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Re: Game Over: Colton Harris-Moore Arrested in Bahamas

Grant Brissey
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It's not absurd to his mommy, the person who put it up for sale, the person who has to figure out how to pay for the lawyers he's gonna need.
gloomy gus on July 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM Report this
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local boy makes good: property destroyed, no one hurt, folk songs to follow.
Max Solomon on July 11, 2010 at 3:39 PM Report this
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My point is that it's absurd that someone or something could own the rights to such a thing. Ridiculous.
Grant Brissey, Emeritus on July 11, 2010 at 3:42 PM Report this
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There is such a thing as life rights, and book publishers and movie studios usually 'buy' these rights from the subject of a planned biographical book or film, or their family if the person is dead or otherwise unreachable. Others can make films or write books about the subject, but they might get sued.
danhowes on July 11, 2010 at 3:54 PM Report this
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Er, I was wrong anyway, the 20th Century purchase was of the rights to film a particular version of the story written by this one fellow Bob Friel. All it means is that nobody else can film that version, the boy himself apparently is not in for a piece of the action on it.

http://outlawsandoutcasts.blogspot.com/
gloomy gus on July 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM Report this
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It's worth it at ten times the price. Bob Friel's intense, soulful telling speaks to you on a deeper level than any other version could ever hope to.
elenchos on July 11, 2010 at 3:58 PM Report this
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Coincidentally, I have just today filed documents protecting my intellectual-property rights regarding a story about a low-level employee at a scrappy independent "newspaper" who is incentivized to "monitor" the Web servers over a holiday period, and after many hilarious adventures is found by his compatriots passed out on the conference-room table surrounded by a halo of empty Rize cans, a weight-lifting thong, and--what was it again?--oh yes, a well-thumbed copy of The Butt Book. 'Scuse me, the phone is ringing.
rob! on July 11, 2010 at 4:04 PM Report this
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Just when I was beginning to enjoy his antics! Good to see some style being brought back to crime.
on July 11, 2010 at 4:05 PM Report this
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@8 I'd pay a dollar to see that.
internet_jen on July 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM Report this
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@8, I bid one dozen dollars for the film rights to your version of that story. Top that, Fox bitches.
gloomy gus on July 11, 2010 at 4:15 PM Report this
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The weirdest shit is that he had over 65,000 facebook followers! The guy's a fucking crook and people are making out like he's some sort of folk hero for destroying other people's property. BFD he had a hard childhood. Lots of people do but they don't aspire to become folk hero criminals.
Weekilter on July 11, 2010 at 4:23 PM Report this
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If he was black, you'd all be calling for the death penalty!
on July 11, 2010 at 4:24 PM Report this
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No dude, if he was black, his name would have been D'Colton 'Cash' Harris and he would not have broken into places at night and stolen stuff, he would have done it in broad daylight, shot some poor Korean immigrant, grinned at the surveillance camera on the way out and then been caught five hours later playing on his Xbox at his girfriend's place, the get-away car seen on the video parked out front and the murder weapon hidden in his saggy-assed pants because he was too cheap to throw it away.

Don't you ever watch my favorite black comedy show on TV, "The First 48"? My favorite part is when they confess, start crying and ask when they can go home to see their mamas.
on July 11, 2010 at 4:29 PM Report this
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Spain wins and Colton gets caught its a sad day. I have the feeling they are going to stick it to him for making the authorities look foolish and living outside of the system.

@14 LOL
Cascadian Bacon on July 11, 2010 at 4:53 PM Report this
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@2 Boy, I'm sure you'd love having someone 6'3" robbing you at gunpoint like he was doing.
on July 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM Report this
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@12:
Apparently, you haven't seen "Bonnie and Clyde", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "Thelma and Louise", "The Fugitive", "First Blood", "Public Enemies", "Natural Born Killers", or any of the other thousands of movies romanticizing criminals on the run.

Not weird at all.
seandr on July 11, 2010 at 5:39 PM Report this
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@17 True, though the premise of The Fugitive is that the man is innocent of his "crimes" so I don't think it fits in.
on July 11, 2010 at 5:48 PM Report this
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@17,

Natural Born Killers was a commentary on our culture glorifying criminals. I don't know what to say if you thought the audience was supposed to identify with Mickey and Mallory.
keshmeshi on July 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM Report this
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OK, I've been out of contact with modern media for the past 9 days, and now all I see everywhere is this Colton Harris-Moore person (sounds like a peer of the realm). What'd I miss??
emma's bee on July 11, 2010 at 6:09 PM Report this
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emma's bee, Friel's kickass story for Outside's the place to start learning who they caught today:
http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/…
gloomy gus on July 11, 2010 at 6:20 PM Report this
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Harris-Moore is like a young Frank Abagnale, basically, but a bit more action packed.
Joe Szilagyi on July 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM Report this
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@21: thanks, gloomy gus. That was quite a story. He sounds like a sociopath. Several parts of his tale hit home for me (I have a young relative who appears to be on a similar path, minus the glamorous escapades and the 45k+ facebook fans). Very sad.
emma's bee on July 11, 2010 at 6:54 PM Report this
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@21 thank you
Cascadian Bacon on July 11, 2010 at 6:54 PM Report this
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#22--I don't see CHM = Frank Abagnale at all.

Abagnale managed to convince people he was something he wasn't... CHM stole and wrecked a bunch of shit.

Hardly the same.
pg13 on July 11, 2010 at 7:36 PM Report this
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I heard that Paul the Psychic Octopus tipped off the Bahamanian police as to Harris-Moore's whereabouts. Next up - the gulf oil spill. Is there nothing he can't do?
jayman on July 11, 2010 at 7:38 PM Report this
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Nah. Paul's already calamari by now (or whatever they call it when you use octopus instead of squid).
Fifty-Two-Eighty on July 11, 2010 at 7:46 PM Report this
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@5280
As our ancient neighbour used to say when I was a kid: "From your lips to God's ears..."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66…
Canuck on July 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM Report this
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@19
OK, whatever, then replace "Natural Born Killers" with "Dukes of Hazard", "Smokey and the Bandit", or "Robinhood". My point still stands.

And for what's it's worth, I saw NBK as both romanticizing criminal violence and commenting on our fascination with it.
seandr on July 11, 2010 at 9:48 PM Report this
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@28: Oh god, must they always resort first to the cooker? (And by "they" I mean me, since I am one.)
rob! on July 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM Report this
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You can sell anything in America, even your own soul.
Will in Seattle on July 12, 2010 at 8:34 AM Report this
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@14 if Colton were black there'd be more bodies.
on July 12, 2010 at 10:26 AM Report this

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