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This is an unlikely endorsement for the animated film, Robots: A three year old in Queens managed to dress himself, take an Q5 bus to the local multiplex and sneak into a screening of Robots - by himself. The Post reports that Clarence Ricky Davis, Jr. managed to slip out of his house for the afternoon journey, triggering a "massive boyhunt." His father had fallen asleep and his stepbrother was out - buying a new lock at the Home Depot because Davis had figured out how to get out of the house! - and when the father awoke, he realized his son was missing. What gets Gothamist is that Davis paid for the bus in cash - clearly, the bus driver thought a little kid riding the bus alone was normal. And we guess that could be, or maybe the bus driver was used to really short fares, but we're still skeptical. In what seems like a mixture of admiration and frustration, his mother told the Post, "He's really an amazing kid. He is a brave little sucker to take the bus by himself. Kids are much brighter today. I couldn't go anywhere by myself until I was 7." No kidding.
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wow, was the movie that good?
Well, the other thing is that a security guard at the movie theater said a woman told him "that's not my kid" so the security guard let him watch (told him to "enjoy" the movie) the movie while he called the police.
That kid is amazing. I have decades on the lad and I can't even dress myself properly, find the correct bus to take in Queens, and successfully sneak into a movie. I'll be lucky if I make it out of my apartment with clothing and a demeanor that won't mark me socially backwards, spurring people to jeer and throw rocks at me.
A few things about the NY Post article:
1. Have you seen the photo of the kid? He looks hipper than 90 percent of adults. He is wearing a blazer, cool jeans and sneakers. Whatever happened to kids wearing five-dollar Toughskins pants and a stained t-shirt?
2. The mom said he paid for the bus fare with his own money. A three-year-old has his own money? OK, this kid is so far advanced I am wondering if he has aged backwards like Mork from Ork’s son, Jonathan Winters.
3. The dad was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Man, a guy falls asleep on the couch and the next thing he knows there is a massive manhunt for his kid and he is in jail. I’m not sure what to think of the charge. Homer Simpson would be royally screwed if he was in real life.
The quote from the kid's mom is priceless: "I can't thank the police enough for finding my boy, even though they arrested my husband."
D'oh!