Re: Things I won't tell a burglar

["HeyBub" <heybub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
> "HeyBub" <heybub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> A few years ago, a couple of Maine teen-agers broke into a boat shed
>> at a boat repair shop. Their plan was to steal the radios from the
>> boats to listen in on police frequencies. Half-way through the
>> caper, they noticed the video camera.
>>
>> What to do?
>>
>> They burnt the boat shed to the water line!
>>
>> Fortunately, the video was off-site and it took the local fuzz about
>> two minutes to identify the culprits. Then it got bad.
>>
>> One of the boats belonged to George H.W. Bush and the Secret Service
>> got on the case. The 17-year old they let the state handle. After
>> restitution, he got five years probation.
>>
>> The 16-year old was charged with domestic terrorism and sentenced to
>> the only maximum security federal prison for juveniles, somewhere in
>> Pennsylvania, until he turns 25.
>>
>> So there he is, locked up for nine years with (mostly) drunk Indians.
>>
>> Crime don't pay.
>>
>>
>>
>
> According to these links, it looks like  both people were dealt with
> by the feds, one was given 30 months, the other 57 months.
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=128120&page=1
>
> http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39687
>

Thanks for refreshing my memory; a six-year old story loses something in
storage.

Looks like the younger terrorist (14) got the 30 months, probably until he
turned 17 or 18.

Still, as Dan Rather often says, "the facts were wrong, but the narrative
was correct."