Perhaps legal driving age should be dropped to 11!
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My parents taught me when I was 12 or 13 on a dusty remote road in Saskatchewan. Didn't read the article but if she was off road, I don't really see the issue.
When I was about that age, something happened that you wouldn't see now....Highway 11 up north wasn't as busy then as it is now.
Coming back from town where my Dad had a few too many, we got pulled over by the O.P.P. because my dad when he drank drove real slow.....
Since we were only one mile from the concession road where we lived, the officer looks at me and asks if I knew how to drive a standard (He knew us farm kids drove tractors around anyway)
He followed us to the house while I drove and just gave my Dad a warning.....
Them good old days.........
Having read the article .... the parents were unaware that their 11 year old was driving their neighbour around? So the kid would disappear and they wouldn't know where he went? Doesn't sound right unless that was just their excuse to the cops.
At least two states, New Mexico and Utah, licensed drivers at 14, well into the 1970's.
But, this neighbor was wrong to do that without telling the kids parents.
But, this neighbor was wrong to do that without telling the kids parents.
I was around the same age when tossed the keys to the 10 ton grain truck, prior to that I was running the JD 2010 for few years.
my guy was driving a tractor by the time he was six...mind you that was a long long time ago but I am sure he was on the road at an *cough* early age...
the kid obviously was an okay driver...which doesn't take much these days considering the idjits out there
I doubt the parents knew...he likely just said he was going next door to help out with chores and it was likely "their little secret". He will have a great memory for life.
I remember them catching some kid a few years ago and he had taken the family car to visit grandma in I think it was Hamilton.
the kid obviously was an okay driver...which doesn't take much these days considering the idjits out there
I doubt the parents knew...he likely just said he was going next door to help out with chores and it was likely "their little secret". He will have a great memory for life.
I remember them catching some kid a few years ago and he had taken the family car to visit grandma in I think it was Hamilton.
I drove young, and my daughter started driving around the acreage by 12. But never on roads. My son will be taught this summer as well, as he's turning 12 too. I don't think anyone can rationally defend her letting a kid that young drive in the city to run errands though, especially if he was so small as to immediately grab a cop's attention. Now, my son, not quite 12, has already outgrown me, so he could probably pass, in other words, see over the steering wheel and reach the pedals, but most kids his age couldn't.
My sisters and I all started learning to drive on the farm around ages 11 to 12 depending on whether we could reach the pedals of Dad's old International pick-up. By age 14 we could drive the PU, the grain truck, the tractor and the combine. If I remember correctly though, Dad had to get some kind of dispensation in order for us to cross public roads in order to reach our fields on the other side.
I can't find the other story about the kid who took the car but check out this future mobster:
the kid is 7
7 years old kid steals car - Snotr
the kid is 7
7 years old kid steals car - Snotr
he is going to a very very bad place, but then again, he likely has come from a very very bad place as mum has lost custody to grandma and the kid was mad at mum. 'bout says it all right there