This story is so good on so many levels. First of all it hits home because I literally drove my two sons to McDonald’s yesterday and picturing my 4-year-old behind the wheeling shuttling his little 1-year-old brother is both shocking and hilarious at the same time. But here we are, in the age of the internet where all you have to do is type “learn how to drive” into Youtube and an educational portal to do anything is at your fingertips, which leads us to this story. According to USA Today:
Police arrived at the McDonald’s in East Palestine, Ohio, around 8 p.m. Sunday after receiving multiple calls from people who saw the young boy driving, the Weirton Daily Times reported. According to authorities, the children headed to McDonald’s after their parents fell asleep early. During the mile and a half road trip, the 8-year-old obeyed all traffic laws and drove “effortlessly” through downtown, East Palestine Patrolman Jacob Koehler told the Times.
“He didn’t hit a single thing on the way there. It was unreal,” he said. The 8-year-old used money from his piggy bank to pay for the food. “The workers thought that the parents were in the back, but obviously they weren’t,” Koehler said. A family friend who was inside the restaurant spotted the children and called their grandparent’s, who later picked them up.
No charges were filed and more importantly the kids were allowed to eat their McDonald’s. Does this scream Home Alone 2.0 or what? To be honest I’m a little nervous now. My son is on Youtube for at least an hour a day and it’s a matter of time before he figures out how to get to “Happy Meal” (as he calls it) all by himself.
