Young Boy Buys Harrier Jet on eBay, Dad Panics

[robochump]

Kid prolly thought it was a toy and not the 'real' thing! I also highly doubt the Jet in this pic is the actual harrier being sold.

 

[JonnyDough]

LOL! A real Harrier jet would NOT cost 100K. This story is obviously a hoax. I work on real aircraft for the USAF...and right now I'm working on old C-21s (1980's Lear jets). Old C-130's have small boxes in the flight deck worth a quarter million. Heck, I'm guessing that even if the Harrier were headed for the Boneyard it would be worth more than that.

 

[JonnyDough]

If you search around (click here) you will soon discover that a decommissioned (non-flying/workable, aka over its rated flying time) Harrier that is used for "parts" is worth about a million. There's no way this kid was going to buy a working jet for 1/10th of that. Poor journalism - obviously no credible sources.

 

[Guest]

"yeah how can a 7 year old pull this.. bullshit"

I built my first computer in 1994 when I was about 9 years old. At that point I had already been configuring my config.sys and autoexec.bat files for optimal extended memory use for a couple years in order to get games like Gunship 2000 and Falcon 3.0 working. Trust me, if a kid wants to play a game, he'll learn whatever he needs to in order to do it.