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CYPRESS, Texas – A 13-year-old lovestruck girl who stole her brother's car to visit a 12-year-old Kentucky boy she met online was allowed to meet him in person Friday.

Elizabeth Annette Robinson stole her mom's ATM card, snuck out her bedroom window, hopped into the car and drove more than a thousand miles in an effort to meet the object of her affection, Dylan.

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I wonder why she had the password for her mother's ATM card.

WildBill wrote:
I wonder why she had the password for her mother's ATM card.

Choose the "credit" option you do not need the pin.


Anygunanywhere

anygunanywhere wrote:

WildBill wrote:
I wonder why she had the password for her mother's ATM card.

Choose the "credit" option you do not need the pin.


Anygunanywhere

I guess I'm not smarter than a 13 year old.

Wow - I had a very similar thing happen to a co-worker of mine.

Her headstrong daughter stole the mother's Oldsmobile Intrigue from their home in Flower Mound, Denton County, Texas
and drove it to Cherokee County, GA. That is about an 820 mile trip, if you measure it to Woodstock, the county seat.
That is right up the street from where I lived in Acworth, Cobb County, GA.

While travelling from Flower Mound to Georgia, the daughter had gotten into a fender bender with a man in Alabama,
apparently exchanged information with him, but the police were not involved. The cars were dented, but drivable.

The mother had to fly from Dallas to Atlanta, rent a car, and go through some court proceedings to regain custody of her
daughter. The mother had assumed that her Olds would be in the same town as the court proceedings - wrong! So after
she regained custody of her wild child, she had to get across Cherokee County, GA in order to get her damaged car and drive back
to Flower Mound.

As a side note, the mother was in a live-in arrangement with a man who had a much younger daughter, and owned the Flower Mound
house (a nice one). The boyfriend wanted his stepdaughter to move out as soon as she hit 18 since he didn't want her bad behavior
to rub off on his daughter. The mother of the wild child said "no way I'm making her move out." That was the end of the relationship.

SIA

Austin today
Updated: Friday, 07 Sep 2012, 5:38 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 07 Sep 2012, 12:42 PM CDT
Boy, 13, leads cops on car chase
Teen also had a handgun
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/aust ... -car-chase" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/ ... after.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
handgun, couple pellet guns, couple knives, grandpa's van

A 13-year-old boy who police say led officers on a five-minute car chase through North Austin this morning has been charged with several felonies,

surprise_i'm_armed wrote:As a side note, the mother was in a live-in arrangement with a man who had a much younger daughter, and owned the Flower Mound
house (a nice one). The boyfriend wanted his stepdaughter to move out as soon as she hit 18 since he didn't want her bad behavior
to rub off on his daughter. The mother of the wild child said "no way I'm making her move out." That was the end of the relationship.

Good for him for putting his daughter's welfare ahead of his love life.

I can think of a few different things my child would have "gotten" after a stunt like that.. her way, would not have been one of them.

Not much to wounder about, as to how said child got the mental and morel position to do something like that... when parents cave in after the fact and still let her have her way. Perhaps this is a case of parent knows best, and from the casual observation on the outside (me) i don't know what would have been the better choice.


nope thats not likely

smoothoperator wrote:

surprise_i'm_armed wrote:As a side note, the mother was in a live-in arrangement with a man

Good for him for putting his daughter's welfare ahead of his love life.

No, I'd have said "good for him" if the example he set was a man and a woman should only live together when they are married. I'm not impressed by the shack-up arrangement. It was obviously a poor example for the older daughter.

I know this day and age it seems shack-ups are commonplace, but I'll still speak up and state my truth: that isn't the plan that God intends.

In the Christian tradition, the importance and sanctity of marriage is demonstrated by the fact that our Lord chose that occasion as his first public miracle.

WildBill wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:

WildBill wrote:I wonder why she had the password for her mother's ATM card.

Choose the "credit" option you do not need the pin.

I guess I'm not smarter than a 13 year old.

I watched the video.

In the video, they said she stopped for gas in Hope AR. The ATM card was declined 6 times, but strangers gave her gas money. The ATM usage is what alerted law enforcement to her position.

The trooper in Nashville, aware of the Amber alert, figured if she was in Hope, AR at 2:00 pm, then she should be in Nashville around 10:00-11:00 pm. He pulled over to watch for her. Sure enough, he spotted her at 10:24. Good police work!

Jumping Frog wrote:I know this day and age it seems shack-ups are commonplace, but I'll still speak up and state my truth: that isn't the plan that God intends.

In the Christian tradition, the importance and sanctity of marriage is demonstrated by the fact that our Lord chose that occasion as his first public miracle.

Your freedom of religion is protected by the First Amendment. But so is his.

smoothoperator wrote: Your freedom of religion is protected by the First Amendment. But so is his.

Quite true.

I wonder what he is going to say when his darling little girl wants to shack with the tatooed, pierced grunge rock singer when she is still a teen. Parents should think about the example they set in front of their children. Children mimic their parents behavior.

Anygunanywhere

smoothoperator wrote:

surprise_i'm_armed wrote:As a side note, the mother was in a live-in arrangement with a man

Good for him for putting his daughter's welfare ahead of his love life.

Jumping Frog wrote:No, I'd have said "good for him" if the example he set was a man and a woman should only live together when they are married. . . .

smoothoperator wrote:Your freedom of religion is protected by the First Amendment. But so is his.

Oh, I agree he has the his First Amendment right and would not want to change that.

I am simply saying that he doesn't get an "atta boy" from me for that lifestyle choice.

Not that he is laying awake at night worrying about my opinion. . . .

Edited to fix quotes

Problem #1 in this situation. Why, in the name of all that is good in this world, is a a 12 year old permitted to have a boy friend. She should still be playing with easy bake ovens and carrying dolls around. In my house, unacceptable! There is no need to play at marriage or to start searching for a mate while still wearing training bras and braces.

Jumping Frog wrote:No, I'd have said "good for him" if the example he set was a man and a woman should only live together when they are married. I'm not impressed by the shack-up arrangement. It was obviously a poor example for the older daughter.

If they were married, and the wild child ran off to elope with her cross country boyfriend, would you be consistent and blame the example the parents set?

Hector wrote:....would you be consistent and blame the example the parents set?

I wasn't "blaming" the father for the girl's behavior. I was simply expressing that I did not regard it as a good example.

Kids are going to do what they do. You have kids do bad things that come from good parents and good homes, and you have kids that turn out great that grew up in bad circumstances. Ultimately, kids is responsible for their own choices.