Barefoot Bandit: Seven Years, Three Months

Colton Harris-Moore, the “Barefoot Bandit,” stood bolt upright in orange jail garb before Judge Vicki I. Churchill in the small courtroom here on Friday and was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. His hands were folded in front of him because they were shackled, and he struggled to hold back tears as he pleaded guilty to 33 state charges including burglary and identity theft.

The young man had eluded law enforcement for more than two years, becoming something of a folk hero in the process before crashing a plane in the Bahamas...

New York Times.

The Barefoot Bandit: Is Adorable

"The young Washington State man dubbed the Barefoot Bandit after a cross-country crime spree brought him folk outlaw status has reportedly signed a movie deal worth as much as $1.3million (£800,000) with 20th Century Fox.
"The Daily Herald reports that the money will be used to help pay the minimum $1.4million that 20-year-old Colton Harris-Moore owes in compensation to the victims of his two-year-long crime spree..."

Awww.
The Daily Mail.

Barefoot Bandit: Bareback Black Back For Biopic

This great news just in!
According to Variety, Dustin Lance Black is set to write the script of a movie about Colton Harris-Moore, the Barefoot Bandit, for 20th Century Fox.
Fagburn likes Lance Black - who won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Milk (here's his acceptance speech) - almost as much as he likes Colt.
Dreamy Dustin had a little local difficulty involving a leaked video tape a year ago, but we're not going to dwell on that.
Though this post's title won't make any sense unless you know what it was. Sorry.
I'm not one to be judgmental - I think we're all allowed to fuck up big time from time to time.
And besides, one of the reasons I love Colton is he managed to make a career out of exactly that.
Maybe Dustin will gay the story up; make it a sort of Bareback's Barefoot Brokeback Mountain?
Anyway, something tells me this is slightly more likely to happen than that nonsense about Mickey Rourke playing Gareth Thomas earlier this week.
We also hope this news lifts the sprit of Harris-Moore who police brought back to Seattle today for his trial proceedings.
Our thoughts are with him at this difficult time.

And Finally... The Barefoot Bandit

News reaches Fagburn that one of his heroes, Colton Harris-Moore - AKA The Barefoot Bandit - finally got his own FBI poster yesterday.
It's here.
About time, too.
Keep on running, Bigfoot!