Where is the parental supervision and limit setting with this kid? M

Wash. runaway, 9, sneaks onto 2 flights before getting caught in Texas

9-year-old runaway sneaks onto 2 flights - Life - MSNBC.com


LAKEWOOD, Wash. - A 9-year-old boy ran away from home and sneaked onto two flights before he was caught by police after missing his connection for a third flight, officials said Wednesday.

Semaj Booker apparently found a Southwest Airlines boarding card and made it through airport security twice Tuesday. He flew from Seattle to Phoenix, where he transferred onto a flight to San Antonio, Texas. He was taken into custody at San Antonio airport — short of his Dallas destination, police said.

The fourth-grader remained in juvenile custody in San Antonio on Wednesday . He had been trying to get to his grandfather in Dallas, where he used to live.

"The only thing I have to offer on that is that we're looking into it," Southwest spokeswoman Beth Harbin said.

The boy was unhappy after his family moved to Lakewood, outside Tacoma, Wash. His odyssey began Sunday when he stole a car that was left running outside a neighbor's house, only to be spotted by police near a highway intersection.

Police pursued Semaj at speeds up to 90 mph until he took an exit and the engine blew, after which the car went over a curb and coasted into a tree. He refused to come out of the car, so officers broke a window to unlock a door and immediately recognized him as a frequent runaway and car thief, Lakewood police Lt. David B. Guttu said.

After his failed runaway attempt Sunday, Semaj escaped from home again on Tuesday, this time traveling by plane instead of car.

Likes to drive, too

Last month Semaj also crashed a stolen car before being caught by police in Tacoma, and more recently he was caught in Seattle in a stolen car that had run out of gas, said his mother, Sakinah Booker.

She believes he learned to drive from playing video games on a PlayStation.

Booker said she had hoped to soon move her four sons back to Dallas, but Semaj grew tired of waiting.

Semaj was "incredibly motivated to get to Texas," Guttu said. "He doesn't want to live in Washington state."

Booker said her son dislikes the neighborhood where the family lives and is afraid of a sex offender who lives nearby.

"He does not like it here at all," she said.

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Poor parental supervision and poor airport security! One has to admire the kid's ingenuity and determination.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

But the fact he got caught inTX. isn't good. Heck he might be tried as an adult or face the death penalty. TX., justice is harsh.
Maybe they need to check the parents out. Which like most cases of run aways really isn't because of bad parenting, and return the child to his home.
In show and tell he wil be a hit...

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Washington State can have him extradited from Texas to Washington. I didn't say there was bad parenting, I said there was poor parental supervision.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Sorry for the misunderstanding I wasn't referring to your post. I was just saying bad parents because of the cases in court in TX. now. Maybe I should have broought that out in the clear but didn't want to wade into the real problem in TX., with the on going child/parenting, child services thing.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

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Maybe he will grow up to be an airline security expert. (^:

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This incident exposed what a farce Homeland Security is. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the arm of Homeland Security that harasses airline travelers, makes them remove their shoes and be searched before they can fly. I have known all along that this was just a big show which accomplishes nothing except harassment of those who fly, and a 9-year old getting through this "security" bears this out.

What an expensive, useless, taxpayer boondoggle the TSA is!

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Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

You got that right. But its proponents will tell you that because there have been no big terrorist attacks since HS, that it's working.

Ever see that Simpsons, where Lisa disgustedly sells Homer a rock that keeps tigers away? Same logic.

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If you think that is bad, we had a pigmy goat get abord a tri-met bus last week. I have no idea how it paid it's fair.

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And this is in contrast to my 92 year old mom getting stopped at the goon squad station because she had sewing scissor's - which are very small. Then she had to take off her shoes for their inspection (they thought they might explode). She was holding everyone up before a kind woman in line helped her. It is not easy for a 92 yr old woman with shaking hands from her heart medication.

And if I had been there, I would have acted just like a terrorist in offering kick every one of their butts.

And this is supposed to stop Al Qaeda and Osama?

Bwahahahahaha!!! Waste of money.

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