Posted on 05/05/2020 2:19:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The boy said he left home with only $3 in his pocket after an argument with his mom because she refused to buy a sports car, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
A 5-year-old boy from Utah wanted his mother to buy him a Lamborghini, and since she refused, he got in her car and attempted to drive to California himself to purchase one.
The child's planned multistate journey, however, ended roughly five minutes after he took the car when a Utah Highway Patrol trooper pulled him over on the freeway Monday around noon.
In a dash-cam video released by the department, the SUV the boy is driving is seen weaving across the freeway as cars and semi-trucks whizz past. The child pulls over to the shoulder of the road after the trooper activates his sirens.
"How old are you? You're 5 years old?" the trooper is heard saying. "Wow ... Where did you learn to drive a car?"
The boy said he had left his home in Ogden after he got into an argument with his mother because he wanted a Lamborghini and she told him no, according to a tweet by the highway patrol.
"He decided he'd take the car and go to California to buy one himself. He might have been short on the purchase amount, as he only had $3 dollars in his wallet," the tweet read. The luxurious sports cars can start as low as $200,000, depending on the model.
Highway Patrol Lt. Nick Street told NBC affiliate KSL in Salt Lake City that when trooper Rick Morgan stopped the vehicle he thought it was going to be an impaired driver, not a child.
Morgan said when he approached the SUV, the little boy was sitting on the edge of the seat so he could reach the pedals. His head barely reached the headrest behind the steering wheel.The child only drove for about five minutes from his home to the freeway when he was stopped, KSL reported.
"I helped him get the car into park, shut the vehicle down and then we started to look for means to contact his parents," the trooper said.
The Highway Patrol was able to reach the boy's family, who said his parents were at work and had left him in the care of a sibling.
Street said no one was hurt and it's not believed that any property was damaged, but the boy's parents could still face charges.
"We're counting our blessings (nobody was hurt) but that doesn't mean a high-risk situation that put a lot of people's lives in jeopardy (didn't occur)," he said. "Based on that, we'll talk with the county attorney and see what charges they would like filed or screened with them and we'll do that."
He was dress like a gangster...lol..On his way to join his homies.
Mine tried to take out the Mercedes Four year old taking advantage of mom on the phone. Never took my eye off. Triple major. Big time grad school. Independence is a good thing So is parenting. This kid eats whatever he wants whenever he wants. That’s a problem that hints at many more. Well... like taking the car for a spin.
I would definitely be interested in hiring this kid in about 15 years. Hard to find that kind of go-getter attitude anymore.
Not bad enough, the parents left the kid with one of his siblings and took off leaving him in Utah, so he decided to steal their car or someone’s else’s car.
I still like the looks of the original Miura.
Was he speeding?
So the parents don’t watch him to the degree he takes off in a car and let him become obese, setting up a lifetime of misery. Nice. Might need some intervention.
ping
This is one 5 year old I would not want for a neighbor kid.
When he steals his next car, he’ll fit right into CA.
“... left him in the care of a sibling.”
The use of the word ‘care’ here is loose.
Five years old? Baloney. More like ten.
At 5 years old, I didn’t even know what a Lamborghini was.
Of course, maybe none existed back in the late 1950’s.
Driving off in my Dad’s Ford, would never have entered my mind then. For one thing, I would have gotten a ‘whoppin’ with a long thin stick called ‘a switch’.
He was being babysat by a sib.
you do look for the worst, dont you?
this is too funny!
When he finally goes back to school, this story will make him
famous. “Yes, it DID happen. Honest!”
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