8-Year-Old Drives Drunk Dad Home

BARNAUL, October 3 (RIA Novosti) – A drunk dad who let his 8-year-old son drive him and another son home on a rural Siberian road was detained while trying to flee traffic police, Russian authorities said Thursday.

Officers stopped the vehicle in the mountains of the Altai Territory and found the 8-year-old behind the wheel and his 12-year-old brother and dad in the backseat, the local branch of the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Police detained the dad as he tried to run away, the statement said, adding that the car, a Toyota Carina, was impounded. Shortly after the incident, the man’s wife filed a complaint claiming that the boys were beaten by police. An investigation is under way.