"‘Barefoot Bandit’ to return to Wash." by Associated Press | July 17, 2010
MIAMI — Without saying a word, the teenager accused in a two-year string of sometimes shoeless burglaries and other crimes that helped him gain international notoriety as the “Barefoot Bandit’’ agreed yesterday to return to Washington state to face federal charges....
Colton Harris-Moore, 19, shackled at the wrists and ankles and wearing socks and sandals, said nothing during the brief hearing....
The teen is suspected in about 70 crimes in eight states and British Columbia. He was first arrested at age 12 and had been a fugitive since escaping in 2008 from a halfway house.
Authorities say Harris-Moore stole an airplane in Indiana and flew it to the Bahamas.
I'm just wondering why he wasn't intercepted or anything because I doubt he filed a flight plan or alerted the tower.
They say he then commandeered a boat in a potential attempt to reach the Turks and Caicos Islands and eventually hide in Cuba. It all ended Sunday when police shot out the engine of Harris-Moore’s boat and took him into custody.
Pretty loud for someone with no shoes.
Related: The Barefoot Bandit of the Bahamas
Here is something you can't tippytoe around.
Photo only:
"BEACHED YET AGAIN -- Dave Zerbst, with his daughter Katie on his back, reached out to a beached gray whale south of Harborview Park in Everett, Wash., yesterday morning. After beaching itself earlier this week, the gray whale had managed to free itself from the shore and reach open water Thursday, but it ended up back on the beach yesterday (Boston Globe July 10 2010)."
Look what washed up with the MSM tide:
"3 dead, 1 hurt in Coast Guard copter crash"by Associated Press | July 8, 2010
SEATTLE — A Coast Guard helicopter crashed off the Washington coast yesterday, killing three crew members, officials said....
--more--"Related: Texas air ambulance crashes, killing 5
