http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/08/washington.barefoot.burglar/index.html

haha, what a jackass

10/8/2009 5:28:57 PM

yeah lol thats hilarious

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

10/8/2009 5:30:49 PM

thats some DB Cooper shit

10/8/2009 5:32:13 PM

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"Blankets, shoes and food [were] taken instead of big-ticket items like TVs," said sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover. "

he isn't barefood anymore

10/8/2009 5:44:32 PM

If he's in the woods, he might still be bearfood, sawahash.

10/8/2009 5:46:12 PM

I'm not going to edit it either...I like barefood....cause it's got nothing on it...I guess it's organic.

[Edited on October 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM. Reason : ]

10/8/2009 5:46:46 PM

more like turd burglar

10/8/2009 6:23:38 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/06/barefoot.bandit.plane.theft/index.html?iref=allsearch

haha, what a jackass

7/7/2010 8:15:45 PM

Seems like a pretty clever little bastard.

It'll make an interesting story after they catch and interview him.

7/7/2010 8:29:06 PM

Mark my words...

some company is going to make a movie out of this...

7/7/2010 8:31:44 PM

too late



[Edited on July 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM. Reason : .]

7/7/2010 8:41:10 PM

ZING!

7/7/2010 8:42:10 PM

Quote :

"Mark my words... some company is going to make a movie out of this..."

i'm pretty sure that i read in a CNN article last week this his parents already sold the rights for the movie to some production company

.....i think

7/7/2010 8:43:08 PM

I wish someone with bare feet would break into my house.

7/7/2010 8:43:59 PM

i dont have any shoes on

7/7/2010 8:45:20 PM

Let me have a little more to drink and then I'll see what I can do with your bare feet.

7/7/2010 8:45:50 PM

hehehe

7/7/2010 8:46:43 PM

Beer burgular EXPOSED??!!

7/7/2010 8:50:24 PM

there was a huge write up about this kid in Maxim a few months ago.
this kid has BIG balls

7/7/2010 9:21:17 PM

Reminds me of DB Cooper

That guy was cool as shit

7/7/2010 9:24:00 PM

hope he makes it to Canada, sounds like the heat is up pretty high on him now

7/7/2010 11:25:29 PM

Quote :

"thats some DB Cooper shit"

lol

7/8/2010 12:22:03 AM

eh. 2 stars tops.

unless he flies over a restricted area.

7/8/2010 12:24:30 AM

yeah crash landing onto an island doesnt seem to be the greatest idea....

my question is how did he make it from Indiana and not spark some terror alert? Flying too low for radar?

[Edited on July 11, 2010 at 5:03 AM. Reason : ...]

7/11/2010 5:01:33 AM

you would have to be LOW to terrain mask/stay below the RADAR horizon in the southeast U.S. You'd also either need to be lucky or find out where all the ATC RADARs are.

If he had the transponder turned off and played his cards right, I can see how nobody would notice. Now, once they started trying to catch up with him a day or two later, I'm sure they went to the ATC recordings and found him via primary returns on the RADARs.

7/11/2010 8:40:20 AM

My best guess would be that he was flying all non-radar, and VFR. I guess it probably wouldn't be too hard to get his hands on some charts, turn off the transponder, and guess which way he was going. I would think that if he's a novice, he wouldn't be stupid enough to fly far enough above ground (out of the view of local topography) so that he didn't really know where which direction he was flying. Not to mention, flying too high would put him in en route traffic.

Then again.... he did crash.

[Edited on July 11, 2010 at 8:53 AM. Reason : dammit duke...]

7/11/2010 8:48:11 AM

Oh yeah, of course he was flying VFR, and I'm sure he left the transponder off. I'm saying that if you really wanted to be invisible, you would have to be LOW, and you'd have to know where the RADARs were and what type they were (i.e. pulse or pulse dopplar...I doubt any ATC stuff is CW.)

I think that doing this without getting caught real-time would be easy.

Doing it so that investigators couldn't easily track you when they went to the recordings the next day? You'd have to know what you were doing. Making it really tough or impossible for them to piece enough data together afterwards? That would be really tough. I think that I might could do it, with my knowledge/experience/tools at my disposal, but then again, defeating RADARs tracking airplanes is what I do for a living (although usually I would rely a lot on electronic warfare). I don't think there's any way a teenage, novice pilot would have a chance in hell of not leaving a trail.


^

I'm talking about the comment about sparking a terror alert and flying too low for RADAR. You wouldn't spark any terror alert--the danger would be the cops showing up 5 minutes after you landed, or knowing what island to find you on when they pieced it all together a day or two later.

[Edited on July 11, 2010 at 9:04 AM. Reason : ]

7/11/2010 9:01:15 AM

they had a special on this guy on dateline or something like that a couple of years ago. pretty interesting.

7/11/2010 9:15:54 AM

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"In 2008, a deputy said he spotted Harris-Moore in a stolen Mercedes-Benz, but he lost the suspect when he allegedly dove from the moving vehicle."

Damn.

Quote :

"some company is going to make a movie out of this...."

7/11/2010 9:53:36 AM

Quote :

"Oh yeah, of course he was flying VFR, and I'm sure he left the transponder off. I'm saying that if you really wanted to be invisible, you would have to be LOW, and you'd have to know where the RADARs were and what type they were (i.e. pulse or pulse dopplar...I doubt any ATC stuff is CW.) I think that doing this without getting caught real-time would be easy. Doing it so that investigators couldn't easily track you when they went to the recordings the next day? You'd have to know what you were doing. Making it really tough or impossible for them to piece enough data together afterwards? That would be really tough. I think that I might could do it, with my knowledge/experience/tools at my disposal, but then again, defeating RADARs tracking airplanes is what I do for a living (although usually I would rely a lot on electronic warfare). I don't think there's any way a teenage, novice pilot would have a chance in hell of not leaving a trail. ^ I'm talking about the comment about sparking a terror alert and flying too low for RADAR. You wouldn't spark any terror alert--the danger would be the cops showing up 5 minutes after you landed, or knowing what island to find you on when they pieced it all together a day or two later."

I'm in agreement with this statement.

7/11/2010 10:05:02 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100711/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_bahamas_teen_fugitive

7/11/2010 11:09:16 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100711/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_bahamas_teen_fugitive

7/11/2010 11:09:16 AM

good

7/11/2010 11:10:05 AM

Quote :

"or knowing what island to find you on when they pieced it all together a day or two later.""

7/11/2010 11:10:31 AM

Quote :

"A bar at the ferry landing was also burglarized Wednesday night by a thief who cut a screen to break in, dismantled a security light, and moved the television's remote controls, said Denaldo Bain, the 30-year-old manager of Coakley's International Sporting Lounge. "He was watching television. He was just chilling," said Bain, who also said he saw the teenager in the inlet."

cocky bastard.


[Edited on July 11, 2010 at 11:14 AM. Reason : x]

7/11/2010 11:11:49 AM

8/11/2011 9:04:24 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/11/barefoot.bandit.movie/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

he signed for a movie deal

Quote :

"Los Angeles (CNN) -- "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore has sold the movie rights to his life story to 20th Century Fox, a studio spokesman said Thursday. The Fox spokesman, however, said reports the studio paid $1.3 million for the right were "highly exaggerated." Harris-Moore, 20, was a teenager when he took a two-year joy ride running from the cops, which ended last year with his arrest in the Bahamas. As part of a plea deal, Harris-Moore agreed to give up any profits that may come from book or movie deals on his story. His attorney, John Henry Browne, has said his client wants any such money to go to the victims. Harris-Moore is estimated to owe more than $1.4 million in restitution. Harris-Moore led law enforcement on a wild ride across nine states and three countries. He stole, flew and crashed five airplanes. His final journey took him across eight states, leaving behind a trail of home and business break-ins and stolen cars. Surveillance video shows him taking off in a stolen plane from Bloomington, Indiana, heading to the Bahamas. Harris-Moore lasted a few more days before police stopped him by shooting up a stolen boat while Harris-Moore was stuck on a sand bar. Harris-Moore's plea deal is expected to result in a 10-year prison term when he is sentenced in late October. He also faces an assortment of state charges."

8/11/2011 9:05:18 PM

hahahaa i went to the first link and i was like, um EMCE why are you posting something from two years ago?

8/11/2011 9:05:32 PM

10 years of jail for 2 years of fun

8/12/2011 2:07:13 AM

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"After the chase, police recovered a stolen digital camera from the car. Wallace said he found a deleted self-portrait of Harris-Moore, who posed in a shirt with a telltale Mercedes-Benz insignia. The shirt also belonged to the vehicle's owner."

[Edited on August 12, 2011 at 3:17 AM. Reason : lol]

8/12/2011 3:17:31 AM