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This troublemaker eleven-year-old is quickly becoming a legend. In 2007, Semaj Booker stole a car and drove it on the highway until the engine blew. Then, he snuck past security onto two flights to get his runaway self from SeaTac to Texas. Booker tried the plane trick again just last month, and now he's back in court for attempted burglary.
What is going on here, exactly? Someone needs to find the back story on this. By our tenth birthday, we were already suffering extreme pangs of guilt for anything that could be even remotely construed as misbehavior, so Seattlest is not buying the "kids don't know right from wrong" argument. Our sage analysis: unless Booker's sociopathic, this is one seriously unhappy kid.
He's been ordered to remain in custody while the court figures out if he understands the charges and sounds out Booker's moral compass. Someone give the boy a brownie and a hug, for God's sake.
"Hamtaro Needs A Hug" by CosplayVanne. Thanks!
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I've done a couple of current event reports on this kid for school.
-Mairin
Russian spy.
Two possibilities:
1) He really just hates his mom and Lakewood. Totally understandable.
2) He love being famous. The media (including Dr. Phallic McDouchebag) just hype this kid up so much, he thinks he can get what he wants from the attention.
It's probably a mixture of both.
Also, I fucking hate Dr. Phil. His show is garbage and the worse filth out there. People with real behavioral and mental illnesses shouldn't be paraded on TV for 15 minutes.
Mair, you have a prodigious brain, just like your sister.
Troy, cosign on the hating of Dr. Phil. Re: #2, do you think the time in custody will snap him out of it if this is the case? When/Where do his stunts END?
It depends really on his experience during custody and what happens immediately afterwards.
It's a tough prediction. If he can be surrounded by healthy people that encourage good behavior, it should stop. If nothing changes, it'll just escalate.
Maybe I should have my own TV Show.
Troy, I've been saying that for *years.* Hopefully you would preempt "Two and a Half Men."
Hopefully, that show will fucking die. Die horribly. And stop being played forever. And Charlie Sheen will come out and apologize and he and Emilio will team up to do Mighty Ducks 5 where Charlie gets hit in the balls repeatedly by hockey pucks.
Fucking hate that show. Thanks for bringing that up and ruining my day. Normally it's not ruined until 6 Pacific, 7 Central.