This is why we can't have nice things...

"Thomas Donohue" (tomonomics)
03/30/2018 at 15:50 • Filed to: NYIAS, ZL1

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FYI - that is not the father in the picture.....Dad was about 20 yards away based on the echo.

DISCUSSION (44)

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 15:55

This is why people need to be better parents. Prevents every bit of dumb shit that happens in the world if you have good parents.

For Sweden > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:00

Typical Erik Jones fan.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:01

This makes me boil with rage. I blame shitty parents.

Ash78, voting early and often > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:01

Not ironically, probably the same person who ends up in the market for this in 10 years.

Nom De Plume > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:08

Takes picture of kid instead of opening his mouth or actually preventing said potential disaster. Then goes on internet to be self righteous.

LATFH

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
03/30/2018 at 16:09

Spoken like a non-parent.

Honestly; my kid hasn’t gotten to the age of the kid in the picture(she’s only 3) but there is no way to prevent your kid from ever doing dumb stuff. And good parents’ kids have bad moments; and sometimes bad parents buy good behavior with bad incentives. And even just using the phrase “good parent” and “bad parent” makes me squirm because I don’t think it’s all that simple. And lots of people make split second decisions about others as parents no matter how small that little glimpse was into what they do 99.9% of the time.

Urambo Tauro > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:10

Damn kid’s trying to party on the front. THAT’S NOT HOW MULLETS WORK

user314 > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:10

I’m surprised there’s no one there to shoo him off (or tase him, as appropriate).

Svend > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:11

Bloody hell.

Why would the kid think it was appropriate to jump on any car bonnet?

Where was the person managing the stand? Why wasn’t the parent, being, a parent?

My dad would of given me a damned good thrashing (British colloquial term, ‘tanned my backside’) for even touching a display car, never mind standing or jumping on it.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:12

I’m not a fan of physical punishment, but this would’ve gotten me smacked.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:14

Where did he go in the third picture? did the Camaro swallow him?

Gerry197 > user314
03/30/2018 at 16:17

I’ve been around car shows, especially with setup, and I suspect most of the people working there are over it. They honestly don’t care as much as most car enthusiast would.

Little kid climbs up on the hood, seen it a million times, don’t care.

dogisbadob > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:18

That new slideshow thing is cool! How do you do that on here?

Did the father look like this by any chance?

Kinja'd!!!

FSI > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:26

They wouldn’t even let me sit in the Talisman with my plastic bag at the Renault booth in Frankfurt.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > OPPOsaurus WRX
03/30/2018 at 16:36

Camaros eat 3-year-olds for breakfast. Mustangs eat fully grown adults.

Cash Rewards > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:42

My initial reaction is terror, bit it’s the same as when I see people pushing race cars by the “flimsy” carbon wings. It can handle it, if it can handle several hundred pounds of downforce.

SmugAardvark > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:43

It’s a good thing I’m not a parent. Because if I was and that was my kid, I’d have spanked the stupid right out of him in front of everybody.

I used to go to car shows with my pops as far back as I can remember, and I don’t think there was ever a single event where my father didn’t remind me repeatedly that these vehicles are all there to be seen, not touched. And that meant so much as laying a finger on a door handle.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 16:52

keel heem

C62030 > OPPOsaurus WRX
03/30/2018 at 17:01

Kiltedpadre > SmugAardvark
03/30/2018 at 17:15

It’s the same with me. Some of my earliest memories are being pushed around in a stroller at a car show.

Look but don’t touch was drilled into my head before I was ever allowed to get out of his car at the shows.

Mercedes Streeter > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
03/30/2018 at 17:18

He’s a teenager. Though I guess in his defense, if you met my parents, you’d probably rethink the whole “good parent”, “bad parent” thing. lol

McMike > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
03/30/2018 at 17:29

there is no way to prevent your kid from ever doing dumb stuff

True. There is a first time for every behavior, and a (especially new) parent can be caught off guard the first time their son looks up a lady’s dress, points and calls someone fat, draws on the wall with crayon, etc..

However, “Don’t climb on things that are not ours” is something that should have been covered already by his age.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 17:38

I would have bent the kid and their parents over my knee and taught them some GOD DAMN RESPECT!

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
03/30/2018 at 17:43

By a certain age they should know right from wrong, and good upbringings would discourage them from making bad decisions. But sometimes, the kid is literally too dumb to know right from wrong and/or don’t care, and that’s rarely because the other people like that weren’t taught right. I probably shouldn’t have said it prevents every bit, but it certainly would prevent a LOT more. Obviously they would have some bad moments, no one’s perfect, but stuff like what was posted above is the result of bad parenting. If you bring your kid somewhere like NYIAS where there’s a lot of people and a lot of stuff that doesn’t belong to them, why the hell WOULDN’T you keep an eye on them?

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Mercedes Streeter
03/30/2018 at 17:45

Yeah, and if you met my grandparents and see how they are to my parents and me and my siblings and the bad effect it has on all of us....whoo shit

McMike > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 17:52

OMG HE IS EVERYWHERE

Kinja'd!!!

Please stand by, I just found your post on Twitter while looking for NYIAS photos. #WhereAreYourParents

Mercedes Streeter > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
03/30/2018 at 17:54

My entire existence spites my parents. They wanted me to be a man, I’m a woman. They want me to be a doctor; I fix servers. They want me to drive a muscle car or a SUV, I’m amassing a collection of smarts. They want me to date “a real woman”, I’m now dating a trans man.

I’m proud to be nothing like them. :)

Takuro Spirit > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 17:54

When everyone stated putting those stupid jutting lips on cars I started saying, “Oh, they added a step so shorter people can see under the hood”.

This is not what I meant.

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
03/30/2018 at 18:01

This stuff happens even to attentive parents; dad coulda been tying his shoe. Would I be emrasses if it were my kid? Yes. Do I automatically think every public display of disrespect for property or people by a child is some sort of societal sign of failed parenting? No.

That kid may climb on his dads beater car that way every weekend to look inside the hood. Might not know a carbon splitter isn’t the same thing.

Trust me, you have no idea what raising a kid is like until you’ve tried and even if you’ve raised one kid; you have no idea what it’s like for other parents cause every kid is different.

Maxima Speed > McMike
03/30/2018 at 18:11

What Nooooooo!!!!!!!!! Taser, taser, taser!!

Maxima Speed > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
03/30/2018 at 18:13

Short and to the point, your hired.

Maxima Speed > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 18:14

Theres a Taylor Swift song for that now. Your welcome :)

McMike > McMike
03/30/2018 at 18:23

Here’s the rest of them. Someone should make sure the parent sees these.

Kinja'd!!!

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
03/30/2018 at 20:01

That sounds like a 1 in 1,000,000 situation because there are few real car people out there (we need more lol) and because as a teen I’ve seen how the kids act for themselves and how they speak of their parents, and I see how their parents actually are. Which is why I only associate myself with the people who are smart and funny but not total weirdos, and usually their parents are good. I’m just giving you my take from the perspective of another “kid” who lives in today’s world of kids and sees how people are, but I’m nothing like the rest, as far as I’ve seen. I think about other things and I’ve seen things that 95% of other kids haven’t so I have a different perspective of things and how they work/should work, if you ask me it seems that everyone thinks all is well in the world and there’s nothing wrong ever except their own first world problems, they’re so oblivious to reality and don’t care. Maybe that’s good and saves them from stressing out about things but when they’re left in the dark like that, especially this generation (obviously not everyone) they grow up to still be oblivious and careless and carefree, and in a problematic world like there is today, that doesn’t help much. And when reality sets in, they have no idea what to do and remain ignorant. This might sound a load of BS to you, but this is from what I’ve seen and noticed and mind you, I think differently than others do, try to think of things that’ll make more sense and make the world a better place based off of experiences. Fuck, I’m ranting again. Try to make sense out of some of this lol.

Nixon's Back > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 20:22

Kinja'd!!!

Nom De Plume > McMike
03/30/2018 at 20:29

A star was called for. Putting him inside the matchbox blister pack would have been worth getting another burner account.

Nom De Plume > Gerry197
03/30/2018 at 20:34

Someone is responsible if that handy step made of carbon snaps. The current legal/political climate precludes doing anything until the damage is done.

wafflesnfalafel > Thomas Donohue
03/30/2018 at 21:56

Kids are going to do stupid sh!t... as much as we’d like to lock them in a box most of the time that probably isn’t good for their development. This little dude might be head of design for GM in 40 years.

Thomas Donohue > McMike
03/30/2018 at 22:23

Holy crap, I have so many comments on this I can’t keep up, but this is by far the funniest thing I’ve seen. Sadly, I’ve had a few people on Twitter say they saw a kid on a BMW i8 (I’m not saying it’s the same kid, just similar kid). I thought this pic was real, until I remembered I was there and the GT3 RS was behind a glass barrier. But clearly the ZedKid knows how to jump!

This is so good.

Thomas Donohue > OPPOsaurus WRX
03/30/2018 at 22:24

I felt like I needed to show what the car looked like after he ran off to jump on the Ford GT.

Thomas Donohue > dogisbadob
03/30/2018 at 22:27

I did not see the Dad, just heard him yell his child’s name. I’m going to guess that happens very often.

Thomas Donohue > dogisbadob
03/30/2018 at 22:28

oh....slideshow is an option. I didn’t really want to choose it but loading multiple pics was crapping out.

Thomas Donohue > McMike
03/30/2018 at 22:29

The buffet. I think that’s my current favorite.

Thomas Donohue > For Sweden
03/31/2018 at 09:16

I just caught that!