Initial reaction when this story came to light, "stupid assed kid." I'm certain it was everyone's reaction as well. But if what is reported is accurate, my reaction is, "the extremes some people will take to be happy."
I feel for this kid and hope they are able to come to some sort of resolution that is helpful to all involved. Although daddy dearest needs a good bitch slap for telling his son that the mother was dead.
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He was young, displaced and frustrated, and he wanted nothing more than to reunite with his mother in their native Africa.
The 15-year-old Somali boy had been arguing at home, and in the kind of impulsive move that teenagers make, he hopped a fence at San Jose International Airport last Sunday and clambered into a wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jetliner.
He survived the trip, and he has not spoken publicly about the ordeal.
But his desperation and frustration — borne from a life in a new country and new culture, all of it without his mother — is becoming apparent through interviews with friends, family and law enforcement agents.
The boy is "struggling adjusting to life in this country," his father, Abdulahi Yusuf, said in a statement issued Sunday through the Council on American-Islamic Relations' San Francisco Bay Area chapter.
"Our situation was aggravated by our displacement in Africa for many years after fleeing our home country of Somalia because of war conditions. As a result, my son was not able to receive any formal education before we immigrated to the United States," the statement said.
Teen Who Survived Flight Stowed Away In Plane's Wheel Well Wanted To Reunite With Mother
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