302 Toronto -106
Very tough spot for Ottawa here coming off a double overtime game, and now traveling on a short week. Toronto won two road games after being embarrassed at home in week one, so have to think they'll be the more focused team here.
Hey Benny, I recently saw a doc about D.B. Cooper, and I was wondering if that story is something you've followed or know anything about. Sorry for being off topic, but I was curious if you have any thoughts about it
Hey Benny, I recently saw a doc about D.B. Cooper, and I was wondering if that story is something you've followed or know anything about. Sorry for being off topic, but I was curious if you have any thoughts about it
I don't think there's any chance he could have survived the jump. Even if he did, how could he have made a getaway? Cooper was calm throughout the entire hijacking, so that makes it all the more mysterious. His exit strategy was to simply jump out of the plane and a completely random spot and then….what exactly? There is a small chance that Cooper was Richard Mccoy, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
Interestingly, if you're familiar with the Mandela Effect, the first one I ever had concerned D.B. Cooper. Back in 1999, I was on Christmas leave from the Army, and I was visiting my father. On the computer in his study, I read on yahoo news that they had found him. Two hunters in the backcountry in Washington State found human remains attached to a parachute. They compared the DNA from the body to the DNA from the plane and found that it was him. It was a very long news story, detailing the entire episode of the hijacking and subsequent investigation. I filed it away and moved on. Several years later, I read a different news story, talking about how the investigation was still continuing after all these years. That was strange to me, so I tried to find the 1999 news article and couldn't. I did a deep google search, and there was no record of an article like the one I remember ever existing.
I don't think there's any chance he could have survived the jump. Even if he did, how could he have made a getaway? Cooper was calm throughout the entire hijacking, so that makes it all the more mysterious. His exit strategy was to simply jump out of the plane and a completely random spot and then….what exactly? There is a small chance that Cooper was Richard Mccoy, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
Interestingly, if you're familiar with the Mandela Effect, the first one I ever had concerned D.B. Cooper. Back in 1999, I was on Christmas leave from the Army, and I was visiting my father. On the computer in his study, I read on yahoo news that they had found him. Two hunters in the backcountry in Washington State found human remains attached to a parachute. They compared the DNA from the body to the DNA from the plane and found that it was him. It was a very long news story, detailing the entire episode of the hijacking and subsequent investigation. I filed it away and moved on. Several years later, I read a different news story, talking about how the investigation was still continuing after all these years. That was strange to me, so I tried to find the 1999 news article and couldn't. I did a deep google search, and there was no record of an article like the one I remember ever existing.
I think it's entirely possible he survived the jump. First off he had the pilot fly the plane very low, and he didn't just pick some random place, I believe he scouted the area where he would be jumping from, so their would be familiarity with the area, and he had knowledge about the plane that an ordinary person wouldn't have had, this was long before the internet where anyone could find out anything about anything, the thought is that Cooper was ex military, someone who was highly trained as far as parachuting and would have had the necessary training to not only survive the jump, but also know how to cover his tracks. In the doc there were two investigative journalists who have been on this case for the last five years, and the person they thought was Cooper is a guy named Robert Rackstraw, they presented their evidence to a former FBI agent to see what he thought, and even though they presented some compelling evidence, the agent didn't believe Rackstraw was the guy. McCoy and Rackstraw were both suspects at the time, but both were dismissed as being Cooper. I've always been fascinated by stories like D.B. Cooper, and the Zodiac killer. BTW, I've never heard of the Mandela effect, but I just looked it up, pretty weird, it's wild how the human brain works sometimes, take care Benny.
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960 Rockies +152
910 Washington-Milwaukee under 7 1/2
919 Cleveland -116
342 Tampa-Orlando under 98
908 Braves-Mets under 8 (-120)
961 Mets -142
128 Calgary-BC under 47 1/2 (-108)
All baseball lines are too tight to bet.
968 Royals-Cardinals under 4 1/2 (-115) first five
970 Blue Jays-Rockies under 6 1/2 (-103) first five
916 Angels +116
917 Miami +103
922 St. Louis-Kansas City under 8 1/2 (-125)
WNBA
601 Atlanta +3 1/2
604 L.A. under 170
301 Ottawa -1 (-105)
603 Dallas +1
125 Calgary Pk
970 Mariners-Royals under 8 (-101)
971 Braves +223
657 Indiana over 161
Very tough spot for Ottawa here coming off a double overtime game, and now traveling on a short week. Toronto won two road games after being embarrassed at home in week one, so have to think they'll be the more focused team here.
Ytd: 201-190 (+1.56)
I don't think there's any chance he could have survived the jump. Even if he did, how could he have made a getaway? Cooper was calm throughout the entire hijacking, so that makes it all the more mysterious. His exit strategy was to simply jump out of the plane and a completely random spot and then….what exactly? There is a small chance that Cooper was Richard Mccoy, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
Interestingly, if you're familiar with the Mandela Effect, the first one I ever had concerned D.B. Cooper. Back in 1999, I was on Christmas leave from the Army, and I was visiting my father. On the computer in his study, I read on yahoo news that they had found him. Two hunters in the backcountry in Washington State found human remains attached to a parachute. They compared the DNA from the body to the DNA from the plane and found that it was him. It was a very long news story, detailing the entire episode of the hijacking and subsequent investigation. I filed it away and moved on. Several years later, I read a different news story, talking about how the investigation was still continuing after all these years. That was strange to me, so I tried to find the 1999 news article and couldn't. I did a deep google search, and there was no record of an article like the one I remember ever existing.
960 Miami-St. Louis under 8 (-120)
968 Tampa -125
I think it's entirely possible he survived the jump. First off he had the pilot fly the plane very low, and he didn't just pick some random place, I believe he scouted the area where he would be jumping from, so their would be familiarity with the area, and he had knowledge about the plane that an ordinary person wouldn't have had, this was long before the internet where anyone could find out anything about anything, the thought is that Cooper was ex military, someone who was highly trained as far as parachuting and would have had the necessary training to not only survive the jump, but also know how to cover his tracks. In the doc there were two investigative journalists who have been on this case for the last five years, and the person they thought was Cooper is a guy named Robert Rackstraw, they presented their evidence to a former FBI agent to see what he thought, and even though they presented some compelling evidence, the agent didn't believe Rackstraw was the guy. McCoy and Rackstraw were both suspects at the time, but both were dismissed as being Cooper. I've always been fascinated by stories like D.B. Cooper, and the Zodiac killer. BTW, I've never heard of the Mandela effect, but I just looked it up, pretty weird, it's wild how the human brain works sometimes, take care Benny.
961 Dodges -131