13 Year-Old Steals Car, Drives 13 Hours To Meet Her Xbox Live "Boyfriend" [Xbox Live]

Beth Robinson is 13. She recently met a boy, aged 12, over Xbox Live. Beth lives in Houston and the boy, Dylan, lives in Hodgenville, Kentucky. When Beth’s dad didn’t like the fact the two were playing games and “chatting” together over the service, she did what any lovestruck 13 year-old girl would do: went a little bananas.

Stealing her brother’s car and her mother’s ATM card, Beth set off to drive to Dylan’s house. Reminder: she’s 13. She got as far as Nashville, Tennessee before being stopped by police, who had been alerted to be on the look-out for the teenager.

She’s since been reunited with her family in the strangely heart-warming video below. And while there’s all sorts of messed up things related to the incident, let’s be clear: aside from the stealing and unlicensed driving, nothing sordid went down here. Which makes a pleasant change, since these kind of Xbox romance stories normally involve some degree of skin-crawling.

Let’s also not lose sight of the fact the girl managed to make it from Houston to Nashville. Which is 13 hours away. That’s one hell of a drive.

13-year-old runaway returns home to tearful reunion [KVUE]