{"id":6589,"date":"2011-07-30T23:46:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2011-07-30T23:46:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:46:01","slug":"8-year-old-driver-nabbed-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6589","title":{"rendered":"8-year Old Driver Nabbed by Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6590 lazyload\" title=\"Simpsons - Spring Break\" alt=\"Simpsons - Spring Break\" width=\"180\" height=\"136\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bart_spring_brk.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/136;\" \/>This is incredible. An <span style=\"color: #800000\">American story via the newsfeeds reports that State Troopers in Louisiana responded to a call from a concerned motorist regarding a pick-up truck being driven erratically on the Interstate (motorway).<\/p>\n<p>When they stopped it, they realised the driver was an 8-year old boy. His 4-year old sister was in the back seat, and his father &#8211; Billy Joe Madden &#8211; was drunk and asleep in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was driving from Hattiesburg (Mississippi) to Dallas (Texas). The distance is 490 miles, and would take 8\u00bd hours. I&#8217;ll repeat that &#8211; 490 miles and 8\u00bd hours!<\/p>\n<p>Half of you wants to laugh at such a bizarre situation. However, the father was arrested on the following counts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>child desertion<\/li>\n<li>parent allowing minor to drive<\/li>\n<li>open container (alcohol)<\/li>\n<li>no child restraint (two counts &#8211; the boy wasn&#8217;t wearing a seatbelt, and the younger girl had no restraint)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The children were handed over to the American social services until a family member could collect them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is incredible. An American story via the newsfeeds reports that State Troopers in Louisiana responded to a call from a concerned motorist regarding a pick-up truck being driven erratically on the Interstate (motorway). When they stopped it, they realised the driver was an 8-year old boy. His 4-year old sister was in the back [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-world-related"],"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\/6589","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=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}