7-Year-Old Joy-Riding Hood-Rat-In-Training Shifts Gears

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Who remembers this this fellow from 2008?

7-Year-Old Steals SUV, Goes On Joyride

Latarian Milton is not your typical 7-year-old. Few his age have ever driven an SUV up and down several busy streets. It all started at his mother's townhouse..."I took my grandmother's car because I got mad at my mom. And I saw my friend come in and he smoke cigarettes. He started the vehicle and put it into gear. I yanked...the thing and off they went," Latarian said.

"We got the one call that I told you about of a driver in the vehicle who looked too short to see over the steering wheel," said Ellen Lovejoy, Palm Beach Gardens Police Department.

Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two park cars in a Costco parking lot and struck two moving cars near a Wal-Mart.

"I wanted to do it because it's fun, fun to do bad things, to drive into a car," Latarian said. "I wanted to do hood rat stuff with my friend."

Back then, DU-ers suggested that getting involved in organized sports might help him with discipline, proper male adult role models, and getting him exercise. Well, he's turned over a new leaf:

The Kid Who Liked To Do Hood Rat Stuff With His Friends, Quit Doing Hood Rat Stuff

(Milton) became immortalized in that Boondocks episode where he was too much for even Riley.

The “hood rat” life is behind him now. Milton is bow a middle school graduate...(T)he station that did his infamous viral interview caught up with Milton earlier this week. Now 14, Milton is getting ready to go to high school with dreams of becoming football player.

“It’s going to be a good thing when I get into high school because I’ll be able to play on the football team, have some good success there and go to college,” Milton said.

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[Warpy]

1. Quite the turnaround

His early childhood must have been pretty chaotic, that was one angry 7 year old.

Grandma has done a wonderful job. I think most of us would have expected to see the kid in jail by now instead of looking forward to high school and college.

I hope he continues to do well, that the anger is gone forever.

[malaise]

2. How wonderful

Very cool