Son of Billionaire Charged With Burglary

June 16, 2006

CORNWALL, Conn. -- The son of billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens was charged with burglary after he was found hiding under a desk in a fly fishing shop, authorities said.

Michael Pickens, 51, of Nocona, Texas, spent three days in jail following his arraignment Monday in Bantam Superior Court.

He was found Sunday inside the Housatonic Meadows Fly Shop after the store's manager noticed something wrong and called police, according to state police.

Pickens had stopped in at the store earlier in the day, chatting about football and portraying himself as a high-powered stockbroker on a fishing vacation, the store's manager Devin "Moe" Booth said Friday.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-billionaires-son-arrested,0,1722786.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

Go figure?

busy funding The Swift Boat Veterans to the tune of a mil and a half.

who named the football stadium after him.

Not that that's relevant. :)

I missed by a mil and a half. :)

n/t

If I threw my pocket change into the Sahara desert, "Slim" Pickens would probably spend the rest of his life combing the desert for them because he's so greedy.

Life can be so boring when you 'have it all' (but in reality you have NOTHING, only tons of money).....this is most likely a 'case in point'.

and is out on a half-million dollar bond.

verification but I think there's some sort of father-son feud over inheritance issues. Possibly a result of the SEC indictment?

right?

... for Bush.

Looks like the fruit doesn't fall to farr from the tree, if y'ask me...

The rules don't apply to me.