Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SAND LAKE, Mich., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Police say they won't press charges against the 4-year-old Michigan boy caught driving to a video store in the middle of the night. The unidentified boy's video games were taken away from him as a punishment and he was determined to replace them, officials said. So he took his mother's car during the early hours Friday morning. Advertisement He drove to Home Video, a quarter-mile road from his home in Sand Lake, Mich. Many have wondered how the small boy was able to drive his mother's 1990 Geo Prizm. Sand Lake police said the boy pushed the gas pedal to get the automobile started, then cruised about 7 mph on a high idle. His mother said she had allowed him to sit in her lap and steer the car, so he knew how to work the gear shift, reported Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press Tuesday. The boy may have made it home without incident had police not spotted the swerving car and surrounded it -- at which point the boy panicked and put the car in reverse, hit the gas and crashed into a police cruiser. No one was injured. Advertisement
