Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Whither D.B. Cooper?

The FBI is still looking for D.B. Cooper. This is the FBI's press release.

The news article does not answer the big question: Why now? You have to at least be into your mid-40s to remember the crime. It happened 37 years ago.

So, with the FBI reportedly stretched by the counterterroism tasking, and with the Seattle Field Office being one of the ones that is really short of people, why is the FBI still spending time on this case? As far as I know, everyone who seriously looks at this case concludes that it is very likely that Cooper (or whoever his real name was) was killed in either the jump or in getting out of where he landed. He jumped in loafers, which probably blew off, and he jumped at night, without a helmet or survival gear, into a forest. His chances of survival were exceedingly poor, and that's being optimistic.

Why now?

1 comment:

BobG said...

I guess they have solved all the other federal crimes, accomplished the goal of secure borders, and targeted all potential terrorists in this country, and that was the only thing left unsolved...