Posted on 10/26/2017 3:46:57 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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A 10-year-old Ohio boy was taken into custody after leading police and state troopers on a dangerous high-speed pursuit that began in Cleveland and ended miles away along the Ohio Turnpike when troopers boxed him in.
Cleveland police say it
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“It was very lucky no one was hurt,” Hoffman said.
Very lucky, indeed.
Either that or designing video games
This kid has got NASCAR in his blood get him to a track ASAP.
Remember Semaj Booker, the 10-year old Tacoma boy who’s managed to sneak through security at SeaTac Airport twice?
Well, a judge ruled Monday that young Semaj won’t be booked into detention.
Booker is most famous (or infamous…) for stealing a car last year, leading cops on a high-speed chase, then talking his way onto not one, but two Southwest Airlines flights to Texas.
He attempted to pull off a similar stunt last month, but didn’t make it past the boarding gate before getting caught.
On Monday he faced a judge as his mother went on the defensive.
“He knows what he did was wrong. He knows he shouldn’t do that,” said mother Sakinah Booker in court.
But Semaj didn’t hear anything his mother had to say. The judge ordered the boy to leave the courtroom before testimony began.
“I wanted the adults to express themselves freely, and some of that is information that Mr. Booker himself shouldn’t be hearing,” said Judge John McCarthy.
Semaj was already on probation at the time of the hearing for the January 2007 incident. But following his latest attempt, prosecutors say probation may not be working.
“I wonder what was not successful about the prior counseling, and what has changed so that it will be different this time,” said Fred Wist, deputy prosecutor of Pierce County.
Semaj told his family therapist he tried to board another flight last month because he wanted to visit a step-brother in Minnesota.
“That it’s certainly the type of behavior and conduct that we need to change, so we don’t see him any further,” said the judge.
A judge could have put a felony on the boy’s record but instead chose to extend his probation for another year.
“If we see this same conduct again, we’d be back before the court again,” said Wist.
The boy’s mother promised the judge her son’s flying days are over.
“Instead of him (being) a10-year-old kid who got on a plane and did that I want him to be a 10-year-old kid able to have a life, and play football do things for himself,” she said.
Semaj and his family continue to see therapists. He has yet to pay back the more than $3,000 for damages to the car he stole last January.
His mother said the boy will go to work, cutting lawns and doing yard work, in order to help pay the money.
http://b-townblog.com/2008/06/17/semaj-booker-wont-be-booked-into-detention/
Many years ago I worked at a juvenile detention center. The most memorable inmate was a kid who stole Greyhound busses. He started out by sneaking aboard and hitching rides and when he was 13 or so he started stealing them when they’d stop for lunch breaks. He’d drive them until he ran out of gas. He’d even pick up passengers. By the time he was 16 he was making his own Greyhound drivers uniforms. Every time we released him, he’d come back for stealing another Greyhound (he wouldn’t touch a Trailways). He drove a bus from StL to KC and even bluffed his way through a Highway Patrol stop. Last I heard of him he was AWOL from the army and stole a bus in Phoenix and drove it to New Mexico.
They grow up SO quick these days!
Prison, or a NASCAR career. He’s a natural.
"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
Hot. Rod. Lincoln.
He’s driving his mother crazy.
Yeah, short trip.
But first, Daisy Mae. Some women like outlaws.
And his father is where? Think that likely explains a lot.
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In a family I have known since 1963- Daddy was a welder turned body man and charter boat captain in Panama City. His relatives all lived in Birmingham. Daddy would take the kids (4-8 of them) and go visit his relatives in the big Cadillac. Going home at night daddy would be drunk with the 5 year old standing in his lap. Daddy kept his foot on the gas while son steered at up to 100+ mph. They did this trip this way half a dozen times that I know of and never got stopped or wrecked. Nobody got hurt. Some Angel had old Ralph as a special project, I think.
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