Meet the World's Youngest Criminal Mastermind 

Better than Bear Grills 🤣

This is so true, what a great story and good comment too!

he got a shot at alright

Being a lawyer & fking over others is not exactly paying back to the community!

@@AGRGTR09 That's actually how I read the comment for a moment!

Not rly you don't seem to understand the context mastermind is being used in

I really want to visit England and get phrases like "bloody good bloke" into my vocabulary

@@decker528 what’s stopping you from doing it now?

yeah! there is a lot of kids in the same situation. Most politicians and businessmen commit much more gruesome crimes and no one seems to see it. Education is the answer but it seems like only powerful ones decides what is "education" as what's "right or wrong"

My best friend's son is a career petty criminal with a heart of gold. He was diagnosed with ADD at a very young age, & doctors put him on Adderall when he was, like 7 or 8, which lead to his becoming a methamphetamine user by his teenage years. By the time he was 18, he already had numerous convictions for minor crimes. Because he did poorly in school (ADD), he dropped out. He couldn't find work because of his criminal record.. No one would hire him. He had a drug addiction he needed money to support. He committed more crime, established a criminal record as an adult, & the vicious cycle continued. As far as I know (& I've known this guy since he was 25. He'll be 41 this year) he has NEVER spent more than 6 months of his adult life NOT incarcerated. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department keeps inmate records online for 1 year following an arrest. When you look up an inmate on their website, you enter their name then click search & a page showing a list of all their arrests over the past 12 months, by booking number comes up next. If you want details of any of the arrests, you click on that booking number & it will take you to a page detailing just that specific arrest, but I want to talk about the previous page, the list of arrests over the past 12 months. When you search this guy's name, you have to SCROLL to see all the times he's been arrested over the past year. That says 2 things: (1) He gets arrested a LOT, & (2) All of his crimes are minor enough that he gets right back out to get arested again, & again, & again, to the point that you can't view all of his arrests in the past 12 months on one computer screen! Some of that has to do with how well known he has become to law enforcement, who frequently stop him, knowing there's a very good chance they'll find something on him that will violate the terms of his parole or probation (he's been on both at the same time too) & be able to arrest him. That results in either a 10 or 30 day stay in jail for the violation. Some has to do with him not showing up for court appearances either because he forgot, or he simply doesn't want to go because he knows the outcome is never favorable for him. I remember one time, he had walked over to a friend's house where he had left his truck so that his friend could do a brake job for him. It had been a few days & he just wanted to go check if the brakes were done (well, he probably wanted to get high too. It was that kind of a house where he'd left the truck). It was not ready, so after "visiting" for a while, he had to walk home (about 3-4 blocks). By this time it was around midnight, so there weren't a lot of people walking the street. Somewhere on the way home, he saw something metallic in the grass of someone's yard. It turned out to be a hacksaw. He was working on a table for his mom at the time, & thought, "Hey, this might come in handy!" & put the saw under his jacket & resumed his walk. Before he made it home, because he was the only person walking that late, & the cop's immediately recognized him they stopped him, found the hacksaw, & arrested him for possessing burglary tools. Knowing the judge would never believe THE TRUTH, he took the plea bargain. Which was 364 days in County jail (the max, because of his criminal records) then got a year enhancement because of his prior criminal record & was out in about 9 months because of overcrowding in the jails. 9 months for picking up a discarded hacksaw coz he thought he might be able to use it re-doing a table for his mother. One time, he got to be one of the lucky 3 inmates that got to be housed in the portion of Pitchess Dententuon Center that is, for all intents & purposes, closed, but the County keeps 3 inmates there to continue to receive Federal funding as if it's still open. So he can't say the only luck he has is bad, I guess. I remember him getting a job in construction once, with a guy who had committed his fair share of crime his own self, in his youth, & knew how hard it was for someone with a lengthy criminal record to get a job (he had to start his own contracting company to have work himself!) & wanted to give the guy a chance. He did good for a few months, then relapsed into his addiction again & missed a few day's work & got fired. Like I said, he'll be 41 this year, has never held down a job for more than a few months & hasn't been OUT of jail for longer than 6 consecutive months. He is NOT a bad guy. He is, in fact, one of the most helpful & kind people I have ever known. Almost 100% of his crimes have been property crimes, stealing to support his drug habit. He DID get a charge of attempted murder added when he threw another prisoner over the rail, resulting in a broken leg, & another year in prison added on, once when he found himself in the middle of a prison riot. But other than that, he had no history of violent crime. It costs $43,000 per inmate per year to house someone in LA County jail, $106,000 per year in the State prison system. For someone like my friend's son, whose crimes are all (except the one) minor, non-violent & addiction-driven, would it not be cheaper in the long run to send him to rehab, give him some job training & JOB PLACEMENT upon his release?!? Realistically, it's too late for this guy but if something had been done early on to help him, I know the outcome would have been much different. He doesn't mind working when he can find someone willing to hire him, but cannot hold a job long because of his addiction. It's a tragic story of an entire life wasted that I'm sure plays out over & over again all across the country. The attorney in this story is more than a "bloody good bloke." He's literally a life saver. ✌🏼

He's obviously smarter than most of society.

A stache like that is bestowed upon you at birth

From when he was born

It could be no other way.

Ha!

Unfortunately Aaron didn’t have the killer ‘stache when he started the channel. But it’s good ‘un now!

Really.

Can you pilot a plane alone for over 1000 miles at 17 without ever having been taught, though?

The terrible childhood thing is a bit of a dealbreaker though.

He had 1.4 million in loans from the school of life ;)

Well, while selling the story of your life for million dollars sounds awesome, we should not forget that being an extraordinarily interesting and charismatic criminal is the most high-risk, low odds way to become famous of all. And even if it works out, that story is filled mostly with painful memories of desperate times he certainly wishes to not have made. I certainly wouldn't envy him ever.

He very likely is very highly intelligent, but not necessarily because he was able to get away with it. It shows more in the fact he tried in the first place. Highly intelligent people need to feel challenged or they either act out or grow into very depressed people. This was acting out, but in a way, it's what he needed to do to 'stay sane'. As for getting away with his thefts, the main thing which gets thieves caught is because they have a "home base"; Something about them which remains constant, which leads them to be able to be tracked. This kid left no footprints, so to speak, because his entire existence was 'off the grid'. Living on the grid and getting away with stuff like this definitely would take a genius. That's why "the grid" existing is both intentional and happenstance. A lot of people championing the cause of privacy for individuals don't entirely understand the balancing act it is, because if you're not a criminal, being able to track you and your belongings can be how to save you if you're kidnapped etc and get back things that other people stole from you. The more privacy you have, the easier you can fall victim to piracy... and be a pirate.

Perhaps an intelligent person would have used his intelligence in positive pursuits.

@@soslothful It's difficult when you're a kid, even more difficult when you're a kid with an extremely poor family, and damn near impossible when you're starving half to death all the time like he was before he started doing this. Not saying this to be snotty toward you or anything, but life doesn't work out according to peoples' ideas of idealism, and in fact almost never does, because something is always missing. That doesn't mean that for instance if you're missing a good role model in your life, you have an excuse to grow up to be an ass, but it Does mean that what a positive pursuit even *is* ends up being whatever kind of life can make you feel successful and empowered after experiencing life that's a losing proposition of perpetuated powerlessness. So people like you, apparently, who would call people dumb just for opting to live outside of a system which would be happy to punish them but isn't happy to help them is what makes criminals like this kid in the first place.

@@Veldrusara Yes, sever adversity in one's formative years in the form of neglect and abuse may radically distort one's moral and cognitive development. On this we agree. How we as a society will bring these concerns into our legal system in a fraught issue. Childhood abuse may be a mitigating factor, but it is not exculpating, the criminal must be prevented from future crime. And I'm quite curious. where did I call any dumb?

@@soslothful "Perhaps an intelligent person would have used his intelligence in positive pursuits.". Directly insinuating that he's not intelligent. Not intelligent=dumb.

You mean other than using a gun in his attempt to evade police.

@@larryclemens1850 Shhhh, that was at the end in a moment of desperation.

@@larryclemens1850 knowing what the police in the US are like, arming up seems like the sensible thing to do.

@@kellydalstok8900 O K A Y....

@@larryclemens1850 a guy can run from the police unarmed and get shot in the head and killed, the american police have a unique standard

Lol that's cool

He would've made an exceptional penetration tester. Pen testers do exactly that-they're paid to try and skirt people's security, physically, socially, digitally, whatever they know how to do. It sounds like one of the most fun jobs and it's basically what you describe Colt doing, but on a much wider scale.

@@CNSninja oh, I absolutely agree. He'd be phenomenal.

Yeah, he was able to simply steal screws if they weren't welded flush with the cell.

@@km077 yup, that's exactly what I heard

There's a documentary about this kid it's call barefoot bandit

Send them an email, its crazy enough for them to make it.

FC'UKCK THAT TRASH NETFLIX! 😠😡🤮🤮🤮😷 EITHER HBO OR AMAZON WOULD BE BETTER MAKING SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF THIS AWESOME STORY! THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON SERIES WAS A FANTASTIC EXAMPLE OF WHAT HBO COULD MAKE OUT OF THIS LOONY TALE WITH THOSE MAKERS OF DAT AWESOME SERIES!

@@blairsanders607 ye I've seen it. Excellent doc and well made.

There is a documentary here on youtube :) called Barefoot Bandit. It explains a lot more as it is way longer. Like the fact many people loved him just for rebelling out and that the landings of those flights were all crash landings because he didnt learn to land :)

Good story, thnx for sharing!

I love that

Hey atleast you didn't actually steal it, more borrowed it, nice story lmao.

should of changed the oil

I love this story! Thanks!

Including him. From the states listed, he could have easily been shot upon entry if he hadn't been meticulous with the night vision goggles. Interesting story.

Many people were hurt… every single one of his victims….

@@dispmonk physically

@@samihtameez8584 yes that's what I meant

@@clarangakoana2634 they're talking about dispmonk

I think most people would understand he is trying to survive. I mean he breaks in for a shower and some food

This is my first time hearing this story and its pretty insane considering that I live in Stanwood Wa (10 miles from Camano)

Probably one of the reasons he got a lighter sentence, people loved him.

" boys will be boys! "

Adventurous criminal

@@PineappleSquuid I reccomend you watch Colton Harris Moore's interview on The Glares. Or the Real Stories documentary

Multiple theft of others property makes one a criminal.

@@jdnnddjd3948 he’s still a criminal lmao

when you are on parole you are still technically in prison. so they have rules you have to follow

@@ronblack7870 The government should be in prison for 1) The debt-money system, and 2) For not guaranteeing every single child a basic level of resources/sustenance in such a resource and tech-rich nation.

Perhaps the parole officer didn't want him licensed as he was already a 'flight risk'?

Yeah, he also either omitted or made up some details. He forgot to mention the fact that another guy thought him how to pick locks, or how he sold his story for over 1M to pay for damages, how he was forced to pay the rest with crowdfunding he initially intended for his license. And made up a story about him dating a girl when he was openly gay during his exploits.

He could teach the children in the neighbourhood how to fly. Hope he's found a good wife or two and is producing many future pilots.

@@epajarjestys9981 😂🤣👍

With the prevalent unfair biases against males dealing with kids, that's a tough call.

Honestly I hope things that he was able to accomplish with zero formal education on those subjects, he'll probably get recruited by the CIA at some point.

last i heard he was doing work release for a lawyer

Yeah but would you still support him if he broke into your crib, took your car and bought shit off your credit card?

@@goatmansasquatch1485 I left him notes inside the house while I had my car with me at work. And no one would get far with MY debit card...

Colton fans live in North Carolina also 👍🏼. Look past his "misdeeds" and focus on what this free-range kid accomplished. Its mind-boggling! Or maybe you need some entries in a pilot logbook to appreciate it? I have 63 hours from decades ago and still remember how scary learning to fly by yourself is. I know society says i shouldn't but i just can't help how much admiration i have for him. Need to find a Barefoot Bandit tshirt.. 🤔

@@goatmansasquatch1485 Other than the hassle of not having a plane while filling out insurance claim forms, what did it cost the owners? Personally, if i had to replace a plane because of Colton, i would absolutely make sure to include that in the plane's maintenance log! ☺️👍🏼 "Replacement airframe and powerplant due to Barefoot Bandit." Would be like owning a Bankse.

@@goatmansasquatch1485 Yeah. It's just stuff, replaceable with more stuff. There's always someone worse off than ourselves. Sasquatch's too! It's never easy to ask for what ought to be offered in times of need. In Snohomish County, Island County and on all the San Juan Islands, we look out for each other in many ways in times of need. It's just stuff...

I was just thinking the same thing!

i thought why such a movie not mentioning in story

There is a much better documentary on Colton Harris AKA the barefoot bandit just do a search.

There’s a video on RU-vid explaining the whole story with reenactments, animation, and interviews with pretty much everyone involved in the story. It’s a really fun and interesting watch. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of the video and it felt like it went by in 2 minutes when I believe it’s an hour long or so video.

I mean you would need to pay to legally watch that movie.

sorry about your bro prayers for you both

where do you now live

A life of suffering

Lol in 😂 a game but not real life

maybe not the child hood but the rest of it hell yeah

Stanwood represents!

Thoughty can pronounce it however the hell he wants!! Lol

Ok but who asked tho?

@@enricodeazevedo1829 who?

And?

The man deserves a thumbs up as he didn't need any flying lessons to get himself up in the air 😂😂😂

You can steal planes in GTA?.

He should have sold hi story to rock star games

GTA....Grand Theft Airplane!

I think Colton is becoming Saul Goodmsn himself, and his lawyer is Chuck. Colton with the Slippin Jimmy backstory and all

I was waiting for this comment

I once stole a starter pack of pokemon 1 edition. Got a charizard and traded it away for a fat pikachu. Guess it was my karma. Never again lol

@@niklaslund2204 I found a original chargzar in my Pokemon collection a couple of weeks ago never knew I had it

I’ve stolen several cars, I wouldn’t suggest it. It’s nerve wracking

Reminds me. When I was 12 I shoplifted makeup and got caught and humiliated at the store as well as banned for life. The store shut down and sat empty, then a Walmart moved in and I still look over my shoulder remembering my long ago ban 😂 even though I’m 40 now and would rather cut off my hand than shoplift

I used to steal ford escorts on the run 2010 since they’re the easiest to force wire up. It’s not really that hard

I can't imagine learning to fly a plane, all alone, during your first time in a plane. It's amazing it all turned out so well for him in the end, but I am glad it did.

Probably too stoned.

@@CigsInABlanket weed reduce agressiveness

Lies

@@yutudelickzolonskyyballs7146 there is still honor among criminals

​@@yutudelickzolonskyyballs7146 Stealing when nobody is looking isn't aggressive behaviour.

Oh my gosh! Even the galaxy backs this guy.

Were you able to meet him?

Unfortunately no. Though I remember black hawk helicopters landing at the football field in town. And then doing a search with local law enforcement, it was a very big deal in our small mountain town. I had a very “eclectic” teacher, that would open his door to his classroom. And scream out into the woods that he had shoes for him. Very odd time for us.

This is not true. I know because the guy crashed in my back yard.

@@Dogpool Mine too

source: trust me bro

Was looking for someone to catch that. His map was completely inaccurate.

Me too. I was like, "That is eastern canada.." 🤔

I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down till someone mentioned that

@@longarmsgiraffe0955 I hesitated to mention it as I’m horrible with geography. But there was, like, a map there 😂

My old stomping grounds as well.

Same here. Shelton WA

🤣🤣🤣

Not to mention AntiFA and BLM burning the city down. Then there’s the highest suicide rate on the country. But the worst thing Seattle inflicted on the world is Starbucks!

Can't have too many criminals in one place ya know?

@@Straightshooter547 In a perfect world, if you learn to fly a plane the VERY FIRST time you even step foot on one, you would just be granted a license no questions asked

@@hirigone in a perfect world you wouldn't need a pilot's license.

@@StrategicGamesEtc right. Travel freely by a means of one's own choosing. Of course people will crash, but most would probably crash over an unpopulated area,like an ocean or mountain or something, so the only people hurt are usually the ones who knowingly gambled with their lives and lost. Darwinism. We need more of that.

THAT WAS YOU?

@@christianlee1151 lol

*rode

@@snakedoktor6020 thanks. Spelling is hard

@@drummingninja1065 Indeed it is. My pleasure.

You want a cookie?

@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic sure. you buying?

They don't just become good they just get smarter.

Don't just have a link tree without being on OF

The victims of his theft probably feel rather differently.

Yes, they prefer for him to buy himself clothes and yachts. You are so insensitive.

@@КераМера-ю4н How he spent the stolen money does not change the fact it was stolen.

​ @soslothful nope the owner of the last plane he stole even asked for leniency

I'm assuming you meant "proven to be". No hate (especially since I just liked your comment lol), I just thought I'd let you know. :)

@@parabellum4785 Yeah, i must have missed that. Thank you for correcting me :)

Too popular since 1969. And expensive before they called it "inflation".

I never heard of this story but I loved it as long as you don’t kill somebody I don’t mind

Are you talking about the comic book pilot Dan cooper? Or D.B. cooper, the guy who stole millions and jumped out a plane? 😂

@@ryleyfinn7067 D.B Cooper was never the alias of the guy who hijacked the plane. It has always been Dan Cooper. Thoughty has a vid on that. Hence, why I used it.

Same, it's a good thing he didn't went farther to hurt people in pursuit of his crime, that made him turn his life around at the end proves people can change.

@Obese Orangutan With Hand Saw True, this kid stealing thousands of dollars from people yet they people im this comment section are supporting him.

​@Obese Orangutan With Hand Saw yeah 🤔

@Half-Starved Bin Chicken yeah maybe thats why he mentioned it, because its was relevant...

@Prince Woke With 100 Million Tax Payers Dollars bro i bet your name is worse damn you

@Prince Woke With 100 Million Tax Payers Dollars bro your name sounds like a glow stick bruh

They literally made a doc

@@goatmansasquatch1485 yeah no shit, I also know the difference between a documentary and a movie

@@d.stacy90 but yet you’re surprised they don’t make 2 million more movies every year

He didn’t want fame and only sold his story to pay back those he stole from.

Yeah, ge was way off ! North of Seattle , near British Columbia, I'd say.

@@NancyDavis-Foss-ok7to No he's EAST in Quebec Province.

Yes

Can u make a custom tone for kids being fucked in the butt online? Something that makes them look stupid while they are crying and screaming for help while the p** is pressed into them. I think that would be more successful than fighting kids abuse as noone seems to take seriously their situation....

@salsa💘⏬ and they dont need tk be 18. What do you want? 18 months? Too bad that i dont have connection otherwise i would sel you a kid... But i dont have kids... Icould steal them WHAT A GREAT IDEA . you are genius.

@@theunsolved6052 Just the cut of "Thoughty2 Here" I just used a simple audio program to cut out his intro as the notification pops up... nothing too crazy lol

Bro how did u comment 22 mins ago

Yeah wtf man .....we sit here and wait for an upload and you just slide in like you got a phking time machine

@@PHKallYallMFrs420 Tachyon cell phone

@@kingonmythrone2259 I'm gunna goog that

Besides assult

@@jjbudgie assult is the threath of violence but battery is the actual attack most people just get them mixed up

Do you have an airport in your vicinity?

really witty stuff. 😋🌷🌱 but what’s it got to do with this fantastic story? 🙃🛫

@@feralbluee IM A DOCTOR AND I WANT MY SAUSAGES !

@@fredflintstoner596 “OK - here are your sausages!!!” slams down the plate - sausages are all over the table. “There! are you happy now?”

@@feralbluee THOSE ARE THE WRONG SHAPED CHIPS !

Still a trailer park

Maybe it should've been named by somebody who knew how English worked then. which is of course to say, not an American. ANYBODY apart from an American.

He was also like, 6"5 and probably pretty intimidating