12-yr-old Boy Drives 800 Miles Across Australia

>A 12-year-old boy who managed to drive 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) across remote Australia has been reunited with his parents, police said.
>The young driver was attempting to cross the vast country solo when he was stopped by police in Broken Hill, New South Wales, on Saturday.
>The highway patrol approached him because there was some light damage to the rear of the vehicle, a police statement said.

>When checks revealed the driver was only 12 years old, he was taken to Broken Hill police station.
>The boy's ambitious journey began in Kendall, News South Wales, and he was headed to Perth in Western Australia when he was stopped, police said.
>The drive to Perth would have covered an enormous 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) in total -- the equivalent of driving from New York to Las Vegas, or three times the length of the UK. If he'd driven non-stop, it would have taken more than 40 hours.
>It was not immediately clear why the boy embarked on his trip. Social media users expressed some surprise that he had managed to get as far as he did.
>Related: Highway patrol finds backpacker held hostage in vehicle
>"The kid would had to have refueled on the way, so how did he without raising suspicion?" One Facebook post said. Police said inquiries were ongoing.

Quoted because that one guy hates it.

>>134929
that's as good a reason as any

>>134926
>Fucking Nowhere (pic related).

>>134929
>>Related: Highway patrol finds backpacker held hostage in vehicle

The kid took a hostage?! Holy Shit!

>>134926
>a 12-yr-old boy has drives 800 miles across new south wales

So what? It's not like there's anything out there with which to collide.

>12 year old boy sucessfully drives across wide empty stretch of nothingness

>>134995
>The kid took a hostage?! Holy Shit!
That caught my eye too.
But "related" is a vast overstatement.
It's a link to an unrelated story.
Not even the same state.

>>134926
What a bad ass

>>134926
What a fuckin deadset cooked cunt

>>134929
>Related: Highway patrol finds backpacker held hostage in vehicle

Does Australia still have issues with backpacker murders?

>>135800
Ahem.

>Backpack murders
vs
>School shootings

Take your pick, I choose backpack murderers.

>>134929
>Social media users expressed some surprise that he had managed to get as far as he did.

WHO THE FUCK CARES

>"The kid would had to have refueled on the way, so how did he without raising suspicion?" One Facebook post said.

WOW THANKS CNN FOR THAT INSIGHTFUL COMMENTARY FROM LITERALLY WHO OF FUCKSVILLE, FACEBOOK