Cant say I want my kids to grow up like this one but gotta give this guy his due...just stole another plane and dumped it in the Bahamas. FBI now involved and it appears law enforcement is getting pissed by being shown up by this kid for the past two years. Guess I dont have a huge problem with it as he has not hurt anyone but he is a punk thief for sure with thousands of fans on Facebook, America at its finest!

Here is his Facebook link, pretty funny...

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Colton-Harris-Moore/154393645881?ref=search

Obviously the kid isnt stupid.

Would have been great to see him channel that energy and intelligence in a different way.

Pretty damn funny, till it's your boat, car, plane he steels. There appears to be a chance that's who stole Rico's car.

Still . . . he's got brass balls and is making the cops look like fools. You can bet this will end poorly for him. Cops don't like to look like fools.

If he had a gun he would die in a hail of police bullets. I think he's smarter than that.

Amazing the guy taught himself to fly on the internet, has stolen at least 5 planes, crashed them all and walked away to do it again. Sure id be pissed if it was my stuff but that is what insurance is for I suppose.

They say he could make millions from book and movie deals right now and some attnys have offered free representation. I'd do my time, cash in and have a few laughs about it in 10 years but dont think thats the way this story ends.

Agree. I doubt he's having much fun. Some chick will probably screw him in more ways than one.

Look at it this way:

The sumb*tch has been living in the woods like a wild animal since before he had hair on his sack (12).

He has ran circles around all these 'Professional' LEO's for almost a decade.

He taught himself how to fly light aircraft by stealing a pamphlet.

He came clean once and for all his honesty and goodwill got sent to an awful half-way house which he broke out of and was never seen again and I'm sure never plans on becoming another 'ward of the state.'

The kid has made such an art of being a fugitive that he made his escape from US jurisdiction better than what Butch & Sundance pulled off a century ago, and he's half as old as they were.

In my book, despite his 'crimes', he's earned a break. He's had to do what he's needed to survive.

The fukker ought to be teaching SpecOps and USAF pilots survival skills.

Mixed feelings on this kid myself.

Terrible waste of talent if you ask me. Life on the run can't be any life at all.

Can't say I blame him for wanting to escape being a ward of the state.

As far as insurance taking care of his tendency to steal and destroy the property of others,...........think about that the next time you bitch about how high your insurance premiums are.

+1. Clearly the guy has some gifts that 99.99% of the population do not have. Unfortunately, he has had a sh!t existence, and the part of his brain that makes decisions does not function very well (at least by the standards of American law).

I, for one, am rooting for this kid..

It's not like he's stealing for his drug habit. The kid comes from a chitty family, the cops want to exterminate him, and he's just a punk kid..

Corporate thief’s get slapped on the wrist and they steal MILLIONS from people, and hurt their day to day lives, and even into the far off future..

This kid has done nothing but cause a minor inconvenience for people...at least until the insurance check rolls in.

No question there are worse skin sacks on the planet then a kid who decided to take a joy ride, or 20, in other people's cars, boats, planes, exc.

The problem is even though there is absolutely zero justice in this country for corporate thieves who happen to be politically connected it is no justification for theivery on any level. Start sliding down that slope and pretty soon anything goes.

Are there worse things in this country than what this kid is doing?,....without question. Something I'd be proud to see my kids do? No way.

I have had my car stolen, house broken into, etc. It sucks for a couple days, but that's it.

The kid has not hurt anyone, nor has he even threatened too. He’s just a little kid over his head, and is displaying the natural urge to run from danger.

I'm in no way condoning what the kid has done, but just see it in a different light.

Entertaining to say the least... Puzzling how a kid can evade some of the best...

Bummer for those that have lost property though. Unacceptable and the book should be thrown at him.

Every person in life is given the opportunity to make choices and should suffer the consequences when the break the law...

Keith

I think he watched the Tom Hanks / Leonardo DiCaprio movie; "Catch Me If You Can" one too many times myself.

It's about a guy who posed as everything from an airline pilot to a doctor and made fools out of the FBI agents chasing him. It was based on a true story too.

The folks I vanpool with were talking about this on the way home yesterday. One of the riders works for the Attorney General's office, and she was working in Island County during part of this kid's spree. She said none of the enforcement officers around there called him the Barefoot Bandit; they all called him Boltin' Colton.

With hindsight, I'm not sure why any of you needed to know that....

At least they know who there looking for now....

Keith

I heard that Colton has probably had some help while up in the islands in the form of food, shelter, and hiding from police. So credit for not getting caught might not all be due to his ingenuity. He does score points for learning to fly a plane on the internet tho. His landing skills sure could use some improvement, 0/5 is only a good record in that he walked away from them.

As for theft being a mere inconvenience, it's an inconvenience I would handily kill him for had he done it to me. I believe in consequences and justice.

Sg

Where are all the people who would shoot a tweaker at first sign of stealing their stuff? He's no different.

What Dave said.

No, he's not. Not different.

And you are currently a knucklehead. You should live a few more years, if you are lucky. Then you will not be so gracious to people who take what you have labored so hard to earn.

I hope, when caught, he has a long and miserable life in prison.....

He is a thief........period

For all of you that seem to envy him....get a life..

I have to say that I lost my cool when I responded to DriftfishNW. He is a guy who is trying hard to look at things from an open perspective, and i respect that. While I think the things he said are knuckleheaded, I do not think he is a knucklehead. What can I say. Can any parents bail me out?

I think flying an airplane across the country when you don't have a pilot's license and everything you learned about flying is from the internet, is pretty dangerous to the public.

You know, he is not just laughing at the police, he is laughing at all of us who happen to work for what we own and are paying for this manhunt.

His Mom sounds like a piece of work.
Mebbe he'll get caught in Peru and serve time there with Vanderslut.

Our justice system does nothing to persuade criminals from being criminals. Cane the little bastard in front of his hometown and all the youngsters who look up to him might not like the sound of his screams.

Others who say these are just victimless thefts aren't paying the deductibles and premiums on those insurance policies.

Flying and landing a plane aren't very difficult. Most of us could do it first time without instruction.

I think the kid is a prime example of poor parenting.
His mother is the enabler. She thinks the reports of his crimes are overblown. She also suggested he steal a plane and fly to a country that won't extradited him. He followed her advice and then she complains to the media he fled to a country that will extradite.
She's a total whack job.

I agree the kid has talent and to bad he is wasting his life away. He's a crook none the less and I hope he's caught soon.

He is a common criminal. He will get caught eventually and when he does I hope they prosecute him to the full extent of the law. Then all you folks who have this romantic outlaw impression of him can visit him in prison.

Apparently sometime between last night and this afternoon, a 40' boat went missing from one of the marinas on Abaco and is now on Euthra, an island about 40 miles to the south. A few more boat thefts and he'll be in Haiti or Cuba.

The kid must have some talent to continue on the loose in unfamiliar territory.

The funnel narrows, he gets caught, then it will be "oh poor me, oh poor my." " I didn't know." Mama tried to tell me I was wrong, but mama tried.
NOT.

Prediction. Gets caught with in 2 weeks
Gets 12 months hard time, but out within a year.
12 to 18 months we revisit this.

Just a poor victim of the establishment.
Or, a hero of the internet crime solving gang.

Bonny and Clyde and Dillinger were both hero's in the Depression, you kinda have to root for the little guy when the A-holes from Goldman Sachs and a few other banks aren't doing time..

They couldn't hold him last time. As crafty as this kid seems to be he'll be out again in no time.

Do you guys realize how stupid cops are? Getting away from them isn't hard. The only reason that they catch any criminals at all is that most criminals are actually stupider than they are (or so wacked out on drugs that it makes them that stupid).

The fact that this kid can elude them, doesn't surprise me at all.

You won't think their so stupid when you get robbed.

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Caught the little prick. Game over. please return to your regularly scheduled programing.

Unless Bolton Colton makes the fence again!!!!!! Do some time, do a book deal, do rest of life. Kid will do OK.

Anybody want to start a pool on how long he's captive before flying the coop again? I give it less than two years. The first time they let their guard down...he's boltin'!

He will disappear into a program and re emerge in 15 years as a government expert in counter terrorism.

He'll be a pathetic drain on society the rest of his life. Just look who raised him. Apples don't fall too far.

At least he could have walked with his head held high. It was pathetic seeing him with his head tucked down.

All I know is that the kid hurt a lot of folks with his theiving ways. Getting caught may just extend his life. Sooner or later someone would have drilled the turd.

I think the media only gives the masses what they want to see. Remember, they are in the entertainment business. They do serious research on what the viewers want to see. If WE weren’t so interested THEY wouldn't keep it on the front page. I recently had a person at the Y ask me if it wasn't awful how everybody was talking about some pop culture news item. My reply was, "Guess what, you are one of them."

Our news doesn’t cover in-depth issues like European politics, Afghan government structure, Iraq politics, et al because we, the great public have the attention span on a gnat. But WE seem to know way more about what star screwed what other star than we do about who is the current leader of Mexico.

Mexico has a leader ??

FR: Sorry, I meant ladder.

+1

Can't wait until he busts out, again! The regularly scheduled programming sucks!

This topic is so yesterday.