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Did they have drivers' ed. classes at the asylum?

posted 5 years ago by whynotwriteme (7720)
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Michael was cruising all around Haddonfield in that station wagon with no problems. He was committed at the age of six. So did they have drivers' ed. classes there?

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21457) 5 years ago

User Simest wrote:
“He may have observed his parents driving prior to his incarceration as a child and retained some recall of this.
He may have noted the basic procedure to driving by observing hospital staff transporting him from one place to another and watching their actions.”

I wonder if he had access to television while at the hospital as well.

[–] Megan1988 (324) 5 years ago

*Spoilers for part 6*

In the script for part 6, it wasn't mentioned in the film, but in the script, Dr. Wynn says he's the one who taught Michael how to drive.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21457) 5 years ago

I haven’t seen part 6! Nooooooooo! I read the spoiler. ..... . . .

[–] LordBAElish (2015) 5 years ago

this is a major plot issue.

[–] Axon (110) 4 years ago

This is a minor plot issue.

[–] ccr1633 (1523) 5 years ago

If Michael Myers had some sort of supernatural power that would have him survive after being stabbed in the neck, stabbed in the eye, and shot multiple times in the chest, then surely he could've tapped into it for the simpler task of driving an automatic transmission station wagon. Regardless, he could've observed the basics of driving from any 70s television series.

[–] Stratego (30497) 5 years ago

"WYNN:
Sam, Haddonfield is a hundred and fifty miles from here. How could he get there, he can't drive?

LOOMIS:
He was doing all right last night. Maybe somebody around here gave him lessons."

Bribable employees are nothing new.

[–] LordBAElish (2015) 5 years ago

I doubt that Myers, who sat in a room without emotion or conversation for 15 years, who reach out to a Smiths Grove staff member and communicate / learn how to drive.

[–] Stratego (30497) 5 years ago

If he wanted to escape, why not? He eventually left that room as well.

[–] LordBAElish (2015) 5 years ago

He waited for that moment for 15 years. It was his sole purpose, to wait for that moment to come. He stared out the window the rest of the time, looking beyond his cell and waiting.

[–] Stratego (30497) 5 years ago

And to escape he decided he had to know how to drive a car.

[–] LordBAElish (2015) 5 years ago

Just don't buy it. Meyers had not interacted or spoken to anyone in 15 years. Didn't even move

[–] Stratego (30497) 5 years ago

And yet he did eventually move and got the hell out of there. I see no reason not to believe he planned it. Dr. Loomis himself seems to think it's possible.

[–] jasonbourne (1027) 5 years ago

You just do not know these things. Dr. Terence Wynn is a minor character in Halloween. He tells Dr. Loomis that Michael Myers could not have gotten far because he cannot drive. Loomis says that maybe someone at Smith's Grove gave him lessons. However, it was Wynn, head of Smith's Grove sanitarium in Halloween 6 who taught him how to drive.