Joy Ride

Boy Takes Underage Driving to New Extreme Wed Feb 9, 9:50 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters DETROIT (Reuters) - A 4-year-old Michigan boy took underage driving to new extremes by slipping behind the wheel of his mother's car for an overnight visit to the local video store. Nile Hayden, mayor of the small town of Sand Lake in the southwest corner of the state, said the boy's joy ride, which ended with more than one fender bender, occurred about 1:30 a.m. last Friday. He drove about a quarter mile from his home to the video store without incident, Hayden told Reuters. The store was closed. On the boy's return home, he hit two parked vehicles before backing up into a police cruiser, Hayden said. "Once the officers got him out of the car and sat him on the hood of our car, he started crying and saying: 'I want to go into the house. I want to go back to bed,'" Hayden said. Hayden said the boy was unaware of the seriousness of what he had done. "How many 4-year-olds get up and wander around the house or go out (at night)?" he added, saying no charges were being filed in the case. "What he was doing was jump down, hit the accelerator, and get back up so he could see where he was going," Hayden said, explaining how someone who was too short to reach the floor pedals was able to drive a car. "It looked like a drunk passing in and out."