Driving Parents' Car Without Permission

[The Moose]

No doubt this thread will attract people on their high horses, so !

So, who out there has done this when they were younger - driven their parents' car(s) without permission, what were the cars and were there any negative outcomes?

Do your folks know now, or has it remained a secret up until this point?!

[jjones]

never

friend did it, mum reported him, police caught him, done for TWOC (he was 15 mind)

Cheers The Jones

[rfn]

Without permission, even with insurance, is theft surely!?

If I'd 'borrowed' any of my parents cars without permission I imagine the consequences would be severe.

[LukeSi]

Wouldn't do it but if I ever did then it would be the father's car and onto the motorway. Police would have trouble finding me in a grey 3 series .

[bluebear]

Yes did it a few times. My parents had sh!t cars. Metros,astras,montego,rover 800. NOt good

[The Moose]

rfn said:

Without permission, even with insurance, is theft surely!?

If I'd 'borrowed' any of my parents cars without permission I imagine the consequences would be severe.

Regardless of your definition taken without permission/theft/borrowing etc...

(surely theft is only applicable if you don't show an intention to return it, otherwise it's taking without consent? (TWOC))

[vincenz]

I did it a couple of times in my youth (9 years ago).

My Mum had an Mx-5 (mk2.5) which I used to take a girl out to the cinema in and my dad had an Alfa 156 sport wagon which I used to pick friends up from town in for petrol money.

One night my mate left his mobile in the back, he rung it constantly the next day only for my dad to bring it home not knowing how it had got there, I said it must of fallen out of his pocket the previous weekend when my dad took us to the football, it was the days of nokia 3310's and the batteries lasted for weeks so I got away with it!

No harm done, I do look back and think it was stupid but its all part of growing up.

[Chas88]

I never have, unless you count moving the car onto the road so I could get mine off the drive. I'd be too worried about what would happen if I crashed it or what they'd do if they found out. Besides they never had any car that was worth the risk.

[jas xjr]

I smashed a car into the side of our house when I was 14 or 15. Luckily my dad was in India at the time. When he came back he asked me if I did it. I said yes, and that was the end of that

[HarryW]

My late father once had a Vauxhall Ventora, I may have taken it for a spin once, 3.3ltr straight 6, well I thought it went well anyway

[Mini1275]

Nope, never, ever without permission.

[Waugh-terfall]

Me. There's a video somewhere of 14/15yr old me driving our old Mazda runabout around the little network of private lanes I lived on as well. I actually confessed this to my Dad when on holiday last week... These private lanes only!

[Condi]

I would have been disowned I think.

Had a friend who drove his parents car through the front room when he hit the accelerator instead of the brake. He wasnt much better after passing his test, wrote one off within a year.

[cahami]

Got caught by my mum when i was twelve/thirteen but it wasnt the first time also used to "steal" my sisters car too this was also at 13 im not proud but it was a long long time ago and i always got them home in 1 piece. first drove a car at 11 on a field and that was it for me couldnt get enough. At 14 i used to go into garage of an evening and flaten the battery on my sisters mini lights on etc,
She would try to start it in morning to go to work and end up going on bus i would push it into back alley bump start it and go to school in it picking up mates / girls on the way. I know i deserve to go to hell and if it exists i probably will.

Edited by cahami on Thursday 1st September 23:52

[Conor D]

I answered 'all the time', but I thought it was about now when I'm actually insured on it..

[attym3]

Did it once when I was about 15, fully loaded with school friends, almost lost it on a bend about 2 miles from my house. Turned around and went straight home. Lucky and stupid.

[B'stard Child]

I never did but a friend did and managed to park it on the top of a hedge and then when the front seat passenger bailed it tipped back and stuck it's arese in a muddy ditch...............

Took 8 of us to manhandle it out and back onto hard standing - not a mark/dent on the body so he drove home and parked it back in the garage and put the keys back where they were kept (see note)

He actually got away with it for 6 mths...

Note - Abridged version

[S18DMW]

If I was lucky I'd of been killed if I ever had done it and got caught. Never have done it never will.

[Waugh-terfall]

B'stard Child said:

I never did but a friend did and managed to park it on the top of a hedge and then when the front seat passenger bailed it tipped back and stuck it's arese in a muddy ditch...............

Was it an Alfa?

[vit4]

Hell no. She'd run me over with the damn thing if I even tried. Can't stand driving it anyway.

I've borrowed both my mum's and my dad's cars on occasion but wouldn't steal them. Always surprises me when people do, especially when they've got their own cars!