No body found means that he’s still up there somewhere
Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate!
Submitted 2 weeks ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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s@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They say 1 out of 10 people don’t even make it to the ground
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The leading theory is he was a CIA operative, because jumping from the rear stairs like that was something they did in the field.
And the leading theory was he survived, because there was a copycat crime, which worked until the guy was caught on the ground, with the cash.
It just gets crazier the deeper you go.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The weather was terrible for a jump. Nobody who had training would have tried it.
He almost certainly died in the jump.
He also made an offhand comment about the airline, and that suggests a revenge motive.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If he died in the jump they would have eventually found a body. At the very least he survived long enough to vacate the area.
rhombus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He was asked why that airline and he specifically said it wasn’t to do with the airline, just that that particular flight suited his needs. He did say “it’s just because I have a grudge”, but he didn’t say what it was.
I also agree he died, mostly because they never found the money in circulation. None of the serial numbers they gave him were ever identified. So it seems he either never spent a cent of it, or he didn’t survive the jump.
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“You are, without doubt, the worst skyjacker I have ever heard of.”
Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
But you have heard of me?
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
How I jack it in the sky is my business and you have no right to judge me.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn, I saw some guy on YouTube last year going through the parachutes harnesses in a barn of a deceased suspect (with permission) and he found the chute while talking to the camera. Was just turning over over on vest at a time in a box and stopped and said “this is it, we found it.”
I think the tape said they turned it over to the FBI? Anyone with more info?
protist@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Sounds like he’s going for views
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It worked, he got over 100k worth:
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Huh.
Here’s a Popular Mechanics article that’s exactly one year old: A Secret Parachute in the FBI’s Possession May Have Finally Solved D.B. Cooper’s Identity
And here’s the FBI’s web page over it, which notes they diverted resources to other investigations in 2016, but specifically names McCoy as a suspect: D.B. Cooper Hijacking
As far as updates go? I only have sardonic comments about what the FBI is to these days. But I don’t think they are going to work on this one anytime soon.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks! That article linked to the YouTube series I was thinking of:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3DkEmL6aWc&list=PLSFLiSP…
This is the moment I mentioned:
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would be wild if DB Cooper followed up by watching for who would come out as a suspect and then planted the evidence on their relative’s property after they died.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000! Thank you, friend! <3
Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DB Cooper has been the topic of Drop Zone conversations for years. The jump he made is perfectly doable by anyone trained in the practical application of aerodynamic decelerators. Albeit it was an extremely risky jump as I’ll detail below.
As a matter of fact I’ve gone out the air stairs of a 727. It was at the 1999 at the World Freefall Convention in Quincy, IL. It was fun, but a 727 on jump run is doing about 180kias when normal skydiving operations are around 90kias. It won’t injure you, but it feels like you’re getting hit by a ton of bricks. So not the funnest jump and I only did one, to say I did it. Going out the bomb bay of a B-17 (Nine-O-Nines RIP) was a lot more fun.
The general consensus in the skydiving community is that Cooper lived, but was probably injured. He jumped a round parachute, at night, in poor weather conditions. Even with modern gear that kind jump is extremely risky. Round parachutes go down where the wind blows them after exit. There is a little bit of control with a round, but nothing like a ram air chute.
He probably had a vehicle stashed close to the drop zone and was able to get to it with most of the money. If I recall correctly some of the money was discovered on a creek or riverbank some time later. He probably lived the rest of his life in secure obscurity… Or he might even still be alive.
Only he knows for sure.
AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Coming to the realization that proper use of free will really does open up so much in life is such a profound benefit.
You can just do shit.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
To quote Edward Fox’s character in The Day of the Jackal… it can be done with enough time and planning… the problem is getting away with it.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
And how they also fucked up the investigation by future proofing it for him. Dan Cooper (that’s what he wrote his name as) smoked several cigarettes and kept the butts on the plane, and he had several drinks and… they just threw away the stir sticks he used and also the cigarette butts, hence foiling any attempts to get dna down the line.
Some cases from the 70s and even 60s were solved because some DNA survived on evidence collected. But that was impossible for this case since none were saved.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just think of all the crazy shit you might be able to pull off if you had cajones the size of cantaloupes.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My neighbors growing up had a sign: “what would you do if you could not fail?” …
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I decline to answer that question on grounds it might incriminate me.
Ifera@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I always had issues with that phrase. The first thing I would do is go to the hospital, since that is a sign of a massive hernia. Also, cajones means drawers or boxers, the word you’re looking for is drawers.
When using aphorisms, please try and Google them.
A pet peeve of mine is gratuitous and incorrect use of my native languages.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When using aphorisms, please try and Google them.
Cajones has been a slang term for “balls” or “bravery” or “having the guts” for over a hundred years. So not only are you being a pedantic prick, you are also a wrong pedantic prick. If you are going to be a pedantic prick, you should be the one to google if you are even right first. I grew up in a Spanish/ English speaking community, this is the word we used (although we used huevos too, but that literally meant like, your balls; less “having the balls”, or having courage to stand up to someone). It should occur to you that you don’t have a monopoly over the use of language, so maybe check that.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah electroshock therapy is actually something we still do. I’ve worked at two places actually who do it. They put the patient under full medical sedation like they would for surgery (they even have a little mini recovery and PACU in the ECT suite). In fact the only main difference between an ECT suite and an OR suite is that the actual procedure room is just clean, not fully sterile since they’re not actually opening the person. On the floor we have to observe all the same pre-op and post-op precautions, like NPO (nothing to eat or drink) after midnight, and changing them into clean clothes in the morning. We don’t have to do a chlorhexidine scrub (again not sterile) but showers are encouraged (sometimes the patient is too sick to tolerate even a bed bath though). Our only special precaution is that we have to stop all anti seizure meds the night before because the whole point is to induce a seizure.
They just put electrodes on kinda like they would with an external defibrillator to stop an abnormal heart rhythm (except obvs they put them on the head, not the chest). Then induce a controlled seizure that lasts like 60 seconds or so, then use medications to stop the seizure if necessary. In fact it’s almost exactly like a heart defibrillator in that we’re turning their brain off and on again to get it to work! Funny that that works with organs like it does with computers! 😅
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Afterwards the patients walk around like zombies for many hours and it is incredibly unfun to witness.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
um. yeah. they do that after regular surgery too. a shitton of sedatives will do that. ect is somewhat associated with temporary memory loss but it wears off just as quick as with a regular seizure.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A hard reboot will do that to ya.
What kind of conditions is electro therapy used to treat?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
There’s real science behind using electricity to heal to be fair, so it’s not all gypsies. I think the latest paper I saw was this: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/251029100202.htm
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Doing a DB Pooper
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DB Cooper was Loki, they revealed it in Season 2
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Loki
Por_que_pine@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
He even had an aircraft part named after him! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_vane
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its actually Looney Tunes @.@
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It was obviously Loki
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
loki showed it was just a dare thor loki and heimdall did
rindo25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was obviously Tommy Wiseau, how else did he get the money to make his hot movie The Room.
watson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still think that this is the most entertaining theory. Tommy Wiseau does, too.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
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KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I think Wiseau was living in Poland at the time?