Runaway Florida sibs, 10 and 11, stopped after driving 200 miles in mother’s car

[oldbrownhat]

Runaway Florida siblings, 10 and 11, stopped after driving 200 miles in mother's car

Two children stopped on interstate highway attempting to run away to California after mother confiscated girl's electronics

"...The Alachua county sheriff's office says deputies spotted the siblings' sedan on Interstate 75 near Gainesville in north Florida just before 4am Thursday. The children's mother had reported it stolen and her children missing four hours earlier in North Port, a city in south-west Florida.

The deputies, thinking that they were dealing with car thieves, drew their guns and ordered those inside the car to step out.

"Much to their surprise, deputies observed a 10-year-old male driver exit the vehicle along with his 11-year-old sister," the department said in a statement.

The children told deputies the girl had been upset that their mother had taken away her electronic devices for misbehaving, so the boy was driving her to California..."

Frosty times back at the ol' homestead

 

[6518John]

I would have been cutting my own switch from a black locust!

 

[robvious]

I can hear my father's belt crack...

 

[lihpster]

No offense to anyone that loves it there, but I'd steal a car to get out of Florida. Wouldn't go to CA though.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Gotta admit though, 200 miles is pretty darned good for a 10 year-old! I can just see, when he goes to take driving lessons in 6 or 7 years, telling the instructor, "I drove 200 miles when I was just 10."

 

[Mule Packer]

I don't even wanna think about what my dad would've done to me if I had done something like that. I can almost bet what would've been printed the next day in our town's newspaper: "Funeral services will be held Saturday."

 

[arjay]

I had a classmate at 13 who vanished for a week.Came back to school for a few days and told me he had stolen a car with his cousin and driven to Kansas to see their grandmother.Never saw him again [emoji50]

 

[Rustyt1953]

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0Al5QkxDE[/ame]

 

[steelslaver]

Gotta admit though, 200 miles is pretty darned good for a 10 year-old! I can just see, when he goes to take driving lessons in 6 or 7 years, telling the instructor, "I drove 200 miles when I was just 10."

Most 10 year olds around here can drive. The farm and ranch kids drive grain trucks before that.

As you drive down the highways around here you see cars and pickups parked beside gravel roads where they meet the pavement. They are "school cars" rural grade school kids drive them sometimes for miles every morning and evening to meet the school bus. Most of them have a license shortly after starting High school. You can get one at 15 here

I started my step kids out when they were that old on gravel roads with my Ford 1 ton. They both passed their drives test first time.

 

[RT44nut]

Never would have thought about running away, taking anything, or touching anything I was told not to touch! The sound instilled in my head of daddy's belt passing through the belt loops would have been enough of a deterrent. My oldest kid still remembers that sound on the cereal isle from 40 years ago when he dropped and pitched a fit for a box. He hasn't wanted or liked cereal since!

 

[SMSgt]

We like to get our next generation of Florida Man and Florida Woman started early.

 

[Heymatt]

Soooo, the kids are missing and the car is gone? Wonder what happened?
Me thinks apple tree syndrome is in play.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My F-I-L was driving my teenaged B-I-L and myself down a highway when we passed "Lane's Carryout." The dad asks his 16 year old son, Where do you buy your beer? He answered the Chinese carryout by Ivan's folks. Then Popps stated that he'd been buying Beer from "Fat" Lane since he was 14. (ca 1949) I knew he owned an old Ford T about then, so he could drive from school to work then home afterward, must have got the beer on the way home on paydays!

Ivan

My beer allowance was one beer a day that I worked construction. Started at 13 (summer of 1969) The joys of a family business!

 

[fiasconva]

Just the sound of that belt passing through the loops would probably get you locked up in this day and time. But I do remember it well.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Just the sound of that belt passing through the loops would probably get you locked up in this day and time...

Especially when the other kid would likely be live-streaming the "event" to social media
It would have been interesting (or maybe not!) to be a fly on the wall when the kids got home.

 

[SMSgt]

Just the sound of that belt passing through the loops would probably get you locked up in this day and time. But I do remember it well.

To this day the sight of a hairbrush gives me the willies.

 

[wood714]

No offense to anyone that loves it there, but I'd steal a car to get out of Florida. Wouldn't go to CA though.

I always wanted to visit the north west, till I started watching the news.

I have no plans on ever moving from the free state of Florida.

 

[steelslaver]

I have no plans on ever moving from the free state of Florida.

Just go ahead and grow mold there then

I like somethings about it, but its like living in a Suana

 

[wood714]

Just go ahead and grow mold there then

I like somethings about it, but its like living in a Suana

I moved here November 2001.

I've yet to experience a hotter more humid summer than ones I remember while living in Cincinnati.

 

[kamloops67]

Whatever happens I hope the kids are happy in the end
Misbehaved bratty kids , but they have courage and I kind of admire that in a child