'Barefoot Bandit' released from prison

seattletimes ^ | Copyright Bob Friel 2012 | Bob Friel

[Rabin]

In mid 2012, Kid Colton, the Barefoot Bandit, a true story of Colt Harris-Moore, Born to run, outlaw child.

Colt had the local sheriff after him before the age of 10, survived his youth by slipping in and out of dumpster and homes for food, and learned to evade the police by "melting" into the Pacific Northwest wilds. In the fullness of time whatever else could be found amongst the scrapes.

He got caught of course, and sent to juvy, walked away, and proceeded to Orcas Island, where, like D. B. Cooper; with no pilot training whatsoever, exited the area by air. And that was just the beginning.

Colt interested; FBI a gents, SWAT teams, and Homeland Security. The story gained international fame, with Time calling Colt “America’s Most Wanted Teen” when he stole and crashed his third airplane.

After more than two years on the run in the Northwest, Colt fled Orcas and began a "crime spree" spectacular ending in Bahamas,

[Rabin]

Through his personal experiences and hundreds of interviews with witnesses, victims, local authorities, Colt’s family, and by using Colt’s own words, Friel gives readers an exclusive look at an outlaw legend. Set against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest’s evergreen islands, where millionaires tolerate sub species, this is a gripping, stranger-than-fiction tale about a neglected and troubled child who outfoxed the authorities, us a special sort of American.Rab can but wish him well.

If it were that all were stone stable, doomed to stone stable, we should surely be.

Raben

[Steely Tom]

Wasn’t he offered aircraft engine training and a job when he got out? I seem to recall someone from SOCAL expressing interest in him when he got caught.

[Jonty30]

If he can fly and navigate to the Caribbean with no training, it could be smart to invest son training into him.

[lee martell]

He did show extensive flying abilities for someone who hasn’t been formally trained. If he can keep his impulses under better control, this kid has a career in many different areas. If Clint Eastwood could make a lucrative movie about
“Sully”, a somewhat thin gruel for a full length movie, then someone is going to want to make a movie about this guy. They already have a name for him; Barefoot Bandit. Somebody smart has probably bought the licensing rights to use that name already.

[ETL]

[lee martell]

In spite of his apparent flying skills, I still hope never to board a plane and discover he is my pilot.
I don’t see my pilots as people ‘Born To Be Wild!”.

[ETL]

[husky ed]

Another success story for the democrats to flaunt

Ed

[husky ed]

If you call crashing, flying?

Ed

[Theoria]

He is a trump supporter.

[politicianslie]

In spite of his apparent flying skills, I still hope never to board a plane and discover he is my pilot. I don’t see my pilots as people ‘Born To Be Wild!”.

There are bold pilots

There are old pilots

But there are no old, bold pilots.

[Tax-chick]

I read the book about him after seeing an article in one of my husband’s running magazines (I think). Interesting stuff.

I hope the young man now makes something of himself, legally, in a productive occupation.

[freebird5850]

Bflr

[Georgia Girl 2]

Wasn’t this the kid with a genuis IQ?

[The SISU kid]

Chuck Yeagar

[freebird5850]

There’s still some pretty upset people here on Camano Island where he used to live and robbed a lot of homes.