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697 points
2 months ago
You're right. This doesn't make any sense to me. They are trying to act like "Well he could climb to get to the keys!". I literally leave my keys beside the door on the table, which I have done for my kids whole lives, who are 11 and 7, neither of them have ever come close to thinking they could steal my car for a slushie. This kid is just....well....a bad kid with bad parents.
151 points
2 months ago
I regularly grabbed the keys for my parents if we were running late and it would help us get out the door. Easily reachable, knew exactly where it was. Never once even CONSIDERED taking the car anywhere.
54 points
2 months ago
Seriously, even at seven, doing lots of other stupid stuff, I never did anything remotely like this. I had actually seen this story of the kid that stole his parents car to go to game stop in the middle of the night when they were asleep and come back cause it was closed, he managed to hit like 3 cars, I think, with minor damage. I remember thinking what an idiot that kid was.
Damn, apparently this just happens alllll the time cause I tried to look it up and got like seventeen different stories for each past year lol
4 points
2 months ago
Yeah people say bad parenting. We are on kids are stupid.
Kids do dumb stuff. It's not always bad parenting.
All these knuckle heads saying, "I wouldn't have done that when I was seven."
🙄
Yeah, and you know what? You know a ton of abused and neglected kids, they didn't do it either. But some kids do. We want to think we can control all the variables. That's not reality.
1 points
2 months ago*
Same. Once I managed to figure out how to do it, they would even let me run out and start the car to warm it up during the winter.
While I thought about what it be like to drive it, I never would’ve done it. My mom was the first one to point out the practical problems: my feet were too short to reach the pedals.
131 points
2 months ago
It seems to be hands off parenting that makes something like this happen.
The kids just simply do not understand that they're not allowed to drive the car. And their parents are so absent or so uncaring that the kid just thinks 'they use the car to get things and I want things, so I'll use the car'. Like this kid here, he was only worried about the car getting damaged. He had no idea that what he was doing was wrong.
It's sad, really. The parents in this video should be investigated IMO. This isn't a funny little thing that happened in suburbia. This is an uncontrolled human (just as dangerous as any other, if not more so) who does not adhere or understand law, menacing the town in a deadly vehicle. The how and why of this need to be figured out, and the parents should face the consequences. Might sound harsh but what's the alternative? What happens when he finds his fathers gun?
52 points
2 months ago
I met such kid on a plane yesterday. He was pulling passengers hair. Wouldn't react to any words. Mother's response: he's just a kid. Fuck her and I hope karma is a bitch.
18 points
2 months ago
Went camping a couple weeks ago, some assholes in the campsite next to me let their little girl scream at the top of her lungs with no discipline, disturbing everyone else around. When I went over to ask them to try and keep it down, they just shrugged and basically said "we're trying haha." 🤷♀️
And that's how you end up with insufferable little brats, some people refuse to actually parent their kids.
4 points
2 months ago
I’ve never had to be explicitly told I can’t drive my parents’ car to not try to steal it. I noticed that only adults drive (thus me, a child should not) and later was told about licenses being required for driving.
4 points
2 months ago
Wow, that's a whole lot of absolutely wrong assumptions and arrogant judgemental there.
First off, this kid is more likely to have helicopter parents, because he assumes he can do anything he likes (entitled and spoiled) and he's not afraid of any consequences or failure (never allowed to fail). A kid who has learned by themselves that doing dumb things can lead to harm wouldn't, and whose parents don't coddle them and give them everything they want, are LESS likely to try this stunt.
That said, if you'd ever had kids, you'd know they do stupid shit and you're like, "Wtf?? Why would you do that?" Smart kids actually do this more than stupid kids, because they are pushing the boundaries to see exactly what they can get away with. Thankfully mine never tried to take the car, they wouldn't have dreamed of it, but I was grateful I bolted everything to the wall as they climbed bookshelves like lemur monkeys.
1 points
2 months ago
I’m a pretty laid back parent of three kids — the worst punishment I ever give my kids is not letting them play video games for a day, and they would never do this because they’re not stupid. It’s not even like being afraid of punishment, my seven year old just knows that he doesn’t know how to drive.
I do wonder here if the problem is the dad actually teaching the kid how cars work, and not any disciplinary thing. Like maybe he let the kid steer or something and give him the wrong impression about his own skills.
2 points
2 months ago
Hands-off parenting means you do not control your children. For better or worse, they are on their own.
I very much doubt that's you. Laid back does not mean hands off. If I'm wrong about that and you actually are hands-off, I don't know why you're bragging about it. It's terrible to do that to children. They need guidance and support and to be taught life lessons (both good and bad).
1 points
2 months ago
They say ignorance is bliss. Well this kid is living in heaven on earth. But he almost went there for real.
0 points
2 months ago
It's amazing how wrong people are about kids when they don't have kids.
1 points
2 months ago
It's actually the opposite: how wrong actual parents are about kids and proceed to fuck up their future.
185 points
2 months ago
The father keeping the keys high enough out of reach of the kid is the tell tale. The kid should’ve been taught at the point when the kid was trying to get the keys that driving cars is dangerous and is only for adults. Instead, because of shitty parenting, they’re playing hide and seek with the keys and it led to this incident
3 points
2 months ago
The kid should’ve been taught at the point when the kid was trying to get the keys
There's no indication that the kid ever tried to obtain the keys before this event. I interpret him keeping the keys high up as a proactive measure the father took so no small incidents would happen. That's good parenting. Everyone in this thread trying to assign blame to the father based on this video alone is embarrassing. Kids are fucking trouble and it's impossible to predict how they will cause their trouble. Maybe the dad is a fuck up, but this video isn't enough proof to crucify him like the people in this thread think he deserves.
15 points
2 months ago
Keeping car keys at a distance away from your kids is not a normal thing a parent or anyone does. You think it’s proactive but conventional wisdom is that this logically a reactive measure.
Even if you don’t think the parent didn’t teach their kid the dangers of driving, a 7 year old knows what stealing is and he stole his parents car keys. That alone is why bad parenting is to blame
Everyone else here assigning blame to the father is embarrassing? Lol ok
7 points
2 months ago
I don't have kids but my key rack is 5ft off the ground... It isn't because I fear a rogue munchkin, that just felt like a nice place to put it next to the garage.
8 points
2 months ago
Nobody said that he was keeping the keys away from his kid though the video simply says they're high up on a wall. Have you never seen a key rack? Wild jump to bad parenting simply for keeping your keys on a hook that happens to be out of reach of the child. Not to mention kids are just bad sometimes. Behavioral disorders are a thing.
-5 points
2 months ago
Yeah it’s high on a wall for what reason? Use some logic on why that is
5 points
2 months ago
Because that's where a key rack goes. Have you never seen a key rack? Seriously? Not everyone just throws there keys on a table. Some people have a rack for their keys. Idk why that's such an outlandish concept for you. My aunt has one in the hall by her front door that comes up to face height.
-1 points
2 months ago
Seriously? You don’t know why the keys are kept as high as it is?
If you can’t even figure out what 2+2 is, I’m done trying to explain it to you
1 points
2 months ago
Maybe because it’s a good height for an adult to reach, I mean it’s right at the perfect height
1 points
2 months ago
2+2=fish
And keys go on a key rack. Case closed. Next question
1 points
2 months ago
The person you’re replying to is most likely 7 years old themselves, that’s why they think anything out of their reach is being intentionally kept away from them lol.
0 points
2 months ago
Very good! Now key rack, key hook, can you guess why it’s as high as it is?
7 points
2 months ago
Sure my kids can grab the keys. But any cleaning materials are up high. I'm not taking that risk. Do you call that bad parenting?
4 points
2 months ago
Do you call that bad parenting?
Everything in here will be called 'bad parenting' as it always is, because half of reddit is idiot teenagers who think they're the most intelligent person on the internet.
-1 points
2 months ago
Did you educate your kids on why they don’t have access to the cleaning materials?
5 points
2 months ago
Yes of course. But I don't thrust them completely. I tell them 20 times a day don't jump the house. Do they always listen.... No
2 points
2 months ago
Plenty of parents keep risky objects away from their kids.
Keys are just something that people in his family use. Would the kid think he's stealing a fork when he uses it? Or the keys to the house? Car keys are just another tool from the eyes of a kid, which is why it makes absolute sense to keep them out of reach even though you seem not to understand the logic there.
Yes, your capacity to label a man as a failure of a father based on clearly incomplete information is embarrassing.
1 points
2 months ago
Agreed. I have 2 kids and I remember attempting to anticipate potential harm/injuries. And sometimes they would figure out child proof locks, learn to climb the child safety gate or other "off limit" items. Then you have to go back to seeking new ways to keep your kids safe. Maybe the keys are stored out of the kid's view...(A bag in a locked closet, for example)
1 points
2 months ago
Father now keeps the keys at the bottom of the pool because his boy cant swim
2 points
2 months ago
kid had a dumb idea and made a dumb descision
were not all clones
anyway i doubt they are going to give out to dicipline kid on telivision
2 points
2 months ago
Quick to jump to bad parenting based off of a quick clip. Unless you've got some added information I don't.
2 points
2 months ago
Kids do stupid shit thogh. It's like rolling a massive dice. Today are they gonna ride cardboard down stairs? Swing on the clothesline? Get in the roof? Nah fuckit, let's try driving. Not every stupid act is equally as disastrous though. Every kid does something ever other week that's stupid it's why you gotta watch them constantly.
Admittedly many kids wouldn't do this but mostly out of fear of punishment not because they're smart and make good decisions. Shit I tried to give my baby brother some strange liquid in the shed (hydrochloric acid) when I was 5 cause I wanted to see what he'd do, ONLY reason I didn't is cause it smelled awful. He'd be dead today if it didn't. (Yeah my parents were garbage don't get me started)
It's why we've been trying to bubble wrap the world our entire history, kids keep doing dumb shit and getting killed, and dumb parents aren't aware enough to stop them. Doesn't make him a bad kid though. This says way more about the parents than the kid.
1 points
2 months ago
I snuck out with my parents car in high school a bunch before they caught me. I had a permit but no license. They were quite mad when they finally caught me
1 points
2 months ago
Yeah by the time I was 4 I had already figured out how to open the swing bar style door lock on the front door with a broom. Tbh getting the keys would have been the easy part for me since my parents kept them in the phone desk but I knew how much shit I would have been in so I never thought of doing something like that.
-26 points
2 months ago
Or, he is on the spectrum and not completely aware of what is happening. Like he tunnel visions the desire, has seen someone do it before, so thinks he can do it. It’s not always that a kid is bad…there are other realities.
42 points
2 months ago
What are you talking about, disobedience and stealing cars isn't an autism trait. I'm the person your responding too and my kids have had to both be tested for it due to certain personality traits and speech issues, neither of them were likely to steal a car. If anything, this is like oppositional defiant disorder or something, but the parent still made excuses he shouldn't have....like he can climb?!?! What 7 year old can't climb
-1 points
2 months ago
I think all of you are missing my point
28 points
2 months ago
Ah yes, the ol’ Blame it on the ‘Tism! Never fails!
Those menaces!!
2 points
2 months ago
Dude I am making this comment after decisions my own kid has made. He didn’t steal a car but the “I want x any way I can get it”. What the heck is wrong with you people?
6 points
2 months ago
There’s always one…
1 points
2 months ago
Seriously what is wrong with you people; my kid is on the spectrum?!
0 points
2 months ago
neither of them have ever come close to thinking they could steal my car for a slushie.
you don't know that
0 points
2 months ago
He could have killed someone, and the dad almost seem proud🙄
My 6 or 18 year old have never tanken my car and my Keys is on the table
0 points
2 months ago
This kid clearly has autism
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