London Runaway Winds Up In Malaysia

When Peter Kerry ran away from home, he did it in a big way: some 6,800 miles to Malaysia, with his father’s credit cards and passport.

British diplomats and Malaysian police were trying to locate the 14-year-old on Saturday.

Peter left home Tuesday night, after being reprimanded for messing up the family’s videotape collection and spilling some spaghetti. He telephoned his parents Thursday from a hotel at Johore Baharu in southern Malaysia.

“They are checking my credit cards. One is no good and it looks like I’ve got to go. They are after me,”’ John Kerry quoted his son as saying.

Kerry said his son had previously run away to Scotland and to Paris.