• @EmoDuck
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    8 months ago

    XKCD already found out who he is

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      28 months ago

      Tommy was reported to be incredibly rich. $200k isn’t enough to be considered incredibly rich, especially not in Hollywood.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      I found out who he was too. He also recently used the alias “Russ Nightlife” before being arrested by his maid.

  • timo_timboo
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    418 months ago

    Lemmino on Youtube made a high quality video about the incident. Highly recommend that.

  • @[email protected]
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    308 months ago

    I thought I saw in a documentary that it was proven to be Loki after losing a bet with Thor.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      There was another documentary that says he fought Bigfoot while a bunch of shirtless guys went jogging.

  • @Gentoo1337
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    248 months ago

    I heard the theory that the plane workers made it up to steal the money. I think it was on a Lemmino video

    • @[email protected]
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      238 months ago

      One of the stewardesses was so traumatized she spent a decade as a nun…doesn’t sound like she was rolling in money either…

      • @Gentoo1337
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        18 months ago

        Yeah I don’t really remember where I got that from. As the other comment pointed out it’s probably not true anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          I think that theory was one of the top comments on lemmino’s video when I watched it a while back

      • @[email protected]
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        248 months ago

        Reading that wiki summary it would seem likely that “Cooper” never made it out of the woods.

        Speculation on my part regarding his lack of preparedness for the jump (no boots, poorly clothed, no steerable canopy) and the weather conditions (wet, cold, night) at the time could have resulted in possibly moderate to serious injury on landing in a remote area. Dragging himself to a water source, along with some/all money where he possibly died. Animals disperse the corpse, spring rains expanded the water source and carried money to where it was found.

  • Blackout
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    108 months ago

    I thought we had decided it was Nixon after a bender, being his usual tricky self?

  • @[email protected]
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    78 months ago

    My theory: the parachute they gave him was packed to not open. He’s impacted several feet into the ground somewhere.

    • @[email protected]
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      198 months ago

      He asked for four, two main and two backup. Of those one backup was non-functioning and the other was supposedly possibly by him to carry the money.

      He asked for two sets specifically to imply a hostage might be jumping with him, to negate the option of parachute tampering.

    • @[email protected]
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      158 months ago

      Then the corpse would have been located. A human body falling from a height doesn’t drill into the ground. Also, the parachute would have been detected.

    • @[email protected]
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      88 months ago

      Well he asked for 3 parachutes if I remember correctly. This gave him the opportunity to take a hostage with him and no way to guarantee who got which parachute. So it is unlikely that it was tampered with.

      Now did he use it correctly who knows it still could have not opened.

  • Nougat
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    18 months ago

    This documentary series on Netflix is well worth the watch. Yes, it covers the details of the incident, but it also does meta-coverage on the people who are on the continuing hunt for answers. You get the DB Cooper story, and you get the DB Cooper legend, and you get those placed into a societal context.