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Gjunai Gjursel has probably got some 'splainin to do after his three year old daughter Katarina decided to take a joyride through the Bulgarian town of Beli Lom. The tot apparently hopped into the driver's seat after dad stepped out, she grabbed the keys, turned on the car, shifted into drive and then took off. For a half a mile. Through an outside market. Eventually her skills came to an end and the car came to a stop in a river where she, and the four and six year old cousins accompanying her, were pulled out by locals.
There are a couple of amazing aspects to this story. First that despite the relatively poor driving skills of a 3-year-old, nobody was hurt. Second, that a youngin' would be able to pull something like this in the first place. Look out world, we've found the next Sabine Schmidt or Danica Patrick. [Ananova]
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And she still did less damage than the tollbooth woman.
Of course the 4 year old was smoking cigarettes and the 6 year old was quoted as saying "I just wanted to see her do some hoodrat stuff!"
The picture really disturbs me, mostly because of the hairy legs protruding from under the smiling child...HANDS SIR, HANDS!
Hope those kids were wearing Yates harnesses.
/going to hell now
My sister almost did this when she was four. My sister popped my aunt's Tercel out of neutral, and, because the hand brake wasn't engaged, it began to slowly roll down the hill, which at the end had a steep embankment. Had I not stalled the car by catching the open door, she would have been a goner.
Was she driving a van...down by the river?
She would have missed the river if she wasn't text messaging while she drove.
@Joetimek: I don't think the full body weight of a 4-year-old is enough to disengage the clutch in my car.
This just in: sport clutches save lives!
My brother tried this trick, and all he managed to hit was a tree. He tumbled out on the way, so you may not be able to attribute the tree strike entirely to him.
I wipe out my dad's car a half a mile at a time....
If it had been a boy 3 year old I bet he could have gone a full mile.
This coming from Ananova, without any other source, I don't believe an inch of this story.
Dong, where is my automobile?
@OldeEnglishD: very nice.
Judging by his Hot Wheels collection, my three year old believes the purpose of vehicles is to crash them, so needless to say, he won't be getting behind the wheel of a car until way after it's legal for him to do so. Oh, and I'm gonna keep my '02 Accent till he's 17 and that will be his first car. Because I love him and won't spoil him with a 2022 Mustang Electric (gasp!) or whatever the brats will be driving then.
[Laughs] Oto-mo-biiile?
as the famous "Jeremy Clarkson" once said in a special "cold" footage:
"SWWWEEEEETTT !!!"
OK, enough said; all hail the future 1st female F1 driver from central europe!
@combat chuck: I see PCH in that Accent's future.
My 6 year old niece did this to an old Honda--except she kept bouncing it off the closed garage door.
@AshWipe: Yeah, pretty much hell for you. See you there.
@GTBruiser: It's already halfway there. Let's just say my boy will get an early introduction to the joys of PCH.
Katrina strikes again!
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