America’s Most Wanted Teenager, a.k.a. The Barefoot Bandit, one Colton Harris-Moore, who has been on the lam for many months after escaping from a Washington State junior hoosegow, and was thought to be hiding out in the state, as he had been for so long, somehow made it across the country and into The Bahamas. Now he’s fled from there on a stolen boat.
Pam Kohler, Harris-Moore’s mother, said she wasn’t surprised her son might be able to make the 1,000-mile trip after teaching himself how to fly.
She has publicly defended her son, and claims the allegations against him are exaggerated.
Mrs Kohler added that she would have preferred him to have made it to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S.
‘The furthest he gets from the U.S., the better,’ she said. ‘I’m glad he’s able to enjoy beautiful islands, but they extradite. It doesn’t help matters at all.’
She also said that she also worried about his safety.
‘Colt is not to be flying a single engine-plane,’ she insisted, saying she was worried about engine failure. ‘When I heard that, that just upset me.
‘The rules are, he carries a parachute with him and he takes two-engine planes. Tell him he needs to call me.
You naughty boy. You’re in so much trouble for not stealing a multi-engine aircraft with parachutes and flying it to a country without reciprocity with the United States. You’re gonna get a good talking to and a time-out when you get home. You know the rules, after all. Don’t you know you just ruined your mother’s chances for Mother of the Century?
