Colton Harris-Moore - enjoy the next twenty years of your life kiddo
Colton Harris-Moore is otherwise known as the barefoot bandit -- he started out in WA State and led quite a merry chase through Washington, British Columbia, Idaho, Indiana and suspected burglaries through the rest of the US and down to the Bahamas.
He just got caught.
From
Yahoo/Associated Press:
'Barefoot Bandit' nabbed after 2 years as fugitive
For two years he stayed a step ahead of the law � stealing cars, powerboats and even airplanes, police say, while building a reputation as a 21st-century folk hero. On Sunday, Colton Harris-Moore's celebrity became his downfall.
Witnesses on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera recognized the 19-year-old dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" and called police, who captured him after a high-speed boat chase, Bahamas Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said at a celebratory news conference in Nassau, the capital.
A bit more:
Harris-Moore is blamed for several thefts in the Bahamas in the week since allegedly crash-landing a stolen plane there, and Bahamian authorities said he will be prosecuted for those crimes before the start of any U.S. extradition proceedings.
Cool -- the Bahamians are a gracious people and have a lovely laid-back island culture but they also have a backbone and take their laws very seriously. For this guy to come in to their Nation illegally and steal from the Bahamian citizens is something that will not endear him to authorities...
And mama's widdle snowflake:
Harris-Moore's mother, Pam Kohler, has said that he had a troubled childhood. His first conviction, for possession of stolen property, came at age 12. Within a few months of turning 13, he had three more.
He grew up on Camano Island -- family has money, privileged childhood, nothing too good for little Colton, get away with anything, permissive parents, oh - he is just going through a '
phase'
There are over 7,900 comments to the post. Two that caught my eye:
This guy is waaay cuter than Joran Van Der Sloot
and:
What's wrong with breaking into someone's house and stealing a few little things? Gives me some good target practice!
Good to know that after he is done with the Bahamians, he will be spending some time in the American prison system. Given this moke's ability to think rationally, he will probably be converted to Islam, change his name and try to blow himself up in an Tukwilla Rite-Aid but the explosives will not detonate because he used Miracle Grow instead of ANFO.
Fscking idiot.
Posted by DaveH at July 11, 2010 10:09 PM