Enablers of the month: Colton Harris-Moore’s Facebook fans and his mother Pam Kohler, along with police in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Enablers of the month:
Facebook fans of Colton Harris-Moore, 18, who glowingly describe him as a teenage Jesse James, for being suspected of having stolen at least one boat, at least two airplanes, a thermal imaging camera (giving him night-vision capabilities for living in the woods he often lives in) and necessities. But he may not be the addict. Read on.
Colton Harris-Moore’s mother Pam Kohler, who doesn’t find much wrong with her son’s exploits. “I hope to hell he stole those airplanes. I would be so proud.” Kohler was usually unemployed while raising her son in a reportedly run-down, single-wide trailer in the woods on the south end of Camano Island, north of Seattle, Washington. She sometimes threw her young son out of the house. A neighbor says that Colton “had a horrible childhood. I could hear every kind of bad language out of [his mother’s] mouth, screaming and yelling at him. One time I yelled…’Knock it off!’ And she screamed back, ‘F— you!’” The neighbor’s daughter, who was Colton’s childhood friend, explained, “When you’re told every day of your life that you are worthless and you are no good and get…out of my house…you do what you need to do.” Gosh, I feel like swigging from a jug of Ripple or Thunderbird, don’t you?
Police in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, who have imposed a strict limit on the number of cans per day each attendee can drink at the Bathurst 1000 four-day auto race: 24 cans of full-strength, or 36 cans of mid-strength or light beer, or four liters of wine. And this will keep fans in line? Huh?!