Posted on 10/07/2009 8:23:15 AM PDT by freed0misntfree
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For a second time in a few months, a 9-year-old girl took a relative's car on a joyride from police.
Police said the girl took her mother's keys early Wednesday morning and drove off with her 1-year-old sister, who was unrestrained in the front seat.
The mother woke up when she heard the girl leave the apartment where they were staying, according to police. The mother's boyfriend then saw the car leaving the parking lot of the complex.
The mother flagged down a driver, who happened to be an undercover Metro police officer.
That officer called in help from other undercover officers, who were able to block the girl in at Apache Trail and Haywood Lane after about five minutes.
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And She’ll have fun fun fun til her daddy takes the T-Bird away....
Maybe she has a reason to be taking her 1 year old sibling and trying to get away.
What’s the real problem here??
apartment, mommy’s boyfriend all make this story make sense. Hopefully the girl gets punished severely or taken away from her mother..../sarc sorta.
You may be right....It looks like Mommy is at her boyfriend’s apartment.
“Maybe she has a reason to be taking her 1 year old sibling and trying to get away.”
It seems odd that she would take her little sibling along for a joy ride, doesn’t it?
This may be a perfectly safe situation, but I’m really sick of hearing about “mom’s live-in boyfriend.” What’s wrong with these women, anyway?
Se just wanna go home.
The 9 year old is autistic. Maybe the mother needs to kick the boyfriend out of her bed and pay closer attention to the two children she has brought into the world.
This is a common problem caused by building cars with automatic transmissions. Ban automatics and the problem pretty much goes away.
I was driving by 9. I just didn’t drive on roads until I was 12.
I miss living in the country where we were more likely to pass a tractor than a car.
Funny how you can get an instant impression from just printed words. That’s just how it appeared to me.
I can’t see any other reason for a 9 year old to take a 1yo and run.
Speaking here as a person who had an idyllic childhood and the oldest of 5. I can’t imagine taking any of my sibs AND the car. Altho I did more than my fair share of babysitting when I was much too young to be doing so. Farm kids.
Of course the real question ought to be “Why does a 9 year old want so desperately to runaway?”. This young girl took her baby sister with her. Is she being molested by the mother’s “boyfriend”? Are the adults beating her?
Something is seriously wrong in this home and to treat it like a joke is disturbing
Maybe she's the next Danica Patrick? It can be challenging raising a child with autism, although non-autistic children have been known to make a break for it, by car, on foot,etc. Hopefully both of them are up to the challenge.
“I wanna go FAST!”
Better check out the boyfriend and the living arrangements very seriously.
Last time it was a run to Taco Bell in Grandma’s car . . .
Perhaps a little time in the crowbar motel would make the kid think twice about grabbing the keys.
I’m thinking a future Indy 500 winner?
LOL, don't we all! She just needs to be patient for a few years! ;-)
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