Originally Posted by kane

That all sounds very familiar. My nephew, when he was a freshman in high school had a friend who had been arrested and was on some kind of probation. As part of this probation he was not allowed to leave the school campus for lunch, but he did anyway. One day he got caught. So instead of facing the music he talks my nephew and another friend into helping him "get out of town." So they left school at lunch, took this guy's mom's car and started driving to Los Angeles (1000 miles away). Apparently this kid had a friend that had recently moved there so he decided they would go live with him.

So the kid's mom comes home from work and sees the car is gone so she reports it stolen then a few hours later when he son doesn't come home from school she realizes that he took it. After several hours the three families of these boys have talked to each other and the police and have realized what is happening. Eventually, around 9pm, my nephew calls him mom. The boys made it about 50 miles away before being stopped by the police because the car was still reported as stolen. The cops released him to her and she went to get him.

Instead of kicking his ass, grounding him or doing any kind of discipline, she took him out to dinner (because he was scared and hungry) then took him over to another friend's house where they played video games for a few hours until they knew my brother was asleep so they could avoid dealing with him because he was rightfully pissed off.

When asked about it she defends him and says he was just trying to help a friend so not only did he not get in trouble, she made it out like he had done something good. It is just crazy.