Thursday, April 18, 2013

O1: Currin Event



For my CURRIN EVENT (ha!) this week, I went to my favorite current event website, and a title immediately caught my eye: ‘Police pull over a 6-year-old who was out driving to get Chinese food’.

How could anyone resist reading that?  I clicked on the link, and the actual article was pretty much summed up by the title, but since I have to write three hundred words, I shall provide you with the rest of the story.  Ahem.

This whole thing happened in Michigan, which is apparently where the Chinese food is REALLY good.  Citizens reported seeing a little boy driving a truck through the village and hitting-and-running a street sign.  The police responded, and surrounded the truck with police cars.  They pulled over the kid, who was only six years old.  The police then got the scoop about what he was actually doing, and you’d think the kid does this every day.  His response: “I was getting Chinese food.”

The police later found out that the truck was his dad’s, who was sleeping the whole time his toddler stole his keys, backed out of the driveway, and went for a Sunday drive into the village.  No one was hurt during the incident, and the kid (whose name was not revealed, which sucks because I want to name my kid after him) admitted that he’d never driven or even sat on his dad’s lap and steered before. 

One thing I found interesting about this article is the way the police pulled the kid over.  Apparently, they reached into the driver side window of the truck and pulled the keys out of the ignition.  Now, I don’t know how fast the truck was going when they did this, but either way, you have to admit that that’s pretty impressive.

Also, if that kid did not receive Chinese food after the whole incident, there is something seriously wrong with this world.

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