8-year-old boy caught on camera riding tricycle on a highway
Some
viral videos are hard to watch because the possibility of danger seems
so great. Luckily for a foolhardy 8-year-old in Rio de Janeiro, the
midday tricycle joyride
he took on a busy highway did not end in tragedy. In a video posted to
YouTube by the Brazilian newspaper Globo, the boy is seen, for three
minutes, coasting down a two-lane highway segment, returning to the top,
and then taking another run at it.
What's
more galling about the situation is that when he was reached for
comment, his takeaway from the whole experience was that the stunt was
"cool." Brazilian Social Services disagrees, and it is currently in the
process of reaching the boy's parents to make sure that nothing like
this ever happens again. Though the comments seem to focus on the
disbelief that anything like this could happen, one person also blamed
the drivers on the highway, wondering why none of them stopped to get
the kid out of there. That's a salient point, but who knows, maybe they
were late for work or something.
Or maybe, just maybe, Brazil should start licensing tricycle riders.
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