Posted on 10/14/2022 11:23:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Florida man was arrested for having a nine-year-old drive kid him home in a car on Sunday. Alexander Berrios, 22, allegedly gave directions to the child, who had already driven around 3 miles, along the nearly 7-mile (11.2-km-long) trip, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
A Florida man was arrested for trying to have a nine-year-old drive him home in a car on Sunday. Alexander Berrios, 22, allegedly gave directions to the child, who had already driven around 3 miles, along the nearly 7-mile (11.2-km-long) trip, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. “A witness spotted a car entering Oak Hill Road from a neighborhood around 8 a.m. yesterday and suspected the driver was impaired due to the vehicle being all over the roadway,” deputies explained the events in a statement.
“He cut off the car near the intersection of Highway 85 and Old Bethel Road and noticed a child was behind the wheel. He told the child to get in the passenger seat and pulled the car into a convenience store parking lot.”
The 9-year-old told deputies that Berrios had asked him to drive the car and even pointed out directions. However, the victim claimed that at the time of interception, he was on his way back to his own residence and had already driven 3 miles.
When questioned by investigators the day after, Berrios initially denied knowing the child or the child’s mother and went on to claim that he had been home all the while, according to an arrest report obtained by CBS affiliate WKRG. However, his alibi contradicted videographic evidence provided by his father that appears to show him entering his house just before 7:45 am.
The child’s mother told officers that he had been at their home the previous night drinking alcohol.
Berrios faces charges of child neglect without great bodily harm. "We want to express our sincere gratitude to the witness who noticed something was wrong and intervened, potentially preventing a tragedy involving a child," said county Sheriff Aden.
Last week, a Florida man made headlines for using his own one-year-old son as a human shield to resist cops.
When I was little my dad would let me sit on his lap and drive going about 2 miles an hour!
There is definitely humor in there. Let’s hope she doesn’t speed. :>)
She’s going up again tomorrow. She is really dedicated to becoming a commercial pilot. But she is still afraid of roller coasters.
I wasn’t much older when Dad started teaching me to drive.
Who wants to trust a roller coaster engineer?
Not me.
Only if the passenger supervising is fit to drive and actually supervise.
Meh, just roll the dice. We’re going to get nuked and vaxxed to death soon.
One must be ready for the zombie apocalypse.
Completely agree. Had a friend that worked for a carnival in his younger days. Told me he'd never ride a roller coaster, he knew how they were assembled.
Maybe they were on a date.
Uber and Lyft are not expensive.
5.56mm
“Florida Man” is a busy guy !
My youngest son could drive at 9...... I started teaching them when they were about 4. I’d let them steer setting in my lap. Of course it was only about a half mile til our driveway on a side county road.
That is my attitude. Every one of those rides has a “Jesus nut” which is coincidentaly what we called the one that held the Rotors on the Chopper. One nut, that if it fails or comes loose, really bad things and death can happen. These things at the park, are put together by drunks and tweekers, Carnie’s if you will.
yep, some kids have initiative and drive.
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