http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6946030.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6946030.ece)
QuoteIn the forests and remote islands around Seattle, police are setting traps for a barefoot teenage outlaw who has eluded them for nearly two years.
Police say 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, whose escapades are turning him into a folk legend, is a one-man crime wave, responsible for 50 burglaries as well as stealing light aircraft, which he taught himself to fly from video games, and several speedboats.
He lives in the woods, shuns shoes and catches his own food. His only technological aid is a pair of thermal-imaging goggles to hunt at night and his weakness is pizzas, which he asks to be delivered at the edge of the woods
QuotePolice believe he fled to Canada and then, a few weeks ago, came back across the border to Idaho where he stole a Cessna 182 and flew to Seattle. He crash-landed in a forest clearing and walked away with cuts and bruises.
Since then he has been accused of stealing other planes for hops around the islands in the Puget Sound, including another Cessna belonging to a disc jockey who vented his frustration on radio, saying: "He still doesn't know how to land a plane in one piece."
He evaded a police pursuit by crashing a Mercedes-Benz into a roadside gas storage tank, using the explosion as a diversion to escape back into the woods where, he says, he feels like a Native American.
This was followed by the largest manhunt in recent memory. Three dozen sheriffs, aided by specialist armed units and an FBI helicopter, fanned out across Camano Island but failed to capture him. "We saw him, we think, but it's like he disappeared in front of our eyes," said one sheriff.
Makes balloon boy look like a bitch. :lulz:
This man is my hero.
Quote from: Lysergic on December 07, 2009, 12:54:25 PM
This man is my hero.
http://www.coltonharrismoorefanclub.com/
fuck yeah. I'm'a bring some pizzas out camping with me next time I'm up there and see if I can get him to sit in my campsite and have a beer with me.
Still hasn't beaten DB Cooper's all time record. :lulz:
that's the most bad ass thing I've read all week
I really hope this kid doesn't get shot
Quote from: Cramulus on December 07, 2009, 07:07:57 PM
that's the most bad ass thing I've read all week
I really hope this kid doesn't get shot
Oh, they're gonna beat his ass.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:09:40 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 07, 2009, 07:07:57 PM
that's the most bad ass thing I've read all week
I really hope this kid doesn't get shot
Oh, they're gonna beat tase the shit out of his ass.
Fixed for continuity.
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:17:18 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:09:40 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 07, 2009, 07:07:57 PM
that's the most bad ass thing I've read all week
I really hope this kid doesn't get shot
Oh, they're gonna beat tase the shit out of his ass.
Fixed for continuity.
Oh, no. This kid gets the hickory. Mark my words.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:18:37 PM
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:17:18 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:09:40 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 07, 2009, 07:07:57 PM
that's the most bad ass thing I've read all week
I really hope this kid doesn't get shot
Oh, they're gonna beat tase the shit out of his ass.
Fixed for continuity.
Oh, no. This kid gets the hickory. Mark my words.
:(
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:20:19 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:18:37 PM
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:17:18 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:09:40 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 07, 2009, 07:07:57 PM
that's the most bad ass thing I've read all week
I really hope this kid doesn't get shot
Oh, they're gonna beat tase the shit out of his ass.
Fixed for continuity.
Oh, no. This kid gets the hickory. Mark my words.
:(
169% troof. He embarrassed the cops badly. He'll be lucky not to get "Dillingered".
Yeah, actually, I can see them shooting him at this point. Unwarrantedly.
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:22:53 PM
Yeah, actually, I can see them shooting him at this point. Unwarrantedly.
$20 says it gets called a good shoot.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:23:34 PM
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:22:53 PM
Yeah, actually, I can see them shooting him at this point. Unwarrantedly.
$20 says it gets called a good shoot.
Easy fucking money, Sir. You lowballed.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:25:39 PM
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:24:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2009, 07:23:34 PM
Quote from: Jenne on December 07, 2009, 07:22:53 PM
Yeah, actually, I can see them shooting him at this point. Unwarrantedly.
$20 says it gets called a good shoot.
Easy fucking money, Sir. You lowballed.
It's the economy.
Tr00f.
QuoteHis luck may be about to run out. During a recent sweep a rifle shot was fired at police, raising his status to “armed and dangerous”. His mother, Pamela Kohler, now fears that even if he did not fire the shot he will be held responsible.
Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life. “I was going to send him to flight school, but I guess I don’t have to,” she said. “I’d tell him the next time he took a plane: wear a parachute and practise your landing.
“If he shot that gun, it was really stupid. I don’t expect him to come out of the woods alive.”
Odd, considering the earlier article mentions that he disdains firearms, and is only equiped with night vision.
if it's the Snohomish County sheriffs department that's after him (and based on the geography revealed in the article it sounds like it would be), having 2 brain cells would be enough to make him armed and especially dangerous, at least in comparison to the SnoCo sheriffs. They are both notoriously corrupt and notoriously violent, especially when it comes to protecting their "reputation" (quote marks because no one in SnoCo thinks they're worth a shit anyway).
This is the same department that, when I was a punk-ass teenage dealer, took me behind the BECU building and stomped the shit out of me for "dealing on their turf without their permission" (IOW, I wouldn't pay them off).
So yeah, odds are that he comes out of the woods in a bag.
Finally caught but not before making it all of the way to the Bahamas
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_bahamas_teen_fugitive
QuoteThe teenage "Barefoot Bandit" who allegedly stole cars, boats and airplanes to dodge U.S. law enforcement was nabbed Sunday as he tried to make a water escape then brought handcuffed — and shoeless — to the capital to face justice, abruptly ending his two-year life on the lam.
Colton Harris-Moore was arrested before dawn in northern Eleuthera, said Sgt. Chrislyn Skippings, a spokeswoman for the Royal Bahamas Police Force. A contingent of high-ranking officers traveled to the island and took the suspect to Nassau, the country's capital, where he faces possible extradition to the United States.
My hero. :(
Least he didn't get shot on sight. :(
I'm sure he'll accidentally fall on a bullet on the way to his cell.
If he does make it to prison safely, he'll be royalty there. That's something, at least.