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6-Year Old Boy Goes to School, Grand Theft Auto-Style
January 6, 2009 | 4:06 PM PST

For a lot of kids, missing the bus means not having to go to school, unless someone else is around to take them. But for one six-year old from Virginia, that simply wasn't an option.

So what does he do?

He puts the "training" he'd received from playing games such as Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam to good use, taking his parents' 2005 Ford Taurus and drove six miles towards school, leaving his mother to sleep.

After making two 90-degree turns, passing several cars, and running off the rural two-lane road several times, his voyage came to an end when he ran afoul of an embankment and utility pole only a mile and a half from school.

"He was very intent on getting to school. When he got out of the car, he started walking to school. He did not want to miss breakfast and PE." -- Northumberland County Sheriff Chuck Wilkins, to The Associated Press


That school must serve one hell of a breakfast.

State police reported that the boy had suffered only minor injuries, with authorities driving him to school after a minor detour to the hospital to check out a bump on his head.

Unfortunately for his parents, things aren't so good: Jacqulyn Deana Waltman, 26, and David Eugene Dodson, 40, are each charged with child endangerment, according to Wilkins, with Waltman being held without bond, while Dodson being released on a $5,000 bond.

The good news is, that leaves him free to watch the kids. The bad news is, the kids are no longer there: They've been taken into protective custody.

Given the circumstances, this is almost like taking punishing the parents for letting them play an M-rated game.

Wilkins closes with this final thought: "This really is a story of miracles. The Lord was with him, along with everybody else on the highway."

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