FBI Check Barefoot Bandit's MacBook for Evidence
The FBI is currently searching 'Barefoot Bandit' Colton Harris-Moore's MacBook and iPod touch because they believe it could be a goldmine of evidence against the thief.
When Colton Harris-Moore was apprehended on July 11, he was in a supposedly stolen boat just off the Bahamas. Thinking the jig was up, the 19-year-old dumped a gun, his backpack, his MacBook and his iPod touch into the few feet of water his boat was sitting in. The Seattle Times reports that these items were recovered five hours later by Bahamian police, who charged him $300 for illegal entry and deported him to the United States. The FBI is now searching his laptop and iPod for evidence relating to his crimes. The FBI is also trying to ascertain who actually owns the items.
"Several items were recovered, including a laptop and what's believed to be an iPod touch. The items are being processed, and we're attempting to find the rightful owners," Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office told the Seattle Times.
Harris-Moore earned himself the nickname 'Barefoot Bandit' after allegedly committing some of his crimes in his barefeet. The Washington-born teenager is said to have stolen five small planes, a boat and two cars, along with burglarizing more than 100 private residences.
Mr. Harris-Moore is charged with interstate transportation of stolen goods and retrieving the data could play a huge role in his case, as it may be instrumental in figuring out who was helping Colton while he was on his two-year crime spree. However, the FBI is unsure if it will be able to recover the data because of damage done to it when it was dumped overboard.
In case anyone is curious (I was), Colton apparently learned to fly planes by reading aircraft manuals and playing flight-simulator games.
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Flight simulator games: what you fall back on when "GTA made me do it" doesn't work.
Flight simulator games: what you fall back on when "GTA made me do it" doesn't work.
LOL
So I'm qualified to be an aircraft thief? Awesome!
[GTA: Vice City] - V-Rock - "Loverboy - Working For The Weekend"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cues2i1fv58
that kid is such a tool
Searching for Evidence and referring to it as "a goldmine"
BORING JOB!
"including a laptop and what's believed to be an iPod touch."
so these people, trying to get data out of a water damaged device, cant even tell what an ipod touch is, if if the item in question is one?
I can see it now
"we gave the items to our top technology guru, he says hes pretty sure one is a laptop, and speculating the other is what someone people call an 'ipod' from his research on the web about the item in question."
despite my intolerance for thievery, i actually feel depressed over his arrest
the kid should be put on pay roll
Oh come on, dumping it in water? You could've done a lot better, buddy.
Stealing planes is no small feat. And a yacht? Good lord. If this kid was just a little smarter with his surroundings he could have just lived the high life forever. I'm sure he'll still get out some day and learn from his mistakes.
Catch Me If You Can?
If he wouldn't have got greedy, and stuck with planes he probably still wouldn't have been caught lol.
Awesome boy.
It seemed to operate the same way, but with an 8.7" screen, odd
"..... along with BURGLING more than 100 private residences."
Fixed.
(as it comes from the word burglary, not burglerization)
"..... along with BURGLING more than 100 private residences."Fixed.(as it comes from the word burglary, not burglerization)
Burglarizing is very correct.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglarizing
No one questions a tall clean cut white kid around a yacht, plane, boat, etc..., had he been black or any other ethnicity I doubt he would have gotten that far. The world discriminates one way or another.
No one questions a tall clean cut white kid around a yacht, plane, boat, etc..., had he been black or any other ethnicity I doubt he would have gotten that far. The world discriminates one way or another.
A tall clean cut 19 year old, on yachts/planes, alone.
Yeah, totally not suspicious. Stop claiming racial bullshit when it has nothing to do with the subject.
No one questions a tall clean cut white kid around a yacht, plane, boat, etc..., had he been black or any other ethnicity I doubt he would have gotten that far. The world discriminates one way or another.
No not really. But it sounds like you do (discriminate).
In case anyone is curious (I was), Colton apparently learned to fly planes by reading aircraft manuals and playing flight-simulator games.
Awesome. So when E-day comes around and it's time to battle the Locust Horde, i'll me more than prepared. I can sleep easy now :-)
I find it very sad that people somehow idolize this kid, leap to his defense in word AND in deed (people were collecting money to defend him).
They wouldn't be saying that if it was their home, car, boat, plane that got stolen at gunpoint.
his sneak level wasn't high enough
Flight simulator games: what you fall back on when "GTA made me do it" doesn't work.
Excellent, you sir, win an internets.
Excellent, you sir, win an internets.
I want to win some internets too please.