Modern mythic outlaws

nomos

Administrator
The case of Colton Harris-Moore
Balloon dad's got nothing on this kid...

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To his thousands of fans, 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore is a modern day Jesse James (without the bad), part Robin Hood (without the good), and a little bit James Bond (without the panache).

The frustrated Washington state sheriffs he has drawn into a six-year game of cat-and-mouse have other names for him though – names like “burglar,” “felon” and “barefoot bandit.”

Mr. Harris-Moore, who logged his first criminal conviction at the age of 12 and has become known for going without footwear, appeared to ratchet up the stakes in a long-running police search for his whereabouts recently when signs of his trademark antics were discovered on the Canadian side of the U.S. border north of rural Idaho.

Since the fugitive busted out of a juvenile detention facility in April, 2008, Mr. Harris-Moore, known as “Colt” to his fans, has grown into an anti-establishment rebel legend. U.S. newspapers have documented his increasingly crafty thefts, which now go beyond the simple robbery of cash and surveillance equipment to encompass the climbing of multi-storey buildings, destruction of heavy-duty safes and the stealing of luxury cars, boats and small aircraft.
 

nomos

Administrator
The Ballad of Barefoot Harris

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swears

preppy-kei
Always wanted to live like this... but I'm too scared of jail, I hear they pee in a cup and throw it on you.
 

polystyle

Well-known member
Yeah, Balloon dad hasn't really DONE much of anything,
at least the "Barefoot Bandit" is doing stuff ... and 'did it his way' !
:slanted:
 

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
from the guardian:

French-born arsonist Julien Chautard handed himself into police yesterday after an audacious escape in which he succeeded in slipping away from a group of new arrivals at Pentonville prison in north London. As the other prisoners were being marched inside, Chautard managed to duck behind the prison van that had just brought them there there from Snaresbrook crown court (where *Chautard, 39, had been sent down for seven years). He then succeeded in leaving the jail a few minutes later clinging to the underside of the same van.

Pascal Payet, assorted French prisons, 2001, 2003, 2007

Payet, AKA Kalashnikov Pat, was serving 30 years for murder in Luynes jail when he escaped by helicopter for the first time. He was on the run for six years, during which period he organised the escape of three of his former fellow inmates, again by helicopter. Eventually *recaptured and incarcerated in Grasse high security jail in the south of France, Payet flew to freedom once more in July 2007, in a Squirrel helicopter hijacked, along with its pilot, from the glamorous resort of Cannes half an hour *earlier. The chopper landed on the *penitentiary's roof, from where three heavily armed men set off in search of Payet. Amazingly, there have been 10 successful helicopter escapes from French jails in the past 20 years.

Antonio Ferrara, Fresnes, Paris, 2003

Ferrara, a legendary underworld explosives expert capable of blowing a safe open while leaving the cash inside unharmed, was sentenced to eight years for two armed robberies (he was suspected of 15 more). In March 2003, a couple of police cars pulled up in front of the gates of Fresnes jail outside Paris. Six men, dressed as police officers, got out. Three of them promptly opened fire on the two watchtowers with AK47s, while the others blew the front gates open with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Ferrara, meanwhile, calmly dynamited his cell door, jumped in one of the cars and was gone.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Great stories, pattycakes.

The phrase that really makes the last one is "calmly dynamited". :D
 
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