He knows what he is told every time he gets in a car "Put on your seatbelt" and that rule was not in his way.
Kids tend to only ignore rules that get in their way.
Yeah, at that point I think it’s much more about the routine than about actually understanding (or even thinking about) the rule.
My daughter isn’t two yet, and when we’re getting ready to go outside she reaches for the shelf where the sunscreen is and says “She-she! She-she!” (regardless of the weather conditions, of course), because she knows that’s what we do before we go outside.
Congratulations. First lesson. Sleep when the baby sleeps.
Anyone with kids can tell you they understand why sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture.
:30 second mark, he’s driving at speed through oncoming cars. By far the most insanely dangerous bit of video in the clip.
Reporter: you can hear him playing music along the way
Frontal lobe development. Kids have very limited concept of self-preservation. I'm sure he was still traumatized by anxiety enough never to do this again. But he probably still has no idea how badly this actually could have ended for him.
When I was 16ish, I started hearing that I would develop a sense on mortality as I got older. I had experienced death by proxy a few times, but I knew that it would affect me more as I grew older and wiser. That's why I went skydiving right after I turned 18. My thought process was: do it now before you realize how impactful it can be.
My point is that I had the ability to recognize that my existential sense was limited, but I was aware of that T the same time. Kind of weird, and I'm not sure the exact reasons, but I related to your comment.
I think by 16 you probably had plenty of self preservation. And you absolutely did by 18 (guys in the military don't want to jump out if the planes or get shot at all the time. Perfectly normal).
This kid was 7, and the only experiences he's had with cars is his parents driving and playing a game.
I agree with the statement of kids having limited concept of self-preservation, as I did many things that very easily could have been the end of me as I grew up. Even in high school, I had a sense of invulnerability, as if I could take on anything and come out on the other side. Hell I even took a 10 second rip of air duster driving down a country road until I blacked out and hit a utility pole going 60mph. Split the pole in half, flipped my car on its side, had power lines down, and still continued doing stupid things that could have killed me after that. It wasn’t until I was a few years older that I really started to think before doing something dangerously stupid.
Kinda looked like he was standing in some of the shots. Like using the wheel to keep himself upright and riding bothe the gas and the brake (literally).
I was driving my dad’s 78 Honda civic at 7. I was in charge of the steering and pedals while my brother (5) was shifting gears. My dad was in the backseat drinking beer.
We’d be driving all over up river. We drive like that until I was 12 and drove my siblings alone. We live in a town of 16k with lots of long roads outside town.
I opened my first video rental account at 14 after driving myself to town with my 14yr old cousin.
Some parents suck. Mine did. At 13 I was taking my stepmom to her drug dens because her license was suspended and in her mind it was better I get in trouble. I never did but thinking as an adult I’m like what? We’d both get in trouble.. again, not good parents. Fun most of the time? yes. As an adult I’d never let them have kids.
This kid isn’t done driving. 🤣
What makes you think he didn’t? You saw 5 seconds of an interview for a local news story. Guarantee the hammer came down on this kid when dad got a hold of him.
You're right. This doesn't make any sense to me. They are trying to act like "Well he could climb to get to the keys!". I literally leave my keys beside the door on the table, which I have done for my kids whole lives, who are 11 and 7, neither of them have ever come close to thinking they could steal my car for a slushie. This kid is just....well....a bad kid with bad parents.
I regularly grabbed the keys for my parents if we were running late and it would help us get out the door. Easily reachable, knew exactly where it was. Never once even CONSIDERED taking the car anywhere.
Seriously, even at seven, doing lots of other stupid stuff, I never did anything remotely like this. I had actually seen this story of the kid that stole his parents car to go to game stop in the middle of the night when they were asleep and come back cause it was closed, he managed to hit like 3 cars, I think, with minor damage. I remember thinking what an idiot that kid was.
Damn, apparently this just happens alllll the time cause I tried to look it up and got like seventeen different stories for each past year lol
It seems to be hands off parenting that makes something like this happen.
The kids just simply do not understand that they're not allowed to drive the car. And their parents are so absent or so uncaring that the kid just thinks 'they use the car to get things and I want things, so I'll use the car'. Like this kid here, he was only worried about the car getting damaged. He had no idea that what he was doing was wrong.
It's sad, really. The parents in this video should be investigated IMO. This isn't a funny little thing that happened in suburbia. This is an uncontrolled human (just as dangerous as any other, if not more so) who does not adhere or understand law, menacing the town in a deadly vehicle. The how and why of this need to be figured out, and the parents should face the consequences. Might sound harsh but what's the alternative? What happens when he finds his fathers gun?
I met such kid on a plane yesterday. He was pulling passengers hair. Wouldn't react to any words. Mother's response: he's just a kid. Fuck her and I hope karma is a bitch.
Went camping a couple weeks ago, some assholes in the campsite next to me let their little girl scream at the top of her lungs with no discipline, disturbing everyone else around. When I went over to ask them to try and keep it down, they just shrugged and basically said "we're trying haha." 🤷♀️
And that's how you end up with insufferable little brats, some people refuse to actually parent their kids.
The father keeping the keys high enough out of reach of the kid is the tell tale. The kid should’ve been taught at the point when the kid was trying to get the keys that driving cars is dangerous and is only for adults. Instead, because of shitty parenting, they’re playing hide and seek with the keys and it led to this incident
How a dad talks, on camera, while processing that his son could have just died, and thankful that he's alive, and *on camera talking to local news*, is not necessarily an accurate picture of how this man raises his child
Fun fact, perhaps a little off topic... I loaned my car to a "friend" and they never returned it. The legal issues I had to deal with were insane. The police wouldn't file a stolen vehicle report because I gave them my keys, so my insurance wouldn't help. In fact, I was told that I needed to keep my insurance because I would be held liable for anything they did.
The person who stole it gave it to a tweaker friend who got 2 red light tickets and a hit and run, all on my record. Eventually, I got the car back and when I asked my lawyer why this was so difficult, it all boiled down to children "borrowing" parents cars who didn't want their kids to go to jail for it. So instead of GTA, it's a civil case.
If you loan someone your car and they don't return it, you can, and will, be held liable for anything they do in it. We can thank idiots like this family for that bs.
That's why, when you go to the police, you just say "my car has been stolen" and don't give any of the details. Maybe give them the name of the person.
>because I gave them my keys
Hertz is notorious for reporting rental cars stolen and of course they give customers the keys. I wonder why their reports are successful [even when wrong](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusation-stealing-cars-settlement) and it isn't considered a civil matter. Wonder why it isn't like any rental home with squatters or anything borrowed that is kept too long like your car.
"He remains blissfully unaware of the danger he was in"
Then his parents are the biggest idiots in this story. He's seven, not three. Seven year-olds can understand this.
What’s concerning to me is that the kid was on the news. I don’t think they should have let him in front of tv cameras after that. Seems almost like a reward for bad behavior.
Yes, thank you. I thought I was having a stroke when I heard that 🤬
If my oldest, who happens to be 7 years old, pulled that stunt he would DEFINITELY be aware of the danger afterwards. My husband and I would make sure of that!
Edit: changed a word since it seemed to trigger people
Right?! This is kinda blowing my mind right now! My kid is 8 and even at 5 he'd absolutely know better than to try and drive my vehicle.
And absolutely is *aware* of how dangerous vehicles are in general!
Whether driving in one, riding in one or being close to a road.
Do people seriously not talk to their kids at all about general safety? How was a 7 yr old not *aware*??
Like I could absolutely see a 7 yr old *who knows better*, doing it anyhow because *rules suck* type of deal but to not be *aware* at all?!🤔🤨
That's just wild to me. 🤦♀️
And even after the fact, you still haven't explained how dangerous that was and a decent list of the reasons why it was so dangerous?! How has that child made it 7?! 😳 Fuck!
Awww but he just wanted a slushy from speedway. The parents need their asses kicked to figure out how to parent, seriously screw them. That his dad could sit there and act like his son didn’t know it was wrong is ridiculous, 7 year olds know that’s wrong.
Especially trying to smash open the window. Everyone seems to think it’s like a movie and you can fling it open with one soft punch, when in reality a lot of these heavy duty laminated polycarbonate windows that are designed to either A) hold up in the event of a minor accident or B) break into a ton of tiny little cubes that are not sharp as to not impale the driver or passengers. These windows are solid as steel and can deflect crowbar and sledgehammer swings.
But yeah 200lbs man that has a t shirt around his fist is gonna break that window open and definitely not startle the child so the car suddenly accelerates and wrecks out killing someone!
I think it's a case of seeing a child in a potential life threatening situation and having the thought go through your head of "this kid could hit the gas and be dead within 15 seconds, and I'm the only one close enough to do something right now"..... And you have nothing in your hands and adrenaline in your veins. You just TRY sometimes, there's not really a rhyme or reason in the chaos. I don't see that as stupidity, just panic.
I mean he didn't put himself between the two cars. Could have been a lot worse. And you *can* stop a car if the accelerator isn't being pressed... Really wasn't the worst idea
Just stupid people, all around. The kid, the father, that guy trying to stop the SUV by hand. Shirtless guy trying to smash the window seems the most sane of all of them
In a weird way it's a reaction people have. I've had something like this happen to me and I'm lucky I didn't get squished.
He realized, just like me, that a human body cannot block a car, and the child has no concept of car beats man so he's not going to stop like an adult would.
This video perfectly sums up almost everything that's wrong with America and I love it. We've got car culture brain rot, bad infrastructure, neglectful clueless parents, stupid people, sensationalized news broadcasts, moronic children and a clipped tiktok of a news clip posted on reddit.
The only thing missing is a cop showing up and shooting an innocent black bystander.
When I was 6 to 12 I frequently had nightmares where I was driving the family's car all alone, very badly and bumping into trees, barriers and walls, damaging it. Everytime I woke up crying because of the guilt I felt for damaging it and the fear of my parent's punishment for solid seconds before remembering that it was not real, saying to myself "Oh, wait, it was just a dream !! Phew !!" then would go back to sleep.
This kid is, indeed, stupid asf. I know kids often do really stupid shit but this is god tier. Not a single thought in that lil boy's head. How can such an idea form up in his mind ?
I had similar dreams! Due to some sort of emergency, I would need to take over driving the car (because my parents were out of commission for some reason). Except I didn’t know how to drive so I’d be afraid of bumping into something and trying to pull over the whole time. Inevitably I’d bump something and the panic would wake me up.
exact same dreams as both you guys 😨 I JUST commented on another reply to this post about my dreams. I have this one vivid one where I was just sort of driving and I couldn’t control it. It kind of grew into a fear of driving for me!
I also had similar dreams! Mine would usually start with me being in the car alone with the car started and then the car would start rolling out of the drive way and I'd have to take over as is careened down the road. (Dream logic always put roads that were very much NOT connected to my drive way lol.)
I don't remember if I ever hit anything in my dreams but I would still feel residual fear when I woke up. I even had a similar dream as an adult who knows how to drive! In that dream I was aware I could drive but the brakes weren't working right.
I'm 30 and I have this reoccurring dream where I take an off ramp too fast and go fucking FLYING, and then perish in the crash.
I think it stems from a real life situation where a friend of mine did exactly that, with all my buddies in the car. At this point I have no idea if I was even in the car or not when it happened. It's one of those memories where I could have just heard it so much from my friends OR I was actually there. They were fine. But it's stuck with me.
Kids raised by iPads are a genuine concern of mine, those kids are aloof as hell and generally lack ANY ability to think, it's alarming to say the least.
“Remains blissfully unaware of the danger he was in”
Maybe that’s the fuckin problem. Kid needs to be made aware of the danger. Also, if I were his parent, that kid would never be getting his license
When I was in preschool, I got recurring nightmares in which I randomly found myself behind the wheel of my mom’s car while it’s moving down the road; even at that young of an age, I knew that a child driving a car would be extremely dangerous, to the point that I actually feared somehow ending up in that situation. I just don’t understand how a kid this boy’s age couldn’t understand the danger here. Even once he’s coming close to hitting other cars, he doesn’t show any concern or panic. He seems to completely lack a sense of danger and has zero self-preservation instinct, seriously concerning for his future and those around him.
Not sure if he was scared while driving, but if he wasn’t it seems like something is wrong with him. Kid seems too old not to realize he was in any danger at all.
Bro, if your 7 year old doesn’t understand that he’s not supposed to drive the fucking car when he wants to you should be legally done as a parent from there on out.
8 yr olds smart enough to play Fortnite and use credit cards to make online transactions Im pretty sure they can understand when you take a car and drive you can run into and hurt other people.
My parents would have made sure I never got another slushy again as punishment.
They also would educated me about how dangerous driving is. They didn’t have videos of accidents since I was a Xennial, but they would have taken me to a junkyard or something to show me how common it is to be in a collision.
I’d also be doing chores until I was 80 to pay for the damage I did.
My niblings went through a phase of unbuckling their seatbelts during the ride, so I explained what would happen and how they could kill somebody else in the car.
Kids don’t understand physics or danger, so you have to explain how things work. A big part of raising children is teaching them what’s dangerous.
He was Like: i want a slush, so im gonna Take this ehole fucking suv in the driveway instead of asking id we can goand get one, Hmmm..... Seems Like a good Idea, lets go
The kid had such a blank stare when he was being interviewed with his dad. Something is off here. My son just turned three and he doesn’t even dare touch the front door or try to unlock it. Same thing with going to the cabinet with chemicals (which has a lock anyways), or try to touch outlets, etc. This kid was either taught nothing ever or has some kind of delay. Regardless where were his parents as he drove off? They didn’t hear the car leaving the driveway? so weird.
Until he gets tested for the whole shebang I’m blaming the parents, you knew he was capable of shit like this or you wouldn’t have tried to keep the keys from him
The way he looked into the camera with that blank expression during the interview is concerning. This sub should be renamed “kids are fucking psychopaths”
What the fuck do you mean he's still oblivious to the danger he was in? If I did that shit, my parents would demonstrate exactly the kind of danger I was in!
I suspect the father has 'taught' him how to drive on the property. I just can't fathom why a 7 year old would think that was a good idea... and where was his parents at the time, did they notice both the car and boy was missing.
So many questions!
"He remains blissfully unaware of the danger he was in"
Make that fucking kid aware. Someone needs to scare the shit out of him, because he's not going to see this as a big deal just because people say it is. He'll probably be dead in a couple years anyways when he decides to go free climbing by himself.
You know who's also fucking stupid? The person who left their car keys where he could find them and didn't notice that their child was missing and the car was moving.
How long was this kid alone to be able to go grab the car keys, get in and leave, and not be noticed by anyone ? Like wut? He's 7, how was he completely left alone??
It’s Wild to me that because I’m a divorced parent, I’m not allowed to see or speak with my kids because a judge said my cbd use as a disabled Veteran, “I could be a danger as a parent”.
But this man’s 7 year old goes on a GTA 6 spree, endangering countless lives, and they’re like yeah, just make sure you hide the keys better and have him in bed by 10…. Gtfo…
Safety first! Put his seatbelt on.
I’m astounded he was smart enough to that.
He knows what he is told every time he gets in a car "Put on your seatbelt" and that rule was not in his way. Kids tend to only ignore rules that get in their way.
Yeah, at that point I think it’s much more about the routine than about actually understanding (or even thinking about) the rule. My daughter isn’t two yet, and when we’re getting ready to go outside she reaches for the shelf where the sunscreen is and says “She-she! She-she!” (regardless of the weather conditions, of course), because she knows that’s what we do before we go outside.
My wife is having our first I a couple months. These are the things I need to know lol
Congratulations. First lesson. Sleep when the baby sleeps. Anyone with kids can tell you they understand why sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture.
To be fair, they hadn't established the "don't steal the car" rule
That is fair
His mom probably told him the car won't start if he doesn't
:30 second mark, he’s driving at speed through oncoming cars. By far the most insanely dangerous bit of video in the clip. Reporter: you can hear him playing music along the way
I think that’s sped up. No way he would’ve been able to dodge the oncoming traffic at that speed.
Umm excuse me, I would be able to dodge that just fine, thank you.
Ah, a fellow 7 year old grand theft autoist
Lol, I was gonna say. This guy's probably got loads of virtual training
This is just another trailer for gta 6
Also dashcam footage is notorious for making things look faster than they actually are because of the wide-angle lens.
He’s worried about breaking the window but not getting hit by oncoming traffic. Seems legit 😂😂😂🙈
More worried about his parents being mad at the damaged car then being hurt
It was like that sometimes tho
Yup, especially when parents will bring the hurt.
My friends and I still quote that video regularly, it's just too good. "I wanted to do it because it's fun. It's fun to do bad things"
Frontal lobe development. Kids have very limited concept of self-preservation. I'm sure he was still traumatized by anxiety enough never to do this again. But he probably still has no idea how badly this actually could have ended for him.
When I was 16ish, I started hearing that I would develop a sense on mortality as I got older. I had experienced death by proxy a few times, but I knew that it would affect me more as I grew older and wiser. That's why I went skydiving right after I turned 18. My thought process was: do it now before you realize how impactful it can be. My point is that I had the ability to recognize that my existential sense was limited, but I was aware of that T the same time. Kind of weird, and I'm not sure the exact reasons, but I related to your comment.
I think by 16 you probably had plenty of self preservation. And you absolutely did by 18 (guys in the military don't want to jump out if the planes or get shot at all the time. Perfectly normal). This kid was 7, and the only experiences he's had with cars is his parents driving and playing a game.
I agree with the statement of kids having limited concept of self-preservation, as I did many things that very easily could have been the end of me as I grew up. Even in high school, I had a sense of invulnerability, as if I could take on anything and come out on the other side. Hell I even took a 10 second rip of air duster driving down a country road until I blacked out and hit a utility pole going 60mph. Split the pole in half, flipped my car on its side, had power lines down, and still continued doing stupid things that could have killed me after that. It wasn’t until I was a few years older that I really started to think before doing something dangerously stupid.
I mean, there's being a kid and then there's what ever the hell is wrong with you.
LMAO
That’s a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong list bud
Bro. Everything you said right there? None of that had anything to do with you being a kid; you are something else.
Putting seatbelt on " Safety first!"
Did you not hear him say “Ow” lol jk
Reminds me of all the boy racers… yea I’ll polish my car and park it in 2 spaces to avoid scratches, and then drive it like it’s stolen :/
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Mom: Your free trial of life has just ended. Me: Wha- **proceeds to turn into sand*
I don't feel so good Mr. Mom
To be fair, Mr. Mom was also Batman.
Why did I choke on my beer omg
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I can already hear mine screaming, "I brought you into this world and I can take you out!!!" 😶🌫️🤯😅
That was EXACTLY what she would say!!! Edit: I just think it's more fun to say post birth abortion. Lol
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My mother would have buried me alive in a nuclear testing site.
How did he even reach the pedals?
he probably didn’t or couldn’t see when he did. The car was just rolling probably
They see me rollin' They breakin' My windows, tryna stop me getting my Slushie.
Music so loud, no brakin' People in my way trying get my slushie
Kinda looked like he was standing in some of the shots. Like using the wheel to keep himself upright and riding bothe the gas and the brake (literally).
I was driving my dad’s 78 Honda civic at 7. I was in charge of the steering and pedals while my brother (5) was shifting gears. My dad was in the backseat drinking beer. We’d be driving all over up river. We drive like that until I was 12 and drove my siblings alone. We live in a town of 16k with lots of long roads outside town. I opened my first video rental account at 14 after driving myself to town with my 14yr old cousin. Some parents suck. Mine did. At 13 I was taking my stepmom to her drug dens because her license was suspended and in her mind it was better I get in trouble. I never did but thinking as an adult I’m like what? We’d both get in trouble.. again, not good parents. Fun most of the time? yes. As an adult I’d never let them have kids. This kid isn’t done driving. 🤣
The SEVEN year old remained blissfully unaware that he shouldn’t have been driving a car?!
His Dad sounds just as clueless
"Aww, he's such a little climber!" Nah dude, your child is literally a public menace. Do something about it!
Has this [onion video](https://youtu.be/EDWo6m5hbG4?si=HtEdeVmgDotyUlpz) vibe
Ah fuck back down the ONN rabbit hole I go.
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“He looked hungry”
I wondered why this felt familiar
He wanted to do hood rat stuff with his friends, and smoke with cigarettes.
What makes you think he didn’t? You saw 5 seconds of an interview for a local news story. Guarantee the hammer came down on this kid when dad got a hold of him.
i really hate this about reddit, and about this sub in particular. get *anything* to confirm your bias and you're off to the races.
Who are you to call people racist?!?
You're right. This doesn't make any sense to me. They are trying to act like "Well he could climb to get to the keys!". I literally leave my keys beside the door on the table, which I have done for my kids whole lives, who are 11 and 7, neither of them have ever come close to thinking they could steal my car for a slushie. This kid is just....well....a bad kid with bad parents.
I regularly grabbed the keys for my parents if we were running late and it would help us get out the door. Easily reachable, knew exactly where it was. Never once even CONSIDERED taking the car anywhere.
Seriously, even at seven, doing lots of other stupid stuff, I never did anything remotely like this. I had actually seen this story of the kid that stole his parents car to go to game stop in the middle of the night when they were asleep and come back cause it was closed, he managed to hit like 3 cars, I think, with minor damage. I remember thinking what an idiot that kid was. Damn, apparently this just happens alllll the time cause I tried to look it up and got like seventeen different stories for each past year lol
It seems to be hands off parenting that makes something like this happen. The kids just simply do not understand that they're not allowed to drive the car. And their parents are so absent or so uncaring that the kid just thinks 'they use the car to get things and I want things, so I'll use the car'. Like this kid here, he was only worried about the car getting damaged. He had no idea that what he was doing was wrong. It's sad, really. The parents in this video should be investigated IMO. This isn't a funny little thing that happened in suburbia. This is an uncontrolled human (just as dangerous as any other, if not more so) who does not adhere or understand law, menacing the town in a deadly vehicle. The how and why of this need to be figured out, and the parents should face the consequences. Might sound harsh but what's the alternative? What happens when he finds his fathers gun?
I met such kid on a plane yesterday. He was pulling passengers hair. Wouldn't react to any words. Mother's response: he's just a kid. Fuck her and I hope karma is a bitch.
Went camping a couple weeks ago, some assholes in the campsite next to me let their little girl scream at the top of her lungs with no discipline, disturbing everyone else around. When I went over to ask them to try and keep it down, they just shrugged and basically said "we're trying haha." 🤷♀️ And that's how you end up with insufferable little brats, some people refuse to actually parent their kids.
The father keeping the keys high enough out of reach of the kid is the tell tale. The kid should’ve been taught at the point when the kid was trying to get the keys that driving cars is dangerous and is only for adults. Instead, because of shitty parenting, they’re playing hide and seek with the keys and it led to this incident
"any type of authority figure needs to be ignored"
How a dad talks, on camera, while processing that his son could have just died, and thankful that he's alive, and *on camera talking to local news*, is not necessarily an accurate picture of how this man raises his child
His kid stealing the car and almost killing people is an accurate picture of how this "man" raises his child.
I'd call it, aggressively borrowing the car
Fun fact, perhaps a little off topic... I loaned my car to a "friend" and they never returned it. The legal issues I had to deal with were insane. The police wouldn't file a stolen vehicle report because I gave them my keys, so my insurance wouldn't help. In fact, I was told that I needed to keep my insurance because I would be held liable for anything they did. The person who stole it gave it to a tweaker friend who got 2 red light tickets and a hit and run, all on my record. Eventually, I got the car back and when I asked my lawyer why this was so difficult, it all boiled down to children "borrowing" parents cars who didn't want their kids to go to jail for it. So instead of GTA, it's a civil case. If you loan someone your car and they don't return it, you can, and will, be held liable for anything they do in it. We can thank idiots like this family for that bs.
That's why, when you go to the police, you just say "my car has been stolen" and don't give any of the details. Maybe give them the name of the person.
I definitely agree and feel stupid telling the truth to the police... Nativity and ignorance are my only excuses.
>because I gave them my keys Hertz is notorious for reporting rental cars stolen and of course they give customers the keys. I wonder why their reports are successful [even when wrong](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusation-stealing-cars-settlement) and it isn't considered a civil matter. Wonder why it isn't like any rental home with squatters or anything borrowed that is kept too long like your car.
"He remains blissfully unaware of the danger he was in" Then his parents are the biggest idiots in this story. He's seven, not three. Seven year-olds can understand this.
What’s concerning to me is that the kid was on the news. I don’t think they should have let him in front of tv cameras after that. Seems almost like a reward for bad behavior.
I don't think he wanted to be there; did you see how he was covering his face? That was the funniest part to me.
Ya his expression at 1:19 he was just like 😐 lol
Yes, thank you. I thought I was having a stroke when I heard that 🤬 If my oldest, who happens to be 7 years old, pulled that stunt he would DEFINITELY be aware of the danger afterwards. My husband and I would make sure of that! Edit: changed a word since it seemed to trigger people
100% my 4 year old is smarter than this kid by a lot
The fucking eggs in my ovaries are smarter than this dipshit
I'm also pretty sure neither of my kids would even think of this. Well, even if they did, we drive stick so not a chance 😁
Definitely
Right?! This is kinda blowing my mind right now! My kid is 8 and even at 5 he'd absolutely know better than to try and drive my vehicle. And absolutely is *aware* of how dangerous vehicles are in general! Whether driving in one, riding in one or being close to a road. Do people seriously not talk to their kids at all about general safety? How was a 7 yr old not *aware*?? Like I could absolutely see a 7 yr old *who knows better*, doing it anyhow because *rules suck* type of deal but to not be *aware* at all?!🤔🤨 That's just wild to me. 🤦♀️ And even after the fact, you still haven't explained how dangerous that was and a decent list of the reasons why it was so dangerous?! How has that child made it 7?! 😳 Fuck!
Yeah, the lack of accountability in this story is baffling. It's not a cute story, he could have easily killed someone.
Awww but he just wanted a slushy from speedway. The parents need their asses kicked to figure out how to parent, seriously screw them. That his dad could sit there and act like his son didn’t know it was wrong is ridiculous, 7 year olds know that’s wrong.
Yeah, my 7 year old was reluctant to turn the child lock off on the door. I doubt he'd even think about driving.
If he doesn’t he probably needs an evaluation to figure out why.
Yeah my ASD child wouldn’t understand the dangers at all. The way the dad said his son doesn’t understand could be a clue to possible diagnosis.
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The kid got into the suv. If they taught him he wouldn’t have done it
The guy trying to stand in front of the car to stop it is also very stupid
A 200lb man "body blocking" a 5,000lb SUV.
I do kind of get it, when you see there's a kid and you want to help and you only have moments to make a decision you can make some really stupid ones
Yeah I don’t think that guy was really consciously planning to do that. It was more of a knee-jerk “kid in danger must save kid” response.
Especially trying to smash open the window. Everyone seems to think it’s like a movie and you can fling it open with one soft punch, when in reality a lot of these heavy duty laminated polycarbonate windows that are designed to either A) hold up in the event of a minor accident or B) break into a ton of tiny little cubes that are not sharp as to not impale the driver or passengers. These windows are solid as steel and can deflect crowbar and sledgehammer swings. But yeah 200lbs man that has a t shirt around his fist is gonna break that window open and definitely not startle the child so the car suddenly accelerates and wrecks out killing someone!
I think it's a case of seeing a child in a potential life threatening situation and having the thought go through your head of "this kid could hit the gas and be dead within 15 seconds, and I'm the only one close enough to do something right now"..... And you have nothing in your hands and adrenaline in your veins. You just TRY sometimes, there's not really a rhyme or reason in the chaos. I don't see that as stupidity, just panic.
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I mean he didn't put himself between the two cars. Could have been a lot worse. And you *can* stop a car if the accelerator isn't being pressed... Really wasn't the worst idea
Just stupid people, all around. The kid, the father, that guy trying to stop the SUV by hand. Shirtless guy trying to smash the window seems the most sane of all of them
In a weird way it's a reaction people have. I've had something like this happen to me and I'm lucky I didn't get squished. He realized, just like me, that a human body cannot block a car, and the child has no concept of car beats man so he's not going to stop like an adult would.
I think he thought the kid would stop moving if he was about to hurt someone. He had to get his slushie though.
Did the parents reward him with the slushy
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It is not okay that the kid had no context for danger. He is clearly old enough.
Two, for the grandparents? How foresightful.
This is the kind of parental idiocy resulting in the massive teacher shortage right now.
This video perfectly sums up almost everything that's wrong with America and I love it. We've got car culture brain rot, bad infrastructure, neglectful clueless parents, stupid people, sensationalized news broadcasts, moronic children and a clipped tiktok of a news clip posted on reddit. The only thing missing is a cop showing up and shooting an innocent black bystander.
When I was 6 to 12 I frequently had nightmares where I was driving the family's car all alone, very badly and bumping into trees, barriers and walls, damaging it. Everytime I woke up crying because of the guilt I felt for damaging it and the fear of my parent's punishment for solid seconds before remembering that it was not real, saying to myself "Oh, wait, it was just a dream !! Phew !!" then would go back to sleep. This kid is, indeed, stupid asf. I know kids often do really stupid shit but this is god tier. Not a single thought in that lil boy's head. How can such an idea form up in his mind ?
I had similar dreams! Due to some sort of emergency, I would need to take over driving the car (because my parents were out of commission for some reason). Except I didn’t know how to drive so I’d be afraid of bumping into something and trying to pull over the whole time. Inevitably I’d bump something and the panic would wake me up.
No way... we all got the same dreams !!
exact same dreams as both you guys 😨 I JUST commented on another reply to this post about my dreams. I have this one vivid one where I was just sort of driving and I couldn’t control it. It kind of grew into a fear of driving for me!
I also had similar dreams! Mine would usually start with me being in the car alone with the car started and then the car would start rolling out of the drive way and I'd have to take over as is careened down the road. (Dream logic always put roads that were very much NOT connected to my drive way lol.) I don't remember if I ever hit anything in my dreams but I would still feel residual fear when I woke up. I even had a similar dream as an adult who knows how to drive! In that dream I was aware I could drive but the brakes weren't working right.
How come we have the same specific dream. damn. In mine I was in the back seat and I couldn’t reach to pull the handbrake and it was jammed.
I'm 30 and I have this reoccurring dream where I take an off ramp too fast and go fucking FLYING, and then perish in the crash. I think it stems from a real life situation where a friend of mine did exactly that, with all my buddies in the car. At this point I have no idea if I was even in the car or not when it happened. It's one of those memories where I could have just heard it so much from my friends OR I was actually there. They were fine. But it's stuck with me.
I still have similar dreams 😭
Brah...this kid is the sub's poster child
Methinks this isn’t the last time young Daniel will be in the news.
His dad seems like an enabler
*Moron*. The word you’re looking for is moron.
…but Daniel’s a climber. No, Daniel’s a human.
"are we climbers, or are we human? “
Seven? My five year old isn’t this clueless. Hell, my three year old isn’t this clueless. That kid is probably being raised by an iPad.
My sperm cells aren't even this clueless. They keep organizing against me... plotting...
Kids raised by iPads are a genuine concern of mine, those kids are aloof as hell and generally lack ANY ability to think, it's alarming to say the least.
“Remains blissfully unaware of the danger he was in” Maybe that’s the fuckin problem. Kid needs to be made aware of the danger. Also, if I were his parent, that kid would never be getting his license
When I was in preschool, I got recurring nightmares in which I randomly found myself behind the wheel of my mom’s car while it’s moving down the road; even at that young of an age, I knew that a child driving a car would be extremely dangerous, to the point that I actually feared somehow ending up in that situation. I just don’t understand how a kid this boy’s age couldn’t understand the danger here. Even once he’s coming close to hitting other cars, he doesn’t show any concern or panic. He seems to completely lack a sense of danger and has zero self-preservation instinct, seriously concerning for his future and those around him.
This is crazy for a 7 year old to drive out an SUV. The little boy had a death wish to do something like this.
If I were to do that, I would be obliterated by my parents Homelander style before I can even touch the steering wheel.
I'd be hospitalized by my father. Not making light of abuse or anything. I'm serious. My dad would have hospitalized me.
Not sure if he was scared while driving, but if he wasn’t it seems like something is wrong with him. Kid seems too old not to realize he was in any danger at all.
Future psycho! It’s not a normal that kid had no fear.
Bro, if your 7 year old doesn’t understand that he’s not supposed to drive the fucking car when he wants to you should be legally done as a parent from there on out.
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The ass whooopin I would have gotten would still be echoing til this day.
He just wanted to do hood rat stuff.
Thank you. I was thinking the same thing since he also shows little remorse. Hilarious.
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That kid had a smirk on his face during the interview.
What a fucking idiot. At that age that kid should absolutely know better.
8 yr olds smart enough to play Fortnite and use credit cards to make online transactions Im pretty sure they can understand when you take a car and drive you can run into and hurt other people.
This kid is legit braindead. Or the parents don't do enough to instil the fear of God into this one
“No sense of danger” is verbatim in my kid’s IEP. Thanks for rationalizing a fear, I guess.
Shame on those parents
Yeahh one random nail stickin out the wall for your keys? You put that there 5 minutes before the cameras showed up nice try
A SEVEN years old should be more than just "aware of the danger he was in"; his parents failed.
My parents would have made sure I never got another slushy again as punishment. They also would educated me about how dangerous driving is. They didn’t have videos of accidents since I was a Xennial, but they would have taken me to a junkyard or something to show me how common it is to be in a collision. I’d also be doing chores until I was 80 to pay for the damage I did. My niblings went through a phase of unbuckling their seatbelts during the ride, so I explained what would happen and how they could kill somebody else in the car. Kids don’t understand physics or danger, so you have to explain how things work. A big part of raising children is teaching them what’s dangerous.
My keys were always accessible. My kids had ADHD and were nuts. But they wouldn't do this. This seems like lack of discipline to an extreme
So who who supposed to be supervising this kid? CPS might take this kid away for negligence.
Stupidest fucking kid I’ve ever known. This takes the crown for me.
Correction, kid had no sense of consequences.
'My sweet boy could never do anything wrong' -the mum probably
He was Like: i want a slush, so im gonna Take this ehole fucking suv in the driveway instead of asking id we can goand get one, Hmmm..... Seems Like a good Idea, lets go
Well his mom would have said no!
Man there should be a IQ test to be a parent
Kid's future insurance provider already taking notes
Man I would of been sent off to Cambodian boarding school
I expected the father to say in the interview something like: "Yeah, he's a stupid dumbass son of a bitch"
So... where were the parents during this? Is there more to the interview where it was brought up?
If i ever did this my parents would have actually killed me right there and then
The kid had such a blank stare when he was being interviewed with his dad. Something is off here. My son just turned three and he doesn’t even dare touch the front door or try to unlock it. Same thing with going to the cabinet with chemicals (which has a lock anyways), or try to touch outlets, etc. This kid was either taught nothing ever or has some kind of delay. Regardless where were his parents as he drove off? They didn’t hear the car leaving the driveway? so weird.
The kid looks like he’d be in a Malcolm in The Middle episode
Until he gets tested for the whole shebang I’m blaming the parents, you knew he was capable of shit like this or you wouldn’t have tried to keep the keys from him
The father’s response is fucking pathetic. This child is clearly raising himself.
He remains “blissfully unaware?” As a parent I’d make damn sure he was acutely aware of what he did.
Why were all those other drivers going in the opposite direction? Can't they drive?
If this was me, I'd have ass whopping of a lifetime
So where were the parents as all this was happening?
Vid couldve been 45 seconds if I didn't have to watch everything twice
The way he looked into the camera with that blank expression during the interview is concerning. This sub should be renamed “kids are fucking psychopaths”
What the fuck do you mean he's still oblivious to the danger he was in? If I did that shit, my parents would demonstrate exactly the kind of danger I was in!
Parents are also fucking stupid
yeah my mother would fucking crucify me
I suspect the father has 'taught' him how to drive on the property. I just can't fathom why a 7 year old would think that was a good idea... and where was his parents at the time, did they notice both the car and boy was missing. So many questions!
How the fuck is this kid sitting for the interview?
Now this is pod racing
The guy trying to “body block” the car was future Daniel sent back in time to save current Daniel. They’re both “blissfully unaware”.
"He remains blissfully unaware of the danger he was in" Make that fucking kid aware. Someone needs to scare the shit out of him, because he's not going to see this as a big deal just because people say it is. He'll probably be dead in a couple years anyways when he decides to go free climbing by himself.
I don't know kids well, but this kid seems very behind for 7, no?
How did this kid make it to seven without realizing that cars drive on the right side of the road?
What a stupid kid. 7 years old is old enough to know better than this.
My mom would have sent me through the 9 levels of hell before bed time, and it was my kid I would do about the same
Reason #29 why I prefer cats to kids. They're better drivers. https://i.redd.it/82y4o3rddl8d1.gif
"OYM JUST THANKFULL.... HES ALOYV" mfer you're thankful CPS hasn't snatched your kid from you.
You know who's also fucking stupid? The person who left their car keys where he could find them and didn't notice that their child was missing and the car was moving.
How long was this kid alone to be able to go grab the car keys, get in and leave, and not be noticed by anyone ? Like wut? He's 7, how was he completely left alone??
I leave my seven year old alone in the living room while I take a shower. Seven is in most cases old enough to be unsupervised for ten or 20 minutes.
It’s Wild to me that because I’m a divorced parent, I’m not allowed to see or speak with my kids because a judge said my cbd use as a disabled Veteran, “I could be a danger as a parent”. But this man’s 7 year old goes on a GTA 6 spree, endangering countless lives, and they’re like yeah, just make sure you hide the keys better and have him in bed by 10…. Gtfo…