If he did it willingly, I guess he wasn’t forced.
Okay, WOAI makes these two look bad, and maybe they are. But c’mon, it’s a load of political correctness at work, too. Hell, I’ve ridden in a trunk when I was a kid. Several times. For fun. And about a zillion kids in the 50s and 60s snuck into drive-ins that way.
Nowadays here in California, you cant’ ride in the back of a pickup anymore. Who hasn’t done that? The country is being ruined bit by bit by these nosy damned nanny-staters.
Not only did my dad let a whole slew of kids (and our dog) ride in the back of the p/u, when we begged he would drive fast enough on the gravel road to get the damn thing to fish-tail. Better than 6 Flags Over Texas.