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FAIRFIELD, Ohio
- A 6-year-old boy with a taste for
the open road escaped from his
Ohio day care center and took a toy truck
for a joy ride on a
local highway before police stopped him, police
said Tuesday.
John Carpenter, 6,
was found unharmed on Friday behind the wheel
of a dark blue
battery-powered toy truck headed down the
highway in Fairfield,
Ohio about 20 miles north of Cincinnati.
He had cruised about a mile in the dark blue
truck,
described by police as knee high and about
3 feet long.
A flabbergasted motorist spotted him and telephoned
authorities.
Police were unable to say how fast the boy
was traveling.
Police spokesman Ken Colburn said the boy had walked out
of the Kiddie
Kampus Pre-School and Day Care Center
in Fairfield and came upon the truck parked
outside
ReRuns for Wee Ones, a second-hand children's
store.
The battery-operated truck's wires had been
unhooked,
but the child reattached them, pulled off
the price tag and hopped in.
Authorities later discovered that he had the
same toy truck at home,
which was how he knew to pop open the trunk
and connect the cables.
The truck was returned without a scratch and was sold the next day to
someone who had been amused by the story,
Thomin said.
Police were investigating how the boy escaped
from the day care center.
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