CONTROVERSY: Dad Arrested At McDonalds | Craziest Stories This Week - I carried my sons when they were about 5 and 7 on my motorcycle from Houston to Belton, Texas. I had to get them to my mom because I was starting a new long haul trucking job and had no one to take care of them and I had no other transportation. I could barely pay for the gas for the trip. A police officer stopped me and told me that was illegal. I told him that I knew that but which child should I have left alone, at home? Fortunately, he wasn’t a bully cop, had some empathy and let me go. When your poor. you do what you have to do. I can understand why this father felt his kids would be safer being entertained on the McDonald's playground near him rather than home alone.