was your name? Zach. Try to use your brain. It's not just there to take up space in your head. Of course you've probably fried it with various white trash substances by now. That would account for the reasoning and logic...or lack therof.

Just my $0.02

This story made http://detentionslip.org ! Check it out for all the crazy headlines from our schools.

@ 33. That might explain it, I've been out of school for well over 10 years. I ate breakfast before school. Point of fact, I went to a public school system in an upper-middle class district. I think there were a total of 7 kids in the English as a Second Languange (ESL) class, and probably just as many or less black kids in the entire school. I also finished school before Columbine, and never had metal detectors.

But thank you for answering my question.

Advancing technology may be setting up this recurring problem; hit a button to start the car, pop the shifter into drive and go. I'm not saying that all technology is bad, but in situations that requires a significant amount of maturity, you need to child proof it as much as possible. Remember those child-proof door knob covers that you have to press down and rotate? Getting back to the point, Against the general public I would recommend manual transmission (with the clutch). The physical arrangement and dynamics would make it nearly impossible for a kid to operate it (ie balancing the clutch to get the car in gear). The most the kid would do is stall the car

if that doesn't work, install a pin pad on the left side of the steering wheel where the kids can't see the combo punched in

my two cents

i did that when i was two
i wasnt going to school i just was driving around
i may have hit a fence and house to but nobody can prove i did anything

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