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Comes across as someone who seems to think they and their son have special privileges since they didn't seem to see any problems with this. Money can really cloud judgment as I bet in whatever businees he's in no one says no.
 
I'd NEVER let our 8year old Granddaughter drive our Ferrari.

- Doug
 
MikeP said:
Comes across as someone who seems to think they and their son have special privileges since they didn't seem to see any problems with this. Money can really cloud judgment as I bet in whatever businees he's in no one says no.
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I don't think stupidity isaa function of money. A few years ago I called police on an idiot who was driving down our gravel street in his Dodge Aspen with his 9yo girl on the hood! She was delivering GS Cookies or some such and just rode on the hood of the car as Dad drove from house to house.
 
It is funny though that fine line between safe and stupid. Sometimes the line is crossed by the vehicle, other times by the circumstance. For instance, at 11, my father let me drive home from church - but in an LTD not a Ferrari - which somehow makes it better. (And yes, 11 isn't 9) Likewise, as a child we rode on the car (admittedly more frequently tailgate - while camping) somehow dirt roads made it better than Girl Guide Cookies. This is not to say that I was right and they wrong, or, even that they were right, but, at the very least, it is worth considering how the Media spins stuff (and what the hook is Ferrari, Cookies etc) and, how easily a "fun" idea can turn stupid or tragic.

I know, far to serious for a "New of the Weird" friday post. :crazyeyes:
 
Well, here's how I look at it: the guy knew his kid and his kid knew his shizzle. Hats off to the kid, cause at 9, the throttle would'a hit the floor before my azz would'a hit the seat. So, money BS aside, props to Pops fer learnin him right and props to the kid fer showin' Pops his faith was well founded. Aint a matter of rich or poor, rather parenting at it finest, 'cause if he wasn't, the kid wouldn't be able to handle it. Many a young'un plowed a row with yonder John Deere. :whistle: Sure, it won't do 180 MPH, but it'll flip and squish ya in nuthin' flat. :wink:
 
My wife was driving grain trucks when she was 10.....but that was in wide open fields in very rural Minnesota in 1969.....different time, different place......
 
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