Plane stolen for Gatorade!

The suspected pilot of a plane stolen from Canada and flown into the US trailed by fighter jets was captured last night near the rural stretch of road in Missouri where he landed.
The single-engine, four-seat Cessna was intercepted by US F-16 jets over Wisconsin, where it prompted the evacuation of the state capitol in Madison, but kept flying south after the pilot failed to respond to radio calls and other signals.

Mike Kucharek, spokesman North American aerospace defence command (Norad), said the Cessna 172 was stolen from Thunder Bay, Ontario, about 2.30pm yesterday. The pilot was flying erratically and didn't communicate with the fighter pilots from the Wisconsin air national guard who intercepted the plane at the Michigan-Wisconsin border, he said.
The pilot had acknowledged seeing the F-16s but he didn't obey their non-verbal commands to follow them, Kucharek said.

The pilot finally landed the plane on a road at Ellsinore near Poplar Bluff in far south-eastern Missouri, said Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the US federal aviation administration.
A man named Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was taken into custody about 9.30pm in the same area, said sergeant Marty Elmore, a spokesman for the Missouri highway patrol.
Brown said the plane came from the Confederation College flight school at Thunder Bay international airport.

The plane landed about six hours after the reported theft, and had enough fuel for about eight hours of flight, Norad officials said.

"We tailed it all the way," major Brian Markin said. "Once it landed our aircraft returned to base."

In Madison, department of justice spokesman Bill Cosh said the state capitol building was evacuated shortly after 5pm as a precaution because of the airplane.
Many workers had already left for the day. Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle was not in the building.

Capitol police ordered everyone out of the building and told them to go at least a block away.
People were allowed back in the building about an hour later.

Now Here is the thing they aren't telling you. ESC EXCLUSIVE!

It began when a plane was stolen from a Canadian flight school. The pilot meandered over Lake Superior with U.S. fighter jets hot on his trail. The chase ended seven hours later in a general store off a dirt road in southern Missouri with the suspect sipping on a Gatorade.

He "got a Gatorade, tried to get a beef jerky, didn't have enough money, went over and sat down," said Tammy Bailey of Simmons Grocery & Hardware in Ellsinore.

That how he was taken down, that's how the "super cop" arrested the man. This should be on America's Dumbest Criminals.

I wonder what flavour of Gatorade it was?