Ferris Bueller's day is history for today's kids

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2006 | by Martha T. Moore

Suppose Ferris Bueller wanted to take a day off now. In a 1986 movie, the hooky-playing high schooler tricked his parents into believing he was sick, then went out for a fun day of driving around Chicago in a Ferrari with his buddy and his girlfriend. That was Ferris Bueller's Day Off then. It's a new day for Ferris and his under-18 friends.

Cities are passing daytime curfew laws, so Ferris would be nabbed by the cops for being on the street during school hours. He wouldn't be able to drive his two friends in that Ferrari, thanks to laws restricting minors to provisional driver's licenses. Until Ferris gets an unrestricted license, most states forbid him having more than one teenage passenger. What's more, Mr. and Mrs. Bueller would know that Ferris wasn't home because...