An eight-year-old Ohio girl is home and safe after taking her mom’s SUV for a 13-mile drive to the local Target Store. Police in the town of Bedford shared the exploit on social media Sunday.
Girl home after adventure
A driver’s license doesn’t mean all that much, one 8-year-old girl from Bedford, Ohio, thought to herself.
She knew the way to Target and mom left her keys where she could get at them. What harm could it do? At least the generation after Gen Z seems to be taking some initiative.
Bedford police are having a chuckle about it, now that potential tragedies have been prevented. “Well I’ve finally found a woman who’s in more of a hurry to shop at Target than my wife,” Bedford PD posted on Facebook.
They described how the girl “took mommy’s car this morning and drove to Target in Bainbridge to shop.”
There was one minor mishap which the family will need to deal with soon. The girl admitted to police that in her travels, she accidentally hit a mailbox.
Without any other incidents, the young driver made it to the shopping mall. The first thing she did was hit the Starbucks.
Nissan Rogue in the lot
Frantic parents called police to report that both their daughter and their SUV were missing. The girl had last been seen at home about two hours before and they were instantly assuming the worst.
Police put out an alert and officers soon spotted the SUV with a child driver.
Before they could pull her over, she managed to evade them long enough to reach the strip mall with the Target store.
“Officers noticed her mother’s 2020 Nissan Rogue in the store’s parking lot.” The girl was soon located browsing casually through the aisles.
“Not sure what she bought, or if she was even able to use her Target app to save 5%,” police relate. “We did let her finish her Frappuccino. We’re not mean.”
Since officers didn’t specify how far the girl had traveled, local reporters “used Google Maps to determine that the store was more than 10 miles from where she reported missing, thus making her trip about a 20 to 25-minute drive.“
