Teen Angst at Its Best

Middle Tennessee's story of the day. From News Channel 5:

A 16 year-old from Rutherford County is charged with stealing an airplane. Police said the boy first stole a feed truck in his hometown of Eagleville.

Police said the teenager stole the truck then drove to the Shelbyville airport, stole a small plane and took to the skies.

He flew to Eagleville but wouldn't land when he saw patrol cars waiting on him. Instead he landed in Shelbyville then took off again. He eventually landed for good in Murfreesboro, where police arrested him.

The teen in question was apparently motivated by a fight with another boy about the girl whose home was buzzed. But the young pilot-thief didn't stop with his girlfriend's house; he randomly buzzed some other homes and faked a nose dive into a police car.

WGNS in Murfreesboro adds:

A Rockvale teen is charged with taking a Cherokee Piper from the Shelbyville Airport, buzzing his girlfriend's home in Eagleville and swooping over Deputy Scott Daniel's patrol car. He attempted to take the plane back to Shelbyville, but took-off again when he spotted police.

My seventeen-year-old self really admires this kid.