OFF TOPIC: DB COOPER MADE IT, BABY!
Or at least his chute did, possibly, maybe, sorta. Whatever. Someone finds a buried parachute, we’ll assume DB Cooper, the man who hijacked a plane in November of 1971 and jumped from the same plane with $200K in cash, made it off the plane, and hightailed it to Mexico to bathe in tequila, mujeres, and bathtubs of pesos.
We’ve been fascinated with the case since Unsolved Mysteries–your nightmare fuel of 1988 that couldn’t film a man walking down a road without ominous low synthesizer notes and a smoky filter–did this segment on him.
He ordered two bourbon and waters during the hijacking: that’s Kenny Loggins/Michael McDonald smooth there. Part two is after the jump.
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karlhungus12 says:
I saw a special about this other hijacker that pulled off nearly the same crime a year or two after DB Cooper. He made it, but ended up getting caught months later. A lot of people believe he was DB Cooper. He ended up going out in a blaze of glory after a prison escape.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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karlhungus12 says:
His name was Richard McCoy, Jr. He was a pretty cool bad guy.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
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Kanu says:
I like to think that DB Cooper and the 3 escapees from Alcatraz are in an underground bunker somewhere, possibly at NORAD, smoking blunts with Tupac and controlling world financial markets by blackmailing illuminati members with details of their sordid pasts.
And off in the corner sits Elvis, strumming an acoustic and eating an entire box of Little Debbie Snack Cakes.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
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Doug says:
I keep trying to tell you guys, D.B. Cooper used his loot to get a new identity and finance a municipal-level political campaign, and he resurfaced in Arkansas as . . . Mike Huckabee.
Einhorn is Finkle! FINKLE IS EINHORN!
March 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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oc phil says:
Thanks for giving me hope that DB made it. The sheer audacity of that case makes me hope that the survived.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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Grimey says:
DB Cooper made it. Robert Stack did not.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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Chips O'Toole says:
New York Magazine had an interesting piece on DB Cooper not so long ago.
http://nymag.com/news/features/39593/
March 26th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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imisscollege says:
I like to think that D.B Cooper got a new identity and resurfaced as Pete Carroll.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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Anonymous IV says:
Kanu, baby, that was just beautiful!
March 26th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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Brian says:
#9 – Yea that was pretty much the absolute shit. 100 spring break strength cocktails sir.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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I'M A MAN, I'M FORTY says:
Hell yeah, D.B. made the jump.
Goes by the name Tommy these days. Teaching young pukes to chop-block down at Auburn.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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Peter Klima says:
A video for mustach Wednesday:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5d63b00a4f
March 27th, 2008 at 7:18 am
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Rich says:
Spurrier is the Lindbergh baby.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:44 am
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Out of Conference says:
Of course Cooper made it. He gave the cash to Lucius Vorenus on Journeyman.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:49 am
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Jim says:
I am DB Cooper
March 27th, 2008 at 8:50 am
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Because They Can says:
#11- That’s not possible, considering his most recognizable side-of-the-head features. But then, maybe he was surgically altered. Now that I think about it…adding huge ears as a disguise: genius! Who would expect that? And Tubbs has displayed some pretty amazing survival instincts.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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decemberist says:
Somewhere on the west coast of Mexico, DB read this news on his laptop, and had a good laugh over mojitos with Andy Dufresne and Red.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:11 am
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Out of Conference says:
#17 – Decemberist – nice pull!
March 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am