14-year-old boy takes family SUV, picks up buddies, buys fireworks, they have a Roman candle fight..

[Miles Archer]

SKYWAY , Wash. - A 14-year-old boy, who took his parents' SUV for a joyride to get fireworks, wound up accidentally torching the vehicle outside the family's home Tuesday morning.

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According to the King County Sheriff's office, the boy took the family's SUV without permission, picked up some friends, went to buy fireworks to celebrate the 4th of July then returned home.

Deputies said the boys were having a Roman candle fight, shooting the fireworks at each other in the front yard, when one of the flames shot through an open window on the family's SUV.

The boys were unable to get the firework out of the car before the dash went up in flames and fire engulfed the car.

http://news3lv.com/news/local/teens-joyride-to-get-fireworks-ends-up-familys-van-torched-in-front-yard

[tazkcmo]

1. I hope he has a VERY smart dog

He'll need one to blame that on!

[VMA131Marine]

2. I question the use of the word "accidentally" in the original story title ...

This may have been unintentional, but it was certainly no accident.

[Initech]

3. Damn... how long do you get grounded for that?

[Blue_Tires]

4. In my day that would have been close to the

"Shipped off to Military Academy" level...

[OriginalGeek]

17. I was grounded for life for wrecking my first car

I was drunk and had only had my license a week but apparently neither of those were mitigating factors.

turned out to be less than a year as I moved the next year when I was 17.

I didn't learn shit from my step-asshole but I did learn never to drive drunk. I loved that car.

[TBA]

5. When my son was 9 he set off a gross of bottle rockets

inside my house. I was in the shower and he was walking down the hall heading outside to shoot them off. There was a little piece of cellophane loose flapping and he decided to burn it off with the lighter....

I banned him from bring fireworks into any home I owned for life. He's 39 now and to my knowledge he has respected the ban.

[pansypoo53219]

6. bottle rockets & fire crackers are the lamest of pyro fun. ooh, it flies. LAME!

god i hate bottle rockets. i was always picking up the sticks off the family cottage beach.

[rurallib]

12. lucky he didn't burn the house down

[TBA]

14. He did ruin all of the upholstered furniture

in my living room and scorched the hall carpet. Luckily the living room was tiled.

He just suffered a major lack of judgement. Not like the OP where there was willful disobedience.

[gratuitous]

7. I saw a similarly torched SUV on the way to work this morning

Haven't gone that particular route for a couple of weeks, but maybe this is the story behind that one, too?

[SethH]

8. picture of the kid

[jpak]

15. LOL!

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Good one!

[lame54]

9. Was he smoking too?

[WinkyDink]

10. Ha!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I'd have been grounded until I was 40.

[Laffy Kat]

13. As a parent of boys, I would not know where to start when disciplining for this.

There are soooo many issues here: irresponsibility, disrespect, breaking the law, dangerous behavior, etc., etc.

[Kali]

16. oops

glad my kids never thought of that back in the "embarrassing family van" days

I guess a good home owners policy may cover it?

[3catwoman3]

18. Ah, the adolescent...

...male brain.

[Flaleftist]

19. UH OH

better get MAACO