Son,9Attempts to drive drunk father home

Yahoo News, Channal 10 ^ | 5/10/05

[Fido969]

Hmmm... Dad's "visitation".

Well, I hope the judge knocks some sense into the sot and he gets into AA or something. Otherwise - supervised visitation only.

[76834]

I learned to drive kinda like that.
About 9 years old and back in the 50's so that should give you some idea how old I am.
Had a standard shift Chevy pick up, didnt think I would ever master the clutch.
Out on country roads and Dad was not drinking but in total supervision mode.
Taught me everything essential about driving.

[Pylon]

The amazing thing here too is that the intersection they pulled him over at is a very busy intersection of 2 very busy streets. I wonder how far the kid drove before getting pulled over?

[Cate]

Hmmm.... 8:30pm and those two boys should have had dinner, baths and getting ready to go to bed. But no, another example of a selfish parent putting his needs before the childrens. It never ceases to amaze me that people who have children don't understand that for the next 18 + years, the parent needs to put the child first. If the children are lucky, they won't have to 'visit' dad for a few years.

[RichInOC]

He's a better kid than his parents deserve.

[muir_redwoods]

Some folks have to hit bottom to start back up. I hope this father finds a way to become a man and accept both his inability to drink responsibly and his responsibility as a man and as a father.

What he does now is what he is all about.

[supercat]

The officer pulled the car over, but the siren apparently flustered the boy and he drove up on a curb and stopped just before hitting a telephone pole, 10News reported.

Since he stopped before the pole, does the fact that he hit the pole mean he started moving again after he'd stopped?

[GSlob]

This boy of 9 has quite a potential. Hopefully, his character will blossom further and will not be smothered by idukators.

[Pylon]

I think the writer meant he stopped short of the pole, just used a different way to phrase it

[supercat]

I think the writer meant he stopped short of the pole, just used a different way to phrase it

You're probably right, but for some reason I didn't parse it like that. IMHO, that construct works fine in the conditional past tense: "Had he applied the brake sooner, he could have stopped before hitting the telephone pole," but in the simple past tense it doesn't really.

[pissant]

I'm not nine, you silly woman!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

When I was about 3 or 4, my father came home drunk.
I thought he was so funny that I went to all my neighbors and told them "Come see my father, he is drunk".
He quit drinking.