Christopher Thomas Knight, Caught! (the wild, winter, detect, community)
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Someone called the jail where he's being held with a marriage proposal while a man Knight didn't know showed up on Saturday night offering to pay his $5,000 bail, The Kennebec Journal reported.
Worried Knight could be the target of someone looking to capitalise on his notoriety, authorities charged him with two additional counts of burglary and theft and increased his bail to $250,000.
The guy is fits most of the anti-social personality set, just without any of the aggressive or violent issues.
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-- Callous unconcern for the feelings of others
-- Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations
-- Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships
-- Incapacity to experience guilt
-- Extract from the ICD-10, excluding violent parts of the diagnosis. Not common, but not unique.
I'm all for personal space and feeling rejuvenated doing my own thing. However, when some one needs to lower their personal integrity to stealing in disregard to others...then you have a problem. Live anywhere with as much, or as little, contact with others as he liked in my opinion. Once he starts ripping off anyone who is in range because he simply wants to live as he wants without working for it, then there is a problem.
The guy is fits most of the anti-social personality set, just without any of the aggressive or violent issues.
-- Extract from the ICD-10, excluding violent parts of the diagnosis. Not common, but not unique.
I'm all for personal space and feeling rejuvenated doing my own thing. However, when some one needs to lower their personal integrity to stealing in disregard to others...then you have a problem. Live anywhere with as much, or as little, contact with others as he liked in my opinion. Once he starts ripping off anyone who is in range because he simply wants to live as he wants without working for it, then there is a problem.
Ah, now here's a classic ideological many people fortunate enough to have never fallen upon truly hard times in this forum have.
He's a product of our society. We created him. Perhaps we bought him out of a job, he became disenchanted with life, and abandoned the society that obviously failed him. Finding a job paying a living wage in the early 80s was tough. Albeit, not as bad as today, but still hard nonetheless. Furthermore, it's rather easy to point the finger at a thief and run them down because we're more fortunate. How do we know what we'd do if we came home one day to find out we'd lost everything. Family, friends, all personal property and our job with no replacement insight. Further still, maybe the man's simply mentally ill. Perhaps he's simply a nefarious sod that threw away everything he owned and decided to become a miscreant. Who can say that they know? The prestitutes obviously lie and rarely report the facts. Just because the news says something doesn't make it so, and the article's about this man are rather vague and full of conjecture.
If the evidence supports, capture him, punish him, and if he caused enough personal property loss or damage jail him, the self righteous tone of most posts in this treat are quite telling about our society. It's no wonder we people like Knight exist.
I know that somebody out there feels that I've just given him a license to steal, and if that's indeed how the message you walked away with from reading my words, it's pointless to explain the situation.
Last edited by bolillo_loco; 04-17-2013 at 06:00 AM..
Reason: No Rhodes scholar here
Wow, Just finished the Kennebec journal article, this guy had some serious problems.
"Showed shame and remorse for the thefts"
"Tried fishing but it was just too much work"
"Identifies the date of the Chernobyl disaster as the date he left as a time reference, not as motivation"
The guy kept a meticulous camp, was paranoid to the point he hid a yellow shovel using a black garbage bag. Hid his camp from air searches, walked on rocks to hide his tracks, didn't break any branches or leave sign when traveling through heavy cover, kept himself clean and shaven with a close haircut, but apparently never had a job?
He was capable of surviving Maine winters without a fire (he hadn't ever had a fire due to fear of detection), and apparently never tried to find a job as he left only 2 years after graduating high school. Would put on weight in the fall so he wouldn't eat as much during the winter so he wouldn't have to go steal more food and leave tracks in the snow.
Ah, now here's a classic ideological many people fortunate enough to have never fallen upon truly hard times in this forum have. .
Knight never worked, from the articles he stated that he never even looked after getting out of high school. His "hard times" were brought onto himself by his own actions and his own decisions.
Plus, it's pretty sad to go around telling strangers how they fared in life from a single paragraph.
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Originally Posted by bolillo_loco
He's a product of our society. We created him. Perhaps we bought him out of a job, he became disenchanted with life, and abandoned the society that obviously failed him. Finding a job paying a living wage in the early 80s was tough. Albeit, not as bad as today, but still hard nonetheless. Furthermore, it's rather easy to point the finger at a thief and run them down because we're more fortunate. How do we know what we'd do if we came home one day to find out we'd lost everything. Family, friends, all personal property and our job with no replacement insight. Further still, maybe the man's simply mentally ill. Perhaps he's simply a nefarious sod that threw away everything he owned and decided to become a miscreant. Who can say that they know? The prestitutes obviously lie and rarely report the facts. Just because the news says something doesn't make it so, and the article's about this man are rather vague and full of conjecture. .
So you say that the articles lie and rarely report facts...but start out with he's a product of our society that failed him from reading the exact same articles. I guess personal responsibility doesn't factor into life anymore, everything that is bad is all societies fault.
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Originally Posted by bolillo_loco
If the evidence supports, capture him, punish him, and if he caused enough personal property loss or damage jail him, the self righteous tone of most posts in this treat are quite telling about our society. It's no wonder we people like Knight exist.
I don't see what is self righteous about saying stealing other people's property for the last nearly 3 decades is wrong and lacks personal integrity. THere are plenty of other options to stealing that he never even tried.
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Originally Posted by bolillo_loco
I know that somebody out there feels that I've just given him a license to steal, and if that's indeed how the message you walked away with from reading my words, it's pointless to explain the situation.
No, but you seem to be assigning blame to everyone else for his actions. You make all these conjectures about what must have happened to him that seem to be from thin air while claiming the people who actually are reporting are lying...just because. Rational people evaluate the evidence and world around them and not just make up fanciful stories about events to believe.
There are times I want to be left alone, but I work hard every day to make sure I can support myself and my family. I didn't blame society if things were tough, or I was unhappy, or I felt like being alone. I take care of it and accept responsibility to myself, my family, and my community.
You seem to also be telling me how charmed my life is when you don't even know my first name.
Hartman keeps a GPS on him at all times so he can geotag his photographs, and also so he doesn’t get lost while trekking through the wilderness alone, he said. According to his GPS logs, he snowshoed within one-sixth of a mile from the hermit’s main campsite on Jan. 14.
Alec Hartman spent more than an hour photographing details of the site before using a GPS to find the nearest road — just 0.14 miles from the site.
Not much info (or pics) in the article but the quoted parts show you do not have to be miles and miles from nowhere. Anyone know the populations of the towns/cities close to him?
Did his parents not report him missing? He was 20.
Very odd.
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