Kids are pretty amazing when you think about it. Sure, they’re all icky and gross most of the time, but they can also store all kinds of useless information about dinosaurs, come with an entire extra set of teeth and grow into real life adults. They’re also good at terrifying their parents as one eight-year-old managed to do recently when they borrowed the family car for a solo Target run.
An eight-year-old girl from Ohio was reported missing on Sunday morning, reports ABC News. She was later found at a nearby Target, which she’d got to by driving her family car more than 10 miles all by herself. As ABC News reports:
The girl, whose name was not released, and the vehicle — a 2020 Nissan Rogue — were reported missing around 9 a.m. Sunday, Bedford police said. Family members said they had last seen the girl at the residence about two hours earlier.
As police launched an investigation, they learned a small child had been spotted driving a vehicle on a nearby road, but that vehicle could not be located. The SUV eventually was found a short time later in the parking lot of a Target store in Bainbridge, which is nearly 13 miles (21 kilometers) from her home.
Once the child was found by authorities at the store, she informed police who picked her up that she’d driven there herself and had made the journey with just a tiny bit of destruction after she hit a mailbox. Police confirmed that the girl was unharmed by the run-in with a mailbox or anything else on the drive. She was soon reunited with her family.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing, reports KTLA5, however it’s unlikely that charges will be pressed against the child.
Kids in America seem to have a penchant for stealing family cars, as this is far from the first time that a minor has been picked up after making off with a car. A five-year-old was pulled over in Utah recently and a three-year-old was even filmed driving a 1,000hp Ferrari.
