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dipsydoodle

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Fri Feb 14, 2014, 11:12 AM Feb 2014

Boy, 10, steals parents' car to visit grandparents 68 miles away

... then tells police he is a dwarf who has forgotten his licence.

A ten-year-old Norwegian boy who drove his parents’ car into a snowy ditch offered an inventive excuse to police: he was a dwarf who had forgotten his driver’s license.

The boy – who lives near Dokka, a town 110kms (68 miles) north of Oslo – put his 18-month old sister into the car sometime before 6am, while his parents were still sleeping and set off to visit his grandparents in Valdres, about 60 kilometres away.

He drove more than 10 kilometres before veering off the road, where he was found by a snowplow driver who alerted police.

‘The parents woke up and discovered that the children were missing and that someone had taken off with their car. They were pretty upset, as you can imagine,’ said Baard Christiansen, a spokesman for the Vest Oppland police district.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558223/10-year-old-boy-steals-parents-car-visit-grandparents-tells-police-dwarf-forgot-drivers-license.html#ixzz2tJFnfDsc

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Boy, 10, steals parents' car to visit grandparents 68 miles away (Original Post) dipsydoodle Feb 2014 OP
And told cops he was a dwarf who'd forgotten his drivers' license! The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2014 #1

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. And told cops he was a dwarf who'd forgotten his drivers' license!
Fri Feb 14, 2014, 11:26 AM
Feb 2014

Clever kid. Although since this was in Norway I wonder if he actually told the cops he was a Nisse.

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