Eight year old boy drives truck on interstate

From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (7-31-11):

BATON ROUGE, La

State police said an 8-year old boy was driving a pickup truck down an interstate while his drunken father slept in the passenger seat. Troopers said the man's 4-year-old daughter was in the back seat when the truck was stopped Saturday morning. The boy's driving was so erratic that it alarmed other motorists, who called authorities.

The children were handed over to the Louisiana Child Protective Servies. The father, 28-year-old Billy Joe Madden of Hattisburg, Miss., was booked on charges including Child Desertion and Allowing a Minor to Drive.