I'm just going to lock the door to my office for the rest of the day and pretend I don't live in America anymore. I'm not sure why this is the last straw, but it is.

Meh, DJ Connor was doing this same shit 15 years ago.

Yeah, like maybe no more "Grand Theft Auto"?!!? 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap' as brak and others were discussing on a previous thread....

Oh its so adorable when seven year olds want to be hood rats! Next he'll want to rob the local convenience store.
My favorite part of the quote comes from his grandmother, who is raising him, when she says she would love to beat him if she wouldn't be arrested for it.

Oh lord. I know this is horrible, but I find this HILARIOUS!

Good lord. This ain't Grand Theft Auto IV, kid...Someone should smack some sense into this little punk.

i'm scared of having children at this point.

Is this some sort of odd tie-in for the new Grand Theft Auto game coming out today??? Jesus.

How do you punish a kid like that? Is it possible? At 7 he already seems so jaded.

@DorothyZbornak: When I first read that, I saw "DJ TANNER" and thought, well, I guess I missed that episode of Full House.

hahaha-- i can't watch the video at work, but his swagger cracks me up. i used to work at a day camp, and we had one little boy (about 7 or 8) who walked the same way. he also spent an entire day singing "i'm a motherfuckin' P-I-M-P" at the top of his lungs. we couldn't get him to stop, and it was quite frankly pretty hilarious.

Countdown to someone blaming hip hop for this 3...2..1

What a fucking brat.

Related: Liberty City (as in the new Grand Theft Auto) is a part of Miami.

Can't watch the video now, but I feel bad for the people whose property was destroyed/damaged. I wonder if the grandmother will actually have to pay for it or if the owners will just be left with the bill?

Seriously, Florida? Do you want to keep bringing us tales of juvies gone bad and then we at Jezebel can continue to debate whether they need to be shown the consequences of their actions? I am just plain exhausted. Go away, Florida.

@ElleL: No silly, it was Stephanie Tanner who backed the car into the kitchen.

*hangs head in shame*

@SVreader: The cops in the clip told the little boy that the grandmother would have to pay for it. Saddest part: when he then asked "can my mom help [pay]?"

No video games? He needs a spanking!

Oh dear. Well, taking the BC pill this morning was totally unnecessary. Watching this is enough to keep the kids away.

This is incredibly depressing to me. He's in the first grade! I do hope they "get him help" now, like mr. reporter said cause if this is what he thinks is fun as a 7-year-old, I'm scared what will happen when he's 13.

Well, let's the serious here. 7 year moppit knows this interview will be seen by all his friends, so yea he's going to whoop it up and try to seem as 'gangsta' as possible. I guarantee he won't be able to sit down for a month if his grandma is ANYWHERE near the typical black grandma raising nth grandchild.

Well, THAT'S coming out of his allowance.

@ElleL: HA, no, but remember, Stephanie Tanner did drive Uncle Jesse's car into the kitchen. Those Tanner kids were no angels either!

@ElleL: I was going to say how rather timely of this to happen. Maybe they are in cahoots? People cannot say that video games aren't harmful. Also interesting that the worst punishment he could think of was that he couldnt play video games.
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they grow up so fast these days...

another WTF brought to you by the great state of florida.

"I wanna whip his behind, that's what I want to do; If I didn't think I'd go to jail"
For some reason Grandma, I don't think anyone is going to get on your ass for punishing this child.

And,um, Florida? What's really good?

@battleaxonista: Eh, I don't think so. Not many 7-year-olds watch the news.

It may be horrible, but I wish the cop had been more mean to this kid. Who's going to teach him? And I don't care if this kid has never seen GTA -- I loathe that game.

Moody. Can ya tell?

@PinkSoxHat: @DorothyZbornak:

But remember when DJ drove Uncle Jesse's hot new convertable and took a turn too tight and scraped the whole side? Ah, good times!

And little Stephanie: how rude!

He needs his butt whooped and his attitude taken down a notch or three. At 7? Oh, hell, no.

@battleaxonista: If his grandma was typical for Detroit, we'd have seen her chasing him down the street ON CAMERA with the neighborhood cheering her on. She wouldn't have been concerned about being arrested.

Seems like that young man has been ignored too long already.

@ElleL: Whoa, I read that too.

@PinkSoxHat: THERES A CAR IN THE KITCHEN.

Its so outlandish its laughable. I wish they would let Gramma beat his ass without being arrested. Gramma had a nice ride ya'll....see them rims? Damn.

All the more reason I'm glad to be out of Florida.

I couldn't even make the car go when I started to learn to drive at 16 . . . i'm weirdly impressed/ashamed . . .

all of which is of course tempered with the fact that he COULD HAVE KILLED PEOPLE and the feeling he wouldn't have felt that bad afterwards . . .

The fact that a seven year old thinks he knows what a "hood rat" does scares the hell out of me.

And the two of them driving several miles and wanting to hit a car?

The mind. She is blown...

@virtualcatlady (formerlycuteasabutton): EXACTLY.

Apparently someone has a brilliant marketing team. Ha.

@lurkystars: I doubt she would have had to chase him. The neighbors would stop him and hold him for her.

@lurkystars: I'm telling you now Memaw Betty (God rest her soul) would have beaten my ASS and wouldn't have cared who was watching! She would have gone to jail willingly if I'd pulled that shit on her!

@virtualcatlady (formerlycuteasabutton): Why not blame Bart Simpson while you're at it? There are at least two episodes of The Simpsons where he's driving.

Video games sell millions. There aren't millions of kids joyriding in grandma's car. At best this type of story turns up in the news a couple times a year and it's usually treated with a wink and a smile, but this time the property damage let you know how dangerous it can be.

Kids in my neighborhood (upper middle-class suburbia) used to take one family's car, take off the emergency break and push it up an down the street while another kid "drove." We weren't sorry when we got caught either. None of us ended up serial killers. Point: This isn't necessarily that big of a deal and has probably been happening to varying degrees in every neighborhood in American for decades.

appropriate punishment: the corporal variety.

I was sooooo innocent at age 7.

I think his punishment should include several hours of Sesame Street.

And some Reading Rainbow.

@virtualcatlady (formerlycuteasabutton): You may also be interested in my pending lawsuit against Tony Hawk, whose video game turned me into a professional skateboarder.

@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: I'm with the grandma, that boy needs a whoopin'!

Off topic: How sad is it that the grandma would discipline him, except she is afraid of being sent to jail? My children got spanked when they were young, and they learned that there are certain things that you DON'T DO.

I really feel like someone needed to drive home the fact that he could have killed people. Show him pictures of mangled bodies or something. I don't care if it fucks him up a bit. I'm all for the Clockwork Orange approach.

Poor Grandma! "If I didn't think they was gonna take me to jail, that's what I'd do: I'd whip his behind."

She should do it anyway.

America: sometimes, kids need spankings.

he is *so cute* bless him only 7 years old!! glad no one got hurt... worried that they are getting him into 'the system' what do they mean by that eh??

@ElleL: Same thing! I was picturing Candice Cameron driving thru the living room wall (you know, like the all did) with the guilty look on her face, but something didn't seem right. Thanks for clearing that up!

Man, this kid got fat from EATING AWESOME.

This is just the type of thing that makes me want to raise my kids in a claim shanty a la Little House on the Prairie. CLAIM SHANTY.

This stuff happens alot. Alot. And the only reason he got caught was cause he broke stuff. Lets not make a big deal about this CNN, isn't there more important shit out there to feign moral outrage at?