Why Colton Harris-Moore (aka the Barefoot Bandit) Actually is Respectable
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[QUOTE=Bloodshed16;23302041]I can see now that this conversation will not progress with you because you are butthurt. Congratulations sir.[/QUOTE]
I'm sorry, but until the kid decides to do something productive with his life, I refuse to glorify a criminal.
[QUOTE=dutchah;23302080]I'm sorry, but until the kid decides to do something productive with his life, I refuse to glorify a criminal.[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying you have to glorify him.. I'm saying his skills deserve respect. It is naive to say he is unskilled or untalented. Even if he did use them wrong.
ITT jealous kids that will never have an adventure of any scale.
[QUOTE=Bloodshed16;23302108]I'm not saying you have to glorify him.. I'm saying his skills deserve respect. It is naive to say he is unskilled or untalented. Even if he did use them wrong.[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying he's either one of those. I simply don't want to go 'Wow, he's a fucking awesome guy' when all he did was break into people's homes for mostly trivial stuff and crashed a few planes.
[QUOTE=dutchah;23302148]I'm not saying he's either one of those. I simply don't want to go 'Wow, he's a fucking awesome guy'[/QUOTE]
You don't have to respect the guy to say that some of the things he's done have been admittedly fucking badass.
[QUOTE=dutchah;23302148]I'm not saying he's either one of those. I simply don't want to go 'Wow, he's a fucking awesome guy' when all he did was break into people's homes for mostly trivial stuff and crashed a few planes.[/QUOTE]
You make it sound like it's an every day event to crash 5 planes and survive (and continue to run from FBI after all of it). As he is a master lock picker and outdoors men he will most likely get a break and be given a job for his talents. His skills are awesome. I know I wish I could teach myself to fly a plane, pick locks like a pro and survive outside. But honestly, I'm too lazy to teach myself anything. So until I magically get said skills, I will consider him awesome.
[QUOTE=NinjaPanda;23302209]You don't have to respect the guy to say that some of the things he's done have been admittedly fucking badass.[/QUOTE]
That's kinda true... I mean... Look at the nazi uniforms... Good? No, badass? Yes. Mainly since they follow the badass code, which is to say, trenchcoats...
[QUOTE=Bloodshed16;23302239]You make it sound like it's an every day event to crash 5 planes and survive (and continue to run from FBI after all of it). As he is a master lock picker and outdoors men he will most likely get a break and be given a job for his talents. His skills are awesome. I know I wish I could teach myself to fly a plane, pick locks like a pro and survive outside. But honestly, I'm too lazy to teach myself anything. So until I magically get said skills, I will consider him awesome.[/QUOTE]
I feel like a broken record, but until he decides to actually do something with his life, I won't consider it awesome because everything he did, he did to indulge in some infantile fantasy of his.
Mind you, he'll probably be given an ultimatum a la Abagnale, though I wonder what part of his skills he can apply to a new job, besides possibly improving locks.
Yes, but his talents are awesome. The way he used them isn't so awesome, but the talents themselves are self taught, which makes it very impressive.
What he accomplished as a teenager was pretty notable, I mean basically learning to fly a plane on your own is quite a feat.
However destroying property is never good, planes are expensive.
Read a piece about him in Rolling Stone, kids amazing.
Even if he's a thief, and he deserves to go to jail, he's still amazing.
He stole a fucking aircraft and escaped the FBI for 5 years.
I like him.
[QUOTE=pikzen;23302773]Even if he's a thief, and he deserves to go to jail, he's still amazing.
He stole several fucking aircraft's and escaped the FBI for 5 years.[/QUOTE]
I don't see why people care that he ruined some planes/properties.
They weren't your properties and it has no effect on you, how ever the story is intriguing.
^
It's the moral of the thing. As in, YOU wouldn't like it if it happened to YOU, so you show some sympathy for the people that it actully happened to.
Glad they finally got him, make him work like the rest of us.
[QUOTE=one free man;23302977]Glad they finally got him, make him work like the rest of us.[/QUOTE]
In dr Kissingers slave labor camp
[QUOTE=cortzxxx;23302843]I don't see why people care that he ruined some planes/properties.
They weren't your properties and it has no effect on you, how ever the story is intriguing.[/QUOTE]
Nice egocentric thinking there. So if I burnt down your house, you wouldn't want people to support you or care? Tax-payers money down the drain, because some kid didn't want to live by the book, so to speak.
The kid's got skills, too bad he's a thief.
[QUOTE=Thaard;23303032]
The kid's got skills, too bad he's a thief.[/QUOTE]
Everyone has their place. And it's a high possibility he will get a job involving locks and improving them.
[QUOTE=Thaard;23303032]Nice egocentric thinking there. So if I burnt down your house, you wouldn't want people to support you or care? Tax-payers money down the drain, because some kid didn't want to live by the book, so to speak.
The kid's got skills, too bad he's a thief.[/QUOTE]
Robin Hood was a thief.
[QUOTE=cortzxxx;23303198]Robin Hood was a thief.[/QUOTE]
Too bad Colton didn't give shit to the poor.
And too bad Colton isn't a fictional character.
Not 1 plane!
Not 2 planes!
Not 5 planes!
BUT 4 PLANES THIS MOTHER FUCKER STOLE.
What a character.
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[QUOTE=dutchah;23303316]Too bad Colton didn't give shit to the poor.
And too bad Colton isn't a fictional character.[/QUOTE]
Stole from the rich, and gave a great story to the world.
[QUOTE=cortzxxx;23303347]Not 1 plane!
Not 2 planes!
Not 5 planes!
BUT 4 PLANES THIS MOTHER FUCKER STOLE.
What a[B]n irresponsible psychotic cock head[/B].
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Fixed that for you.
So thieves are heros? lol
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;23303563]Fixed that for you.[/QUOTE]
I will give you that he is irresponsible, due to his father abandoning him at a young age, but psychotic? "Cockhead"?
You silly boy.
I believe that he is a thief who shouldn't fuck with people's stuff, but you have to hand it to him to do things on suck a large scale.
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