HOUSTON, Texas -- A Texas boy is not waiting for his license to hit the road.
Police say the 11-year-old special needs student stole his teacher's car keys from her purse and went on a joy ride through Houston on Monday. An officer pulled him over eight miles from the school.
The student is charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
The boy's mother says this is not her son's fault and she partly blamed the school.
"If he's able to slip away like that, I mean somebody is not doing their job," said the boy's mother, Lashonda MaGee, according to a
Houston news source.
MaGee says her son learned to drive by playing video games and has a dangerous fascination with car keys.
And this is not the first time the boy has stolen a car from the school's parking lot.
In March of last year, Houston authorities say he stole the keys to his assistant principal's car and drove ten miles away from school. He was stopped when he got into a minor wreck in which no one was injured.
