Seven-year-old driver pulled over after 20-mile drive to see his father

[alp227]

Source: Associated Press

A barefoot seven-year-old boy wearing pyjamas hit speeds of 50mph while driving a car for 20 miles before Michigan police eventually forced him to stop.

The boy was stopped in a 55mph zone in Caseville Township only after two police cars gave chase and forced him to slow down. He had set off from his mother's house in the Pontiac Sunfire with the intention of driving to his father's house 15 miles away.

"He was crying and just kept saying he wanted to go to his dad's," said the Caseville police chief, Jamie Learman.

Police began looking for the car at 10.15am on Monday after receiving a call from someone who had spotted an underage driver. The boy was staying with his mother in Huron County's Sheridan Township, 110 miles north of Detroit. She had worked a night shift and was unaware her son and the car were gone.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/22/boy-7-drove-20-miles

[XemaSab]

1. Awww...

poor little guy. :(

[ecstatic]

2. I just saw that on MSNBC

Amazing! I hope his parents are treating him right (obviously not if he can slip away unnoticed).

[LeftinOH]

3. Presumably, the car has automatic transmission; manual would have made it

pretty difficult for a 7-year old.

[itsrobert]

4. Was his dad's name "Reese Bobby"?

n/t

[sharp_stick]

5. I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that. ;-) n/t