A Five-Year-Old Was Stopped By Police On His Way To 'Buy A Lamborghini'
When I was five, my interests mostly revolved around watching cartoons and leaving Lego bricks in dangerous places. Sometimes at the same time. A five-year-old in Utah, however, had his sights set higher. He wanted his folks to buy him a Lamborghini, and his mother saying ‘no’ wasn’t going to stop him.
With a whole $3 in his pocket, the kid made off with his parent’s SUV on an apparent trip to California - 800 miles away - to make his purchase. We’d like to think he had an Aventador SVJ in mind.
He made it from 17th and Lincoln in Ogden to the 25th Street off-ramp of the I-15 - about two miles - before the law brought his road trip to an end. Utah Highway Patrol officers pulled over the vehicle, which was weaving from side to side and travelling between 15 and 30mph, initially thinking they were looking at a drunk driver.
When Trooper Rick Morgan opened the door, he realised this wasn’t going to be any normal stop. “He was sitting on the front edge of the seat so that he could reach the brake pedal to keep the car stopped while I was standing there,” Morgan said to KSL-TV.
Morgan had to help the diminutive driver get the vehicle into park, preventing any further drama. The parents were contacted, who came to the scene to collect the boy. He initially told Morgan he was travelling to his sister’s house, later explaining to another trooper he was going to buy a Lamborghini upon arrival.
The local prosecutor will be deciding whether or not to charge the boy’s parents, who’d left him in the care of a sibling while out of the house.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Manual transmission would have foiled this little bugger. That, and/or a cheeky Disklok.
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Oh this triggered so many good memories of CT, you have made my day
Got to respect the grind, this kid going places. Mostly youth detention, but y’know.
Surprised he didn’t kill anyone.
recently there were some of 13yr olds that stole a rental car and managed to kill a college student on a motorbike here where i live.
Shit could have gone seriously wrong real quick smh
Well he doesn’t have enough hormones to be truly dangerous yet. 13 -23 is the worst demographic of people on the planet.
if the parents had gotten the kid test drive unlimited this whole fiasco could’ve been avoided.
good idea, but I’d rather give the kid a go-kart and have the kid drive around the block
Lamborghini California should respond, maybe give him a small toy to play with. Kids like this is not easily defeated. So we just tend to their needs
This sounds like something I would have done when I was 5
That kid’s going places… Literally
Looks like someone’s going to end up on Santa’s naughty list this year in December…