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Runaway, 9, Sneaks on Flight to Texas
www.ajc.com ^ | 01/17/07 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/17/2007 11:09:39 AM PST by rawhide

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To: montag813

The enterprising young Semaj is nine. I would lay odds that he has never seen a newscast in his life.


41 posted on 01/17/2007 1:54:49 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: lastchance
I see a movie deal in the making.

I think more a TV show "Samaj Tries to..." I bet this guy could get to Bin Laden if we gave him enough technology.

42 posted on 01/17/2007 1:55:55 PM PST by montag813
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To: rawhide
Earlier, Sakinah Booker told police that she needed help with her son, and when they found him, they should take him to Remann Hall juvenile jail in Tacoma.

What a bitch. How about moving your son away from the pedophile you lazy creep!

43 posted on 01/17/2007 1:58:01 PM PST by montag813
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To: rawhide

As the bumper sticker says: "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as soon as I could"!


44 posted on 01/17/2007 2:15:17 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: rawhide

...and a former car thief.


45 posted on 01/17/2007 3:18:41 PM PST by devane617 (It's McCain and a Rat -- Now what?)
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To: rawhide
[quote from article] "She’d also said she considered sending him to live with her sister in Illinois" ... right up until the split second it took for her sister to tell her to go get stuffed.
46 posted on 01/17/2007 3:29:47 PM PST by Titan Magroyne ("Y'know, I've always thought of politics as show business for ugly people." Jay Leno:Al Gore 11/29)
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To: rawhide

I wonder if a few good swats applied to his backside when he got home would be appropriate...

Because if I did this...(In my day) I had better hope that my cuteness reigned in one of the cute (Southwest hotpants) stewardesses (yes thats what they used to call them when I flew un-accompanied) would have taken me home and just dunked me in her coffee...

Yes I did have a bit of an ego when I was that age...And I was extremely cute...

I just don't know what happened to me after that phase...

Maybe it was the spankings...Yep...Thats what it was...


47 posted on 01/17/2007 4:14:27 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: montag813

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BRILLIANT!!!


48 posted on 01/17/2007 4:16:17 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: Delta 21
So after the cops broke the window, recognized him as a frequent runaway, did they just let him walk?

How did he get to the airport and hop a plane to Texas?

I asked myself the same thing.

Horrible news writing, inn't it?

49 posted on 01/17/2007 5:03:54 PM PST by Mr. Buzzcut (metal god ... visit The Ponderosa .... www.vandelay.com ... DEATH BEFORE DHIMMITUDE)
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To: Xenalyte
What would the Mom have named Semaj if the father's name was "OTTO"?

Just a passing thought.

50 posted on 01/17/2007 10:11:50 PM PST by albee (Okay. so he missed aThe best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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Update:

A 9-year-old Lakewood boy who ran away to Texas this week via Southwest Airlines was issued a boarding pass at Sea-Tac Airport after he gave an airline employee the name of a person listed on the flight manifest, a spokesman for Democratic Congressman Norm Dicks said Wednesday night.

Semaj Booker told a ticket checker near a security gate at the airport Monday that he had lost his boarding pass, said Dicks spokesman George Behan, who obtained the information Wednesday from Transportation Security Administration officials at the congressman’s request.

That person took Semaj to a Southwest Airlines ticket agent, where the boy provided a name of a man who’d already been issued a boarding pass for the flight to Phoenix, he said.

The agent printed a boarding pass for the boy, who went through security and boarded the flight, which eventually ended up in San Antonio. He was taken into custody there.

“A 9-year-old kid slips through and it makes you think there are probably some holes in the system that need to be plugged,” Behan said.

Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Beth Harbin said Wednesday night she couldn’t confirm the story.

Earlier Wednesday, Southwest Airlines had said Semaj approached a ticket counter, told an agent he was 12 and that his mother was waiting in a boarding area, according to a statement from the airline.

“The young man’s information matched a paid ticketless reservation for the flight,” the company said. “Based on the information he gave us, he was issued a boarding pass. That is the boarding pass he used to board the flight.”

Semaj was not listed as an unaccompanied minor because he told airline staff he was 12, Southwest said. The company’s policy for unaccompanied minors covers children ages 5 through 11.

source:http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/updates/story/6327885p-5516140c.html

51 posted on 01/18/2007 6:09:01 AM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide
Terribly written article!

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 the interchange of Interstate 5 and State Route 512. 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.

Uh... so he got away, or what? What does this have to do with the airline flights? How is this the beginning of his "odyssey"?

Journalists suck.

52 posted on 01/18/2007 6:15:08 AM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: albee
What would the Mom have named Semaj if the father's name was "OTTO"?

Maybe Manual?

53 posted on 01/18/2007 6:36:25 AM PST by Not now, Not ever! (The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
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To: montag813

Sigh. With all due respect, I think you're reacting emotionally.

The kid is obviously good at conning people. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he made up the bit about the child molester to try and make people feel sorry for him. The kid knows how to lie, drive a car at high speeds around spike strips, has a history of car theft, etc. Kids like that know how to use their age to their advantage.


54 posted on 01/18/2007 8:54:35 AM PST by NinoFan
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To: montag813

To clarify:

I'm not saying there wasn't a sex offender in the area. I'm saying he might have used the bit about the offender to his advantage. He probably heard mom talk about it and figured he could use it as an excuse. I think it's perfectly clear that the kid knows how to make people feel sorry for him.


55 posted on 01/18/2007 8:56:43 AM PST by NinoFan
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