A happy ending to the thief who didn’t get away any longer

Thanks to Colton Harris-Moore, filmmakers will have a climactic end to the movie they make about Camano’s infamous, now international, fugitive. True to his nickname, he was captured barefoot. That will soon change when he is issued his first pair of federal flip-flops.

On the lam for two years, the teen was caught in a dramatic boat chase early Sunday morning in the Bahamas after a hop-and-skip caper across the U.S.

Some would say it was luck and others would say smarts that he managed to avoid being caught following a series of home burglaries on Camano and Orcas islands.

There were five plane crashes in which the pilot vanished before emergency crews arrived, not to mention stolen boats, luxury cars and the fugitive being caught staying in a family’s home in South Dakota uninvited.

While many demanded that Harris-Moore be apprehended, 58,000 others joined his fan Facebook page and a tribute song praises his antics on You Tube.

I’m glad to see he was caught without anyone being injured or killed. With the hype he helped to create leading up to his capture, it could have gone either way. A percentage of the profits from books and a movie, that will undoubtedly be made, should benefit a victims’ fund.

Colton, nor his family, should profit one dime.

– Kelly Ruhoff

Editor