The website is named "Socata" after the single-engine turboprop plane, the kind favored by Harris Moore. Indeed, an email address in the blog's registry is known to belong to a Good Samaritan who tried to help Harris Moore when he was a young teen. The home page features a plane in the air and boldly asserts: "Anything is possible." The authenticity of the website and blog, which surfaced in late November, could not be independently verified although Browne and others associated with the so-called "Barefoot Bandit" believe it is genuine. Barefoot Bandit: His life and crimes 60 photos In 2012, he was sentenced to 6 ½ years and is scheduled to be released to a halfway house next March, according to his lawyer John Henry Browne. Harris Moore, now 24 years old, continues to serve prison time in Washington for crimes related to his cross-country theft of five single-engine places. WATCH: 48 Hours - "Chasing the Barefoot Bandit" NEW YORK - Colton Harris Moore, the Washington state teenager who gained international notoriety as the "Barefoot Bandit," appears to have resurfaced with a personal website and blog that delves into his dislike of the media, his reasons for stealing planes, and why he accepted more than $1 million from 20th Century Fox for rights to his life story, a decision the writer of the blog says he now regrets. He needs just one other thing.He needs to go to the slammer.Barefoot Bandit: His life and crimes 60 photos He could use some compassion, some love and some understanding. Young Colton could use some fatherly guidance, too. And what’s wrong with that? It’s just wholesome American capitalism at its best.Maybe some of those vendors could contribute to his defense fund, which he will surely need. I understand a few t-shirt vendors made quite a little windfall from his goofy wanderings. I can’t swear to it, however, because my memory was hazy once I’d regained consciousness.Harris-Moore’s exploits became quite celebrated during his months and years on the lam. ![]() I forgot what my Dad said when I accidentally torched the bathroom with a quart of gasoline, but I don’t think it was father-to-son chat. I wish I could summon it myself, but having grown up in a time where such a thing simply would not be tolerated in any fashion just once, never mind repeatedly, I am distressingly unable to do so. But that’ll blow over, right?I am alternately admiring and appalled by the Millers’ exceptional magnanimity. Of course, the whole sorry escapade set off the airport-as-terrorist bases paranoia. Given my father’s Cheetah-like reflexes, the likelihood of that happening is right at zero.And besides, where’s the real harm? All those airplanes were insured, after all. I’d have been running for my life, assuming of course I still had two good legs attached to my hips and a couple of second head start. Actually, I don’t think there would have been much talking. ![]() A kid who was misguided from the start.” Miller’s brother, John, said “I’d guess I’d talk to him just like a Dad talks to his son.”That got me to wondering how my Dad would have talked to me after I’d stolen my fourth airplane with the total haul worth a couple of million. Never mind that it was Grand Theft Auto times about 30.Said owner Don Miller, one of two brothers who owns the Corvalis, “He’s just a kid. So it was a little unsettling to see one of the victims of notorious alleged teen airplane thief Colton Harris-Moore generously dismiss the theft of a $620,000 Corvalis as sort of a teen-age prank. I grew up in the 1950s and have the scar tissue to prove it.
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