{"id":11432,"date":"2013-01-04T23:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T23:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2013-01-04T23:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T23:12:28","slug":"the-crassest-parents-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11432","title":{"rendered":"The Crassest Parents On The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one appeared on the newsfeeds today. Up in Scotland, an example of the crassest parents imaginable filmed their 7-year old daughter driving the family BMW.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11432-1\" width=\"520\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seven_yog1.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seven_yog1.flv\">https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seven_yog1.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>You can view <a title=\"Seven year old girl driving car in Scotland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ceZzVoG0P38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an original YouTube clip here<\/a>, although I don\u2019t think this is THE original. In fact, I\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0be surprised if the parents who posted it in the first place haven\u2019t pulled it down now, having realised what a deep pile of shit they&#8217;ve gotten themselves into.<\/p>\n<p>The girl is clearly not wearing a seatbelt. She appears to be controlling the pedals herself, though the news article says she\u2019s on her mother\u2019s lap. Either way, several laws are being broken. A seven year old girl driving a car is not something decent parents should be encouraging. The father has defended it, saying his father did it with him and he \u201cpassed his test first time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. But look what a crap parent it\u2019s turned him into. He hasn\u2019t worked that one out for himself yet, has he?<\/p>\n<p>In the article, the stunt is condemned by IAM, but they need to be careful about sending out mixed messages to people with the IQs of frogs, as they also support the <a title=\"Driving Is For Adults, Not For Children: I\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">young driver initiative<\/a> I have criticised on several previous occasions. Because when it comes down to it, the parents of this Scottish girl are not that much different to those who gleefully send their 11-year olds for driving lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The parents of that girl are going to be in serious trouble. And it serves them right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one appeared on the newsfeeds today. Up in Scotland, an example of the crassest parents imaginable filmed their 7-year old daughter driving the family BMW. You can view an original YouTube clip here, although I don\u2019t think this is THE original. In fact, I\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0be surprised if the parents who posted it in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,86,102,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-bad-drivers","category-general-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}